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  1. Emile Durkheim
    French sociologist and first professor of sociology at the Sorbonne (1858-1917)
    So strong was his influence that many other 19th century thinkers, including Émile Durkheim, defined their ideas in relation to his.
  2. Vilfredo Pareto
    Italian sociologist and economist whose theories influenced the development of fascism in Italy (1848-1923)
    Herbert Spencer, William Graham Sumner, Lester F. Ward, Vilfredo Pareto, Alexis de Tocqueville, Werner Sombart, Thorstein Veblen, Ferdinand Tönnies, Georg Simmel and Karl Mannheim are occasionally included on academic curricula as founding theorists.
  3. department of sociology
    the academic department responsible for teaching and research in sociology
    Durkheim set up the first European department of sociology at the University of Bordeaux in 1895, publishing his Rules of the Sociological Method.[24]
  4. sociology
    the study and classification of human societies
    Sociology is both topically and methodologically a very broad discipline.
  5. Max Weber
    German sociologist and pioneer of the analytic method in sociology (1864-1920)
    The sociological "canon of classics" with Durkheim and Max Weber at the top owes in part to Talcott Parsons, who is largely credited with introducing both to American audiences.[31]
  6. functionalism
    any doctrine that stresses utility or purpose
    Contents [hide]
    1 History
    1.1 Origins
    1.2 Foundations of the academic discipline
    2 Positivism and anti-positivism
    2.1 Positivism
    2.2 Antipositivism
    3 Theoretical frameworks
    3.1 Functionalism
    3.2 Conflict theory
    3.3 Contemporary social theory
    4 Structure and agency
    5 Research methodology
    5.1 Sampling
    5.2 Methods
    5.3 Computational sociology
    5.4 Practical applications of social research
    6 Areas of Sociology
    7 Scope and topics
    7.1 Culture
    7.2 Criminality, deviance...
  7. hermeneutic
    interpretive or explanatory
    The linguistic and cultural turns of the mid-twentieth century led to increasingly interpretative, hermeneutic, and philosophic approaches to the analysis of society.
  8. secularisation
    the activity of changing something (art or education or society or morality etc.) so it is no longer under the control or influence of religion
    Its traditional focuses have included social stratification, social class, social mobility, religion, secularisation, law, deviance.
  9. social stratification
    the condition of being arranged in social strata or classes within a group
    Its traditional focuses have included social stratification, social class, social mobility, religion, secularisation, law, deviance.
  10. sociological
    of or relating to human society
    Writing shortly after the malaise of the French Revolution, he proposed that social ills could be remedied through sociological positivism, an epistemological approach outlined in The Course in Positive Philosophy [1830–1842] and A General View of Positivism (1848).
  11. topically
    to a restricted area of the body
    Sociology is both topically and methodologically a very broad discipline.
  12. penal institution
    an institution where persons are confined for punishment and to protect the public
    As all spheres of human activity are sculpted by social structure and individual agency, sociology has gradually expanded its focus to further subjects, such as health, medical, military and penal institutions, the Internet, and even the role of social activity in the development of scientific knowledge.
  13. sculpt
    create by shaping stone or wood or other material
    As all spheres of human activity are sculpted by social structure and individual agency, sociology has gradually expanded its focus to further subjects, such as health, medical, military and penal institutions, the Internet, and even the role of social activity in the development of scientific knowledge.
  14. laissez-faire
    with minimally restricted freedom, especially in commerce
    Whilst Marxian ideas defined one strand of sociology, Spencer was a critic of socialism as well as strong advocate for a laissez-faire style of government.
  15. industrialization
    the development of commercial enterprise
    Sociology evolved as an academic response to the challenges of modernity, such as industrialization, urbanization, secularization, and a perceived process of enveloping rationalization.[38]
  16. epistemology
    the philosophical theory of knowledge
    Since its inception, sociological epistemologies, methods, and frames of enquiry, have significantly expanded and diverged.[4]
  17. epistemological
    of or relating to the study of knowledge
    Writing shortly after the malaise of the French Revolution, he proposed that social ills could be remedied through sociological positivism, an epistemological approach outlined in The Course in Positive Philosophy [1830–1842] and A General View of Positivism (1848).
  18. scientific method
    a systematic way of investigating to test a hypothesis
    The range of social scientific methods has also broadly expanded.
  19. Weber
    German sociologist and pioneer of the analytic method in sociology (1864-1920)
    The sociological "canon of classics" with Durkheim and Max Weber at the top owes in part to Talcott Parsons, who is largely credited with introducing both to American audiences.[31]
  20. analytically
    by virtue of analysis
    Conversely, recent decades have seen the rise of new analytically, mathematically and computationally rigorous techniques, such as agent-based modelling and social network analysis.[5][6]
Created on Thu Sep 29 21:36:40 EDT 2011

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