Emile Durkheim
French Social Scientist
Pioneer of sociology as a science
Popularized this study of people and relationships as a field as legitimate as the study of rocks in geology for example
Coined term “social facts” in 1895
products of human interaction with persuasive or coercive power that exist externally to any individual.bigger than any one person
Harriet Martineau
British female philosopher
Wrote first book concerning sociology research methods in 1834
Emphasised need for sympathy in sociological research
W.E.B. Du Bois
Black man
studied statistics.
Used statistics to try and make white people understand the hardships of black Americans
Sociological Imagination
imagine other how people's lives are shaped by what's around us
Sociology
products of human interaction with persuasive/coercive power that
probabilistic
likely research questions
empirical
data rather than just theory; actually proven
sociological sympathy
understanding others as they understand themselves
sociological theory
empirically based explanations and predicions about relationships
standpoints
points of view grounded in lived reality
public sociology
the work of using sociological theoryy to make societies better
yuval noah harari
israeli born historian. wrote about cooperation
maxine baca zinn and bonnie thornton dill
women of color who pioneered standpoint theory
standpoint theory
lived experience affects how one views and interprests the world around them/how they interact with it)