THE EARLY FOUNDERS
Auguste Comte
Brief Biography
General View of Positivism
Herbert Spencer
Biography & Philosophy
First Principles
Refuting Comte
Emile Durkheim
Brief Biography
The Durkheim Page
Division of Labor & Other Summaries
On Religion
A Review of his Suicide Study
Karl Marx
Biography
Marx & Frederck Engels
Bourgeois & Proletarians
Max Weber
Brief Biography
Introduction to World Religions
Definitions of Sociology & Social Action
Opposing Positivism
Verstehen: Weber's Home Page
W.E.B. Dubois
Biographical Sketch
W.E.B. Dubois Institute for Afro-American Research
Harriet Martineau
Biography
Brief Overview of Her Writings
Society in America
Her Translation of Comte's Positive Philosophy
Jane Addams
Biography & Other Sources
Why Women Should Vote
Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel Online
The Forms of Social Life
The Dyad & Triad
A Discussion of Strangeness & The Stranger
THE CLASSIC THEORISTS
C. Wright Mills
Short Biography
Sociological Imagination: The Promise
The Power Elite
Herbert Blumer
On Symbolic Interactionism
Erving Goffman
Biography
Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Dramaturgical Analysis
Impression Management
Talcott Parsons
The Structure of Social Action
Outline of the Social System
George Herbert Mead
The Self & Other
The Mechanism of Social Consciousness
Charles Horton Cooley
The Looking Glass Self
Alfred Schutz
Biography
Some Basic Concepts
Robert K. Merton
Biography
Strain Theory
Sociologist At Large
What is Sociology
Suggested Readings
Sociologist At Large
What is Sociology
Suggested Readings
Below are several links for the major
Early
Founders
and
Classic Theorists
of Sociology. I will be adding to the list periodically as I come across them.
All links will of course open in a new browser for your surfing convenience
Guest Book
FAMOUS SOCIOLOGISTS
comte*spencer*durkheim*marx*weber*dubois*martineau*addams*simmel*mills*blumer*goffman*parsons*mead*cooley*schutz*merton
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