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The Development of Sociological Thinking Classic origins go back to Ionic beginnings (Aristotle and Plato, for example) The growth of the natural sciences in the 17th-18th centuries set the pace of how science can be applied to society This was especially applicable after the Industrial Revolution

Industrialization & Urbanization Industrialization: Changes of means of production or how people make a living; when societies are transformed from dependence on agriculture and handmade products to an emphasis on manufacturing and related industries Urbanization: Movement from the rural to the urban environments

The Industrial Revolution

Early Thinkers: A Concern with Social Order and Stability Auguste Comte French (1798-1857) Elements Origins of the term sociology Social Statics and Social Dynamics Natural science applied to society Positivism

Early Thinkers: A Concern with Social Order and Stability Harriet Martineau British (1802-1876) Elements: Used Comte’s work Studied religion, politics, childrearing, slavery, immigration in categories of race, class and gender Sociology: “true science of human nature” Call for racial and gender equality

Early Thinkers: A Concern with Social Order and Stability Herbert Spencer British(1820-1903) Elements Society as evolving as organic species Process of struggle “Social Darwinism” Only the fittest of persons (and societies) would survive

Early Thinkers: A Concern with Social Order and Stability Emile Durkheim French (1858-1917) Elements Created a methodology of studying society Social facts Anomie Division of labour First to publish a statistical study (on Suicide)

Differing Views on the Status Quo: Stability versus Change Karl Marx German (1818-1883) Elements Class conflict as the source of change Bourgeoisie and proletariat Means of production Alienation Revolution

Differing Views on the Status Quo: Stability versus Change Max Weber German(1864-1920) Elements Economic systems as only one source of change i.e.: religion was important Value free sociology Verstehen Study of bureaucracies

Differing Views on the Status Quo: Stability versus Change Georg Simmel German (1858-1918) Elements: Web of patterned interactions among people Social interaction processes within groups Size of the social groups (dyad, triad) Industrialization and urbanization Class conflict Individualism

Contemporary Theoretical Perspectives Functionalist Conflict Feminist Symbolic Interactionist Postmodernist