Sociology CLEP - Important People
Robert Merton ️️5 modes of adaption of anomie:
1) Conformity
2) Innovation
3) Ritualism
4) Retreatism
5) Rebellion
Thomas Malthus ️️Population studies - developed the dependency ratio
covering rate of growth in food production vs. population...
covering rate of growth in food production vs. population and working vs. nonworking population
Erving Goffman ✔️✔️Argued that identities were not inherently a part of us, but resources to use
when needed
Adam Smith ✔️✔️Capitalism "Wealth of Nations"
William Sumner ✔️✔️Ethnocentrism
Radcliffe Browne ✔️✔️Structural Functionalism
Auguste Comte ✔️✔️3 Stages of cultural evolution:
Theological to metaphysical to positive
- Coined sociology as study of whole
Thomas Hobbes ✔️✔️Social contract theory and proposed that social order arose out of the desire to
escape social conflict
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