Question

Match each early thinker with his or her contribution to sociology.

a. science can be used to predict human behavior.
b. class conflict drives social change.
c. the division of labor has social and moral consequences.
d. sociologists must understand the meaning people attach to their actions.
e. this thinker translated the work of comte into english and wrote the first book on sociological method. f. african americans have to live their lives with an eye toward how racially prejudiced others perceive them. g. this thinker developed formal definitions for small and large groups.

Answer 1

Each early thinker/ sociologist is matched with his or her contribution to sociology (enumerated above) as follows:

a. Auguste Comte

b. W.E.B. DuBois

c. Karl Marx

d. Max Weber

e. Harriet Martineau

f. W. E. B. DuBois

g. Georg Simmel