Contribution in the

Name Background
Development of Sociology
 concretized the “niche
problematique” of sociology
Emile Durkheim a French social thinker from his study of suicide
 introduced the concept of
“social fact"
 produced the most scathing
critique of capitalist
poor and always hungry, exiled for exploitation of the labor
Karl Marx several times and declared as class of profit
persona non grata by Germany  “critical historical”
perspective (conflict
paradigm)
 produced powerful analysis
Max Weber grew u in an affluent family about religion, economics,
and bureacracy
 took a different approach in
an American sociologist and the
the analysis of social
Charles Horton Cooley son of the Michigan Supreme
realities – symbolic
Court Judge
interactionism
American philosopher prominent  produced the foundational
George Herbert Mead in both social psychology and the principles of the school of
development of Pragmatism thought