DIGITAL ALBUM ON PROMINENT

SOCIAL SCIENTISTS
Created by,
Mr. OLIVER THOMAS
EDU 104.19
SOCIAL SCIENCE
R. No. 89
ST. THOMAS COLLEGE OF
TEACHER EDUCATION
MYLACOMPU
AUGUSTE COMTE
1798 - 1857

 He was the first to coin the

term “social science” in the
nineteenth century. 
He was a French
philosopher who believed in
the concept of positivism, or
that the collected senses made
up all worthwhile
information. 
He was also a prominent
figure during the French
Revolution in which he called
for a doctrine based on
science.
EMILE DURKHEIM
1858 - 1917

 He was a famous French

philosopher and sociologist
known as the father of the
French school of sociology
for his methodology
combining empirical research
with sociological theory.
In 1893, Durkheim
published his first major
work, "The Division of Labor
in Society," in which he
introduced the concept of
"anomie," or the breakdown
of the influence of social
norms on individuals within a
society.
KARL MARX
1818 - 1883

He wasn’t just an advocate

for workers or communism,
Karl Marx was also a social
scientist.  He was born in
Germany.
After his work brought
controversy, he sought refuge
in Belgium where he
theorized that “the nature of
individuals depends on the
material conditions
determining their
production.” 
He would later join the
Communist League and write
the manifesto with Friedrich
Engels, and it is still a hot
topic of dispute today
ROMILA THAPAR
1931

 She is an Indian Historian.

 Her principal area of study
is ancient India, a field in
which she is pre-eminent.
 Thapar's special
contribution is the use of
social-historical methods to
understand change in the mid-
first millennium BCE in
northern India.
As lineage-based Indo-
Aryan pastoral groups moved
into the Gangetic Plain, they
created rudimentary forms 
caste-based states.
MAX WEBER
1864 - 1920
 This German was a
sociologist and political
economist who influenced
many social scientists to
come. 
He was one of the first to
study methodological
antipositivism, or the belief
that the findings that arise
in social science cannot be
fully interpreted by the
scientific method and
should focus on the
meanings that social
actions have.
WILLIAM DU BOIS
1868 - 1963

 He proved that social

sciences aren’t just for
white men. 
Du Bois was born in 1868
in Massachusetts and was a
stern advocate for civil
rights. 
In his book “The
Suppression of the African
Slave Trade,” he even
included an attack on civil
rights leader Booker T.
Washington for not doing
more in the campaign for
civil rights.
AMARTYA SEN
1933
 He is an Indian Philosopher
and Economist.
Sen's papers in the late 1960s
and early 1970s helped develop
the theory of social choice.
 In 1981, Sen
published Poverty and
Famines: An Essay on
Entitlement and
Deprivation (1981), a book in
which he argued that famine
occurs not only from a lack of
food, but from inequalities built
into mechanisms for
distributing food. Sen also
argued that the Bengal famine
was caused by an urban
economic boom that
raised food prices.
LEELA DUBE
1923 - 2012

 Leela Dube was a

renowned anthropologist
and feminist scholar,
fondly called Leeladee by
many.
 She was a key person in
the Indian Sociological
Society in the 1970s and
was responsible for
introducing women's
studies concerns into
mainstream sociology. 
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