What are the three schools of thought dealing with sociology?

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What are the three schools of thought dealing with sociology?

Answer 1

school of thought - a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.

I'm assuming you are looking for the 3 main paradigms associated with sociology.  I hope this helps.



Conflict (Marx)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_th...

Functionalism (Durkheim)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functionali...

Symbolic Interactionalism (Mead)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_in...

There are many sociologists that subscribe to theories based on variations of the paradigms mentioned above.

Addams, J.

Adorno, Th. W.

Aron, R.

Bauman, Z.

Baudrillard, J.

Becker, H.

Bell, D.

Benedict, R.F.

Berger, P. L.

Bhaskar, R.

Blau, P.

Blumer, H.

Boltanski, L.

Boudon, R.

Bourdieu, P.

Coleman, J.A.

Collins, R.

Comte, A.

Cooley, Ch. H.

Coser, L.

Crompton, R.

Crozier, M.

Dahrendorf, R.

Du Bois, W.E.B.

Durkheim, E.

Elias, N.

Elster, J.

Etzioni, A.

Ferguson, A.

Foucault, M.

Fromm, E.

Garfinkel, H.

Geertz, C.

Geiger, Th.

Giddens, A.

Goffman, E.

Goudsblom, J.

Gouldner, A.W.

Gramsci, A.

Habermas, J.

Halbwachs, M.

Hall, S.

Haraway, D.J.

Homans, G.C.

Horkheimer, M.

Ibn Khaldun

Inglehart, R.

Kanter E. M.

Kearl, M.

König, R.

Latour, B.

Lefebvre, H.

Lenski, G.

Lévi-Strauss, C.

Luckmann, Th.

Luhmann, N.

Malinowski, B.

Mann, M.

Mannheim, K.

Marcuse, H.

Marx, K.

Mauss, M.

McLuhan, M

Mead, G. H.

Mead, M.

Merton, R. K.

Michels, R.

Millett, K.

Mills, C. W.

Moreno, J. L.

Morgan, L. H.

Offe, C.

Pareto, V.

Park, R.E.

Parsons, T.

Popper, K.

Rousseau, J.-J.

Schütz, A.

Simmel, G.

Sorokin, P.A.

Spencer, H.

Taylor, W.F.

Thomas, W.I.

Tocqueville, A. de

Toffler, A.

Tönnies, F.

Touraine, A.

Toynbee, A.

Veblen, T.

Walby, S.

Wallerstein, I.

Ward, L.F.

Weber, Max

Willis, Paul

Znaniecki, F.W.