What were the main contribution(s) of each individual listed below?

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C. Wright Mills

Ida B. Wells Barnett

Robert Park

Karl Marx

Auguste Comte

Harriet Martineau

Alice S. Rossi

Charles Darwin

Max Weber

Susan Brownmiller

Arlie Hochschild

Judith Stacey

Emile Durkheim

Albion Small

Beatrice Webb

Annie Marion MacLean

Ernest Burgess

Hattie Plum Williams

George Herbert Mead

Talcott Parson

Robert Merton

George Simmel

Jessie Bernard

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Answer 1

Wright Mills: best remembered for studying the structure of power in the U.S. in his book The Power Elite

Ida B. Wells Barnett: An African American advocating civil rights women's rights advocate. She opposed lynchings and documented lots of them.

Robert Park: one of the main founders of the original Chicago School of sociology.

Karl Marx: "Father of communism"

Auguste Comte: French thinker who is generally credited for having coined the term "sociologie"

Harriet Martineau: an English writer and philosopher, renowned in her day as a controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist.

Alice S. Rossi: Sorry, never heard of her

Charles Darwin: Came up with the theory of evolution by means of "survival of the fittest"

Max Weber: a German political economist and sociologist who was considered one of the founders of the modern study of sociology and public administration.

Susan Brownmiller: a radical feminist, journalist, and activist best known for her pioneering work on the politics of rape in her 1975 book "Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape"

Arlie Hochschild: he author of several prize-winning books and numerous articles which discuss the dual labor by women in both the general economy and within the household. She introduced the ideas of feeling rules, time bind and emotional labor.

Judith Stacey: Don't know

Emile Durkheim: a French sociologist whose contributions were instrumental in the formation of sociology and anthropology. His work and editorship of the first journal of sociology, L'Année Sociologique, helped establish sociology within academia as an accepted social science.

Albion Small: founded the first Department of Sociology in the USA at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois in 1892. He was influential on the establishment of sociology as a valid field of academic study.

Beatrice Webb: coined the terms Co-operative Federalism and Co-operative Individualism

Annie Marion MacLean: Don't know

Ernest Burgess: Burgess' groundbreaking research, in conjunction with his colleague, Robert E. Park, provided the foundation for The Chicago School. In The City, they conceptualized the city into the concentric zones (Concentric zone model), including the central business district, transitional (industrial, deteriorating housing), working-class residential (tenements), residential, and commuter/suburban zones. They also viewed cities as something that experiences evolution and change, in the Darwinian sense.

Hattie Plum Williams: Don't know

George Herbert Mead: an American philosopher, sociologist and psychologist, primarily affiliated with the University of Chicago, where he was one of several distinguished pragmatists. He is regarded as one of the founders of social psychology. His theory of how the mind and self emerge from the social process of communication by signs founded the symbolic interactionist school of sociology and social psychology. He also made significant contributions to the philosophies of nature, science, and history, to philosophical anthropology, and to process philosophy.

Talcott Parsons: an American sociologist, who served on the faculty of Harvard University from 1927–1973. He produced a general theoretical system for the analysis of society, that came to be called structural functionalism. This was created by Parsons to reflect his vision of an integrated social science.



Robert Merton: an American sociologist, who served on the faculty of Harvard University from 1927–1973. He produced a general theoretical system for the analysis of society, that came to be called structural functionalism. This was created by Parsons to reflect his vision of an integrated social science.

Georg Simmel: His studies pioneered the concept of social structure, and he was a key precursor of social network analysis.

Jessie Bernard: Don't know.

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Answer 2

i'd love to answer, but it looks like "tasfia s" gave you just about all the answers.  it seems unfair to only get 10 points for all that.  

why isn't there a category called "Do My Homework For Me Because I'm Just Too (Lazy, Bored, whatever) To Do It Myself"?