Sociology Prominent Figures Review
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Who is famous for his premises on symbolic interactionism?

  • Donald Black
  • Charles Horton Cooley
  • Herbert Blumer (correct)
  • Peter Ludwig Berger
  • Which sociologist co-authored the book The Social Construction of Reality?

  • Charles Horton Cooley
  • Donald Black
  • Peter Ludwig Berger (correct)
  • Herbert Blumer
  • Who emphasized that sociology must not end as a practice but as an attempt to understand the social world?

  • Charles Horton Cooley
  • Herbert Blumer
  • Peter Ludwig Berger (correct)
  • Donald Black
  • Who conceptualized the 'looking-glass self'?

    <p>Charles Horton Cooley</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who focused on the law as social control and identified four key styles of social control?

    <p>Donald Black</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who argued that sociology must not end as a practice but is an attempt to understand the social world?

    <p>Peter Ludwig Berger</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who is recognized as the 'father of sociology' and famous for his theory on the law of three stages of societies?

    <p>Auguste Comte</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who is known for his idea of natural selection and survival of the fittest, which later became the central idea behind the evolutionary theory attempting to explain social change?

    <p>Charles Darwin</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who was the first sociologist to employ social research to study society and was famous for his works on the phenomenon of suicide, citing social structures as causes rather than merely psychological?

    <p>Émile Durkheim</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who influenced Karl Marx's view on religion as the opium of people, believing that religion is just the projected norms and values of society onto separate entities?

    <p>Ludwig Feuerbach</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who alongside Ralph Turner, studied crowds more closely and identified its four types: casual, conventional, expressive, and acting crowds?

    <p>Lewis Killian</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who proposed the multilinear evolutionary theory, suggesting that societies undergo through different lines and that change does not necessarily steer in the same direction?

    <p>Gerhard Lenski Jr.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who suggested two more collective groups other than crowds, which are public and mass?

    <p>John Lofland</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who explained how social structures came from habits of the members of society, which later were ingrained in the social structure through the processes of habitualization and institutionalization?

    <p>Thomas Luckmann</p> Signup and view all the answers

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