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11/23/2015

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Auguste Comte
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Coined the term sociology and believed that the application of the scientific method to the study of industrial society would lead to its improvement
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C. Wright Mills
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Identified the term sociological imagination to describe the ink between an individual's experiences and the society in which the individual lives
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Charles Horton Cooley
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Symbolic-interactionist who identified the concept of looking glass self, in which one's sense of self is based on the imagined reactions of others
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Emile Durkheim
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Conducted well-known studies on social facts using suicide pattern statistics;
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Erving Goffman
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Symbolic-interactionist who used dramaturgical analysis to explain social roles
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George Herbert Mead
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Symbolic-interactionist who explored the social influences of the development of a sense of self
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Karl Marx
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Founded the conflict perspective by dividing society into the bourgeoisie and proletariat
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Robert Merton
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Functionalist who discerned between manifest and latent functions
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