verstehen

Social Facts

functionalism

Positivism

Microsoiology

Feminist Theory

Symbolic Interaction Theory

Auguste Comte

Definition of situation

social construction

Thomas's Dictum

Robert Merton

Emile Durkheim

Conflict Theory

debunking

sociology

issues

troubles

Sociological imagination

empirical

Enlightenment

Organic metaphor

manifest functions

Latent functions

social change

C. Wright Mills

Max Weber (pronounced "vay-ber")

social action

social darwinism

social institution

social structure

society interaction

macrosociology

Diversity

Chicago School

Hariet Marineau

Karl Marx

Robert Park

Jane Addams

\lexis de Tocqueville

Georg Simmel

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Talcott Parsons