{"id":982,"date":"2011-12-02T11:19:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T16:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=982"},"modified":"2011-12-02T11:19:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T16:19:01","slug":"5-famous-social-scientists-and-why-they-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2011\/12\/02\/5-famous-social-scientists-and-why-they-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Famous Social Scientists and Why They Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below is guest post from Holly Kearny:<\/p>\n

Social science is not new.\u00a0 It has been around for hundreds of years and is still being studied to this day.\u00a0 However, there were many founders of the science that looks at the non-natural world and into the elements of human behavior and beyond.\u00a0 Below, we have listed five of the most famous social scientists and their work.<\/p>\n

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  1. Auguste Comte \u2013 He was the first to coin the term \u201csocial science\u201d in the nineteenth century.\u00a0 He was a French philosopher who believed in the concept of positivism, or that the collected senses made up all worthwhile information.\u00a0 He was also a prominent figure during the French Revolution in which he called for a doctrine based on science.<\/li>\n
  2. Max Weber \u2013 This German was a sociologist and political economist who influenced many social scientists to come.\u00a0 He was one of the first to study methodological antipositivsm, or the belief that the findings that arise in social science cannot be fully interpreted by the scientific method and should focus on the meanings that social actions have.<\/li>\n
  3. Karl Marx \u2013 He wasn\u2019t just an advocate for workers or communism, Karl Marx was also a social scientist.\u00a0 Born in Germany, he came from a long line of rabbis.\u00a0 After his work brought controversy, he sought refuge in Belgium where he theorized that \u201cthe nature of individuals depends on the material conditions determining their production.\u201d\u00a0 He would later join the Communist League and write the manifesto with Friedrich Engels, and it is still a hot topic of dispute today.<\/li>\n
  4. Wiliam Du Bois \u2013 He proved that social sciences aren\u2019t just for white men.\u00a0 Du Bois was born in 1868 in Massachusetts and was a stern advocate for civil rights.\u00a0 In his book \u201cThe Suppression of the African Slave Trade,\u201d he even included an attack on civil rights leader Booker T. Washington for not doing more in the campaign for civil rights.<\/li>\n
  5. Leon Festinger and James Carlsmith \u2013 A dual of social scientists took on an individual\u2019s central stories and why they think and behave the way they do.\u00a0 The experiment was conducted in 1959 at Stanford University and involved students doing a boring task and then being paid to promote it.\u00a0 Expectations, outcomes, and more marked this amazing moment in social science history.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Holly Kearny manages the site www.becomingateacher.org. Her site helps students find the right college to get a teaching degree.<\/p>\n

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