People of Sociology

 Micah Weinstock

Mr. Roddy

IHSS

10/10/2020

People of Sociology

Auguste Comte is one of the original modern philosophers. He was also the first to set out in search of the "science of man." Comte was so early to the field that he actually was the one to coin the term sociology. He additionally split sociology into two halves: social statics and social dynamics. He also played a big role in how strongly sociology gets viewed by the rest of the world as he saw it as the most important branch of science.

                     Max Weber is remembered as "One of the most important theorists on the development of                          Western society." He published a major thesis that combined economic sociology and                                 sociology of religion. This is what he regarded to be the genesis of capitalism, which directly                      contrasts Karl Marx's theory. He began his career as a social scientist with the writing of a                          report on the "Ostflucht." A large piece of his philosophy in sociology is that there were no                         rules - a radical thought compared to his contemporaries such as Auguste Comte. Weber felt                     that people were more run on ideas rather than within a particular set of rules. Another large                        piece of his work is within objectivity and subjectivity. He would end up backing objectivity                     as a philosophy.

                       Overall both these men contributed in massive amounts to this field of study. It was                                     incredible to watch how the later sociologists were able to build off of the ideas created by                         their contemporaries.

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