A Sociological Timeline of Major Figures in the Development of Sociological Theory, 1820–1960

A Sociological Timeline of Major Figures in the Development of Sociological Theory, 1820–1960

Max Weber (The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, 1904—05; Economy and Society, 1 922) Robert Merton (Social Theory Emile Durkheim and Social Structure, 1949) (Suicide, 1897; Elementary Forms of Talcott Parsons (The the Religious Life, 1912) Social System, 1951) Auguste Comte coins the term “sociology" George Herbert Mead (1838) (Mind, Self, and Society, 1934) 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 WA Harriet Martineau (miscellaneous writings about women, 1823—69) Erving Goffman (The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, 1959) Karl Marx (Communist Manifesto, 1848; 0_ Wright M1115 Capital, Volume 1, 1867) (The Power Elite 1956) FIGURE 1.5 A Sociological Timeline of Major Figures in the Development of Sociological Theory, 1820—1960