Quiz on Famous Sociologists

I emphasized understanding a particular setting from the point of view of the person in it

• Auguste Comte

• Max Weber

• Emile Durkheim

• Herbert Spencer

I was a co-founder of the NAACP

• WEB Du Bois

• Jane Addams

• Max Weber

• Herbert Spencer

I was the 1st female sociologist

• Harriet Martineau

• Jane Addams

• Emile Durkheim

• Auguste Comte

I studied the poor and worked to improve poverty conditions

• Jane Addams

• Harriet Martineau

• Karl Marx

• Max Weber

I founded Hull House and I won the Nobel Prize for my work with the poor

• Jane Addams

• Harriet Martineau

• Karl Max

• Auguste Comte

I am responsible for the phrase “Survival of the Fittest”

• Herbert Spencer

• Auguste Comte

• WEB Du Bois

• Karl Marx

I believed that Social Darwinism, and evolutionary social change, led to progress, and people should not interfere with the concept of survival of the fittest

• Herbert Spencer

• Jane Addams

• Harriet Martineau

• Emile Durkheim

I was the founder of sociology

• Auguste Comte

• Jane Addams

• Karl Marx

• Max Weber

I claimed that society is governed by laws and principles that could be understood using the scientific method (scientific observation)

• Auguste Comte

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Harriet Martineau

• Emile Durkheim

I argued that societies contained both forces for stability and cooperation (social statics) and forces for conflict and change (social dynamics)

• Auguste Comte

• Jane Addams

• Max Weber

• Karl Marx