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Ess. of Sociology-sociologist ch7
Name that Sociologist!!!
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Sociology
Undergraduate 2
10/02/2011

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W.E.B Du Bois
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Because slaves were banned from holding meetings or being away without without carrying a pass,they were imprisoned. "Gradually the white south became an armed camp to keep Negroes in slavery and to kill the black rebel"
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Karl Marx
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He concluded that the social class depends on a single: people's relationship to the means of production. The tools, factories, land, and investment capital used to produce wealth.
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Max Weber
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He argued that property is only part of the picture. Social class has 3 components: property, power, and prestige.
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Kinsley Davis & Wilbert Moore
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They concluded that Stratification of society was inevitable because: 1. Society must make sure its positions are filled. 2. Some positions are more important than others. 3. More qualified people get the more important positions. 4. The more important people get greater rewards to help motivate them.
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Gaetano Mosca
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Stratfied by POWER: He stated that societies must be organized which requires leadership. Some people will have to lead and some will havet follow.Unforunately people in power will use their position to seize greater rewards for themselves.
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Gerhard Lenski
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His theory is that Surplus is the key.In Hunter and Gatherer societies they fight over surplus, and whomever wins becomes the elite.
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immanuel wallerstein
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industrialization led to 4 groups of nations:core,semiperiphery,periphery, and external area
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Michael Harrington
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When colonialism fell out of style it was replaced by neocolonialism.
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