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who coined the term sociology
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Auguste Comte
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who coined the term sociological imagination
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C.Wright Mills
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units of analysis
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things under observation and study by scientists
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Compte general de l' administration de la justice criminelle en france
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first formal effort to collect social statistics,arrests, connections, suicides, illegitimate births, military desertions, charitable contributions, revenues published 1827
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Andie Michel Guerry
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first person to take the statistics from Compte and compare the to form conclusions----quit law--prize winning Essay of moral Statistics---indentified social forces as conditions which could influence individual actions
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Adolf Wagner
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german,published suicide rates study in several parts of Europe
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Henry Morselli
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Italian,developed Wagners study
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Emile Durkheim
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frenchman,published book suicide based on data by Wagner and Morselli--called himself sociologist---believed that suicide is influenced by social conditions, a weakness in social reationships more than character weakness
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Adolphe Quetelet
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his work SurL'homme--proposed the concept of the average person which si used in statistics--called moral statistics social physics--noted the lack of empirical data as a major problem in moral statistics
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karl Marx
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made early effort to conduct opinion surveys among english workers
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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African american---created sociological lab in Atlanta---believed if social facts were known and presented then people would take reasonable actions to change
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