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Samora became the first Mexican American to earn a doctorate in sociology after graduation from Washington University. His focus was on civil rights, discrimination, poverty, public health, and the movement of Mexican Americans. He later founded the Mexican American Graduate studies Program at the University of Notre Dame.

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Mead was one of many that taught at the University of Chicago. Mead stated that our sense of self develops as we interact with the world, after exploring sense of self-develops. Mead´s research planted the foundation for symbolic interaction, such as language, symbols, and communication.

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Park worked as an aid to Booker T. Washington at the Tuskegee Institute for eleven years. Park taught at The University of Chicago where he specialized in race relations, humn ecology, the study of relationships among indiviuals

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Washington had begun his life in slavery, became an educator and founded the Tuskegee Institute in 1881. He worked under the assumption that African Americans should accept segregation in return for promises of economic gains.

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Du Bois was an African American educator, social activist, and was the first African American to receive a diploma from his integrated high school in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He also became the first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard University. Du bois learned about racial discrimination and segregation when attending Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee and decided he wanted to do something about the issue. He analyzed the sophisticated social structure of African American communities and published his findings.

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Addams attended the Women´s Medical College of Philadelphia and was best known of the early female social reformers. As a child, Addams experienced government corruption and watching workers in the process of getting harmed. As she grew up, she never forgot and proceeded to seek social justice. She invited other sociologists from the University of Chicago to experience first hand the labor. Addams was not seriously considered a sociologist for she was a woman and worked directly with the poor. Nonetheless, she was the first ´sociologist' to receive the Nobel Peace Price.

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Weber was the eldest song of a his father, German lawyer and politician. Although, his mother openly rejected her husbands lifestyle. Due to his parents issues, Weber suffered from pyschological issues. Weber was a university professor trained in law and economics and wrote on a list of topics including the nature of power, religions of the world, economics, rural and urban sociology, social classes, and the development and nature of bureaucracy. Weber´s most famous book in the sociology field is The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. In his words, sociologists must discover the personal meanings, value, beliefs, and attitudes with human behavior.

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Durkheim was the son of a French rabbi. Durkheim said that society exists because of a broad agreement among all of the members. Durkheim got the experience to use uncommon research methods such as observation to collect and classify data, and to use that data for testing social theories. He later introduced the use of statistical studies on his research of suicide. Durkheim showed that social behavior has to be explained by social factors as well as psychological ones.

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Marx was a german scholar that studied law in Bonn and Berlin. Eventually, Marx became an editor of a radical newspaper, which had a major effect on the field. Marx took realization into the working and poverty class. He identified social classes like bourgeoisie, those who own the means for producing wealth in industrial settings. The proletariat are those who work for the bourgeoisie and are paid the minimum. Marx planned for a classes society, jumping from capitalism to communism.

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Spencer was one of nine children, raised by a schoolteacher. Spencer spent his career with multiple options, engineering, drafting, inventing, journalism, and writing. He believed that the human body was similar to society, made up of certain parts to survive. Most importantly, Spencer introduced the presumption of Social Darwinism, based off of Charles Darwin's. He believed that society profits off of allowing indivuals to have their own social class - let the poor be poor and the rich be rich.

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Martineau was an English woman raised in a middle class home. She eventually became a popular writer, researcher, feminist, and abolitionist. She was the first of many to write about her experiences as a women and being treated as less in society, which encouraged future theorists.

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Comte is a french man known as the father of sociology. He created the term 'sociology' to describe the study of society and social behavior. He introduced the idea of positivism, where the study of sociology was correct and sure.