PRACTICUM OF SOCIAL SCIENCE

EDU 104
DIGITAL ALBUM OF
SOCIAL SCIENTISTS

Earnest Augustine
Social Science,St.Thomas College of Teacher Education,Mylakompu
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MAX WEBER

Maximilian Karl Weber was a

sociologist,Historian,Jurist and a Political
Economist.

PERSONAL LIFE
• He was born on 21 april 1864 in Erfurt, a city of Prussia
• He was the eldest son of Max Weber Sr, who was a civil servant and
Helen Fallenstein who was from a wealthy family
• He was born to a family with notable heritage.
• In 1893 He married to Marianne Schnitger who was a feminist activist
• They would have no children
• He passed away in 14 June 1920 in Germany
EDUCATION AND CAREER

•His disciplines were Economics, History, Sociology and Law

•Wber studied from the University of Gottingen, Humboldt University of
Berlin, Heidelberg University and Kaiserin Augusta Gymnasium
•In 1888 he joined 'VEREIN FOR SOCIAL POLITIK' a new professional
association of German Economists
•From 1893 Weber was a member of 'Alldeutscher Verband' [ A Pan
German League]
•In 1894 He joined as an Economics Professor in Albert Ludwigs
University
•In 1896 He joined as an Economics Professor at the University of
Heidelberg
NOTABLE WORKS
•The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit of Capitalism  [1904-05]
•Economy and Society [1922]
•General Economic History [1923]
2 AUGUSTE COMTE
ISIDORE MARIE AUGUSTE FRANCOIS XAVIER COMTE is
the First Philosopher of Science in the modern sense of
the term.

PERSONAL LIFE
• Comte was born on 19January 1798 in France
• He was born to Louise Auguste Xavier Comte who
was a tax officer and Rosalie Boyer
• He married Caroline Massine in 1825 and later they
separated in 1842
• He passed away on September 5 1857 in Paris 
EDUCATION AND CAREER

Comte was educated by private tutors until he was 9.

He studied in the University of Montpellier.
At the age of 16 he admitted to Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.
Comte lead his career life as a Philosopher, Mathematician, Social
Scientist,and as A Teacher of Journalism

NOTABLE WORK
Comte a developed the Positivist Theory Of Sociology
Law of 3 Stages in the account of Social Evolution was one of his
prominent works
EncyclopedicLaw ,Altruism
He was 1st to distinguish natural philosophy from science explicity
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KARL MARX
PERSONAL LIFE
• He was born on 5 May 1818 in Trier, Germany
• He was born to Heinrich Max and Henriette Pressburg
• Jenny Von Westphalen was his spouse
• They had 7 children
• He passed away on 14th March 1883

EDUCATION AND CAREER

He completed his studies from University of Bonn,
University of Berlin and University of Jena.
His main Interests were Philosophy, Economics, History and Politics.
• He worked as Economists, Historian and a Political Activist
NOTABLE WORKS
His best known titles are the Pamphlet The
Communist Manifesto and The Three-volume Das
Kapital [1867-1883]
His contribution to field of Economics is The
Labour Theory Of Value.
4 WILLIAM THOMPSON
PERSONAL LIFE
He was born on 30 June 1775 in Cork,Ireland
He was born into the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy of
wealthy owners and merchants of Cork society.
His father, Alderman John Thompson one of the
prosperent merchant of that city
He was Unmarried
Thompson became a non-smoker,Teetotaller and
vegetarian for the last 17 years of his life
He passed away on 28 March 1833 due to Chest
affliction
CAREER
He was an Irish political and philosophical writer
He was a social reformer
Thompson was an Egalitarian and democratHe was labelled as ‘Red
Republican’ .

NOTABLE WORKS
Thompson made his notable points in a series of letters, the title is “
Practical Education For South of Ireland”.
An Enquiry into the principles of the distribution of wealth most
conducive to human happiness –and Labor Rewarded: The claims of
Labor and Capital Conciliated are the prominent book by Thompson.
5 EMILE DURKHEIM
David Emile Durkheim was a French
sociologist. He formally established the
academic discipline of sociology and, with
Max Weber, is commonly cited as the
principal architect of modern social science
PERSONAL LIFE
* Birth: Emile Durkheim (1858–1917) was born in
Epinal, France, on April 15, 1858, to a devout
French Jewish family.
* In 1887, he married a young embroiderer named Louise Julie
Dreyfus, the daughter of a director of a foundry, and together they had
two children, Marie Bella (born 1888) and Andre-Armand (born 1892).
* In November 1917 he died of a stroke, leaving his last great
work, La Morale (Morality), with only a preliminary
introduction.
Education And Career
Emile Durkheim taught philosophy at various lycées between 1882
and 1887, when he was appointed lecturer at the University of
Bordeaux, where he later (1896) became professor of social science

NOTABLE WORKS
Emile Durkheim's major works included The Division of
Labour in Society (1893), The Rules of Sociological Method
(1895), Suicide (1897), Pedagogical Evolution in France
(published posthumously in 1938), and The Elementary Forms
of Religious Life (1912).
 6 MICHEL FOUCAULT
Paul-Michel Doria Foucault was a French Philosopher,
historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary
critic.

PERSONAL LIFE
• Foucault was born in Poitiers, France, on October 15, 1926.
• He married Anne Malapert, the daughter of prosperous surgeon
Dr. Prosper Malapert, who owned a private practice and taught
anatomy at the University of Poitiers' School of Medicine.
• The couple had three children—a girl named Francine and two
boys, Paul-Michel and Denys—who all shared the same fair hair
and bright blue eyes.
• Foucault died in Paris on June 25, 1984
Education And Career
A distinguished but sometimes erratic student, Michel
Foucault gained entry at the age of 20 to the École Normale
Supérieure (ENS) in Paris in 1946. There he studied psychology
and philosophy, embraced and then abandoned communism,
and established a reputation as a sedulous, brilliant, and
eccentric student.

NOTABLE WORKS
Madness and Civilization (1961)
The Birth of the Clinic (1963)
The Order of Things (1966)
Discipline and Punish (1975)
The History of Sexuality (1976)
WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER 7
William Graham Sumner was a classical liberal
American social scientist. He taught social sciences
at Yale, where he held the nation's first
professorship in sociology

PERSONAL LIFE
• William GraWilliam Graham Sumnerham Sumner
was born in Paterson, New Jersey on October 30,
1840
• Sumner married Jeannie Whittemore Elliott,
daughter of Henry H. Elliott of New York City.
• William Graham Sumner died in April 12 1910
Education And Career
Sumner was educated in the Hartford public schools. After
graduation, he worked for two years as a clerk in a store before
going to Yale College from which he graduated in 1863. Sumner
achieved an impressive record at Yale as a scholar and orator.

NOTABLE WORKS
What the Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883)
Folkways (1906
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WILHELM DILTHEY
Wilhelm Dilthey was a German historian,
psychologist, sociologist, and hermeneutic
philosopher, who held G. W. F. Hegel's Chair in
Philosophy at the University of Berlin.

PERSONAL LIFE
• Wilhelm Dilthey was born in Biebrich, a village in the
Rhineland, on Nov. 19, 1833.
• In 1874, he married Katherine Puttmann, and the couple
had one son and two daughters.
• Wilhelm Dilthey died on October 1 1911.
 Education And Career
He studying theology at Heidelberg University
He received his doctorate from Berlin with a thesis in
Latin on Schleiermacher's ethics, and in June of the 1864

In 1867 he took up a professorship at the University of Basel, but

later—in 1882—he returned to Berlin where he held the prestigious
chair in philosophy at the University.

NOTABLE WORKS
Volume I: Introduction to the Human Sciences (1989)
Volume II: Understanding the Human World: Selected Works
of Wilhelm Dilthey (2010)
Volume III: The Formation of the Historical World in the
Human Sciences (2002)
Volume IV: Hermeneutics and the Study of History (1996)
 W.E.B DU BOIS 9

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an

American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights
activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor.

PERSONAL LIFE
• William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born in Great Barrington,
Massachusetts on February 23, 1868, three years after the end of
the American Civil
• W.E.B. Du Bois married the former Nina Gomer in 1896; they
were married until her death in 1950. They had two children:
son Burghardt, who died in infancy, and daughter Yolande. Du
Bois married the former Shirley Graham in 1951; they had no
children
• W.E.B Du Bois died in 27 August 1963.
Education And Career
W.E.B. Du Bois graduated from Fisk University, a historically black
institution in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1888. He received a Ph.D. in
history from Harvard University in 1895.

NOTABLE WORKS
The Souls of Black Folk
Black Reconstruction
The Crisis
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BRAUDEL
Fernand Braudel was a French historian
and a leader of the Annales School.

PERSONAL LIFE

• Fernand Braudel was born August 24, 1902, in the small

town of Luneville in eastern France.
• He was married to the former Paule Pradel in 1933 and
they had two daughters, Marie-Pierre and Francoise.
• Fernand Braudel died on November 28, 1985, at the age
of 83.
 Education And Career
Braudel was educated at the Lycée Voltaire and the Sorbonne, where
at the age of 20 he was awarded an agrégé in history. While teaching
at the University of Algiers between 1923 and 1932, he became
fascinated by the Mediterranean Sea and wrote several papers on
the Spanish presence in Algeria in the 16th century.

NOTABLE WORKS
Capitalism. After La Méditerranée, Braudel's most famous work is
Civilisation Matérielle, Économie et Capitalisme, XVe-XVIIIe
(Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century). The first volume
was published in 1967, and was translated to English in 1973. The
last of the three-volume work appeared in 1979.