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Miscellaneous Social Scientists
Anthropologists, sociologists, linguists, and more.
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Albert Schweitzer (born 1875, died 1965)
Alsatian theologian, missionary, physician and musicologist.
- His book on ethics, Philosophy of Civilization (1923), advocated reverence for all life
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Alfred L. Kroeber (born 1876, died 1960)
American anthropologist.
- Known for his work on the language, culture and religion of Native Americans
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Arnold Toynbee (born 1852, died 1883)
English sociologist and economist.
- Pioneer of the social settlement movement
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Bronislaw Malinowski (born 1884, died 1942)
Polish anthropologist.
- Considered the father of social anthropology
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Charles Fourier (born 1772, died 1837)
French social scientist and reformer.
- Utopian socialist who devoted himself to the study of society and methods of improving social and economic conditions
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Edward Sapir (born 1884, died 1939)
American anthropologist and linguist.
- Best known for his studies on the ethnology and linguistics of Native Americans in the northwestern U.S.
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Émile Durkheim (born 1858, died 1917)
French sociologist.
- Considered the founder of modern sociology
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Ferdinand de Saussure (born 1857, died 1913)
Swiss Sanskrit scholar.
- His Cours de Linguistique Generale greatly influenced the development of modern linguistics
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Franz Boas (born 1858, died 1942)
German-American anthropologist and ethnologist.
- Authority on the linguistics of North American tribes
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Konrad Lorenz (born 1903)
Austrian ethnologist and physiologist.
- Known for his work on individual and social behavior patterns
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Leonard Bloomfield (born 1887, died 1949)
American philologist and educator.
- Wrote Introduction to the Study of Language
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Lewis Mumford (born 1895, died 1990)
American architect, sociologist and writer.
- Wrote The Brown Decades and The Culture of Cities
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Louis Blanc (born 1811, died 1882)
French socialist.
- Considered the founder of state socialism
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Max Weber (born 1864, died 1920)
German sociologist.
- Wrote Theory of Social and Economic Organization
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Perry Miller (born 1905, died 1963)
American literary critic.
- Wrote The New England Mind and Consciousness in Concord
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Gilberto de Mello Freyre (born 1900, died 1987)
Brazilian sociologist.
- Wrote Casa-grande e senzala (''''The Big House and the Slave Quarters'''')
Miscellaneous Social Scientists
Anthropologists, sociologists, linguists, and more.
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Margaret Mead (born 1901, died 1978)
American anthropologist.
- Wrote Coming of Age in Samoa
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Ruth Benedict (born 1887, died 1948)
American sociologist and anthropologist.
- Wrote Patterns of Culture
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Jessie Bernard (born 1903)
American sociologist known for her studies of sex, family dynamics, and the public and private roles of women.
- Wrote The Future of Marriage
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Daisy May Bates (born 1863, died 1951)
Irish anthropologist.
- Spent much of her life studying and acting as an advocate for the Australian Aborigines
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Doreen Kimura
Canadian behavioral psychologist.
- Known for her work on sex differences in the brain
