SOCIAL SCIENTIST ALBUM Presented by Soumya Mary Mathew

SOCIAL SCIENTIST ALBUM Presented by Soumya Mary Mathew Collage of Teachers Education, Paippad

Pierre Bourdieu was a renowned sociologist and public intellectual who made significant contributions to general sociological, theorizing the link between education and culture, and research into the intersections of taste, class, and education. He is well known for pioneering such terms as "symbolic violence, " “Cultural capital, " and ” habitus. " His book Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste is the most cited sociology text in recent decades.

Adolphe Quetelet, in full Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, (born February 22, 1796, Ghent, Belgium—died February 17, 1874, Brussels), Belgian mathematician, astronomer, statistician, and sociologist known for his application of statistics and probability theory to social phenomena.

Erving Goffman (1922 -1982) was a major Canadian-American sociologist who played a significant role in the development of modern American sociology. He is considered by some to be the most influential sociologist of the 20 th century, thanks to his many significant and lasting contributions to the field. He is widely known and celebrated as a major figure in the development of symbolic interaction theory and for developing the dramaturgical perspective. His most widely read works include The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life and Stigma: Notes the Management of Spoiled Identity

Ferdinand Tönnies (1855 - 1936) was a German sociologist. He was a major contributor to sociological theory and field studies. His distinction between two types of social groups Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft - is what Tönnies is best known for. He was, however, a prolific writer and also co-founder of the German Society for Sociology.

Max Weber, (born April 21, 1864, Erfurt, Prussia [Germany]—died June 14, 1920, Munich, Germany), German sociologist and political economist best known for his thesis of the “Protestant ethic "relating Protestantism to capitalism, and for his ideas on bureaucracy. Weber’s profound influence on sociological theory stems from his demand for objectivity in scholarship and from his analysis of the motives behind human action.