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**Diana Curtis (Auguste Comte)**
Auguste Comte founded positivism during the second half of the 19th century, which was soon forgotten in the 20th century, but he is also known for being the first philosopher of science, as explained by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. []

**Tyler Lyon ( Karl Marx)**
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 * According to to Wikipedia Carl Marx wrote many books but the most famouss books he wrote were, The Communist Manifesto and Capital.**

**John Bills (W.E.B. Debois)**
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 * According to Wikipedia, W.E.B. Debois was one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored P****eople; also known as the NAACP. He was a socialologist, scientist and was a first African american with a degree.**

**Christie Dean (Jane Addams)**
According to the Nicholas Burray Butler, Jane Addams founded the Hull House in Chicago in 1889 for the less fortunate, she was also the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, and was always looking out for others. []

**Adam Mageed (Max Weber)**
As described in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Max Weber was arguably the world's foremost social theorist, publishing a non-Marxist genealogy of modern capitalism in his book //The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism// (1906), and also was an avid participant in politics and political reform movements. []

**Olivia Arnett (Jane Addams)**
** According to Women in History, Jane Addams was a founder of the Hull house where people learned how to help themselves, she was a selfless giver of ministrations to the poor, and a mover and shaker in the areas of labor reform; also first woman to win Nobel Peace prize. **

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**Riley Stohr (Max Weber)**
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 * According to Wikipedia.org Max Weber was a german sociologist and political economist who profoundly influenced social theory.**

**Keelin Vance (Jane Addams)**
According to nobelprize.org Jane Addams was a social worker who encouraged women to take charge and find ways to be a part of legislation. []

**Lauren Powell (Karl Marx)**
According to Sociology Guide, Karl Marx believed that he could study history and society scientifically and discern tendencies of history and the resulting outcome of social conflicts. []

**Casey Heckaman (Max Weber)**
Max Weber presented sociology as a non-empiricist field which must study social action through interpretive means based upon understanding the meanings and purposes that individuals attach to their own actions. []

**Kendra Pitts**
According to the New World Encyclopedia, Auguste Comte, in his later work, embraced the concept of love as bringing the solution to all human problems. []

**Michaella Baker**
According to the University of Miami, W.E.B Dubois was hired by the University of Pennsylvania and the Atlanta Conference to hold "sociological studies" of African Americans. []

**Ryheem Stokes**
According to Biography, W.E.B. DuBois spent over a decade devoting himself to the sociological investigations of blacks in America, while also being one of the most important black protest leaders in the U.S. during the first half of the 20th century. []

**Holley Tripp**
According to Wikipedia, Auguste Comte was the founder of discipline sociology and the doctrine of positivism. []

**Tyler Rose**
According to the History Guide, Karl Marx was the most influential socialist thinker to emerge in the 19th century, even thouhe was greatly ignored by scholars in his own life time, but his social, economic, and political ideas gained rapid acceptence in the socialist movement after his death in 1883. []

**Jessica Bradley**
According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Jane Addams was the first woman "public philosopher" in United States history. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/addams-jane/

According to The History Guide, Karl Marx is without a doubt the most influential socialist thinker to emerge in the 19th century.
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**Matthew Simonds**
According to HistoryGuide, Karl Marx was ignored by most scholars of his lifetime, his ideas became more accepted during the socialist movement after his death. []

**Faith Mahoney**
====According to 6Sociologists, Karl Marx believed in order for a better society you would need social change, and to get change in the social class there would have to be conflict between all three classes: poor, middle class, and rich.==== []

**Rebecca Judge**
According to Bolender.com, Emile Durkeim rejected most biologistic and psychologistic interpritations, he focused on the social-structural determinants of mankind's social problems. []

**Zander Espinoza**
According to Gerald C. Hynes and //Dusk of Dawn ,// W.E.B. DuBois was a remarkable man, revolutionary thinker for people of color, also was a tireless explorer and a gifted discoverer of social truths. [] BBC history says that Karl Marx was a hugely influential, revolutionary think and philosopher. Marx didn't not live to see his ideas carried out during his life time, but his writings formed the theoretical base for modern information communism. According to the Lincoln Library of Essential Information, Jane Addams was the first American Woman to receive a Nobel Peace Prize. http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/adda-jan.htm
 * Hanna Ebeling**
 * Hannah Snyder** Herbert Spencer rivled with Charles Darwin's theory on evolution and was best known for developing and applying his evolutionary theory to philosophy, psyc`hology and the study of society []
 * Madison Kobe**

According to the History Guide on Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History, Karl Marx is without doubt, the most influential socialist thinker to emerge from the 19th century, along with being a prominent philosopher, social scientist, historian, and revolutionist. []
 * John Kim**

According to Sanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Karl Marx, a revolutionary communist and philosopher, famously depicted that the worker under capitalism suffers from alienated labor.
 * Liam Cyr**

Regarding Historyguide.org, Karl Marx,was an influential philosopher, social scientist, historian and revolutionary in the 19th century,and was largely ignored in his lifetime.
 * Derek Prichard**
 * Alex Grosvenor (Karl marx)**

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According to Historyguide.org Karl Marx,was an influential philosopher, social scientist, historian and revolutionary in the 19th century,and was largely ignored in his lifetime, his social, economic and political ideas gained acceptance after his death in 1883. ======

According to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Max Weber was the leading social theorist of the twentieth century; his two most celebrated contributions being the “rationalization thesis and the “Protestant Ethic thesis”. [] According to The History Guide Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History, Karl Marx was the most influential socialist thinker to emerge from the 19th century. http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/marx.html
 * Lindsay Schichtel**
 * Paige Sawyer**

According to The Historian Guide online european database. Karl Marx was a philosopher and a revolutionary, he was recognized by being one of the most powerful socialist in the 19th century. Marx established a goverment system that was used for almost half of the population of the world lived under regimes that are known to be Marxist. []
 * Delano Capobianco** (Karl Marx)

According to //The Great Debate,// Auguste Comte played a key role in development of social sciences and was highly influential during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; he also believed that the progress of the human mind followed a sequence which he called the law of three stages: theological, metaphysical, and positive. []
 * Emma Lincoln (**Auguste Comte)

According to //The Official Web Site of the Nobel Prize,// Jane Addams was recognized worldwide for her accomplishments as a Feminist, Internationalist, and as a pioneer social worker in the US; and was very involved in the educational process, aided the founding of the Chicago school of Civics and Philanthropy. . http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1931/addams-bio.html
 * Connor Dipzinski** (Jane Addams)

According to Caspar Hewett, Aunguste Comte was the father of positivism and coined the word sociology. He was very influential in the thought about the development of social sciences. He also believed the human mind followed a three stage historical sequence, theological, metaphysical, and positive. Theological and metaphysical were the understanding of the nature of things through supernatural means and metaphysical explanations. The positive stage is the observation and experiment become the principle means to search for truth. Comte later claimed that it applied to human intellectual development in general and that it held the key to the future progress of humanity. []
 * Michael Bowen (**** Auguste Comte) **

According to //The History Guide// online European Intellectual Database, Karl Marx, besides being unquestionably the single most influential socialist thinker of the 19th century, Marx created a system of government that until recently governed regimes that covered over half the population of the entire world. http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/marx.html
 * Chris Symons (Karl Marx)**

According to the Spartacus Educational, Harriet Martineau wrote books on politics and economics which showed her passion for social reform and also made her financially independent. []
 * Kay Dedicatoria**

According to Sociology Guide, Emile Durkheim believed that social facts had an independent existence greater and more objective than the actions of the individuals that composed society. []
 * Mackenzie Horvath**

According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Jane Addams is most likely known best for being the first "public philosopher" in America, and she is well known for work in the social settlement movement.
 * Julia Snider**

According to the Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Max Weber was extremely interested in politics and played an important part in establishing social science as a field of inquiry.
 * Bria West**

(27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era. []
 * Herbert Spencer**

According to Nobelprize.org, Jane Addams earned her the Nobel Prize in 1931 by focusing her work on the problems caused by the imbalance of power among the social classes and working actively for women't suffrage.
 * Alexa White**

According to the Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy, Herbert Spencer was a social Darwinist who coined the expression "survival of the fittest".
 * Alexis Tully**

According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the philosophical work of Jane Addams, including her work in the social settlement movement, was largely ignored until the 1900's. []
 * Ashley Dwarshuis **

Accoring to the Nobel Association, Jane Addams won worldwide recognition in the twentieth century as a pioneer social worker in America, as a feminist, and as an internationalist. She founed the Hull-House in Chicago, which was a settlement house. According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Addams offers a rich social and political philosophy built on respect and understanding that is refreshing in its faith in the potential for collective progress.
 * Jane Addams**

According to 6 sociologists, Auguste Comte can be given credit for inventing or coining the term sociology and he was the founder of French positivism. []
 * Lubov Schild**

According to The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Karl Marx stopped being involved in philosophy in his early 20's, after than he focused on economics and politics. []
 * Kate Noorman**

According to The History Guide, Karl Marx was a philosopher, social scientist, and historian; he was one of the most influential socialist thinker in the 19th century. []
 * Christine Zhao**

According to Wikipedia, Emile Durkheim was a French socioloigist who estabilshed the academic discipline and is known as the father of sociology. []
 * Ralyn Allen**

Herbert Spencer rivled with Charles Darwin's theory on evolution and was best known for developing and applying his evolutionary theory to philosophy, psychology and the study of society []
 * Hannah Snyder**

According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Herbert Spencer was an English biologist/sociologist who theorized that evolution of species was based upon the “survival of the fittest” which he outlined in //Principles of Biology// in 1864. []
 * Eamon Whalen**

**Chelsea Root**
According to the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s W.E.B. Dubois Library, W.E.B. Dubois was an innovative sociologist, writer, and historian who, without gaining a mass following, advocated for peace and rights for all African Americans by participating in founding of the NAACP and Niagara Movement. []

Karl Marx the philospher, social scientist, historian and revolutionary is without any doubt the most influential social thinker of the 19th century while being particularly involved in getting ready for the annual Congresses of the International and leading the struggle against the anarchist wing led by Mikhail Bakunin. []
 * Karl Marx**

**Hailey Bitely**
Herbert spencer, philosophy, pyschology, and sociology are three studies he was famous for changing with his theorys and even rivled with Charles Darwin's theory on evolution in the mid.ninteenth century. []

Lauren Choi
According to the Nobel Prize website, Jane Addams was made chairman of the School Management Committee after being appointed to the Chicago's Board of Education in 1905. []

**Courtney Ely**
According to Nobel Prize official website Jane Addams graduated as valedictorian of her class at Rockford Female Seminary, but didn't recieve her bachelor's degree until the next year when the school was accredited. []

Katherine Schultz
According to the BBC, Karl Marx wrote a valuable piece of work titled "Das Kapital," which is known as the "bible of the working class." []

Selena Beltran-Peña
Jane Addams, is portrayed as the selfless giver of ministrations to the poor, but few realize that she was a mover and shaker in the areas of labor reform (laws that governed working conditions for children and women), and was a charter member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/adda-jan.htm

Tam Nguyen
According to The History Guide, Karl Marx was a philosopher, social scientist, historian, and revolutionary and definitely one of the most influential socialist thinker in the 19th century. []

Ashley Cubberly
According the the Official Website of the Nobel prize, (Laura) Jane Addams who pioneered in social work in America as an influential feminist and internationalist was reccognized by recieveing the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 for her hard work and leadership. []

Danielle Boss
According to The Great Debate, Auguste Comte believed that the human mind followed a historical sequence which he described in three stages; theological, metaphysical, and positive. []

Karl Marx wrote, "The Communist Manifesto", the most celebrated pamphlet in the history of the socialist movement.
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Madison Kobe
According to the Lincoln Library of Essential Information, Jane Addams was the first American Woman to receive a Nobel Peace Prize. http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/adda-jan.htm

Lauren Jones
Jane Adams, a Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1931, was a feminist that strongly believed in women's suffrage and that women's voices should be heard. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1931/addams-bio.html

Scott Riess
According to Biography.com, Max Weber was largely known for his connection with Protestantism and capitalism as well as his study of the human action. http://www.biography.com/people/max-weber-9526066

(Stephen King) Karl Mark
Once, Karl Marx said, I am not a marxist. []

Karl Marx along with Engels were commissioned to write a declaration of their position in 1847 which was named the //Communist Manifesto// (released in 1848)//.//
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Jane Addams was a very influential woman, dedicating almost all of her years to the study of sociology, she recieved The Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
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**Damien Loveless**
According to The Histroy Guide, Karl Marx was a philosopher and a revolutionary, who is one of the most influential socialist thinker in the 19th century. []

Harriet Martineau
She has a mixed criminal (established own criminal practice) and civil practice, her civil practice consists of professional negligence and property. http://www.18carltoncrescent.co.uk/barristers/harry_martineau

As stated by PBS, W.E.B. DuBois was a teacher between 1898 and 1910 at Atlanta University, with the high hopes of using sociology to eradicate segregation. []
 * McKenzie West**

Auguste Comte
He was the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term, as he helped found the discipline of sociology and the doctrine of positivism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Comte

Allison Wierda- Foreal Children Story
Oxana Malaya (Оксана Малая) (born November 1983) was found as an 8-year-old feral child in Ukraine in 1991, having lived most of her life in the company of dogs. She picked up a number of dog-like habits and found it difficult to master language. Oxana’s alcoholic parents were unable to care for her. They lived in an impoverished area where there were wild dogs roaming the streets. She lived in a dog kennel behind her house where she was cared for by dogs and learned their behaviors and mannerisms. She growled, barked and crouched like a wild dog, sniffed at her food before she ate it, and was found to have acquired extremely acute senses of hearing, smell, and sight. []

Mary Konsoer-Rose
Karl Marx, is without a doubt the most influential socialist thinker to emerge in the 19th century.

Jacob Berends
Karl Marx was famous for his book //Communist Manifesto// that spread the idea of communism all over europe at the time. []

**Ashley Richmond**
According to Biography.com, Emile Durkheim was famous for studying and creating the idea that suicide was a way to abandon or reject life and as a result his studies around this subject helped him gain the title of "Father of Sociology". []

Lauren Miller
according to the history guide Karl Marx has his social economic and political ideas gained rapid acceptance in the socialist movement after his death in 1883. []

Harriet Martineau’s sense of her own remarkable life led her to recount it and to arrange that the autobiography be published after her death in 1876.
[] According to the Library of Economics and Liberty, Karl Marx's comprehensive writings on the subject of communism laid the foundation for later political leaders, notably V. I. Lenin and Mao Tse-Tung, to impose communism on more than 20 countries. []
 * Carley Hovingh**

**Jessica Bogner**
It was actually Herbert Spencer who came up with the phrase "survival of the fittest". Him and Darwin both came up with the ways of evolution, but Spencer connected sociology and evolution. []

**Thayer Lowe**
According to The History Guide: Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History, Karl Marx is without a doubt the most influential socialist thinker to emerge in the 19th century. []

**Alli Wierda**
Accoring to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Karl Marx is best known not as a philosopher but as a revolutionary communist, whose works inspired the foundation of many communist regimes in the twentieth century. []

**Kate Huntington**
====Derived from Encyclopedia Britannica, it is known that Jane Addams is known for her work on the Hull House, which was one of the first social settlements in America, catering specifically to working class, as well as women.==== []

====Auguste Comte was a french philosopher, he is the founder of the dicipline of sociology and the doctorine of positiivsm. he was borth in souther france on January 19, 1798. Comte grew up in the awake of the French Revolution. He rejected religion and royalty. Which he decided to focus on the main study of sociology.==== []
 * Maria Bernabe**

**Jake Bly**
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo5971159.html Emile Durkheim is often considered to be the father of sociology and is credited for getting it added to the French curriculum along with forming it into the social science that it is today. [|www.**emile**-**durkheim**.com]
 * W.E.B. DuBois was a historian, journalist, educator, and civil rights advocate who was most accomplished as a sociologist of race relations and the black community in the United States.He was a man for rights.**
 * Evan Paupert**

**Shane Hutchins**
According to the plato.stanford.edu, Auguste Comte was a French philosopher and the founder of the positivism. [] According to iep.utm.edu, Herbert Spencer is best known for being a key developer of the evolutionary theory, and applying said theory to philosophy. []
 * Emma FitzGerald**

**Sophia Novak**
According to historyguide.org, Karl Marx was a philosopher, social scientist, historian and revolutionary, who was the most influential socialist thinker that emerged in the 19th century. []

**Wes Schermer**
According to stanford.edu, Max Weber was arguably the foremost social theorist of the twentieth century, he is also known as a principal architect of modern social science along with Karl Marx and Emil Durkheim. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/weber/

**Alexandra Bohnsack**
According to webster.edu, Harriet Martineau was a nineteenth century English sociologist who studied and wrote about American society and different groups and issues within it, most famously in her book //Society in America//. ([])

**Ashley Garl**
According to nobelprize.org, Miss Addams made speeches about the needs of the neighborhood, raised money, convinced young women of well-to-do families to help, took care of children, nursed the sick, listened to outpourings from troubled people. []

**Nimra Javaid**
According to the Lincoln Library of Essential Informations, Jane Addams, is remembered primarily as a founder of the Settlement House Movement. (http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/adda-jan.htm)

**Max Weber**
According to Wikipedia, Max Weber profoundly influenced social theory, social research, and the discipline of sociology itself. ([])


 * Kylie Smith**

According to History Guide, Karl Marx, is without a doubt the most influential socialist thinker to emerge in the 19th century.
([]) According to PBS, W.E.B Du Bois was the first black male to get a PHD in history from Harvard, He tought sociology at Atlanta University in hopes of fighting racisim.he was for the most part of fighting for rights [] W.E.B Du Bois Was the first african american to receive a P hD, he studied scociology and was an advocate for equal rights through hard work. W.E.B. DuBois pioneered new sociological ideas by demanding blacks be independent and equal in early 20th century America. According to Sociology and You, Jane Addams was a social reformer who spent her life working on the social problems created by the imbalance of power among social classes. According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Addams offers a rich social and political philosophy built on respect and understanding.
 * W.E.B Du Bois**
 * Roanld Cron:**
 * Jane Addams**

According to Wikipedia, Karl Marx was born in Germany, and was a philosopher, sociologist, economic historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist, that developed the idea of Marxism.
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**Samii Rutan**
Karl Marx’s ideas were not taken into consideration by many sociologists while he was still alive, but after his death all of his ideas started to go to work. ([])

According to plato.stanford.edu, Max Weber's two most recognized contributions to the field of sociology were the “rationalization thesis”, a meta-historical analysis of the dominance of the west in modern times, and the “Protestant Ethic thesis”, a non-Marxist genealogy of modern capitalism. ([])
 * Sierra Banse**

Herbert Spencer was known as the second founding father of Sociology and wrote numerous books explaining his thoughts. ([])
 * Bailey Jacobs**

According to PBS, W.E.B. Dubois used social science to enforce his methods to obtain rights for African Americans through agitation. ([])
 * Kevin Parocaran**

According to faculty.rsu.edu, Max Weber believed that "statements of fact are one thing, statements of value another, and any confusing of the two is impermissible." Emile Durkheim is known to be the father of sociology. He even made it a part of the French curriculum during his lifetime. He enjoyed writing about religion, suicide, and society. []
 * Conor McDonald**
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 * Megan Mose**

According to 6sociologist.com, Auguste Comte was one of the first founding father of sociology, and is also known for changing the name of the science from social physics to sociology. []
 * Amanda Barella**

Jane Addams was a founder of the Womens Peace Party and first American woman to win a Nobel Peace prize. []
 * Shayna Lammers**

His most famous book, //The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism,// covers a variety of topics which Max Weber studied, including the nature of power, the religions of the world, the nature of social classes, and the development and nature of beaurocracy. []
 * Heather Nowak**

Jane Addams was a feminist, and the first woman from the United States to win a Nobel Peace Prize, according to nobelpeaceprize.org []
 * Anna Pop**

According to trincoll.edu, Karl Marx was a German social philosopher and revolutionary best known for creating the concept of Communism along with Friedrich Engels. []
 * Dea Hollowell**

Erin Gorman According to Steven Kreis on the history guide "Karl Marx was largely ignored by scholars in his own lifetime, but his social, economic and political ideas gained rapid acceptance in the socialist movement after his death in 1883". []

According to PBS, W.E.B Du Bois was the first african american to receive a PHD from Harvard and he was seen as the first scholar to be the voice for black america. []
 * Tyler DeBrabander**

Alex Weber According to Wikipedia, Max Weber was a german sociologist and political economist who was considered to be the father of sociology.

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Spencer Taylor Jane Addams was an avid activist for many different noble causes, she spoke out against any wrongdoings and believed that all voices should be heard.

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According to his website, Emile Durkheim is one of the fathers of sociology and even is credited with making sociology a science. []
 * Kaitlyn Bailey**

According to the website, Max Weber is also known as a principal architect of modern social science along with Karl Marx and Emil Durkheim []
 * Jalen Conway**

according to wikipedia, Auguste Comte is the founder of sociology and positivism. His theories helped later theorists such as Harriet Martineau and Herbert Spencer. []
 * Chinghan Shih**

According to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, is best known not as a philosopher but as a revolutionary communist, whose works inspired the foundation of many communist regimes in the twentieth century.
 * Scarlett Polk**

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According to wikipedia, Karl Marx was a German philosopher, sociologist, economic historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist who developed the socio-political theory of Marxism.
 * Mary Konsoer-Rose**

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According to the website, The German Way & More, Karl Marx was a great philosopher, sociologist, writer, and journalist, who has had a major impact on the world since his time, he can also be known as the "inventer" of communism.
 * Kapryce Brown**

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According to historyguide.org, Karl Marx's social, economical, and political ideas were accepted by so many, and he could also be called the inveter of "Marxism" and communisum.
 * Alex De Jong**

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According to //Sociology and you// Karl Marx published //The Communist Manifesto// promoting a classless society []
 * Katelyn Suyak**

According to this website, W.E.B DuBois was very intellectually gifted recieving a full scholarship to Fisk University in Tennesse and later transfering into Harvard where he was the first black man to receive his PHD, W.E.B DuBois was also known to be the first scholar to represent and take a stand for African American rights. [] 88 According to Wikipedia, Jane Addams was a settlement house worker, Hull House founder, public philosopher,author, sociologist and leader in womens suffarage and world peace. []
 * Jake Weaver**
 * Jane Addams**

According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Auguste Comte is the founder of Positivism, and did Philosophy work in
 * Auguste Comte** (Zachary Johnson)

According to the biography website, W.E.B. DuBois advocated Pan-Africanism or the belief that all people of African descent share common interest and should come together against oppression. http://www.biography.com/people/web-du-bois-9279924?page=2
 * Yasmeen Farran**

According to the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Herbert Spencer was a key enthusiast of the evolutionary theory in the mid-1800s. http://www.iep.utm.edu/spencer/
 * Madison Swink**

According to the Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Jane Addams was a social worker who founded the Hull House, as well as publishing many works about sociology and womens suffrage. []
 * Megan Noorman**

According to Wikipedia, Max Weber emphasized the importance of cultural influences in each religion around the world as means for understanding capitalism. []
 * Carly Boussom**

According to Wikipedia, Auguste Comte coined the name sociology and published a rambling exposition under the title of //Cours de Philosophie Positive// in 1839. []
 * Jessie Andrews**

Accoriding to the New World Encyclopedia, Emile Durkheim developed insightful theories of the structure of society, the relationship between the individual and society, and the development of societies from simple to complex, which eventually provided a strong foundation for research on the structure of human society. []
 * Annalie Konyndyk**

According to the Encyclopedia of Religion and Society, Max Weber studied and had a major influence in the field of the effect of Religion on Society. []
 * Max Weber** (Adnan Omran)

According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Karl Marx was best known as a revolutionary communist, inspiring the foundation of many communist regimes in the twentieth century. []
 * Karl Marx** (Ashley LaChance)

According to the History Guide, Karl Marx was a philosopher, social scientist, historian and revolutionary and is without a doubt the most influential socialist thinker to emerge in the 19th century. During the last decade of his life, Marx's health declined and he was incapable of sustained effort that had so characterized his previous work. []
 * Karl Marx** (Nick Zeitter)

According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Karl Marx was described as a revolutionary communist who inspired the establishment of organized communist rule in the twentieth century. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marx/
 * Karl Marx** (Joseph Zonca)

As stated in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Karl Marx's works had a fraction of the impact on philosophy as they did on politics and ultimately world history: his //magnum opus, The Communist Manifesto// can be credited with beginning two world wars, and the Cold War, a sixty-year war of attrition between the two greatest powers the world has ever seen. []
 * Karl Marx** (Jason Pevitt)

According to the New Georgia Encyclopedia, W.E.B Dubois was instrumental in the ending of Jim Crow segregation laws and the advancement of the NAACP during the late 19th century.
 * W.E.B Dubois** (Haley Rooney)

According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Jane Addams was an original feminist thinker that understood the poor and oppressed and believed that knowing others better reinforced the common connection such that there is an increase in caring and empathetic actions. []
 * Jane Addams** (Brianna Preiser)

Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and human culture and societies. []
 * Herbert Spencer (Emily Mcpherson)**

Jane Addams was described as one of the first woman sociologists and one of the first feminest. Altough she was an amazing sociologist many colloeges turned her away just because she was a woman. [|http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/janeadams.h]
 * Jane Addams** (Allie Grosskurth)