Sociological Thinkers | HexaIAS

Karl Marx

Historical materialism

Mode of production

Alienation

Class struggle

Emile Durkheim

Division of labor

Social Fact

Suicide

Religion and Society

Max Weber

Social Action

Ideal Types

Authority

Bureaucracy

Protestant ethic, and the spirit of capitalism.

Talcott Parsons

Social system

Pattern variables

Robert K. Merton

Latent and manifest functions

Conformity and deviance

Reference groups

Mead

Self and identity.