Mores is to the folk society what law is to the modern society.
Maclver characterized caste as a closed status group.
Durkheim pioneered the method of multivariate analysis in sociology.
Bernstein distinguished two patterns of speech naming them elaborated and restricted codes.
Boas hold that there is not the slightest scientific proof that race determines mentality but there is overwhelming evidence that mentality is influenced by traditional culture.
Brown was associated with the concept of Interaction process analysis.
Marx and Althusser put forward the materialistic variant of the evolutionary theory.
Parsons argued that societies developed from organizational forms where relationship was based on status to those based upon contract.
Brown gave the concepts of external and internal systems.
Burgess classified societies according to their volume and density.
Comte saw society as a social organism possessing a harmony of structure and function.

Simon distinguished between three stages of mental activity- the conjectural, miconjectural and the positive.

Durkheim for the first time used the concept of social structure in sociology.
Promordial collectivities are another name given to ethnic group.
Thurstone,Likert and Guttman were associated with sampling procedures.
Lundberg codified cultural items into universal, alternatives and specialties.
The term group dynamics refers to adjustive changes in small groups.
To Robert Merton dysfunction is an activity that lessens the adoption or adjustment of the unit to its getting.
To Durkheim altruistic type of suicide is characterized in modern societies.
According to Durkheim the nature of solidarity of a society can be indicated by the nature of economy.
Merton believed that a political ideology as communism could provide a functional alternative to religion.
According to Malinowski elements of institutions included personnel, charter and norms.
Brown held that functionalism represented a triple alliance between theory, method and practice.
The tendency of the person to reject the culture of his own group is called lenocentrism.
The orientation that emphasizes individual choice and decision-making in determining behaviour is called altruism.
The phase psychic unity of mankind is associated with evolutionism.
A totem acquired significance because of social acceptance.
The superorganic view of culture has given by Darwin.
Sociology is confined to the study of forms of social relationship in their abstract forms is held by Idealistic school.
Thurston scale is type of attitude scale.
Morphology refers to the objective, scientific study of society for the purpose of pure knowledge and theoretical advancement.
Sumner has divided sociology into systematic and general sociology and historical sociology.
Max Weber defined sociology as a branch of study attempting the interpretative understanding of social action.
C.Wright Mills advocated the inverse deductive method in sociology.
T.Stuart Chapin was a pioneer in measurement of attitude.
The theory of relationship was propounded by Won Weise.

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