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Some of terms and the theorists

  • Animism- Tylor
  • Animatism- Marett
  • Anomie- Durkheim, Merton
  • Achieved and Ascribed role- Linton
  • Barbarism- Morgan
  • Cultural lag- Ogburn
  • Cultural Relativism- Herskovitz
  • Cultural reproduction- Bourdien
  • Culturalization - Kluckhon
  • Ethnocentrism-Sumner
  • Ethnology- J.S Mill
  • Essentialism- Karl Popper
  • Eugenics- Francis Galton, Karl Pearson
  • Gesselschaft and Gemeinschaft- Earl Bell
  • Quasi Group- Ginsberg
  • Primary and Secondary group- Cooley
  • Positive and Negative Group- Newscomb
  • Membership& Non- membership group- Merton
  • Marginal Man- Adorno
  • Status situation- Lockwood
  • Status Symbol- Pack and Bourdien
  • Structuralism- Levi Strauss
  • Structuration- Anthony Giddens
  • Status Set- Merton
  • Status sequence- Merton
  • Relative Deprivation- Stouffer, Merton
  • Role Distance- Goffmann
  • Roleset- Merton
  • Patterns of culture- Ruth Benedict
  • Ethos- Kroeber
  • Primary and Secondary deviance- Lemert
  • Theory of Moral development- Piaget
  • Social distance- Bogardus
  • Social Position- A.R.Brown
  • Societal System- A.G Keller
  • Sociography- F.Tonnies Sociometry- J.L Moreno
  • Spiralist- Bell
  • Social Character- Eric Fromm
  • Social Fact- Durkheim
  • Differential Association Theory- Sutherland

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