NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
SOCIOLOGY
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Auguste Comte
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Emile Durkheim
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Harriet Martineau
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Karl Marx
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Detailed explanation-1: -Harriet Martineau (1802–1876) was an important activist with regard to her long-running campaign for the abolition of slavery in the United States.
Detailed explanation-2: -Her chief historical work, The History of the Thirty Years’ Peace, A.D. 1816–1846 (1849), was a widely read popular treatment. She also contributed voluminously to periodicals, writing some 1, 600 leading articles for the Daily News between 1852 and 1866.
Detailed explanation-3: -Martineau believed that the universe in general and society in particular operate according to certain natural laws which can be understood through science and education. The development of a truly free society she envisaged in her writings was governed by natural laws, which operated as the laws of political economy.
Detailed explanation-4: -Martineau’s key contribution to the field of sociology was her assertion that when studying society, one must focus on all aspects of it. She emphasized the importance of examining political, religious, and social institutions.