Proposed building middle range theories from a limited number of assumptions from which hypotheses are derived. -also distinguished between intended and unintended consequences of existing elements of social structure which are either functional or dysfunctional.
Verstehen; Protestant Catholicism "produced the spirit of the modern form of industrial capitalism.
Like other sociologists, considered the self to be a reflection of others. Used the term role-distance to describe the gap between who we are and who we portray ourselves to be
Theory of differential association 1939, criminal behavior is learned through social interaction in primary groups.