A French sociologist laid the foundation of what has become one of the leading approaches to American sociology today by demanding separate existence for the science of sociology on the grounds that it has both an object and a substratum exclusively its own
Sought to explain the origins of capitalism. And developed the method of verstehen.
Argues that societies evolve from lower to higher forms.
Taking Kohlberg to task on his male female assumption, this person found that woman bring a different set of values to their judgments of right and wrong. Concluded there is no essential difference between the inner workings of the psyches of boys and girls