Theory of differential association 1939, criminal behavior is learned through social interaction in primary groups.
Verstehen; Protestant Catholicism "produced the spirit of the modern form of industrial capitalism.
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.
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