Important People In History

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and spending a large sum of money. Adler wrote a
book called "Understanding Human Nature". In his book he laid out his basic
theories. Like Freud he too did believe that dreams were really inportant
in understanding one's personality, however he did not believe that dreams
revealed more about a person's sexuality.

Pavlov, Ivan (1849- 1936)

Pavlov won a nobel prize for medicine in 1904. He was interested in the
relationship between stimulus and response.

Pavlov tested his theory with dogs. He discovered that by ringing a bell
and giving them food the would salavate. He called this an uncontrolled
response. Then again he'd ring the bell and give them food. After doing so
for hours, he'd ring the bell and the dogs would come running and they'd
salavate because they knew the food was coming. This was then calles a
controlled response. Pavlov's work directed on the study of observable
behaviour.

Durkheim, Emile - Sociologist (1859- 1917)

Durkheim was a French philosopher. He was ...

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upon was that there was uneven distrubution of wealth. Also there
was a struggle between the rich and the poor. He called this class conflict.
The rich people who owned the production were called the capitalists, and
the poor who had nothing were called the proletariats. Marx was the founder
of conflict school of sociology. He believed that the people struggled for
power and wealth.

Weber, Max - Sociologist (1864- 1920)

Weber believed that Marx had placed to uch emphasis on the economic factors
on describing the problems between the rich and the poor. He believed that
they were other issues too, such as religion, education, politics etc.
weber believed that anyone could acquire power ...

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