For 10 points, name this discipline that studies society.
Members of this field include Pitirim Sorokin, Georg Simmel, and the author of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, Ferdinand Tonnies. Its major theories are symbolic interactionism and structural functionalism, and an early member of this field developed the term "anomie" in his study Suicide. Another member of this field studied "ideal types" in works like The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism. Associated with Emile Durkheim and Max Weber, its name was coined by Auguste Comte. For 10 points, name this discipline that studies society.
Members of this field include Pitirim Sorokin, Georg Simmel, and the author of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, Ferdinand Tonnies.
sociology