Matching Pairs Historical figuresOnline version Matching the historical figure with the appropriate theory and/or description by Jennifer Procopio 1 Emile Durkheim 2 Auguste Comte 3 Robert Merton 4 Herbert Spencer 5 Karl Marx 6 Symbolic-Interactionism Micro-level Theory Founder of Sociology Social-Conflict Theory Compared society to the human body Manifest and Latent Functions Structural-functionalism