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