Ward, Vilfredo Pareto, Alexis de Tocqueville, Werner Sombart, Thorstein Veblen, Ferdinand Tonnies, Georg Simmel and Karl Mannheim are occasionally included on academic curricula as founding theorists.. 
A Classic 1966 study in this field by James Coleman, known as the "Coleman Report", Anazed the performance of over 150,000 students and found that student background and Sociher] status are are much more important in*_mining Educational outcomes than are measured differences in school Resources (I.E.. 