LIST OF SOCIOLOGISTS

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This article provides a 'list of noted sociologists' and major contributors to sociology (even if they did not primarily work as sociologists):
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Contents

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

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T

U

V

W

Y

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A

★ Andrew Abbott, US-American sociologist

★ Nancy Ammerman, US-American sociologist

★ Jane Addams (1860-1935), US-American social worker and reformer

★ Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), German cultural sociologist (Frankfurt School)

★ Jeffrey C. Alexander, American sociologist

★ Karl Alexander, US-American sociologist

★ Louis Althusser (1918-1990), Algerian-French philosopher and sociologist

★ Arjun Appadurai, Indian sociologist

★ Margaret Archer, British sociologist

★ Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), German political theorist

★ Raymond Aron (1905-1983), French philosopher and sociologist

★ Johan Asplund (b. 1937), Swedish sociologist

★ Sarah Allred, US American sociologist

★ Vilhelm Aubert (1922-1988), Norwegian sociologist

★ Ameli Saied Reza, Iranian communication studies and Globalization theorist, sociologist

B

★ Earl Babbie, US-American sociologist

★ Robert Balch, US-American sociologist

★ Eileen Barker, British sociologist

★ Barry Barnes, British sociologist

★ Roland Barthes (1915-1980), French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician

★ Gregory Bateson (1904-1980), English/American cybernetican

★ Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007), French cultural theorist

★ Zygmunt Bauman (b. 1925), Polish/British sociologist

★ Peter Bearman (b. 1956), US-American sociologist

★ Ulrich Beck (b. 1944), German sociologist

★ Howard S. Becker (b. 1928), US-American sociologist

★ Richard F. Behrendt (1908-1973), German sociologist

★ Daniel Bell (b. 1919), US-American sociologist

★ Robert N. Bellah, US-American sociologist

★ Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), German cultural writer and sociologist

★ Joseph Berger, US-American sociologist

★ Peter L. Berger (b. 1929), Austro-American sociologist

★ Henri Bergson (1859-1941), French philosopher

★ Andre Beteille, Indian sociologist

★ Peter Blau (1918-2002), US-American sociologist

★ Kathleen M. Blee (b. 1953), US-American sociologist

★ David Bloor, British sociologist

★ Herbert Blumer (1900-1987), US-American sociologist

★ Luc Boltanski, French Sociologist

★ Phillip Bonacich, US-American mathematical sociologist

★ Scott Boorman (b. 1949) US-American sociologist

★ Thomas Bottomore (1920-1992), British sociologist

★ Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002), French sociologist

★ Ronald Breiger, US-American Sociologist

★ David G. Bromley, US-American sociologist

★ Michael Burawoy, US-American sociologist

★ Ernest Burgess (1886-1966), Canadian sociologist

★ Ronald Burt, US-American sociologist

★ Judith Butler (b. 1956), US-American gender theorist

★ Carter Butts, US-American sociologist

C

★ Michel Callon, French sociologist

★ Fernando Henrique Cardoso (b. 1931), Brazilian sociologist, former President of Brazil

★ Kathleen Carley US-American computational sociologist

★ Manuel Castells (b. 1942), Spanish sociologist and urban planner

★ Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997), Greek philosopher and political theorist

★ Francis Stuart Chapin (1888-1974), US-American sociologist

★ Louis Chauvel (b. 1967), French sociologist

★ Nancy Chodorow (b. 1944), US-American sociologist, psychoanalyst and gender theorist

★ Dieter Claessens (1921-1997), German sociologist,

★ Lars Clausen (b. 1935), German Sociologist

★ Richard Cloward(1926-2001), US-American sociologist

★ Ronald L. Cohen, US-American social psychologist

★ Stanley Cohen, British sociologist (criminology)

★ James S. Coleman (1926-1995), US-American sociologist

★ Patricia Hill Collins (b. 1948), US-American sociologist

★ Randall Collins, US-American sociologist

★ R.W. Connell, (b. 1944) Australian sociologist

★ Auguste Comte (1798-1857), French founder of sociology

★ Charles Cooley (1864-1929), US-American sociologist

★ Lewis A. Coser (1913-2003), US-American sociologist

★ Douglas E. Cowan, Canadian sociologist

★ Maxine Leeds Craig, US-American sociologist

★ Stefan Czarnowski (1879-1937), Polish sociologist

D

★ Hamid Dabashi, American-Iranian cultural critic and intellectual historian

★ Robert Dahl (b. 1915), US-American political scientist

★ Dankwart Danckwerts (b. 1933), German sociologist

★ Ralf Dahrendorf (b.1929), German-British sociologist and politician

★ Mathieu Deflem (b.1962), sociologist

★ Gilles Deleuze (1925 - 1995), French philosopher

★ Nancy Denton, US-American sociologist and demographer

★ Georgi Dimitrov Dimitrov, Bulgarian sociologist

★ G. William Domhoff, US-American sociologist

★ Patrick Doreian, Irish-American mathematical sociologist

★ W.E.B. DuBois (1868-1963), African-American sociologist and civil rights leader

★ Mitchell Duneier, US-American sociologist

★ Troy Duster, US-American sociologist

★ Émile Durkheim (1858-1917), French sociologist

★ Mukul R. Dwivedi (b. 1984), Indo-American cultural critic and sociologist

E

★ Umberto Eco, Italian sociologist and novelist

★ Norbert Elias (1897-1990), German sociologist

★ Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), German socialist philosopher

★ Ronald Enroth (b. 1938), US-American sociologist

★ Kai T. Erikson (b. 1931), US-American sociologist

★ Hartmut Esser (b. 1943), German sociologist

★ Amitai Etzioni (b. 1929), US-American sociologist

F

★ Rick Fantasia, US-American sociologist

★ Thomas Fararo (b. 1933), US-American mathematical sociologist

★ George Farkas, US-American sociologist

★ Paul Fauconnet (1874-1938) French sociologist

★ Katherine Faust, US-American sociologist and social network methodologist

★ Scott Feld, US-American mathematical sociologist

★ Myra Marx Ferree, (b. 1949), US-American sociologists

★ Mike Featherstone, British sociologist

★ Gary Alan Fine (b. 1950), US-American sociologist

★ Claude Fischer (b. 1947), US-American author of the subcultural theory of urbanism

★ Fei Xiaotong (1910-2005,) Chinese sociologist and anthropologist

★ Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002), Austrian-American cybernetican

★ John Bellamy Foster, US-American sociologist and journalist

★ Michel Foucault (1926-1984), French philosopher

★ Charles Fourier (1772-1837), French proto-sociologist

★ Andre Gunder Frank (1929-2005), German economic historian and sociologist

★ Hans Freyer (1887-1969) German sociologist and philosopher

★ Gilberto Freyre (1900-1987), Brazilian sociologist

★ Erich Fromm (1900-1980), German-American social psychologist and psychoanalyst

G

★ Francis Galton (1822-1911), English statistican

★ Herbert Gans (b. 1927), American sociologist

★ Harold Garfinkel (b. 1917), US-American sociologist

★ Felix Guattari (1930-1992), French institutional psychotherapist, founder of schizoanalysis and ecosophy

★ Anthony Giddens (b. 1938), English sociologist

★ Corrado Gini (1884-1965), Italian statistician

★ Arnold Gehlen (1904-1976), German philosopher and sociologist

★ Theodor Geiger (1891-1952), German sociologist

★ Ernest Gellner(1925-1995), philosopher and social anthropologist

★ David Glass, (1911-1978), British sociologist

★ Max Gluckman (1911-1975), South African/English social anthropologist

★ John H. Goldthorpe (b. 1935), British sociologist

★ Leo Goodman (b.1928), US-American social statistician

★ Erving Goffman (1922-1982), Canadian interactionistic sociologist

★ Mark Gottdiener, U.S-American sociologist

★ Isacque Graeber (1905-1984), Sociologist and Jewish Historian

★ Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), Italian Marxist

★ Richard Grathoff (1934- ), German sociologist and phenomenologist

★ Mark Granovetter, US-American sociologist

★ Andrew M. Greeley, US-American sociologist, priest, writer

★ Ludwig Gumplovicz (1838-1909), Polish-Austrian sociologist, one of the founders of European sociology

H

★ Jürgen Habermas (b. 1929), German social theorist

★ Jeffrey K. Hadden (1937-2003), US-American sociologist

★ Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945), French philosopher and sociologist

★ Stuart Hall (b. 1932), British cultural theorist

★ Maureen Hallinan, US-American sociologist

★ Donna Haraway (b. 1944), US-American gender and technology theorist

★ David Harvey (b. 1935), British geographer

★ Chandrakala A. Hate (1903-1990), Indian sociologist, social worker, and author

★ Michael Hechter, US-American sociologist

★ Richard Hoggart (b. 1918), British sociologist

★ George C. Homans (1910-1989), US-American behavioural sociologist

★ Axel Honneth (b. 1949), German social theorist

★ Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), German social philosopher

★ Patrick Hunout, Belgian sociologist

★ Stephen J. Hunt, British sociologist

★ Floyd Hunter (b. 1912), US-American sociologist

I

★ Octavio Ianni (1926-2004), Brazilian sociologist

★ Ibn Khaldun (1332/ah732 - 1406/ah808), North African historian, forerunner of modern historiography, sociology and economics

★ Kancha Ilaiah, (b. 1952), Indian political scientist and social activist

J

★ Marie Jahoda (1907-2001), Austrian sociologist

★ Jane Jacobs (1916-2006), US/Canadian writer and activist

★ Yong Suk Jang (b. 1968), Korean sociologist

★ Rodrigo Jokisch, (b. 1946), German-Mexican sociologist and social theorist

★ Lewis Wade Jones (1910 - 1979), African-American sociologist and educator

★ Danny Jorgensen, US-American sociologist

K

★ Dirk Kaesler (b. 1944), German sociologist

★ Rand Kannenberg (b. 1960), American clinical sociologist

★ Alexandr Kapto, Russian and Ukrainian scientist, sociologist and political scientist; a diplomat, journalist, politician and statesman.

★ Elihu Katz, US-American sociologist

★ Vytautas Kavolis, Lithuanian-American sociologist and literary critic

★ Stephen A. Kent, Canadian sociologist

★ Tai-Young Kim, Korean sociologist

★ Karin Knorr-Cetina (b. 1944), German sociologist

★ René König (1906-1992), German sociologist

★ Alfred L. Kroeber (1876–1960,) US-American anthropologist

★ Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921), Russian anarchist thinker

★ Thomas S. Kuhn (1922-1996), US-American science theorist

★ Krishan Kumar, Indian sociologist

★ Antonina Kłoskowska (1919-2001), Polish sociologist

L

★ William Labov (b.1927), American sociolinguist and dialectologist

★ Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), French psychoanalyst

★ Ernesto Laclau, Argentinian sociologist

★ Janja Lalich (b. 1945$), US-American sociologist

★ David C. Lane (b. 1956), US-American sociologist

★ Scott Lash, US-American sociologist

★ Bruno Latour (1947- ) French sociologist of science

★ Edward Laumann, US-American sociologist

★ John Law (sociologist), British sociologist

★ Paul F. Lazarsfeld (1901-1976), Austrian-American sociologist

★ Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931) ,French social psychologist

★ Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991), French Marxist philosopher

★ Charles Lemert (b. 1937) US-American sociologist

★ Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908), French anthropologist

★ Jack Levin (b. 1941) American sociologist/criminologist

★ Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857-1939) French philosopher, sociologist and ethnographer

★ Alfred R. Lindesmith (1905-1991), US-American sociologist of drug policy

★ Seymour Martin Lipset (b. 1922), US-American comparativist sociologist

★ David Lockwood, British sociologist

★ Thomas Luckmann (b. 1927), German sociologist

★ Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998), German sociologist (systems theory)

★ Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919), German socialist theoretician

★ Robert Staughton Lynd (1892-1970) American sociologist

★ Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998), French philosopher

M

★ Henry Maine (1822-1888), British jurist and legal historian

★ Robert Morrison MacIver (1882-1970), Scottish-American sociologist.

★ Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942), Polish social anthropologist

★ Thomas Malthus (1766-1834), English demographer

★ Richard Machalek (b. 1946), US-American sociologist and sociobiologist

★ Michael Macy, US-American sociologist

★ Michael Mann (b. 1942), British-American sociologist

★ Karl Mannheim (1893-1947), German sociologist

★ Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), German-American sociologist (Frankfurt School)

★ Wladyslaw Markiewicz (b. 1920) Polish sociologist

★ Harriet Martineau (1802-1876), English writer described as 'first female sociologist'

★ Vladimir Martynenko (b. 1957), Russian sociologist, economist, political scientist

★ Karl Marx (1818-1883), German political philosopher, social theorist

★ Douglas Massey, US-American sociologist

★ John Levi Martin, US-American sociologist

★ Alex Mattson, (b. 1964) US-American Sociologist

★ Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) French sociologist

★ Dale McConkey, US-American sociologist

★ Robert McKenzie(1917-1981), Canadian-born Politics professor and psephologist

★ Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980), Canadian educator, philosopher and scholar

★ George Herbert Mead (1863-1931), US-American philosopher and social psychologist

★ Margaret Mead (1901-1978), US-American cultural anthropologist

★ Henri Mendras (1927-2003), French sociologist, chronicler of ''La fin des paysans''

★ Stephen Mennell (b. 1944), English sociologist

★ Robert K. Merton (1910-2003), US-American sociologist

★ Robert Michels (1876-1936) German political sociologist

★ C. Wright Mills (1916-1962), US-American sociologist

★ Sue Mirra, American Sociologist and Educator

★ J. Clyde Mitchell (1918-1995), British Social Anthropologist

★ Shinji Miyadai (b. 1959), Japanese sociologist

★ Brij Mohan (b. 1939), Indian-American social scientist

★ James Moody, US-American mathematical sociologist

★ James D. Montgomery, US-American economist and mathematical sociologist

★ Peter A. Munch (1908-1984), Norwegian/US-American sociologist

★ Charles Murray (b. 1943), US-American sociologist

N

★ Oswald von Nell-Breuning (1890-1991), German Roman Catholic theologian, sociologist and social reformer

★ Otto Neurath (1882-1945), Austrian sociologist and political economist

★ Peter Neville (d. 2002), British further education lecturer and sociologist

★ Robert Nisbet (1913-1996), US-American sociologist

★ Helga Nowotny, Austrian sociologist

O

★ Anne Oakley (b.1984), British sociologist

★ William F. Ogburn (1886-1959), US-American sociologist

★ Claus Offe (b. 1940), German sociologist

★ Richard Ofshe (b. 1941), US-American sociologist

★ Lloyd Ohlin, US-American sociologist

★ Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943) German sociologist and political economist

★ Stanislaw Ossowski (1897-1963), Polish sociologist

★ Robert Owen (1771-1858), Welsh social reformer

P

★ Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923), Italian economist and sociologist

★ Robert E. Park (1864-1944), US-American sociologist

★ Ray Pahl, British sociologist

★ Talcott Parsons (1902-1979), US-American sociologist

★ Karl Pearson (1857-1936), English statistician

★ Jean Piaget (1896 – 1980), Swiss developmental psychologist

★ Trevor Pinch, British sociologist

★ Joel M. Podolny, US-American sociologist and Dean of the Yale School of Management

★ John Porter (1921-1979), Canadian sociologist

★ Nicos Poulantzas (1936-1979), Greek political sociologist

★ Samuel H. Preston, US-American demographer and sociologist

★ Jade Puget (b. 1973), American musician

★ Robert Putnam (b. 1941), US-American political scientist

★ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865), French socialist or anarchist philosopher

★ Gil Sung Park (b. 1956), Korean sociologist

Q

★ Enrico Quarantelli, US-American sociologist

R

★ Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (1881–1955), British social anthropologist

★ Stephen Raudenbush, US-American sociologist and statistician

★ Aviad Raz (b. 1968), Israeli sociologist and anthropologist

★ John Rex (b. 1928), British sociologist

★ Jürgen Ritsert , German sociologist

★ George Ritzer (b. 1940), US-American sociologist

★ Terje Rød-Larsen (b. 1947), Norwegian diplomat and sociologist

★ Dale A. Rose (b. 1972, US-American sociologist

★ Paul Rosenfels (1909-1985), American psychologist and sociologist

★ Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888-1973), German social philosopher

★ Walter Garrison Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford, British sociologist

S

★ Harvey Sacks (d. 1975), US-American sociologist and ethnomethodologist

★ Moisés Espírito Santo (b. 1934), Portuguese sociologist, ethnologist and ethnolinguist

★ Henri de Saint-Simon (1760 - 1825), French philosopher and social thinker

★ Saskia Sassen, (b. 1949), US-American sociologist

★ Peter Saunders, Australian sociologist

★ Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913), Swiss linguist (structuralism)

★ Helmut Schelsky (1912-1984), German sociologist

★ Paul Schnabel Dutch sociologist

★ Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950), Austrian economist

★ Alfred Schütz (1899-1959), Austrian philosopher and sociologist (phenomenology)

★ Richard Sennett (b. 1943), US-American sociologist and public figure

★ Steven Shapin, US-American sociologist

★ Ali Shariati (1933-1977), Iranian sociologist and writer

★ Anson Shupe, US-American sociologist

★ Charles E. Silberman, US-American criminologist

★ Georg Simmel (1858-1918), German sociologist

★ John Skvoretz, US-American mathematical sociologist

★ Albion Woodbury Small (1854-1926), US-American sociologist

★ Neil Smelser, US-American sociologist

★ Adam Smith(1723-1790), Scottish economist and philosopher

★ Christian Smith (b. 1960), US-American sociologist of religion

★ Dorothy E. Smith (b. 1926), British-American sociologist and gender theorist

★ Werner Sombart (1863-1941), German economist and sociologist

★ Pitirim Sorokin (1889-1968), Russian sociologist

★ Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), English philosopher

★ Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), German philosopher

★ Steven Spitzer, US-American sociologist

★ M N Srinivas (1916-1999), Indian sociologist

★ Arthur Stinchcombe, US-American sociologist

★ Ross Stolzenberg, US-American sociologist

★ John Storey, British sociologist

★ Anselm L. Strauss (1916-1996), US-American sociologist (sociology of medicine, qualitative methods)

★ William Graham Sumner (1840-1910), US-American advocate of Social Darwinism

★ Eilert Sundt (1817-1875), Norwegian sociologist

★ Edwin Sutherland (1893-1950), US-American criminologist

★ Gerald Suttles, US-American urban sociologist

★ Jan Szczepański (1913-2004), Polish sociologist

★ Piotr Sztompka (b. 1944), Polish sociologist

★ Rahmatollah Sedigh Sarvestani, Iranian sociologist and criminologist

T

★ Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904), French sociologist and social psychologist

★ Sidney Tarrow, US-American sociologist

★ Ian Taylor (1944-2001) English sociologist and criminologist

★ Laurie Taylor (b. 1936), English sociologist and broadcaster

★ Verta Taylor, US-American sociologist

★ W. I. Thomas (1863-1947), US-American social psychologist

★ Charles Tilly (b. 1929), US-American sociologist

★ Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), French essayist and political analyst

★ Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936), German sociologist

★ Alain Touraine (b. 1925), French sociologist

★ France Winddance Twine (b. 1960), US-American sociologist and ethnographer

U

★ John Urry, British sociologist

V

★ Francisco Varela (1946-2001), Chilean biologist and philosopher

★ Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929), US-American economist and sociologist

★ Calvin Veltman (b.1941), Canadian sociologist, demographer and sociolinguist

★ Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, US-American sociologist

★ Nildo Viana (b. 1965), Brazilian sociologist and philosopher

★ Richard R. Verdugo (b. 1948), US-American sociologist

W

★ Peter Wagner, German sociologist and social theorist

★ Immanuel Wallerstein (b. 1930), US-American sociologist and historian

★ Lester Frank Ward (1841-1913), founder of US-American sociology

★ Stanley Wasserman, US-American sociologist, psychologist, statistician

★ Anita Waters (b. 1953), US-American sociologist

★ Duncan Watts, US-American mathematical sociologist and network theorist

★ Beatrice Webb (1858-1943), British socialist and social theorist

★ Sidney Webb (1859-1947), British socialist and social theorist

★ Alfred Weber (1868-1958), German sociologist

★ Max Weber (1864-1920), German sociologist

★ Barry Wellman (b. 1942), US-Canadian-American sociologist (dual citizenship)

★ Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931), US-American sociologist,journalist, social worker

★ John Westergaard (b. 1927), British sociologist

★ Edward Westermarck (1862-1939), Finnish sociologist and philosopher

★ Douglas R. White (b. 1942), US-American Mathematical Sociologist and Anthropologist.

★ Harrison White, US-American Sociologist

★ William H. Whyte (1917-1999), US-American sociologist, journalist and peoplewatcher

★ Leopold von Wiese (1876-1969), German Sociologist

★ Raymond Williams (1921-1988), Welsh sociologist, novelist and critic

★ William Julius Wilson (b. 1935), US-American sociologist

★ Howard Winant, US.American sociologist

★ Christopher Winship, US-American sociologist

★ Louis Wirth (1897-1952), German/US-American sociologist

★ Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski (b. 1944), Polish sociologist

★ Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), British social reformer

★ Steve Woolgar, British sociologist

★ Monroe Work (1866-1945), US-American sociologist

★ Erik Olin Wright, US-American sociologist

Y

★ Kazuo Yamaguchi

★ Yu Xie, US-American sociologist and statistician

★ Yogender Singh, Indian sociologist

Z

★ Benjamin Zablocki (b. 1941), US-American soiologist and social psychologist

★ Henry Zentner (d. 1986), Canadian sociologist

★ Eviatar Zerubavel, US-American Cognitive Sociologist

★ Jean Ziegler (b. 1934), Swiss sociologist

★ Slavoj Zizek (b. 1949), Slovenian sociologist and philosopher

★ Florian Znaniecki (1882-1958), Polish-American sociologist

★ Irving Zola, US-American medical sociologist and disability rights activist

★ Sharon Zukin, U.S-American sociologist

External link

★ Timeline of Sociology