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):

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

Jane Addams (1860-1935), American social worker and reformer
Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), German cultural sociologist (Frankfurt School)
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), German political theorist
Raymond Aron

B

Gregory Bateson (1904-1980), English/American cybernetican
Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929), French cultural theorist
Zygmunt Bauman (b. 1925)
Ulrich Beck, German sociologist
Daniel Bell
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), German cultural sociologist
Peter L. Berger (b. 1929), Austro-American sociologist
Henri Bergson (1859-1941), French philosopher
Herbert Blumer
Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002), French sociologist
Ernest Burgess
Judith Butler (b. 1956), American gender theorist

C

Manuel Castells (b. 1942), Catalan sociologist and urban planner
James S. Coleman
Auguste Comte (1798-1857), French founder of sociology
Charles Cooley, American sociologist
Stefan Czarnowski (1879-1937), Polish sociologist

D

Robert Dahl
Ralf Dahrendorf, German sociologist
W.E.B. DuBois (1868-1963), African-American civil rights leader
Émile Durkheim (1858-1917), French founder of sociology
Nancy Denton

E

Norbert Elias (1897-1990), German sociologist
Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), German socialist philosopher

F

Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist
Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002), Austrian-American cybernetican
Michel Foucault (1926-1984), French sociologist
Charles Fourier (1772-1837), French proto-sociologist
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian psycho-analyst
Hans Freyer, German sociologist
Erich Fromm (1900-1980), German-American psychologist

G

Francis Galton (1822-1911), English statistican
Anthony Giddens (b. 1938), English sociologist
Corrado Gini (1884-1965), Italian statistician
Arnold Gehlen, German philosopher and anthropologist
Theodor Geiger, German sociologist
Erving Goffman (1922-1982), Canadian interactionistic sociologist
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1931), Italian Marxist
Richard Grathoff (1934- ), German sociologist and phenomenologist
Mark Granovetter

H

Jürgen Habermas (b. 1929), German social theorist
Maurice Halbwachs, French sociologist
Stuart Hall British cultural theorist
Donna Haraway, American gender and technology theorist
David Harvey, British geographer
Georg F. Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher
Richard Hoggart (b. 1918), British sociologist (Birmingham School, culture studies)
George C. Homans, American sociologist
Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), German social philosopher (Frankfurt School)
Floyd Hunter

I

Ibn Khaldun, medieval Arab historian

J

Jane Jacobs

K

Karin Knorr Cetina, German sociologist
Alfred L. Kroeber
Thomas S. Kuhn (1922-1996), American science theorist
Antonina Kłoskowska (1919-2001), Polish sociologist

L

William Labov
Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), French psychoanalyst
Paul F. Lazarsfeld, Austrian-American sociologist
Claude Levi-Strauss (b. 1908), French anthropologist
Seymour Martin Lipset
Thomas Luckmann (b. 1927), German sociologist
Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998), German sociologist (systems theory)
Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919), German socialist theoretician
Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998), French philosopher

M

Henry Maine (1822-1888), British jurist and legal historian
Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942), Polish anthropologist
Thomas Malthus (1766-1834), English demographer
Karl Mannheim (1893-1947), German-speaking sociologist
Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), German-American sociologist (Frankfurt School)
Karl Marx (1818-1883), German political philosopher and social theorist
Douglas Massey
Humberto Maturana
Marcel Mauss French sociologist
Dale McConkey
Robert McKenzie
George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) American philosopher and social psychologist
Margaret Mead (1901-1978), American cultural anthropologist
Henri Mendras (1927-2003), French sociologist, chronicler of La fin des paysans
Robert K. Merton, American sociologist
Robert Michels, German political sociologist
C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) 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

O

William F. Ogburn
Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943) German sociologist and political economist
Stanisław Ossowski (1897-1963), Polish sociologist
Robert Owen

P

Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923), Italian economist and sociologist
Robert E. Park, American sociologist
Vance Packard (1914-1996), American proto-pop-sociologist
Talcott Parsons (1902-1979), American functionalist sociologist
Karl Pearson (1857-1936), English statistican
Robert Putnam

Q

R

Aviad Raz
George Ritzer (b. 1940), American sociologist

S

Henri Saint-Simon, French philosopher and social thinker
Saskia Sassen
Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913), Swiss linguist (structuralism)
Helmut Schelsky (1912-1984), German sociologist
Alfred Schütz (1899-1959), Austrian philosopher and sociologist (phenomenology)
Richard Sennett
Ali Shariati (1933-1977), Iranian sociologist
Charles E. Silberman, criminologist
Albion Woodbury Small (1854-1926), American sociologist, founder of Chicago University Dept. of Sociology
Georg Simmel (1858-1918), German sociologist
Adam Smith(1723-1790), Scottish economist and philosopher
Pitirim Sorokin (1889-1968), Russian sociologist
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), English philosopher
Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), German philosopher
M N Srinivas, Indian Sociologist
Anselm L. Strauss, American sociologist (sociology of medicine, qualitative methods)
Gerald Suttles
Jan Szczepański

T

W. I. Thomas, American social psychologist
Alexis de Tocqueville, French essayist and political analyst
Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936) German sociologist

U

V

Francisco Varela (1946-2001), Chilean biologist and philosopher
Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929), American economist and sociologist

W

Immanuel Wallerstein
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
Edward Westermarck (1862-1939), Finnish sociologist & philosopher
William Julius Wilson
Louis Wirth
Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski (b. 1944), Polish sociologist
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), British social reformer

X

Y

Z

Florian Znaniecki (1882-1958), Polish and American sociologist
Slavoj Zizek (b. 1949), Slovenian sociologist and philosopher

External links

Timeline of Sociology

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