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, B, C
- Jane Addams (1860-1935), American social worker and reformer
- Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), German cultural sociologist (Frankfurt School)
- Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), German political theorist
- Raymond Aron
- Gregory Bateson (1904-1980), English/American cybernetican
- Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929), French cultural theorist
- 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
- Manuel Castells (b. 1942), Catalan-American sociologist and urban planner
- James S. Coleman
- Auguste Comte (1798-1857), French proto-sociologist
- Charles Cooley
- Stefan Czarnowski (1879-1937), Polish sociologist
D, E, F
- Robert Dahl
- Ralf Dahrendorf
- W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963), African-American civil rights leader
- Emile Durkheim (1858-1917), French founder of sociology
- Nancy Denton
- Norbert Elias (1897-1990), German sociologist
- Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), German socialist philosopher
- 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
- Erich Fromm (1900-1980), German-American psychologist
- Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist
G, H, I
- Francis Galton (1822-1911), English statistican
- Anthony Giddens (b. 1938), English sociologist
- Corrado Gini (1884-1965), Italian statistician
- Clifford Geertz
- Arnold Gehlen
- Theodor Geiger
- Erving Goffman (1922-1982), Canadian interactionistic sociologist
- Antonio Gramsci (1891-1931), Italian Marxist
- Mark Granovetter
- Jürgen Habermas (b. 1929), German social theorist
- Maurice Halbwachs
- Stuart Hall British cultural theorist
- Donna Haraway, American gender and technology theorist
- David Harvey, British geographer
- Georg F. Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher
- George C. Homans
- Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), German sociologist (Frankfurt School)
- Floyd Hunter
J, K, L
- Jane Jacobs
- Ibn Khaldun, medieval Arab historian
- Antonina Kłoskowska (1919-2001), Polish sociologist
- Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), French psychoanalyst
- Paul F. Lazarsfeld
- 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
- Karin Knorr Cetina
- Alfred L. Kroeber
- Thomas S. Kuhn (1922-1996), American science theorist
M, N, O
- 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)
- Douglas Massey
- Humberto Maturana
- Marcel Mauss French sociologist
- Karl Marx (1818-1883), German political philosopher and social theorist
- Robert McKenzie
- George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) American philosopher and social psychologist
- Margaret Mead (1901-1978), American cultural anthropologist
- Robert K. Merton, American sociologist
- Robert Michels, German political sociologist
- C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) American sociologist
- Oswald von Nell-Breuning (1890-1991), German Roman Catholic theologian, sociologist and social reformer
- Otto Neurath (1882-1945), Austrian sociologist and political economist
- William F. Ogburn
- Stanisław Ossowski (1897-1963), Polish sociologist
- Robert Owen
P, Q, R
- Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923), Italian economist
- 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
- George Ritzer (b. 1940), American sociologist
S, T, U
- Henri de Saint-Simon
- Saskia Sassen
- Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913), Swiss linguist (structuralism)
- Helmut Schelsky
- 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
- W. I. Thomas, American social psychologist
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936) German sociologist
V, W, X, Y, Z
- Francisco Varela (1946-2001), Chilean biologist and philosopher
- Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929), American economist and sociologist
- Immanuel Wallerstein
- Beatrice Webb (1858-1943), British socialist and social theorist
- Sidney Webb (1859-1947), British socialist and social theorist
- Alfred Weber
- Max Weber (1864-1920), German founder of sociology
- William Julius Wilson
- Louis Wirth
- Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski (b. 1944), Polish sociologist
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), British social reformer
- Florian Znaniecki (1882-1958), Polish and American sociologist
- Slavoj Zizek (b. 1949), Slovenian sociologist and philosopher
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