List of sociologists

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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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 (1905 - 1983) French philosopher and sociologist

Johan Asplund (b. 1937) Swedish sociologist

B

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

Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929), French cultural theorist

Zygmunt Bauman (b. 1925), British sociologist

Ulrich Beck (1944-), German sociologist

Daniel Bell (born 1919) sociologist and professor emeritus at Harvard University.

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), German cultural sociologist

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

Henri Bergson (1859-1941), French philosopher

Herbert Blumer (1900 - 1997), American sociologist

Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002), French sociologist

Ernest Burgess (1886-1966), Canadian-born sociologist

Judith Butler (b. 1956), American gender theorist

C

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

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

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

Charles Cooley (1864-1929), American sociologist

Stefan Czarnowski (1879-1937), Polish sociologist

D

Robert Dahl (b.1915) American political scientist

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

Gilles Deleuze (1925 - 1995) French philosopher

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

Émile Durkheim (1858-1917), French founder of sociology

Nancy Denton, American sociologist and demographer

E

Norbert Elias (1897-1990), German sociologist

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), German socialist philosopher

Amitai Etzioni (1929 -), American sociologist

F

Paul Fauconnet (1874-1938) French sociologist

Fei Xiaotong (b.1910) Chinese sociologist and anthropologist

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 (1887 - 1969) conservative German sociologist and philosopher

Erich Fromm (1900-1980), German-American psychologist

G

Francis Galton (1822-1911), English statistican

Harold Garfinkel (b.1917) Professor Emeritus in sociology at Harvard University

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) conservative German philosopher and sociologist

Theodor Geiger (1891-1952) German-Danish sociologist

Ernest Gellner(1925 - 1995) philosopher and social anthropologist

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

John H. Goldthorpe (b. 1935) British sociologist

Erving Goffman (1922-1982), Canadian interactionistic sociologist

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1931), Italian Marxist

Richard Grathoff (1934- ), German sociologist and phenomenologist

Mark Granovetter, American sociologist

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

H

Jürgen Habermas (b. 1929), German social theorist

Maurice Halbwachs (1877 - 1945) French philosopher and sociologist

Stuart Hall (b.1932) British cultural theorist

Donna Haraway (b. 1944) American gender and technology theorist

David Harvey (b.1935) British geographer

Georg F. Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher

Richard Hoggart (b. 1918), British sociologist (Birmingham School, culture studies)

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

Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), German social philosopher (Frankfurt School)

Floyd Hunter (b.1912), American sociologist

I

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

J

Jane Jacobs (b.1916) US/Canadian writer and activist

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

K

Karin Knorr Cetina (b.1944) Austrian-American sociologist

Alfred L. Kroeber (1876–1960) American anthropologist

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

Antonina Kłoskowska (1919-2001), Polish sociologist

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William Labov (b.1927) American sociolinguist and dialectologist

Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), French psychoanalyst

Bruno Latour (1947- ) French sociologist of science

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

Gustave le Bon (1841-1931) French social psychologist and sociologist

Henri Lefebvre (1901 - 1991), French Marxist philosopher

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

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

Seymour Martin Lipset (b. 1922), American comparativist 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

Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942), Polish anthropologist

Thomas Malthus (1766-1834), English demographer

Richard Machalek (b. 1946) American sociologist and sociobiologist

Michael Mann (b. 1942) British-American sociologist

Karl Mannheim (1893-1947), German-speaking sociologist

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

Wladyslaw Markiewicz (b. 1920) Polish sociologist

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

Douglas Massey, American sociologist

Humberto Maturana(b. 1928), Chilean biologist and philosopher

Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) French sociologist

Dale McConkey, American sociologist

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

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 (1910 - 2003) American sociologist

Robert Michels (1876 - 1936) German political sociologist

C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) American sociologist

Robert Morrison MacIver (1882 - 1970) Scottish-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

O

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

Vance Packard (1914-1996), American proto-pop-sociologist

Talcott Parsons (1902-1979), American functionalist sociologist

Karl Pearson (1857-1936), English statistician

Jean Piaget (1896 – 1980) Swiss developmental psychologist

Robert Putnam (b. 1941) American political scientist

Q

R

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

Aviad Raz (b. 1968) Israeli sociologist and anthropologist

George Ritzer (b. 1940), American sociologist

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

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888-1973) German-born social philosopher

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

S

Harvey Sacks (d. 1975) American sociologist in the ethnomethodology tradition

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

Saskia Sassen, American sociologist

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

Helmut Schelsky (1912-1984), German sociologist

Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883 – 1950), economist

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

Richard Sennett (b. 1943) American sociologist and public figure

Ali Shariati (1933-1977), Iranian sociologist

Charles E. Silberman, American 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

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

M N Srinivas (1916 - 1999) Indian Sociologist

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

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

Eilert Sundt (1817-1875) Norwegian sociologist

Gerald Suttles, American social constructionist

Jan Szczepański (1913-2004) Polish sociologist

T

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

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

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

Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936) German sociologist

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V

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

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

Nildo Viana (b.1965) Brazilian sociologist and philosopher

W

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

Peter Wagner, German sociologist and social theorist

Lester Frank Ward (1841-1913) important founder of American sociology

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 and philosopher

William H. Whyte (b.1917) American sociologist, journalist and peoplewatcher

William Julius Wilson (b.1935) American sociologist

Louis Wirth (1897 - 1952), German-American sociologist

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

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), British social reformer

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Z

Jean Ziegler (1934-) professor of sociology at the University of Geneva and the Sorbonne, Paris.

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

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

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