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

Andrew Abbott American sociologist at the University of Chicago
Jane Addams (1860-1935), American social worker and reformer
Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), German cultural sociologist (Frankfurt School)
Jeffrey C. Alexander, American sociologist
Louis Althusser (1918-1990), Algerian-French philosopher and sociologist
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
Joseph Berger, American theoretical sociologist
Peter L. Berger (b. 1929), Austro-American sociologist
Henri Bergson (1859-1941), French philosopher
Herbert Blumer (1900 - 1997), American sociologist
Phillip Bonacich American mathematical sociologist
Scott Boorman American sociologist, Professor of sociology at Yale University
Thomas Bottomore (1920-1992), British sociologist
Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002), French sociologist
Ronald Breiger American Sociologist
Ernest Burgess (1886-1966), Canadian-born sociologist
Judith Butler (b. 1956), American gender theorist
Carter Butts (b. 1974), American mathematical sociologist

C

Manuel Castells (b. 1942), Spanish sociologist and urban planner
Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997), Greek philosopher and political theorist
Kathleen Carley American computational sociologist at Carnegie Mellon University
Nancy Chodorow (b. 1944), American sociologist and gender theorist
Richard Cloward, American sociologist
Ronald L. Cohen, American social psychologist
Stanley Cohen, British sociologist (criminology)
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

Hamid Dabashi, American-Iranian cultural critic and intellectual historian
Robert Dahl (b.1915), American political scientist
Ralf Dahrendorf (b.1929), German-British sociologist and politician
Mathieu Deflem, sociologist
Gilles Deleuze (1925 - 1995), French philosopher
Nancy Denton, American sociologist and demographer
Georgi Dimitrov Dimitrov, Bulgarian sociologist
G. William Domhoff, American sociologist
W.E.B. DuBois (1868-1963), African-American civil rights leader
Émile Durkheim (1858-1917), French sociologist

E

Norbert Elias (1897-1990), German sociologist
Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), German socialist philosopher
Kai T. Erikson (1931 -), American sociologist
Amitai Etzioni (1929 -), American sociologist

F

Rick Fantasia, American sociologist
Thomas Fararo (b. 1933), American mathematical sociologist
Paul Fauconnet (1874-1938) French sociologist
Scott Feld, American mathematical sociologist
Gary Alan Fine (b. 1950), American sociologist
Fei Xiaotong (1910-2005) 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
Andre Gunder Frank (1929-2005), German economic historian and sociologist
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian psycho-analyst
Hans Freyer (1887 - 1969) German sociologist and philosopher
Gilberto Freyre (1900-1987), Brazilian sociologist
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), German philosopher and sociologist
Theodor Geiger (1891-1952), German-Danish 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), American social statistician
Erving Goffman (1922-1982), Canadian interactionistic sociologist
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), Italian Marxist
Richard Grathoff (1934- ), German sociologist and phenomenologist
Mark Granovetter, American sociologist
Andrew M. Greeley, American sociologist, priest, author
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
Axel Honneth (b. 1949), German social theorist
Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), German social philosopher (Frankfurt School)
Floyd Hunter (b.1912), American sociologist

I

Octavio Ianni (1926 - ), Brazilian sociologist
Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), Arab historian and proto-sociologist
Kancha Ilaiah, (1952-) Indian political and social scientist

J

Jane Jacobs (b.1916), US/Canadian writer and activist
Lewis Wade Jones (1910 - 1979), African-American sociologist and educator

K

Elihu Katz American sociologist
Stephen A. Kent Canadian sociologist
Ibn Khaldun (1332/ah732 - 1406/ah808), North African historian, forerunner of modern historiography, sociology and economics
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

L

William Labov (b.1927) American sociolinguist and dialectologist
Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), French psychoanalyst
Ernesto Laclau , Argentinian sociologist
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
Robert Morrison MacIver (1882-1970) Scottish-American sociologist.
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, social theorist (see Marxism)
Douglas Massey, American sociologist
Humberto Maturana(b. 1928), Chilean biologist and philosopher
John Levi Martin American sociologist
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
J. Clyde Mitchell (1918-1995) British Social Anthropologist
Brij Mohan (1939--), Indian-American social scientist
James D. Montgomery American economist and mathematical sociologist
Charles Murray (b. 1943) 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), American sociologist

O

William F. Ogburn (1886 - 1959), American sociologist
Claus Offe (1940-), German sociologist
Lloyd Ohlin, 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
Ray Pahl, British sociologist
Talcott Parsons (1902-1979), American functionalist sociologist
Karl Pearson (1857-1936), English statistician
Jean Piaget (1896 – 1980), Swiss developmental psychologist
Adam Possamai, Belgium sociologist of religion
Nicos Poulantzas (1936-1979), Greek political sociologist
Samuel H. Preston, Professor of Demography, University of Pennsylvania
Robert Putnam (b. 1941), American political scientist
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) French socialist or anarchist philosopher

Q

R

Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (1881–1955) British social anthropologist
Aviad Raz (b. 1968) Israeli sociologist and anthropologist
Jürgen Ritsert , German sociologist
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, (b. 1949) American sociologist
Peter Saunders, Australian 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
John Skvoretz, American mathematical sociologist
Adam Smith(1723-1790), Scottish economist and philosopher
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, American sociologist
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

U

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
Stanley Wasserman, Professor of Sociology, Psychology, and Statistics at Indiana University.
Duncan Watts, American mathematical sociologist and network theorist
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
John Westergaard (b. 1927), British sociologist
Edward Westermarck (1862-1939), Finnish sociologist and philosopher
Harrison White, American Sociologist
William H. Whyte (b. 1917), American sociologist, journalist and peoplewatcher
William Julius Wilson (b. 1935), American sociologist
Christopher Winship, American sociologist
Louis Wirth (1897 - 1952), German-American sociologist
Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski (b. 1944), Polish sociologist
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), British social reformer
Erik Olin Wright, American sociologist

Y

Yu Xie Professor of sociology and statistics at the University of Michigan

Z

Benjamin Zablocki (1941-) Professor for sociology of religion and social psychology at Rutgers
Eviatar Zerubavel, Cognitive Sociologist, Professor of Sociology at Rutgers
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
Irving Zola, medical sociologist and disability rights activist

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