List of sociologists
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This article provides a list of sociologists. It is intended to cover those who have made substantive contributions to social theory
and research
, including any sociological subfield. Scientists in other fields and philosophers are not included, unless at least some of their work is defined as being specifically sociological in nature. Also included are certain politicians and other notable individuals who gained a university degree in the subject.
Social theory
Social theories are theoretical frameworks which are used to study and interpret social phenomena within a particular school of thought. An essential tool used by social scientists, theories relate to historical debates over the most valid and reliable methodologies , as well as the primacy of...
and research
Social research
Social research refers to research conducted by social scientists. Social research methods may be divided into two broad categories:* Quantitative designs approach social phenomena through quantifiable evidence, and often rely on statistical analysis of many cases to create valid and reliable...
, including any sociological subfield. Scientists in other fields and philosophers are not included, unless at least some of their work is defined as being specifically sociological in nature. Also included are certain politicians and other notable individuals who gained a university degree in the subject.
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- Andrew Abbott, American sociologist
- Anwar Abdel-Malek, Egyptian sociologist
- Aso Magdid Abdulla Gardi, kurdish sociologist 1987
- Peter Abell, British sociologist
- Barbara Adam, British sociologist
- Jane AddamsJane AddamsJane Addams was a pioneer settlement worker, founder of Hull House in Chicago, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in woman suffrage and world peace...
(1860–1935), American social worker and reformer - Theodor Adorno (1903–1969), German philosopher and cultural sociologist
- Richard Alba, American sociologist
- Francesco AlberoniFrancesco Alberoni|right|150px|Franesco AlberoniFrancesco Alberoni is an Italian Journalist, and professor in Sociology...
, Italian sociologist - Martin Albrow, British sociologist
- Alwardi Ali , (1914-1995) Iraqi sociologist
- Jeffrey C. AlexanderJeffrey C. AlexanderJeffrey Charles Alexander is an American sociologist, and one of the main proponents of Neofunctionalism.-Career:Alexander gained his BA from Harvard in 1969 and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1978...
, American sociologist - Louis AlthusserLouis AlthusserLouis Pierre Althusser was a French Marxist philosopher. He was born in Algeria and studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy....
(1918–1990), Algerian-French philosopher and sociologist - Nancy AmmermanNancy AmmermanNancy Tatom Ammerman is a professor of sociology of religion, now at Boston University. In 1993 she wrote a controversial report about the Branch Davidians and Waco.-Life:...
, American sociologist - Elijah AndersonElijah AndersonElijah Anderson is an American sociologist. He holds the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professorship in Sociology at Yale University, where he teaches and directs the Urban Ethnography Project. Anderson is one of the nation’s leading urban ethnographers and cultural theorists. He received his B.A. from...
, American sociologist - Stanislav AndreskiStanislav AndreskiStanisław Andrzejewski was a Polish-British sociologist known best for his scathing indictment of the "pretentious nebulous verbosity" endemic in the modern social sciences in his classic work Social Sciences as Sorcery .Andrzejewski was a Polish Army officer...
, Polish-British sociologist - Robert C. Angell, American sociologist
- Aaron AntonovskyAaron AntonovskyAaron Antonovsky PhD, was an Israeli American sociologist and academician whose work concerned the relationship between stress, health and well-being....
, Israeli sociologist - Arjun AppaduraiArjun AppaduraiArjun Appadurai is a contemporary social-cultural anthropologist focusing on modernity and globalization, based in New York.Appadurai was born in Mumbai , India and educated in India before coming to the United States. He graduated from St...
, Indian sociologist - Stanley AronowitzStanley AronowitzStanley Aronowitz is professor of sociology, cultural studies, and urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is also a veteran political activist and cultural critic and an advocate for organized labor.-Social Text:...
, American sociologist - Margaret ArcherMargaret ArcherMargaret Archer is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK, since 1973. She is best known for coining the term elisionism in her 1995 book Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach....
, British sociologist - Hannah ArendtHannah ArendtHannah Arendt was a German American political theorist. She has often been described as a philosopher, although she refused that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular." She described herself instead as a political theorist because her work centers on the fact...
(1906–1975), German political theorist - Raymond AronRaymond AronRaymond-Claude-Ferdinand Aron was a French philosopher, sociologist, journalist and political scientist.He is best known for his 1955 book The Opium of the Intellectuals, the title of which inverts Karl Marx's claim that religion was the opium of the people -- in contrast, Aron argued that in...
(1905–1983), French philosopher and sociologist - Giovanni ArrighiGiovanni ArrighiGiovanni Arrighi was a scholar of political economy and sociology, and as of 1998 a Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His work has been translated into over fifteen languages....
, Italian sociologist - James Arvanitakis, Australian sociologist
- Johan AsplundJohan AsplundJohan Asplund is a Swedish sociologist interested in social interaction and ethnomethodology. At present, his works are not widely translated from the original Swedish...
(born 1937), Swedish sociologist - Vilhelm AubertVilhelm AubertJohan Vilhelm Aubert was an influential Norwegian sociologist. He was a professor at the University of Oslo from 1963 to his death, first at the Department of the Sociology of Law and then at the Department of the Sociology of Law...
(1922–1988), Norwegian sociologist - Francisco AyalaFrancisco Ayala (novelist)Francisco Ayala García-Duarte was a Spanish writer, the last representative of the Generation of '27.- Biography :...
, Spanish sociologist and novelist
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- Patrick BaertPatrick BaertPatrick Baert is a Belgian sociologist and social theorist, based in Britain. He is Reader in Social Theory at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. Born in Brussels in 1961, Baert studied at the Free University of Brussels and at Oxford University where he obtained...
, British sociologist - Sergio BagúSergio BagúSergio Bagú was an Argentinian Marxist historian, sociologist and political philosopher.Bagú, who was born in Buenos Aires, was a lecturer at the University of Illinois, Middlebury College and the University of Buenos Aires. As a university professor, he was exiled by the military junta in...
, Argentinian sociologist - Kenneth D. BaileyKenneth D. Bailey (sociologist)Kenneth D. Bailey is an American sociologist, systems scientist and professor of sociology at the University of California in Los Angeles.- Biography :...
, American sociologist - Georges BalandierGeorges BalandierGeorges Balandier is a French sociologist, anthropologist and ethnologist noted for his research in Sub-Saharan Africa...
, French sociologist - Emily Greene BalchEmily Greene BalchEmily Greene Balch was an American academic, writer, and pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 , notably for her work with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom .Born in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston into an affluent family, she was amongst the first...
, American professor of sociology and Nobel Peace laureate. - Robert BalchRobert BalchRobert William Balch is a sociologist from the University of Montana. Balch is best-known for his studies of Heaven's Gate , the Aryan Nations, and the Love Family.-Education:*Ph...
, American sociologist - E. Digby BaltzellE. Digby BaltzellEdward Digby Baltzell was an American sociologist, academic and author.-Life and career:Baltzell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a wealthy Episcopalian family. "Digby" attended St. Paul's School, an Episcopal boarding school in New Hampshire. He attended the University of Pennsylvania,...
, American sociologist - Yves Barel, French sociologist
- Eileen BarkerEileen BarkerEileen Vartan Barker OBE, born in Edinburgh, UK, is a professor in sociology, an emeritus member of the London School of Economics , and a consultant to that institution's Centre for the Study of Human Rights...
, British sociologist - Anne BargèsAnne BargèsAnne Bargès is a sociologist and a anthropologist.She is doctor in sociocultural anthropology and doctor in medicine.She is studying anthropology of body, illness and health. She is also studying sociology of medicine, of live sciences and biotechnology...
, French sociologist - Barry Barnes, British sociologist
- Roland BarthesRoland BarthesRoland Gérard Barthes was a French literary theorist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, existentialism, social theory, Marxism, anthropology and...
(1915–1980), French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician - Roger BastideRoger BastideRoger Bastide was a French sociologist and anthropologist, specialist in sociology and Brazilian literature.The character Agliè in Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum bears resemblance to Roger Bastide....
, French sociologist - Gregory BatesonGregory BatesonGregory Bateson was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. He had a natural ability to recognize order and pattern in the universe...
(1904–1980), English/American cybernetican - Jean BaubérotJean BaubérotJean Baubérot , is a French historian and sociologist specialist in sociology of religions and founder of the sociology of secularism....
(born 1941), French historian and sociologist - Jean BaudrillardJean BaudrillardJean Baudrillard was a French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and post-structuralism.-Life:...
(1929–2007), French cultural theorist - Zygmunt BaumanZygmunt BaumanZygmunt Bauman is a Polish sociologist who, since 1971, has resided in England after being driven out of Poland by an anti-Semitic campaign, engineered by the Communist government which he had previously supported...
(born 1925), Polish/British sociologist - Frank BeanFrank BeanFrank D. Bean is Chancellor's Professor of Sociology and Director of the at the University of California, Irvine.-Accomplishments:He is the author or editor of more than 150 scholarly articles and chapters and eighteen books. His research focuses on international migration, unauthorized migration,...
, American sociologist - Peter BearmanPeter BearmanPeter Shawn Bearman is an American sociologist. He is Jonathan Cole Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University....
(born 1956), American sociologist - Ulrich BeckUlrich BeckUlrich Beck is a German sociologist who holds a professorship at Munich University and at the London School of Economics.-Life:...
(born 1944), German sociologist - Gary BeckerGary BeckerGary Stanley Becker is an American economist. He is a professor of economics, sociology at the University of Chicago and a professor at the Booth School of Business. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1992, and received the United States' Presidential Medal of Freedom...
, American economist - Howard S. BeckerHoward S. BeckerHoward Saul Becker is an American sociologist who made major contributions to the sociology of deviance, sociology of art, and sociology of music. Becker also wrote extensively on sociological writing styles and methodologies. In addition, Becker's book The Outsiders provided the foundations for...
(born 1928), American sociologist - Jens Beckert, German sociologist
- Richard F. BehrendtRichard Fritz BehrendtRichard Fritz Behrendt was a German sociologist....
(1908–1973), German sociologist - Daniel BellDaniel BellDaniel Bell was an American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor emeritus at Harvard University, best known for his seminal contributions to the study of post-industrialism...
(born 1919), American sociologist - Robert N. BellahRobert N. BellahRobert Neelly Bellah is an American sociologist, now the Elliott Professor of Sociology, Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. Bellah is best known for his work related to "American civil religion"...
, American sociologist - Walden BelloWalden BelloWalden Bello is a Filipino author, academic, and political analyst. He is a professor of sociology and public administration at the University of the Philippines Diliman, as well as executive director of Focus on the Global South...
, Filipino sociologist - Reinhard BendixReinhard BendixReinhard Bendix was a German American sociologist.Born in Berlin, Germany, he briefly belonged to Neu beginnen and Hashomer Hatzair, groups that resisted the Nazis. In 1938 he emigrated to the United States. He received his B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and subsequently...
, German-American sociologist - Walter BenjaminWalter BenjaminWalter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German-Jewish intellectual, who functioned variously as a literary critic, philosopher, sociologist, translator, radio broadcaster and essayist...
(1892–1940), German cultural writer and sociologist - Joseph Berger, American sociologist
- Peter L. BergerPeter L. BergerPeter Ludwig Berger is an Austrian-born American sociologist well known for his work, co-authored with Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge .-Biography:...
(born 1929), Austro-American sociologist - Pierre L. van den BerghePierre L. van den BerghePierre L. van den Berghe is professor emeritus of sociology and anthropology at the University of Washington, where he has worked since 1965. Born in the Congo to Belgian parents, and spending World War II in occupied Belgium, he was an early witness to ethnic conflict and racism, which eventually...
, Belgian sociologist - Henri BergsonHenri BergsonHenri-Louis Bergson was a major French philosopher, influential especially in the first half of the 20th century. Bergson convinced many thinkers that immediate experience and intuition are more significant than rationalism and science for understanding reality.He was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize...
(1859–1941), French philosopher - Jessie BernardJessie BernardJessie Shirley Bernard was a sociologist and noted feminist scholar. She was a persistent forerunner of feminist thought in American sociology and her life's work is characterized as extraordinarly productive spanning several intellectual and political eras...
, American feminist sociologist - Eduard BernsteinEduard BernsteinEduard Bernstein was a German social democratic theoretician and politician, a member of the SPD, and the founder of evolutionary socialism and revisionism.- Life :...
, German politician and intellectual - Jean-Michel BerthelotJean-Michel BerthelotJean-Michel Berthelot was a French sociologist, philosopher, epistemologist and social theorist, specialist in philosophy of social sciences, history of sociology, sociology of education, sociology of knowledge, sociology of science and sociology of body.- Epistemology and history of sociology...
, French sociologist - Andre BeteilleAndre BéteilleAndre Béteille is one of India's leading sociologists and writers. He is particularly well known for his studies of the caste system in South India...
, Indian sociologist - Robert BierstedtRobert BierstedtRobert Bierstedt was an American sociologist who often wrote about sociological theory, culture, and constitutional law. He was a native of Burlington, Iowa and graduated in philosophy from the University of Iowa in 1934...
, American sociologist - Norman BirnbaumNorman BirnbaumNorman Birnbaum is an American sociologist. He is an emeritus professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, and a member of the editorial board of The Nation. He was educated in New York City's public schools, at Williams College, and has a doctorate in sociology from Harvard University...
, American sociologist - Donald Black, American sociologist
- Hubert M. Blalock, American sociologist
- Peter BlauPeter BlauPeter Michael Blau was an American sociologist and theorist. Born in Vienna, Austria, he immigrated to the United States in 1939. He received his PhD at Columbia University in 1952, and was an instructor at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan from 1949–1951, before moving on to teach...
(1918–2002), American sociologist - Kathleen M. BleeKathleen M. BleeKathleen M. Blee is a professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. Her areas of interest include gender, race and racism, social movements, and sociology of space and place. She is notable for her expertise on women in the Ku Klux Klan.- Education :Blee received a Ph.D. in sociology...
(born 1953), American sociologist - David BloorDavid BloorDavid Bloor is a professor in, and a former director of, the at the University of Edinburgh .He started his academic career in philosophy and psychology. In the 1970s he and Barry Barnes were the major figures of the strong programme, which put forward queries against philosophical a priorism in...
, British sociologist - Hans-Peter Blossfeld, German sociologist
- Herbert BlumerHerbert BlumerHerbert George Blumer was an American sociologist. Continuing the work of George Herbert Mead, he named and developed the topic of symbolic interactionism. According to Blumer himself, his main post-graduate scholarly interests were symbolic interactionism and methodological problems...
(1900–1987), American sociologist - Olivier BobineauOlivier BobineauOlivier Bobineau is a French sociologist specialized in the sociology of religion.He teaches sociology at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, the Institut Catholique de Paris and the École supérieure des sciences économiques et commerciales, he is also Director of the Institut du sens...
(born 1972), French sociologist - Luc BoltanskiLuc BoltanskiLuc Boltanski is the leading figure in the new "pragmatic" school of French sociology. He is a professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, and the founder of the Groupe de Sociologie Politique et Morale....
, French sociologist - Scott BoormanScott BoormanScott Archer Boorman is a mathematical sociologist at Yale University.-Life:He earned his B.A. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University, and was a Harvard Junior Fellow. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University and was appointed to a full professorship at Penn before...
(born 1949), American sociologist - Charles BoothCharles Booth (philanthropist)Charles Booth was an English philanthropist and social researcher. He is most famed for his innovative work on documenting working class life in London at the end of the 19th century, work that along with that of Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree influenced government intervention against poverty in the...
, British social researcher - Ernst BorinskiErnst BorinskiErnst Borinski was a German-Jewish sociologist and intellectual, who contributed to undermining Jim Crow laws in Mississippi during the 1950s and 1960s.-Background:...
(1901-1983), German sociologist - Thomas BottomoreThomas BottomoreThomas Burton Bottomore , usually known as Tom Bottomore, was a British Marxist sociologist.Bottomore was Secretary of the International Sociological Association from 1953 to 1959...
(1920–1992), British sociologist - Raymond BoudonRaymond BoudonRaymond Boudon is a French sociologist.He is a Professor in the University of Paris-Sorbonne, and is a member of many important institutions: Académie des Sciences morales et politiques, Academia Europaea, British Academy, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, International Academy of Human...
, French sociologist - Pierre BourdieuPierre BourdieuPierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher.Starting from the role of economic capital for social positioning, Bourdieu pioneered investigative frameworks and terminologies such as cultural, social, and symbolic capital, and the concepts of habitus, field or location,...
(1930–2002), French sociologist - Richard Breen, British sociologist
- John David BrewerJohn David BrewerJohn David Brewer is an English sociologist, the President of the British Sociological Association , and Sixth-Century Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen.-Background:...
(born 1951), British sociologist - Carl BrinkmannCarl BrinkmannCarl Brinkmann was a German sociologist and economist, focusing on socioeconomics and the history of political economy....
(1885–1954), German sociologist - David G. BromleyDavid G. BromleyDavid G. Bromley is a professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. He has written extensively about "cults", new religious movements, apostasy, and the anti-cult movement.- Education and career :Bromley received his...
, American sociologist - Rogers BrubakerRogers BrubakerRogers Brubaker is an American sociologist, and professor at University of California, Los Angeles.-Works:*, Harvard University Press, 1992, ISBN 9780674131781* , Princeton University Press, 2006, ISBN 9780691128344...
, American sociologist - Walter F. BuckleyWalter F. BuckleyWalter Frederick Buckley was an American professor of sociology. He was among the first to apply concepts from general systems theory , based on the work of Bertalanffy, to sociology. The sociologist was not specifically aligned to either the cybernetics or the general systems movements.-...
, American sociologist - Michael BurawoyMichael BurawoyMichael Burawoy is a British, sociological Marxist, best known as author of Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalisma study on work and organizations that has been translated into a number of languagesand as the leading proponent of public sociology...
, American sociologist - Ernest BurgessErnest BurgessErnest Watson Burgess was an urban sociologist born in Tilbury, Ontario. He was educated at Kingfisher College in Oklahoma and continued graduate studies in sociology at the University of Chicago. In 1916, he returned to the University of Chicago, as a faculty member. Burgess was hired as an...
(1886–1966), Canadian sociologist - Tom R. BurnsTom R. BurnsTom R. Burns is a European/American sociologist.-Education:He grew up in Arkansas, and was in a Franciscan Monastery for a number of years. As a teenager, he attended Phillips Academy Andover in Massachusetts, before going to Stanford University to study physics and mathematics...
, European-American sociologist - Ronald Burt, American sociologist
- Judith ButlerJudith ButlerJudith Butler is an American post-structuralist philosopher, who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, and ethics. She is a professor in the Rhetoric and Comparative Literature departments at the University of California, Berkeley.Butler received her Ph.D...
(born 1956), American gender theorist
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- Roger CailloisRoger CailloisRoger Caillois was a French intellectual whose idiosyncratic work brought together literary criticism, sociology, and philosophy by focusing on subjects as diverse as games, play and the sacred...
, French sociologist - Craig CalhounCraig CalhounCraig Calhoun is an American sociologist and an advocate of using social science to address issues of public concern. He is president of the Social Science Research Council, University Professor of the Social Sciences at New York University and Director of NYU's...
, American sociologist - Michel CallonMichel CallonMichel Callon is a Professor of Sociology at the Ecole des Mines de Paris and member of the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation. He is an influential author in the field of Science and Technology Studies and one of the leading proponents of Actor-network theory with Bruno Latour.In recent years ,...
, French sociologist - Elias CanettiElias CanettiElias Canetti was a Bulgarian-born modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer. He wrote in German and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981, "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power".-Life:...
, Bulgaria-born novelist and outsider sociologist - Georges CanguilhemGeorges CanguilhemGeorges Canguilhem was a French philosopher and physician who specialized in epistemology and the philosophy of science .-Life and work:...
, French intellectual - Fernando Henrique CardosoFernando Henrique CardosoFernando Henrique Cardoso – also known by his initials FHC – was the 34th President of the Federative Republic of Brazil for two terms from January 1, 1995 to December 31, 2002. He is an accomplished sociologist, professor and politician...
, (born 1931), Brazilian sociologist, former President of Brazil - Kathleen CarleyKathleen CarleyKathleen M. Carley is an American social scientist specializing in dynamic network analysis. She is a professor in the School of Computer Science in the Institute for Software Research International at Carnegie Mellon University and also holds appointments in the Tepper School of Business, the...
, American computational sociologist - Antonio Caso, Mexican sociologist
- Robert CastelRobert CastelRobert Castel is a French sociologist, currently a researcher at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales.-Work:...
, French sociologist - Manuel CastellsManuel CastellsManuel Castells is a sociologist especially associated with information society and communication research....
(born 1942), Spanish sociologist and urban planner - Cornelius CastoriadisCornelius CastoriadisCornelius Castoriadis was a Greek philosopher, social critic, economist, psychoanalyst, author of The Imaginary Institution of Society, and co-founder of the Socialisme ou Barbarie group.-Early life in Athens:...
(1922–1997), Greek philosopher and political theorist - Daniel Cefai, French sociologist
- Michel de CerteauMichel de CerteauMichel de Certeau was a French Jesuit and scholar whose work combined history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the social sciences.-Education:...
, French cultural sociologist - Janet Saltzman Chafetz, feminist sociologist
- Francis Stuart ChapinFrancis Stuart ChapinFrancis Stuart Chapin was an American sociologist and educator.He received his bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 1909, as well as his PhD from the same school in 1911. He taught economics at Wellesley College for one year...
(1888–1974), American sociologist - Christopher Chase-DunnChristopher Chase-DunnChristopher Chase-Dunn is an American sociologist best known for his contributions to world-systems theory.-Education and career:...
, American sociologist - Louis ChauvelLouis ChauvelLouis Chauvel, born in 1967, is a French sociologist, full professor at Sciences Po , PhD Université de Lille , Habilitation Sciences Po . He is specialized in social generations, in the analysis of social structures, in cohort and generational change...
(born 1967), French sociologist - Mohamed Cherkaoui, Moroccan/French sociologist
- Eli Chinoy, Mexican sociologist
- Nancy ChodorowNancy ChodorowNancy Julia Chodorow is a feminist sociologist and psychoanalyst. She has written a number of influential books, including The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender ; Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory ; Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities: Freud and Beyond ;...
(born 1944), American sociologist, psychoanalyst, and gender theorist - Nicholas A. ChristakisNicholas A. ChristakisNicholas A. Christakis is a Greek American physician and sociologist known for his research on social networks and on the socioeconomic and biosocial determinants of health, longevity, and behavior...
, American sociologist - Chua Beng HuatChua Beng HuatChua Beng Huat , a Singaporean, is a Provost Professor and the Head of the Department of Sociology at National University of Singapore . He is concurrently the Cluster Leader of the Cultural Studies in Asia program at Asia Research Institute ....
, Singaporean sociologist - Aaron CicourelAaron CicourelAaron Victor Cicourel, who is currently professor emeritus of sociology at the University of California, San Diego,specializes in sociolinguistics, medical communication, decision-making, and child socialization. Early in his career, he was intellectually influenced greatly by Alfred Schutz, Erving...
, American sociologist - Dieter ClaessensDieter ClaessensDieter Claessens was a German sociologist and anthropologist.- Life :Returning as POW from the Soviet Union Dieter Claessens studied sociology, anthropology, and psychology in Berlin, where he got his doctorate from the Freie Universität in 1957...
(1921–1997), German sociologist, - Lars ClausenLars ClausenLars Clausen was a German sociologist and professor at the University of Kiel.-Life and work:During World War II, the family lived on the Darß...
(born 1935), German sociologist - Richard ClowardRichard ClowardRichard Andrew Cloward was an American sociologist and an activist. He influenced the Strain theory of criminal behavior and the concept of anomie, and was a primary motivator for the passage of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 known as "Motor Voter"...
(1926–2001), American sociologist - Ronald L. CohenRonald L. CohenRonald L. Cohen is a social psychologist whose research is focused on justice. He is a faculty member at Bennington College and the co-author or editor of several books and numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, including:...
, American social psychologist - Stanley CohenStanley Cohen (sociologist)Professor Stanley Cohen is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics.-Life:Cohen was born in Johannesberg, South Africa in 1942. He grew up in South Africa and was an undergraduate at the University of Witwatersrand, studying Sociology and Social Work. He came to London in...
, British sociologist (criminology) - James Samuel Coleman (1926–1995), American sociologist
- Harry CollinsHarry CollinsHarry Collins is a British professor at the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. While at the University of Bath Professor Collins developed the Bath School approach to the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge...
, British sociologist - Patricia Hill CollinsPatricia Hill CollinsPatricia Hill Collins, is Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, former head of the Department of African American Studies at the University of Cincinnati and past President of the American Sociological Association Council...
(born 1948), American sociologist - Randall CollinsRandall CollinsRandall Collins, Ph.D. is the Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the Advisory Editors Council of the Social Evolution & History Journal. He is considered to be one of the leading non-Marxist conflict theorists in the United...
, American sociologist - Paul Colomy, American sociologist
- Auguste ComteAuguste ComteIsidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte , better known as Auguste Comte , was a French philosopher, a founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism...
(1798–1857), French founder of sociology - Nicolas de Condorcet, French mathematician and early sociologist.
- Dalton ConleyDalton ConleyDalton Clark Conley is an American sociologist. He is University Professor of the Social Sciences and the Chair of the Department of Sociology at New York University...
, American sociologist - R.W. Connell (born 1944), Australian sociologist
- Paul ConnertonPaul ConnertonPaul Connerton is a sociologist, currently professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University.His single contribution to critical and cultural studies is his book How Societies Remember that opened the discussion of collective memory to include bodily gestures, finding in...
, British sociologist - Charles CooleyCharles CooleyCharles Horton Cooley was an American sociologist and the son of Thomas M. Cooley. He studied and went on to teach economics and sociology at the University of Michigan, and he was a founding member and the eighth president of the American Sociological Association...
(1864–1929), American sociologist - Lewis A. CoserLewis A. CoserLewis Coser was an American sociologist. The 66th president of the American Sociological Association in 1975....
(1913–2003), American sociologist - Anna Julia Cooper, American sociologist
- Carl J. CouchCarl J. CouchCarl J. Couch was the founder of the "New Iowa School" of symbolic interactionism, was also a founder and past president of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interactionism and served as president of the Midwest Sociological Society.Couch received his B.A. in 1951, his M.A. in 1954, and his...
(1925–1994), American sociologist - Douglas E. CowanDouglas E. CowanDouglas E. Cowan is a Canadian academic in religious studies and the sociology of religion and currently holds a teaching position at Renison College, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada...
, Canadian sociologist - Maxine Leeds CraigMaxine Leeds CraigMaxine Leeds Craig is a professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of California, Davis . She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1995. She is the author of Ain't I a Beauty Queen? Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race .-References:...
, American sociologist - Colin Crouch, British sociologist
- Michel CrozierMichel CrozierMichel Crozier is a French sociologist and member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques since 1999. He is also an officer of the Légion d'honneur and a commander of the Ordre National du Mérite, as well as a laureate of the Prix Tocqueville.Michel Crozier didn't become a sociologist...
, French sociologist - Agustin Cueva, Ecuadorian sociologist
- Stefan CzarnowskiStefan CzarnowskiStefan Czarnowski was a Polish sociologist, professor of the University of Warsaw.Member of the Polish pro-independence movements, he fought in the Polish Legions and the Polish-Soviet War. At first supporter of endecja, he gravitated towards supporting Polish Socialist Party.His works centered on...
(1879–1937), Polish sociologist
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- Robert Dahl (born 1915), American political scientist
- Dankwart DanckwertsDankwart DanckwertsDankwart Danckwerts is a German sociologist.After some time in business he qualified in , graduated at the Hamburg University, 1960, and worked after that at the University of Münster with Helmut Schelsky, where he gained his doctoral degree Dankwart Danckwerts (born 1933 at Hamburg) is a German...
(born 1933), German sociologist - Ralf DahrendorfRalf DahrendorfRalf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, KBE, FBA was a German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and liberal politician....
(1929–2009), German-British sociologist and politician - Randy DavidRandy DavidRandolf "Randy" S. David is a Filipino journalist, television host and a sociologist. He currently pens a weekly newspaper column for the Philippine Daily Inquirer...
, Filipino sociologist - Kingsley DavisKingsley DavisKingsley Davis , identified by the American Philosophical Society as one of the most outstanding social scientists of the twentieth century, was a Hoover Institution senior research fellow and internationally recognized American sociologist and demographer...
, American sociologist - Georges Davy, French sociologist
- Manuel De LandaManuel de LandaManuel De Landa, , is a writer, artist and philosopher who has lived in New York since 1975. He is presently the Gilles Deleuze Chair of Contemporary Philosophy and Science at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland; a lecturer at the Canisius College in Buffalo, New York; a lecturer...
, Mexican social theorist - Donatella della PortaDonatella della PortaDonatella della Porta is a professor of political science and sociology, known for her research in the areas of social movements, corruption, political violence and political sociology....
, Italian sociologist and political scientist - François de Singly, French sociologist
- Régis DebrayRégis DebrayJules Régis Debray is a French intellectual, journalist, government official and professor. He is known for his theorization of mediology, a critical theory of the long-term transmission of cultural meaning in human society; and for having fought in 1967 with Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara in...
, French mediologist - Alexander DeichselAlexander DeichselAlexander Deichsel is a German sociologist and professor at the University of Hamburg .Deischel completed his abitur at the Christianeum Hamburg....
(born 1935), German sociologist - Gilles DeleuzeGilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze , was a French philosopher who, from the early 1960s until his death, wrote influentially on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus , both co-written with Félix...
(1925–1995), French philosopher - Christine DelphyChristine DelphyChristine Delphy is a French sociologist, feminist, writer and theorist. She was a co-founder of the review Nouvelles questions féministes with Simone de Beauvoir in 1977.-Biography:...
, French sociologist - Bogdan DenitchBogdan DenitchBogdan Denitch is an American sociologist of Yugoslav origin who is an emeritus professor at the City University of New York . He is a leading authority on the political sociology of the former Yugoslavia...
, American sociologist - Norman Denzin, American sociologist
- Régis DericquebourgRégis DericquebourgRégis Dericquebourg is a French sociologist of religions.He wrote his thesis on Jehovah's Witnesses under the direction of Jean Seguy. He holds a doctorate in psychosociology and a postgraduate degree in clinical psychology from the Institute of Paris 7...
(born 1947), French sociologist of religions - Jacques DerridaJacques DerridaJacques Derrida was a French philosopher, born in French Algeria. He developed the critical theory known as deconstruction and his work has been labeled as post-structuralism and associated with postmodern philosophy...
, French philosopher - Mario Diani, Italian sociologist
- Heinz DieterichHeinz DieterichHeinz Dieterich or Heinz Dieterich Steffan is a German sociologist and a political analyst residing in Mexico. He is better known for his leftist ideals...
, German-Mexican sociologist - Helen DinermanHelen DinermanHelen Schneider Dinerman was an American sociologist and public opinion researcher.- Biography :Born in New York City in 1920, Dinerman received her education at Hunter College and Columbia University...
(1920–1974), American public opinion researcher - Paul DiMaggioPaul DiMaggioPaul Joseph DiMaggio is an American educator, and professor of sociology at Princeton University since 1992.-Career:...
, American cultural sociologist - Georgi Dimitrov DimitrovGeorgi Dimitrov DimitrovGeorgi D. Dimitrov is a Bulgarian sociologist and Professor at the European Studies department of Sofia University. Doctor Habilis in Sociology . He works in the field of historical sociology. Major works on: history and sociology of sociology, education reform, modernity, European civilisation,...
, Bulgarian sociologist - Stuart C. DoddStuart C. DoddStuart Carter Dodd was an American sociologist and an educator, who published research on the Middle East and on mathematical sociology, and was a pioneer in scientific polling.- Biography :Stuart Dodd graduated from Princeton University in 1926...
, American sociologist - G. William DomhoffG. William DomhoffGeorge William Domhoff is a research professor in psychology and sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz...
, American sociologist - Jose Mauricio Domingues, Brazilian social theorist
- Jacques Donzelot, French sociologist
- Mary DouglasMary DouglasDame Mary Douglas, DBE, FBA was a British anthropologist, known for her writings on human culture and symbolism....
, British anthropologist and sociologist of perception - Tommy DouglasTommy DouglasThomas Clement "Tommy" Douglas, was a Scottish-born Baptist minister who became a prominent Canadian social democratic politician...
, Canadian politician - W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), American sociologist and civil rights leader
- Denis DuclosDenis DuclosDenis Duclos is a French sociologist, Ph.D. and research director at the CNRS in Paris. He is the author of The werewolf complex: America's fascination with violence...
, French sociologist - François Dubet, French sociologist
- Otis Dudley DuncanOtis Dudley DuncanOtis Dudley Duncan was "the most important quantitative sociologist in the world in the latter half of the 20th century", according to sociologist Leo Goodman...
, American sociologist - Mitchell DuneierMitchell DuneierMitchell Duneier is an American sociologist currently Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and regular Visiting Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York....
, American sociologist - Eric DunningEric DunningEric Dunning is Emeritus Professor of sociology at the University of Leicester, UK.-Career:Eric Dunning was a pioneer in the sociology of sport and the founder, with Patrick Murphy, of the . He is the author of a number of books and articles on sport and the figurational sociology of Norbert Elias...
, British sociologist - Émile DurkheimÉmile DurkheimDavid Émile Durkheim was a French sociologist. He formally established the academic discipline and, with Karl Marx and Max Weber, is commonly cited as the principal architect of modern social science and father of sociology.Much of Durkheim's work was concerned with how societies could maintain...
(1858–1917), French sociologist - Troy DusterTroy DusterTroy Duster is a sociologist with research interests in the sociology of science, public policy, race and ethnicity and deviance. He is a Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley and professor of sociology and director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge at...
, American sociologist - Maurice DuvergerMaurice DuvergerMaurice Duverger is a French jurist, sociologist and politician. He was born in Angoulême, Charente.Starting his career as a jurist at the University of Bordeaux, Duverger became more and more involved in political science and in 1948 founded one of the first faculties for political science in...
, French sociologist - Gunter Dux, German sociologist
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- Gerald L. EberleinGerald L. EberleinGerald L. Eberlein was a German sociology educator.-Biography:Eberlein was born in Berlin to Kurt Karl and Alice Caroline Eberlein....
(born 1930), German sociologist - Klaus Eder, German sociologist
- Alain EhrenbergAlain EhrenbergAlain Ehrenberg, born in Paris in 1950, is a French sociologist.Author of a PhD thesis of sociology Archangels, warriors, military men and sportsmen...
, French sociologist - Glen H. Elder, Jr., American sociologist
- Norbert EliasNorbert EliasNorbert Elias was a German sociologist of Jewish descent, who later became a British citizen.-Biography:...
(1897–1990), German sociologist - Elizabethann Ellis (born 1965) Disability researcher
- Jon ElsterJon ElsterJon Elster is a Norwegian social and political theorist who has authored works in the philosophy of social science and rational choice theory...
, Norwegian sociologist - Friedrich EngelsFriedrich EngelsFriedrich Engels was a German industrialist, social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, alongside Karl Marx. In 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research...
(1820–1895), German socialist philosopher - Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt (born 1923), Israeli sociologist
- Mustafa Emirbayer, American sociologist
- Hugo O. EngelmannHugo O. EngelmannHugo Otto Engelmann was an American sociologist, anthropologist and general systems theorist. Throughout his work he emphasized the significance of history.- Biography :...
(1917–2002), US-American sociologist - Paula England, US-American sociologist
- Ronald EnrothRonald EnrothRonald M. Enroth is Professor of Sociology at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California, and a prominent evangelical Christian author of books concerning what he defines as "cults" and "new religious movements"....
(born 1938), US-American sociologist - Kai T. EriksonKai T. EriksonKai Theodor Erikson is an American sociologist, noted as an authority on the social consequences of catastrophic events. He served as the 76th president of the American Sociological Association....
(born 1931), US-American sociologist - Hartmut Esser, German sociologist
- Gosta Esping-Andersen, Danish sociologist
- Amitai EtzioniAmitai EtzioniAmitai Etzioni is a German-Israeli-American sociologist.-Biography:In 1933, Amitai Etzioni was only four years old when the Nazis rose to power in Germany. He was separated from his family but reunited with them by the year 1947...
(born 1929), US-American sociologist - Peter B. Evans, US-American sociologist
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- Enzo Faletto, Chilean sociologist
- Orlando Fals BordaOrlando Fals BordaOrlando Fals Borda was a Colombian researcher and sociologist, one of the most important Latin American thinkers, and one of the founders of participatory action research. Together with Father Camilo Torres Restrepo, in 1959 he set up the first sociology faculty in Latin America at the National...
, Colombian sociologist - Frantz FanonFrantz FanonFrantz Fanon was a Martiniquo-Algerian psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary and writer whose work is influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory and Marxism...
, Martinican intellectual and sociologist - Rick FantasiaRick FantasiaRick Fantasia is the Barbara Richmond 1940 Professor in the Social Sciences at Smith College in the United States and Director of its Kahn Liberal Arts Institute....
, American sociologist - Thomas FararoThomas FararoThomas J. Fararo is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh. After earning a Ph.D. in sociology at Syracuse University in 1963, he received a three year postdoctoral fellowship for studies in pure and applied mathematics at Stanford University...
(born 1933), American mathematical sociologist - Paul FauconnetPaul FauconnetPaul Fauconnet was a French sociologist who is best known as a contributor to the Annee Sociologique.Fauconnet aggregated in philosophy in 1892 and earned his doctorate in philosophy in 1895. He also earned a further doctorate in law in 1920, although his interest in the law was purely scholarly...
(1874–1938), French sociologist - Gary Faulkner (born 1940), American sociologist
- Joe FeaginJoe FeaginJoe R. Feagin is a U.S. sociologist and social theorist who has conducted extensive research on racial and gender issues, especially in regard to the United States.-Early life:...
, American sociologist - David Featherman, American sociologist
- Fei XiaotongFei XiaotongFei Xiaotong, or Fei Hsiao-Tung was a pioneering Chinese researcher and professor of sociology and anthropology; he was also noted for his studies in the study of China's ethnic groups as well as a social activist...
(1910–2005), Chinese sociologist and anthropologist - Adam FergusonAdam FergusonAdam Ferguson FRSE, also known as Ferguson of Raith was a Scottish philosopher, social scientist and historian of the Scottish Enlightenment...
, Scottish social philosopher - Anuška FerligojAnuška FerligojAnuška Ferligoj is a Slovenian mathematician, born 1947 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, whose work in network analysis research is internationally recognized. Her interests include multivariate analysis , social networks , and survey methodology...
, Slovenian mathematical sociologist - Florestan FernandesFlorestan FernandesFlorestan Fernandes was a Brazilian sociologist and politician. He was also elected federal deputy twice.- Life and career :...
(1920–1995), Brazilian sociologist - Myra Marx FerreeMyra Marx FerreeMyra Marx Ferree is a professor of sociology and director of the Center for German and European Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she is also a member of the Women’s Studies Program. In 2005 she was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and in 2004 the...
(born 1949), American sociologist - Enrico FerriEnrico FerriEnrico Ferri was an Italian criminologist, socialist, and student of Cesare Lombroso. However, whereas Lombroso researched the physiological factors that motivated criminals, Ferri investigated social and economic factors. Ferri was the author of Criminal Sociology in 1884 and the editor for...
, Italian sociologist and criminologist - Gary Alan FineGary Alan FineGary Alan Fine is an American sociologist and author.- Life and career :The son of Bernard David Fine and Bernice Estelle Tanz, Fine grew up in Manhattan and went to the Horace Mann School. He studied psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and then received his PhD from Harvard in social...
(born 1950), American sociologist - Claude Fischer (born 1947), American author of the subcultural theory of urbanism
- Peter FloraPeter FloraPeter Flora is an Austrian citizen and taught until his retirement in spring 2009 as a professor of sociology at the University of Mannheim.- Academic career :...
, Austrian sociologist - Heinz von FoersterHeinz von FoersterHeinz von Foerster was an Austrian American scientist combining physics and philosophy. Together with Warren McCulloch, Norbert Wiener, John von Neumann, Lawrence J. Fogel, and others, Heinz von Foerster was an architect of cybernetics.-Biography:Von Foerster was born in 1911 in Vienna, Austria,...
(1911–2002), Austrian/American cybernetican - Pim FortuynPim FortuynWilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn was a Dutch politician, civil servant, sociologist, author and professor who formed his own party, Pim Fortuyn List ....
(1948–2002), Dutch sociologist author and politician - Daniel A. FossDaniel FossDaniel A. Foss is an American sociologist and database researcher. He is the author of Freak Culture: Life Style and Politics , and Beyond Revolution: A New Theory of Social Movements .-Early life and education:...
(born 1940), American sociologist - Robert Fossaert, French sociologist
- John Bellamy FosterJohn Bellamy FosterJohn Bellamy Foster is a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and also editor of Monthly Review, an independent socialist magazine. His writings have focused on political economy, environmental sociology, and Marxist theory...
, American sociologist and journalist - Michel FoucaultMichel FoucaultMichel Foucault , born Paul-Michel Foucault , was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas...
(1926–1984), French philosopher - Alfred Jules Émile FouilléeAlfred Jules Émile FouilléeAlfred Jules Émile Fouillée was a French philosopher.-Life:Fouillée was born at La Pouëze, Maine-et-Loire. He held several minor philosophical lectureships, and from 1864 was professor of philosophy at the lycées of Douai, Montpellier and Bordeaux successively. In 1867 and 1868 he was crowned by...
, French philosopher and sociologist - Charles FourierCharles FourierFrançois Marie Charles Fourier was a French philosopher. An influential thinker, some of Fourier's social and moral views, held to be radical in his lifetime, have become main currents in modern society...
(1772–1837), French proto-sociologist - Renée FoxRenee FoxRenée C. Fox is an American sociologist and writer. She graduated summa cum laude from Smith College and earned her Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University in 1954. She was a member of the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, 1969–1999 as Annenberg Professor of the Social Sciences...
, American sociologist - Andre Gunder FrankAndre Gunder FrankAndre Gunder Frank was a German-American economic historian and sociologist who promoted "dependency theory" after 1970 and "World Systems Theory" after 1984...
(1929–2005), German economic historian and sociologist - David D. Franks, American neurosociologist
- Nancy FraserNancy FraserNancy Fraser is an American critical theorist, currently the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science and professor of philosophy at The New School in New York City...
, American social theorist - Michel Freitag, Swiss-Canadian sociologist
- Hans FreyerHans FreyerHans Freyer, born July 31, 1887 in Leipzig, died January 18, 1969 in Ebersteinburg near Baden-Baden, was a conservative German sociologist and philosopher.-Life:...
(1887–1969), German sociologist and philosopher - Gilberto FreyreGilberto FreyreGilberto de Mello Freyre was a Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter and congressman. His best-known work is a sociological treatise named Casa-Grande & Senzala...
(1900–1987), Brazilian sociologist - Erhard Friedberg, Austrian-French sociologist
- Georges FriedmannGeorges FriedmannGeorges Philippe Friedmann , French Sociologist.Georges Friedmann was the founder of a human work sociology after World War II. In 1921, after studying industrial chemistry, he entered a teacher training college on the rue d'Ulm, in Paris, France. During the war, he was an intellectual Marxist...
, French sociologist - Robert W. Friedrichs
- Stephan Fuchs, German sociologist
- Steve Fuller, American sociologist
- Celso FurtadoCelso FurtadoCelso Monteiro Furtado was an important Brazilian economist and one of the most distinguished intellectuals of his country during the 20th century. His work focuses on development and underdevelopment and on the persistence of poverty in peripheral countries throughout the world...
, Brazilian economist
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- Gacia, Jionesa, Filipino sociologist
- Luciano Gallino, Italian sociologist
- Francis GaltonFrancis GaltonSir Francis Galton /ˈfrɑːnsɪs ˈgɔːltn̩/ FRS , cousin of Douglas Strutt Galton, half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath: anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician...
(1822–1911), English statistician - Johan GaltungJohan GaltungJohan Galtung is a Norwegian sociologist and the principal founder of the discipline of peace and conflict studies. He founded the Peace Research Institute Oslo in 1959, serving as its Director until 1970, and established the Journal of Peace Research in 1964...
, Norwegian sociologist, mathematician, and founder of peace studies. - Diego GambettaDiego GambettaDiego Gambetta is an Italian born social scientist. He is a professor of sociology at the University of Oxford and an official fellow at Nuffield College. He is well known for his vivid and unconventional applications of economic theory and a rational choice approach to understanding a variety of...
, Italian sociologist - Herbert Gans (born 1927), American sociologist
- Harold GarfinkelHarold GarfinkelHarold Garfinkel was a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is known for establishing and developing ethnomethodology as a field of inquiry in sociology.-Biography:...
(born 1917), American sociologist - David W GarlandDavid W GarlandDavid Garland is Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at New York University.- Biography :Born in Dundee, Scotland in 1955, he graduated from the University of Edinburgh School of Law with an LLB and from Sheffield University with a postgraduate MA in Criminology. He...
, British sociologist - Marcel GauchetMarcel GauchetMarcel Gauchet is a French historian, philosopher and sociologist.Gauchet is professor at the Centre de recherches politiques Raymond Aron at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and head of the periodical Le Débat .Gauchet is one of France's most prominent contemporary...
, French sociologist - John GaventaJohn GaventaJohn Gaventa is the director of the Coady International Institute and Vice-President of International Development at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada....
, American-British sociologist - Clifford GeertzClifford GeertzClifford James Geertz was an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology, and who was considered "for three decades...the single most influential cultural anthropologist in the United States." He served until...
, American anthropologist - Arnold GehlenArnold GehlenArnold Gehlen was an influential conservative German philosopher and sociologist.-Biography:His major influences while studying philosophy were Hans Driesch, Nicolai Hartmann and especially Max Scheler....
(1904–1976), German philosopher and sociologist - Theodor GeigerTheodor GeigerTheodor Julius Geiger was a German socialist lawyer and sociologist. He was Denmark's first professor of sociology, at the University of Åarhus.- Life :...
(1891–1952), German sociologist - Ernest GellnerErnest GellnerErnest André Gellner was a philosopher and social anthropologist, described by The Daily Telegraph when he died as one of the world's most vigorous intellectuals and by The Independent as a "one-man crusade for critical rationalism."His first book, Words and Things —famously, and uniquely...
(1925–1995), Czech-British philosopher and social anthropologist - Gary Gereffi, American sociologist
- Gino Germani, Argentinian sociologist
- Hans Heinrich Gerth, German-American sociologist
- Anthony GiddensAnthony GiddensAnthony Giddens, Baron Giddens is a British sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies. He is considered to be one of the most prominent modern contributors in the field of sociology, the author of at least 34 books, published in at least 29...
(born 1938), English sociologist - Franklin Henry GiddingsFranklin Henry GiddingsFranklin Henry Giddings, Ph.D., LL.D. was an American sociologist and economist, born at Sherman, Connecticut. He graduated from Union College . For ten years, he wrote items for the Springfield, Massachusetts Republican and the Daily Union...
, American sociologist - Nigel GilbertNigel GilbertNigel Gilbert is a British sociologist and a pioneer in the use of agent-based models in the social sciences. He is the founder and director of the Centre for Research in Social Simulation , author of several books on computational social sciences, social simulation and social research and editor...
, British sociologist - Charlotte Perkins GilmanCharlotte Perkins GilmanCharlotte Perkins Gilman was a prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform...
, American sociologist - Paul GilroyPaul Gilroy-Biography:Born in the East End of London to Guyanese and English parents , he was educated at University College School and obtained his bachelor's degree at Sussex University in 1978. He moved from there to Birmingham University where he completed his Ph.D...
, British sociologist - Salvador GinerSalvador GinerSalvador Giner i de San Julián is a Catalan sociologist and from 2005 he is the president of the Institute of Catalan Studies.- Biography:...
, Spanish sociologist - Morris GinsbergMorris GinsbergMorris Ginsberg was a UK sociologist. He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1942 to 1943. Ginsberg helped draft the UNESCO 1950 statement titled The Race Question...
, British sociologist - Corrado GiniCorrado GiniCorrado Gini was an Italian statistician, demographer and sociologist who developed the Gini coefficient, a measure of the income inequality in a society. Gini was also a leading fascist theorist and ideologue who wrote The Scientific Basis of Fascism in 1927...
(1884–1965), Italian statistician - Herbert GintisHerbert GintisHerbert Gintis is an American behavioral scientist, educator, and author. He is notable for his foundational views on Altruism, Cooperation, Epistemic Game Theory, Gene-culture coevolution, Efficiency wages, Strong reciprocity, and Human capital theory. Gintis has also written extensively on...
, American behavioral scientist - Claude Giraud, French sociologist
- Henry GirouxHenry GirouxHenry Giroux, born September 18, 1943, in Providence, Rhode Island, is an American cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies,...
, American sociologist of education - Todd GitlinTodd GitlinTodd Gitlin is an American sociologist, political writer, novelist, and cultural commentator. He has written widely on the mass media, politics, intellectual life and the arts, for both popular and scholarly publications.-New Left activist:...
, American sociologist - Barney GlaserBarney GlaserBarney G. Glaser is an American sociologist and one of the founders of the grounded theory methodology.Glaser was born in San Francisco, California, and lives in Mill Valley. He received his BA degree at Stanford in 1952. He pursued academic studies at the University of Paris where he studied...
, American sociologist - David GlassDavid Glass (sociologist)David Glass was an eminent English sociologist. One of the few sociologists elected to the Royal Society.He is also one of the very few people to be elected both FBA and FRS....
(1911–1978), British sociologist - Barry GlassnerBarry GlassnerBarry Glassner is the president of Lewis & Clark College and was formerly professor of sociology and executive vice provost at the University of Southern California, which honored him in 2002 with its highest research award...
(born 1952), American sociologist - Nathan GlazerNathan GlazerNathan Glazer is an American sociologist who taught at the University of California, Berkeley and for several decades at Harvard University...
, American sociologist - Max GluckmanMax GluckmanMax Gluckman was a South African and British social anthropologist.He grew up in South Africa, working later under the British Administration in Northern Rhodesia...
(1911–1975), South African/English social anthropologist - Erving GoffmanErving GoffmanErving Goffman was a Canadian-born sociologist and writer.The 73rd president of American Sociological Association, Goffman's greatest contribution to social theory is his study of symbolic interaction in the form of dramaturgical perspective that began with his 1959 book The Presentation of Self...
(1922–1982), Canadian interactionistic sociologist - Steven J. GoldSteven J. GoldSteven J. Gold is a sociologist involved in research on ethnic economies, international migration, the development of ethnic communities, visual sociology, and qualitative methods...
(born 1955), American sociologist - Lucien GoldmannLucien GoldmannLucien Goldmann was a French philosopher and sociologist of Jewish-Romanian origin...
, Romanian/French sociologist - Jack GoldstoneJack GoldstoneJack A. Goldstone is an American sociologist and political scientist, specializing in studies of social movements, revolutions, and international politics. According to Peter Turchin , he made a significant contribution to the development of cliodynamics...
, American sociologist - John H. Goldthorpe (born 1935), British sociologist
- Yasunosuke GondaYasunosuke Gondawas a Japanese sociologist and film theorist who played an important role in the study of popular entertainment and helped pioneer statistical studies of everyday life in Japan.-Career:...
, Japanese sociologist - Pablo González Casanova, Mexican sociologist
- Jeff GoodwinJeff GoodwinJeff Goodwin is a professor of sociology at New York University. He holds a BA, MA and PhD from Harvard University.His research interests include visual sociology, social movements, revolutions, political violence, and terrorism...
, American sociologist - Johan Goudsblom, Dutch sociologist
- Alvin Gouldner, American sociologist
- Ziya GökalpZiya GökalpZiya Gökalp was a Turkish sociologist, writer, poet, and political activist. In 1908, after the Young Turk revolution, he adopted the pen name Gökalp , which he retained for the rest of his life...
, (1876 -1924), Turkish Sociologist, Writer, Poet and Political Activist - Jorge Graciarena, Argentinian sociologist
- Isacque GraeberIsacque GraeberDr. Isacque Graeber was a sociologist, Jewish historian, and author. He authored several books and numerous papers ranging in subject matters from Jewish-Gentile relations to Jewish Education. He was an alumnus of the Sorbonne, and studied as well in Columbia University and Pennsylvania University...
(1905–1984), Sociologist and Jewish Historian - Antonio GramsciAntonio GramsciAntonio Gramsci was an Italian writer, politician, political philosopher, and linguist. He was a founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy and was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime...
(1891–1937), Italian Marxist and social theorist - Richard GrathoffRichard GrathoffRichard Helmut Grathoff is a phenomenologist and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany.Born on August 30, 1934 in Unna, Westphalia, Germany, he received his Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research in 1969 after studying under Aron Gurwitsch, Thomas...
(born 1934), German sociologist and phenomenologist - Mark GranovetterMark GranovetterProfessor Mark Granovetter is an American sociologist at Stanford University who has created theories in modern sociology since the 1970s. He is best known for his work in social network theory and in economic sociology, particularly his theory on the spread of information in social networks known...
, American sociologist - Andrew M. Greeley, American sociologist, priest, writer
- Liah GreenfeldLiah GreenfeldLiah Greenfeld is a professor of Political Science and Sociology and the Director of the Institute for the Advancement of the Social Sciences at Boston University....
(born 1951), Russian/American sociologist - Leonid GrininLeonid GrininLeonid Grinin is a philosopher of history and sociologist.Born in Kamyshin , Grinin attended Volgograd Pedagogical University, where he got an M.A. in 1980. He got his Ph.D. from Moscow State University in 1996...
(born 1958), Russian sociologist - Ludwig Gumplovicz (1838–1909), Polish sociologist, one of the founders of European sociology
- Dipankar Gupta(born 1944),Indian Sociologist,formerly with JNUJawaharlal Nehru UniversityJawaharlal Nehru University, also known as JNU, is located in New Delhi, the capital of India. It is mainly a research oriented postgraduate University with approximately 5,500 students and a faculty strength of around 550.-History:...
- Georges GurvitchGeorges GurvitchGeorges Gurvitch was a Russian born French sociologist and jurist. One of the leading sociologists of his times, he was a specialist of the sociology of knowledge. In 1944 he founded the journal Cahiers internationaux de Sociologie. He held a chair in sociology at the Sorbonne in Paris.Gurvitch is...
, Russian-French sociologist - Dimitrie GustiDimitrie GustiDimitrie Gusti was a Romanian sociologist, ethnologist, historian, and voluntarist philosopher; a professor at the University of Iaşi and the University of Bucharest, he served as Romania's Minister of Education in 1932-1933...
(1880–1955), Romanian sociologist, the creator of the sociological monographic method
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- Hamied Al Hashimi (Iraqi Sociologist)
- Jürgen HabermasJürgen HabermasJürgen Habermas is a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his theory on the concepts of 'communicative rationality' and the 'public sphere'...
(born 1929), German social theorist - Jeffrey K. HaddenJeffrey K. HaddenJeffrey K. Hadden was an American professor of sociology who began teaching at the University of Virginia in 1972. Hadden earned his Ph.D...
(1937–2003), American sociologist - Maurice HalbwachsMaurice HalbwachsMaurice Halbwachs was a French philosopher and sociologist known for developing the concept of collective memory.Born in Reims, Halbwachs attended the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. There he studied philosophy with Henri Bergson, who influenced him greatly. He aggregated in Philosophy in 1901...
(1877–1945), French philosopher and sociologist - John A. HallJohn A. HallJohn A. Hall is the James McGill Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology at McGill University, Montreal. Prof. Hall is the author or editor of over twenty books.-Education:PhD, London School of Economics, 1976;...
(born 1949), British/Canadian sociologist - Stuart HallStuart Hall (cultural theorist)Stuart Hall is a cultural theorist and sociologist who has lived and worked in the United Kingdom since 1951. Hall, along with Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams, was one of the founding figures of the school of thought that is now known as British Cultural Studies or The Birmingham School of...
(born 1932), British cultural theorist - Donna HarawayDonna HarawayDonna J. Haraway is currently a Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, United States...
(born 1944), American gender and technology theorist - Russell Hardin, American social theorist
- Eszter HargittaiEszter HargittaiEszter Hargittai is a sociologist at Northwestern University. She holds a B.A. in Sociology from Smith College and a Ph.D...
, Hungarian sociologist - Marta HarneckerMarta HarneckerMarta Harnecker is a Chilean sociologist, political scientist, journalist and activist. Harnecker, a descendant of Austrian immigrants, was a Roman Catholic in her childhood. She visited Cuba in 1960-Early life:...
, Chilean sociologist - David Harvey, British social theorist
- Chandrakala A. HateChandrakala A. HateDr. Chandrakala Anandrao Hate, M.A., Ph.D. was a prominent author, feminist, social worker, and professor in Bombay, India.-Early years:...
(1903–1990), Indian sociologist, social worker, and author - Alkabi Hatem , Iraqi sociologist
- Peter HedströmPeter HedströmPeter Hedström is one of the founders of and a well-known authority in the field of analytical sociology. He has made important contributions to the analysis of social contagion processes and complex social networks, as well as to the philosophical and meta-theoretical foundations of analytical...
, Swedish sociologist - John HeritageJohn HeritageJohn Heritage is Professor of Sociology at University of California at Los Angeles. He is one of the key figures in the approach known as conversation analysis....
, American sociologist - Samuel HeilmanSamuel HeilmanSamuel Heilman is a professor of Sociology at Queens College of the City University of New York who focuses on social ethnography of contemporary Jewish Orthodox movements.-Personal:...
, American sociologist - Dirk HelbingDirk HelbingDirk Helbing is a physicist, and professor of sociology, in particular for modelling and simulation.- Biography :Dirk Helbing studied physics and mathematics at the University of Göttingen. He completed his doctoral thesis at Stuttgart University, on modeling social processes by means of...
, Swiss sociologist - Agnes HellerÁgnes HellerÁgnes Heller is a Hungarian philosopher. A prominent Marxist thinker at first, she moved onto a liberal, social-democratic position later in her career...
, Hungarian philosopher and sociologist - Danièle Hervieu-LégerDanièle Hervieu-LégerDanièle Hervieu-Leger is a French sociologist specialized in the sociology of religion.-Biography:A graduate of the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris and a doctorate in sociology, she is also editor of the journal Archives des sciences sociales de la religion.She was a researcher at the...
, French sociologist - Robert HertzRobert HertzRobert Hertz was a French sociologist who was killed in World War I.Hertz was a student at the École Normale Supérieure, from which he aggregated in philosophy in 1904, finishing first in his class...
, French sociologist - Reuben Hill, British sociologist
- Ulf Himmelstrand, Swedish sociologist
- Paul HirstPaul HirstPaul Hirst was a British sociologist and political theorist. He became Professor of Social Theory at Birkbeck, University of London....
, British sociologist - Thomas HobbesThomas HobbesThomas Hobbes of Malmesbury , in some older texts Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury, was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy...
, British philosopher - Leonard Trelawny HobhouseLeonard Trelawny HobhouseLeonard Trelawny Hobhouse was a British liberal politician and sociologist, who has been considered one of the leading and earliest proponents of social liberalism. His works, alongside that of writers such as T.H. Green and John A. Hobson, occupy a seminal position within the canon of New...
, pioneer British sociologist - Arlie Russell HochschildArlie Russell HochschildArlie Russell Hochschild is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of several prize-winning books and numerous articles on the balancing acts of modern two-job couples at home and at work...
, American sociologist - Richard HoggartRichard HoggartHerbert Richard Hoggart is a British academic and public figure, whose career has covered the fields of sociology, English literature and cultural studies, with a special concern for British popular culture.-Career:...
(born 1918), British sociologist and founding member of the Birmingham University Centre for Contemporary Cultural StudiesCentre for Contemporary Cultural StudiesThe Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies was a research centre at the University of Birmingham, England. It was founded in 1964 by Richard Hoggart, its first director... - John Holloway, Irish sociologist
- Robert J. Holton, British sociologist
- George C. HomansGeorge C. HomansGeorge Casper Homans was an American sociologist, founder of behavioral sociology and the exchange theory.Homans is best known for his research in social behavior and his works including The Human Group, Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms, his exchange theory and the many different propositions...
(1910–1989), American behavioural sociologist - Axel HonnethAxel HonnethAxel Honneth is a professor of philosophy at the University of Frankfurt, Germany and director of the Institut für Sozialforschung in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.-Biography:...
(born 1949), German social theorist - Max HorkheimerMax HorkheimerMax Horkheimer was a German-Jewish philosopher-sociologist, famous for his work in critical theory as a member of the 'Frankfurt School' of social research. His most important works include The Eclipse of Reason and, in collaboration with Theodor Adorno, The Dialectic of Enlightenment...
(1895–1973), German social theorist - Irving Louis HorowitzIrving Louis HorowitzIrving Louis Horowitz is an American sociologist, author and college professor who has written and lectured extensively in his field.-Personal Life:Horowitz was born in New York City on September 25, 1929, to Louis and Esther Tepper Horowitz...
, American sociologist - Eugenio María de HostosEugenio María de HostosEugenio María de Hostos known as "El Ciudadano de América" , was a Puerto Rican educator, philosopher, intellectual, lawyer, sociologist and independence advocate....
, Puerto Rican sociologist - Everett HughesEverett HughesEverett Cherrington Hughes was an American sociologist best known for his work on ethnic relations, work and occupations and the methodology of fieldwork. His take on sociology was, however, very broad...
, American sociologist - Stephen J. HuntStephen J. HuntStephen John Hunt is a British professor of sociology at the University of the West of England. Prior to his appointment at the University of West England in 2001, Hunt had taught at the Sociology Department at the University of Reading for thirteen years, as well as in the Religious Studies...
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- Octavio IanniOctavio IanniOctavio Ianni , Brazilian sociologist graduated, mastered and doctored at the University of São Paulo and was one of the founders of Cebrap....
(1926–2004), Brazilian sociologist - Ibn KhaldunIbn KhaldunIbn Khaldūn or Ibn Khaldoun was an Arab Tunisian historiographer and historian who is often viewed as one of the forerunners of modern historiography, sociology and economics...
(1332/ah732–1406/ah808), North African historian, forerunner of modern historiography, sociology, and economics - Kancha IlaiahKancha IlaiahKancha Ilaiah is an Indian activist and writer. His books include Why I am not a Hindu, God As Political Philosopher: Budha's challenge to Brahminism, A Hollow Shell, The State and Repressive Culture, Manatatwam , and Buffalo Nationalism: A Critique of Spiritual Fascism.- Bibliography :*Why I Am...
(born 1952), Indian political scientist and social activist - Eva IllouzEva IllouzEva Illouz Eva Illouz Eva Illouz (born April 30, 1961 in Fes, Morocco, is a Full Professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.-Biography:Eva Illouz was born in Fes, Morocco, and moved to France at the age of ten....
, Moroccan sociologist - Alex Inkeles, American sociologist
- Harold InnisHarold InnisHarold Adams Innis was a Canadian professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of seminal works on media, communication theory and Canadian economic history. The affiliated Innis College at the University of Toronto is named for him...
, Canadian sociologist who developed staples theory - John Keith IrwinJohn Keith IrwinJohn Keith Irwin was an American sociologist who was known internationally as an expert on the American prison system. He published dozens of scholarly articles and seven books on the topic.-Early life and education:...
(1929–2010), American sociologist known for his expertise on the American prison system
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- Eliezer JaffeEliezer JaffeEliezer David Jaffe is an Israeli social work researcher and teacher and advocate of philanthropy and non-profit management. He is Professor Emeritus at The Hebrew University's Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare.-Biography:...
, Israeli-American sociologist - Marie JahodaMarie JahodaMarie Jahoda was an Austrian- British social psychologist.-Biography:Jahoda was born in Vienna, Austria to a Jewish family, and like many other psychologists of her time, grew up in Austria where political oppression against socialists was rampant henceforward Dollfuß claimed power...
(1907–2001), Austrian sociologist - Marie JaissonMarie JaissonMarie Jaisson is a sociologist. She is studying sociology of medical practices and of biological phenomena. She is currently professor at the University of Tours and affiliated to the Centre Maurice-Halbwachs ....
, French sociologist - Fredric JamesonFredric JamesonFredric Jameson is an American literary critic and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends—he once described postmodernism as the spatialization of culture under the pressure of organized capitalism...
, American philosopher and social theorist - Morris JanowitzMorris JanowitzMorris Janowitz, was an American sociologist and professor who made major contributions to sociological theory, the study of prejudice, urban issues, and patriotism. He was one of the founders of military sociology and made major contributions, along with Samuel Huntington, to the establishment of...
, American sociologist - James M. JasperJames M. JasperJames Macdonald Jasper is a writer and sociologist who has taught Ph.D. students at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York since 2007...
(born 1957), American sociologist - Gail JeffersonGail JeffersonGail Jefferson was, along with Harvey Sacks and Emanuel Schegloff, one of the founders of the area of research known as Conversation Analysis . She is particularly remembered today for the methods and notational conventions she developed for transcribing talk...
(1938-2008), American sociologist and conversation analyst - Hans JoasHans JoasHans Joas is a German sociologist and social theorist.Joas is the Director of the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt and Professor of Sociology and a Member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He currently serves as...
, German social theorist - Benton JohnsonBenton JohnsonBenton Johnson is an American sociologist and professor emeritus of the University of Oregon's Sociology Department.-Life:Benton Johnson is the son of Guy Benton Johnson and Guion Griffis Johnson...
(born 1928), American sociologist - Guy Benton JohnsonGuy Benton JohnsonGuy B. Johnson was a sociologist and social anthropologist. He was a distinguished student of black culture in the rural South and a pioneer advocate of racial equality.-Life:...
(1901–1991), American sociologist - Miriam M. JohnsonMiriam M. JohnsonMiriam M. Johnson was an American sociologist and professor emerita of the University of Oregon's Sociology Department.-Life:Miriam Johnson was born Miriam Massey in Atlanta, Georgia on 12 January 1928 to Leola and Herbert Massey. While attending the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, she...
(1928–2007), American sociologist - Rodrigo JokischRodrigo Jokisch-Some books:* Determinants of the Technological Evolution in Europe. Structural Models for a better Understanding of the Process of Industrialization between the 17th and the 19th Century, Technological University of Berlin, 1980...
(born 1946), German-Mexican sociologist and social theorist - Lewis Wade JonesLewis Wade JonesLewis Wade Jones was a sociologist and educator. He was born in Cuero, Texas, the son of Wade E. and Lucynthia McDade Jones. A member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity, he received his A.B...
(1910–1979), African/American sociologist and educator - Danny JorgensenDanny JorgensenDanny Lynn Jorgensen is an American professor at the Department of Religious Studies of the University of South Florida, for which he also served as chair from 1999 to 2006....
, American sociologist - Paul JorionPaul JorionPaul Jorion is by training an anthropologist, sociologist with a special interest in the cognitive sciences. He has also written seven books on capitalist economics....
, Belgian American sociologist and cognitive scientist - Isaac JosephIsaac JosephIsaac Joseph is a Papua New Guinea politician. He has been a New Generation Party member of the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea since July 2007, representing the electorate of Mendi Open....
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- Dirk KaeslerDirk KaeslerDirk Kaesler is a German sociologist and Max Weber expert. Now retired, he was formerly Professor of Sociology at the University of Marburg. He is the author of Max Weber: An Introduction to his Life and Work, first published by the University of Chicago Press in 1988.-References:...
(born 1944), German sociologist - Boris Kagarlitsky, Russian sociologist
- Rand L. Kannenberg (born 1960), American clinical sociologist
- Alexandr KaptoAlexandr KaptoAlexandr Semenovich Kapto Alexandr Semenovich Kapto Alexandr Semenovich Kapto (born April 14, 1933 in Upper Tarasovka Village, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine is a Russian and Ukrainian scientist, sociologist, political scientist and a diplomat, journalist, politician and statesman. He earned a...
, Russian and Ukrainian scientist, sociologist, and political scientist; a diplomat, journalist, politician, and statesman. - Elihu KatzElihu KatzElihu Katz is an American and Israeli sociologist.-Biography:Katz has spent most of a lifetime in research on communication, his main focus being the interplay between media, conversation, opinion, and action in the public sphere...
, American sociologist - Jean-Claude Kaufmann, French sociologist
- Karl KautskyKarl KautskyKarl Johann Kautsky was a Czech-German philosopher, journalist, and Marxist theoretician. Kautsky was recognized as among the most authoritative promulgators of Orthodox Marxism after the death of Friedrich Engels in 1895 until the coming of World War I in 1914 and was called by some the "Pope of...
, Russian Marxist theorist - Vytautas KavolisVytautas KavolisVytautas Kavolis was a Lithuanian born American sociologist, literary critic, and culture historian. -Biography:...
, Lithuanian-American sociologist and literary critic - Stephen A. KentStephen A. KentStephen A. Kent, is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He researches new and alternative religions, and has published research on several such groups including the Children of God , the Church of Scientology, and newer faiths...
, Canadian sociologist - Andre Kieserling, German sociologist
- Baruch KimmerlingBaruch KimmerlingBaruch Kimmerling was an Israeli scholar and professor of sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Upon his death in 2007, The Times described him as "the first academic to use scholarship to reexamine the founding tenets of Zionism and the Israeli State"...
, Israeli sociologist - Martin Luther King, American civil rightsCivil rightsCivil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from unwarranted infringement by governments and private organizations, and ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the state without discrimination or repression.Civil rights include...
activist, held Bachelor of ArtsBachelor of ArtsA Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
in sociology - Antonina Kłoskowska (1919–2001), Polish sociologist
- John Kitsuse, Japanese-American sociologist
- Bernardo KliksbergBernardo KliksbergBernardo Kliksberg is an Argentine Doctor of Economics, recognized around the world as the founder of a new discipline, social management, and a pioneer of development ethics, social capital and corporate social responsibility....
, Argentinian sociologist - Karin Knorr-CetinaKarin KnorrKarin Knorr-Cetina is an Austrian sociologist well known for her work on epistemology and Social constructionism, summarized in the books The Manufacture of Knowledge: An Essay on the Constructivist and Contextual Nature of Science and Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge...
(born 1944), Austrian sociologist - René KönigRené KönigRené König was a German sociologist. He was very influential on West German sociology after 1949.Born in Magdeburg, he 1925 took up Philosophy, Psychology, Ethnology, and Islamic Studies at the Universities of Vienna and Berlin. He gained his doctorate 1930 at the Berlin University...
(1906–1992), German sociologist - Andrey KorotayevAndrey KorotayevAndrey Korotayev is an anthropologist, economic historian, and sociologist, with major contributions to world-systems theory, cross-cultural studies, Near Eastern history, and mathematical modeling of social and economic macrodynamics.Education and career=Born in Moscow, Andrey Korotayev attended...
(born 1961), Russian sociologist - Maksim KovalevskyMaksim KovalevskyMaksim Maksimovich Kovalevsky was a sociologist and professor of Legal History at the University of St Petersburg.He studied at the University of Kharkov under Dmitri Kachanovsky....
(1851–1916), Russian sociologist - Siegfried KracauerSiegfried KracauerSiegfried Kracauer was a German-Jewish writer, journalist, sociologist, cultural critic, and film theorist...
, German sociologist - Julia KristevaJulia KristevaJulia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, sociologist, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She is now a Professor at the University Paris Diderot...
, Bulgarian-French feminist sociologist - Alfred L. KroeberAlfred L. KroeberAlfred Louis Kroeber was an American anthropologist. He was the first professor appointed to the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and played an integral role in the early days of its Museum of Anthropology, where he served as director from 1909 through...
(1876–1960), American anthropologist - Peter KropotkinPeter KropotkinPrince Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin was a Russian zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, economist, geographer, author and one of the world's foremost anarcho-communists. Kropotkin advocated a communist society free from central government and based on voluntary associations between...
(1842–1921), Russian anarchist thinker - Thomas S. Kuhn (1922–1996), American science theorist
- Eugene M. KulischerEugene M. KulischerEugene M. Kulischer was a Russian American sociologist, an authority on demography, migration, and manpower, and an expert on Russia...
(1891–1956) Russian American sociologist - Charles KurzmanCharles KurzmanCharles Kurzman is a Professor of Sociology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who specializes in Middle East and Islamic studies. Among his publications are:* * * * * -External links:*...
, American sociologist - Martin KuschMartin KuschMartin Kusch is Professor of philosophy at the University of Vienna. Until 2009, Kusch was Professor of Philosophy and Sociology of science at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University...
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- William LabovWilliam LabovWilliam Labov born December 4, 1927) is an American linguist, widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics. He has been described as "an enormously original and influential figure who has created much of the methodology" of sociolinguistics...
(born 1927), American sociolinguist and dialectologist - Jacques LacanJacques LacanJacques Marie Émile Lacan was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who made prominent contributions to psychoanalysis and philosophy, and has been called "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud". Giving yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, Lacan influenced France's...
(1901–1981), French psychoanalyst - Ernesto LaclauErnesto LaclauErnesto Laclau is an Argentine political theorist often described as post-Marxist.He studied History in Buenos Aires, graduating from the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires in 1964, and received a PhD from Essex University in 1977.Since the 1970s he has been Professor of Political Theory at the...
, Argentinian sociologist - Joyce LadnerJoyce LadnerJoyce Ann Ladner is a former United States civil rights activist, author, civil servant and sociologist who was born in Waynesboro, Mississippi on October 12, 1943 and who grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She was raised with four brothers and four sisters. Ladner began school at the age of...
, American sociologist and activist - Bernard Lahire, French sociologist
- Imre LakatosImre LakatosImre Lakatos was a Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science, known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development, and also for introducing the concept of the 'research programme' in his...
, Hungarian philosopher - Janja LalichJanja LalichJanja Lalich is Professor of Sociology at California State University, Chico, known for her study of the inner workings of cults.She was a member of the radical "Democratic Workers Party" for 11 years, a group she now considers a cult...
(born 1945), American sociologist - Michele LamontMichèle LamontMichèle Lamont is a sociologist and is currently the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and a Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Harvard University.-Career:...
, American sociologist - David C. LaneDavid C. LaneDavid Christopher Lane is a professor of philosophy and sociology at Mt. San Antonio College, in Walnut, California. He is most notable for exposing Eckankar as a cult and its founder, Paul Twitchell, as a plagiarist in his book The Making of a Spiritual Movement: The Untold Story of Paul...
(born 1956), American sociologist - Georges Lapassade, French sociologist and socioanalyst
- Ralph LarkinRalph LarkinRalph Wild Larkin is an American sociologist and research consultant. He is the author of Suburban Youth in Cultural Crisis , Beyond Revolution: A New Theory of Social Movements , and Comprehending Columbine...
, American sociologist - Scott LashScott LashScott Lash is a professor of sociology and cultural studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London.He took a BSc as in Psychology from the University of Michigan, an MA in Sociology from Northwestern University, and a PhD from the London School of Economics . Lash began his teaching career as...
, American sociologist - Harold LasswellHarold LasswellHarold Dwight Lasswell was a leading American political scientist and communications theorist. He was a member of the Chicago school of sociology and was a professor at Yale University in law. He was a President of the American Political Science Association and World Academy of Art and Science...
, American political sociologist - Bruno LatourBruno LatourBruno Latour is a French sociologist of science and anthropologist and an influential theorist in the field of Science and Technology Studies...
(born 1947), French sociologist of science - Peter Lavrovich Lavrov, Russian sociologist
- Derek Layder, British sociologist
- John Law (sociologist)John Law (sociologist)John Law is a sociologist currently on the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University and key proponent of Actor-network theory. Actor-network theory, sometimes abbreviated to ANT, is a social science approach for describing and explaining social, organisational, scientific and technological...
, British sociologist - Paul F. Lazarsfeld (1901–1976), Austrian/American sociologist
- Emmanuel Lazega, French sociologist
- Gustave Le BonGustave Le BonGustave Le Bon was a French social psychologist, sociologist, and amateur physicist...
(1841–1931), French social psychologist - Frederic Le Play, early French sociologist
- Emil LedererEmil LedererEmil Lederer was a Bohemian-born German economist and sociologist. Purged from his position at Heidelberg University in 1933 for being Jewish, Lederer fled into exile. He helped establish the "University in Exile" at the New School in New York City.-Biography:Lederer was born in 1882 to a Jewish...
, German sociologist - Henri LefebvreHenri LefebvreHenri Lefebvre was a French sociologist, Marxist intellectual, and philosopher, best known for his work on dialectics, Marxism, everyday life, cities, and space.-Biography:...
(1901–1991), FrenchFrench peopleThe French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
MarxistMarxismMarxism is an economic and sociopolitical worldview and method of socioeconomic inquiry that centers upon a materialist interpretation of history, a dialectical view of social change, and an analysis and critique of the development of capitalism. Marxism was pioneered in the early to mid 19th...
philosopher - Charles LemertCharles LemertCharles Lemert is an American born social theorist and sociologist. He has written extensively on social theory, globalization and culture...
(born 1937), American sociologist - Vladimir LeninVladimir LeninVladimir Ilyich Lenin was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years , as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a...
, Russian revolutionary and intellectual - Gerhard LenskiGerhard LenskiGerhard Emmanuel Lenski is an American sociologist known for contributions to the sociology of religion, social inequality, and ecological-evolutionary social theory...
, American evolutionary sociologist - Yuri LevadaYuri LevadaYuri Alexandrovich Levada was a well known Russian sociologist, political scientist and the founder of the Levada Center.-Scientific activity to 1988:In 1952 Levada graduated from the Philosophical faculty of the Moscow State University....
, Russian sociologist - John Levi MartinJohn Levi MartinJohn Levi Martin is an American sociologist. He is currently professor of sociology at the University of Chicago.He is the author of Social Structures and DAMN and ELLA ....
, American sociologist - Claude Lévi-StraussClaude Lévi-StraussClaude Lévi-Strauss was a French anthropologist and ethnologist, and has been called, along with James George Frazer, the "father of modern anthropology"....
(1908–2009), French anthropologist - Jack LevinJack LevinJack Levin, Ph.D. is the Irving and Betty Brudnick Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts where he teaches courses in prejudice and violence. He specializes in Criminology, Prejudice, and Social Psychology and is considered an authority on serial...
(born 1941), American sociologist/criminologist - Barry B. LevineBarry B. LevineBarry B. Levine is an American academic and founding professor of Sociology at the Florida International University.- Academic career :...
(born 1941), American sociologist - Ruth LevitasRuth LevitasRuth Levitas is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Bristol. She is well known internationally for her research on utopia. Her book, The Concept of Utopia , addresses the notion of the ideal society throughout European history...
, British sociologist - Daniel LevyDaniel Levy (sociologist)Daniel Levy is a German–American political sociologist and an Associate Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Levy earned a Bachelor of Arts in sociology and political science and a Master of Arts in sociology from Tel Aviv University, as well as a...
, German-American sociologist - Diane Levy (b.1949), American sociologist
- Lucien Lévy-BruhlLucien Lévy-BruhlLucien Lévy-Brühl was a French scholar trained in philosophy, who made contributions to the budding fields of sociology and ethnology. His primary field of study involved primitive mentality....
(1857–1939), French philosopher, sociologist, and ethnographer - Kurt LewinKurt LewinKurt Zadek Lewin was a German-American psychologist, known as one of the modern pioneers of social, organizational, and applied psychology....
, German social psychologist - Loet LeydesdorffLoet LeydesdorffLoet Leydesdorff is a Dutch sociologist, cyberneticist and Senior Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. He is known for his work in the sociology of communication and innovation.- Biography :...
, Dutch sociologist - Nan LinNan LinNan Lin is the Oscar L. Tang Family Professor of Sociology of the Trinity College, Duke University. He is most notable for his research and writing on social networks and social capital.-Biography:...
, American sociologist - Alfred R. LindesmithAlfred R. LindesmithAlfred Ray Lindesmith was an Indiana University professor of sociology. He was among the early scholars providing a rigorous and thoughtful account of the nature of addiction....
(1905–1991), American sociologist of drug policy - Gustavo Lins Ribeiro, Brazilian anthropologist
- Gilles LipovetskyGilles LipovetskyGilles Lipovetsky is a French philosopher, writer and sociologist, professor at the University of Grenoble....
, French philosopher - Seymour Martin LipsetSeymour Martin LipsetSeymour Martin Lipset was an American political sociologist, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and the Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University. His major work was in the fields of political sociology, trade union organization, social stratification, public opinion, and...
(born 1922), American comparativist sociologist - Allen Liska, American sociologist
- Theodor Litt, German philosopher and sociologist
- Émile LittréÉmile LittréÉmile Maximilien Paul Littré was a French lexicographer and philosopher, best known for his Dictionnaire de la langue française, commonly called "The Littré".-Biography:Émile Littré was born in Paris...
, French philosopher and sociologist, disciple of Comte - David LockwoodDavid LockwoodDavid Lockwood is a sociologist.His book, The Blackcoated Worker, sought to analyse the changes in the stratification position of the clerical worker by using a framework based on Max Weber's distinction between market and work situations...
, British sociologist - John LockeJohn LockeJohn Locke FRS , widely known as the Father of Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social...
, English philosopher - Joseph LopreatoJoseph LopreatoJoseph Lopreato is a sociobiologist, a social theorist, and a former professor of sociology. Since receiving his Ph. D. from Yale University he has taught and lectured at various universities in the USA and abroad, and has published a dozen books and monographs plus numerous papers in several...
, American sociologist - Leo LöwenthalLeo LöwenthalLeo Löwenthal was a German-Jewish sociologist usually associated with the Frankfurt School.-Life:Born in Frankfurt as the son of assimilated Jews , Löwenthal came of age during the turbulent early years of the Weimar Republic...
, German sociologist - Michael LöwyMichael LöwyMichael Löwy is a French-Brazilian Marxist sociologist and philosopher. He is presently the emeritus research director in social sciences at the CNRS and lectures at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales...
, Brazilian-French sociologist - Nathalie LucaNathalie LucaNathalie Luca is a French researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research , an anthropologist and a sociologist of religions...
(born 1966), French sociologist - Thomas LuckmannThomas LuckmannThomas Luckmann is a German sociologist of Slovene origin. His main areas of research are the sociology of communication, Sociology of knowledge, sociology of religion, and the philosophy of science.- Biography :...
(born 1927), German sociologist - György Lukács, German philosopher
- Steven LukesSteven LukesSteven Michael Lukes is a political and social theorist. Currently he is a professor of politics and sociology at New York University...
, British social theorist - Niklas LuhmannNiklas LuhmannNiklas Luhmann was a German sociologist, and a prominent thinker in sociological systems theory.-Biography:...
(1927–1998), German sociologist (systems theory) - George LundbergGeorge A. LundbergGeorge Andrew Lundberg was an American sociologist.-Biography:...
(1895–1966), American sociologist (Scientific) - Rosa LuxemburgRosa LuxemburgRosa Luxemburg was a Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist and activist of Polish Jewish descent who became a naturalized German citizen...
(1870–1919), German socialist theoretician - Robert Staughton LyndRobert Staughton LyndRobert Staughton Lynd was an American sociologist born in New Albany, Indiana...
(1892–1970), American sociologist - Jean-François LyotardJean-François LyotardJean-François Lyotard was a French philosopher and literary theorist. He is well known for his articulation of postmodernism after the late 1970s and the analysis of the impact of postmodernity on the human condition...
(1924–1998), French philosopher
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- Amin MaaloufAmin MaaloufAmin Maalouf , born 25 February 1949 in Beirut, is a Lebanese-born French author. Although his native language is Arabic, he writes in French, and his works have been translated into many languages. He received the Prix Goncourt in 1993 for his novel The Rock of Tanios...
, Lebanese author with a degree in sociology - Henry Maine (1822–1888), British jurist and legal historian
- Carl R May (born 1961), British medical sociologist
- Robert Morrison MacIverRobert Morrison MacIverRobert Morrison MacIver was a U.S. sociologist.MacIver was born in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland to Donald MacIver, a general merchant and tweed manufacturer, and Christina MacIver . On 14 August 1911 he was married to Elizabeth Marion Peterkin...
(1882–1970), Scottish/US-American sociologist - Donald A. MacKenzie, British sociologist
- Bronisław Malinowski (1884–1942), Polish social anthropologist
- Thomas MalthusThomas MalthusThe Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus FRS was an English scholar, influential in political economy and demography. Malthus popularized the economic theory of rent....
(1766–1834), English demographer - Richard MachalekRichard MachalekRichard Machalek is a social theorist, sociobiologist, and professor of sociology.A student and colleague of sociobiologist E.O...
(born 1946), US-American sociologist and sociobiologist - Michel MaffesoliMichel MaffesoliMichel Maffesoli is a French sociologist of italian origin.He is a former pupil of Gilbert Durand and is at present a professor at the Paris Descartes University. Michel Maffesoli made a work around the issue of social link community, the prevalence of imagination and everyday life in contemporary...
, French sociologist - Sinisa MalesevicSinisa MalesevicDr. Siniša Malešević, MRIA is a Professor of Sociology and the Head of School of Sociology at the University College, Dublin, Ireland. His research interests include the comparative-historical and theoretical study of ethnicity, nationalism, ideology, war, violence and sociological theory...
(born 1969), Irish political and historical sociologist - Roberto Mangabeira UngerRoberto Mangabeira UngerRoberto Mangabeira Unger is a philosopher and politician. He has written widely on social, political, legal, and economic theory, much of which has laid the philosophical and theoretical groundwork for reimagining and remaking the social and political order...
, Brazilian social theorist - Michael MannMichael Mann (sociologist)Michael Mann is a British-born professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles and Visiting Research Professor at Queen's University Belfast. Mann holds dual British and US citizenships. He received his B.A. in Modern History from the University of Oxford in 1963 and his...
(born 1942), British/US-American sociologist - Karl MannheimKarl MannheimKarl Mannheim , or Károly Mannheim in the original writing of his name, was a Jewish Hungarian-born sociologist, influential in the first half of the 20th century and one of the founding fathers of classical sociology and a founder of the sociology of knowledge.-Life:Mannheim studied in Budapest,...
(1893–1947), Hungarian/German sociologist - Peter K. ManningPeter K. ManningPeter K. Manning is a sociologist who is an author and speaker on the topic of policing organizations.- Background :...
(born 1940), US-American sociologist - José María Maravall, Spanish sociologist
- Herbert MarcuseHerbert MarcuseHerbert Marcuse was a German Jewish philosopher, sociologist and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory...
(1898–1979), German/US-American sociologist (Frankfurt School) - Wladyslaw MarkiewiczWladyslaw MarkiewiczWładysław Markiewicz is a Polish sociologist; professor of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań since 1966, and Warsaw University since 1972, director of the Western Institute in Poznań in years 1966-1973, member of Polish Academy of Sciences since 1972.He was a secretary of the Social Sciences...
(born 1920), Polish sociologist - Dennis MarsdenDennis MarsdenDennis Marsden was a British sociologist based at the University of Essex. He was the co-author of Education and the Working Class , and the author of Mothers Alone: Poverty and the Fatherless Family ....
, British sociologist - Alfred MarshallAlfred MarshallAlfred Marshall was an Englishman and one of the most influential economists of his time. His book, Principles of Economics , was the dominant economic textbook in England for many years...
, English economist - Thomas Humphrey MarshallThomas Humphrey MarshallThomas Humphrey Marshall was a British sociologist, most noted for his essays, such as the essay collection Citizenship and Social Class.He was born in 1893 and educated at Rugby School, and Trinity College, Cambridge University...
, British sociologist - John Levi MartinJohn Levi MartinJohn Levi Martin is an American sociologist. He is currently professor of sociology at the University of Chicago.He is the author of Social Structures and DAMN and ELLA ....
, US-American sociologist - Harriet MartineauHarriet MartineauHarriet Martineau was an English social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist....
(1802–1876), English writer described as 'first female sociologist' - Danilo Martuccelli, French sociologist
- Vladimir MartynenkoVladimir MartynenkoVladimir Vladimirovich Martynenko is a Russian sociologist, economist, and political scientist and professor...
(born 1957), Russian sociologist, economist, political scientist - Gary T. MarxGary T. Marx]Gary T. Marx is Professor Emeritus of sociology from M.I.T.. He previously held professorships at Harvard University and the University of Colorado...
, American sociologist - Karl MarxKarl MarxKarl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement...
(1818–1883), German political philosopher, social theorist - Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czech sociologist
- Douglas MasseyDouglas MasseyDouglas S. Massey is an American sociologist. Massey is currently a professor of Sociology at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and is an adjunct professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania...
, US-American sociologist - Brian MassumiBrian MassumiBrian Massumi is a Canadian political philosopher and social theorist. Massumi's research spans the fields of art, architecture, political theory, cultural studies and philosophy. He received his Ph.D in French Literature from Yale University in 1987...
, Canadian social theorist - Humberto MaturanaHumberto MaturanaHumberto Maturana is a Chilean biologist and philosopher. He is considered a member of the second wave of cybernetics, known for developing a theory of autopoiesis about the nature of reflexive feedback control in living systems.- Biography :After completing secondary school at the Liceo Manuel de...
, Chilean biologist and sociologist of knowledge - Marcel MaussMarcel MaussMarcel Mauss was a French sociologist. The nephew of Émile Durkheim, Mauss' academic work traversed the boundaries between sociology and anthropology...
(1872–1950), French sociologist - Doug McAdamDoug McAdamDoug McAdam is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. He is the author or co-author of over a dozen books and over fifty articles, and is widely credited as one of the pioneers of the political process model in social movement analysis. He wrote one of the first books on the theory in 1982...
, American sociologist - Mary McIntosh, US-American sociologist
- Robert McKenzie (1917–1981), Canadian Politics professor and psephologist
- Marshall McLuhanMarshall McLuhanHerbert Marshall McLuhan, CC was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar—a professor of English literature, a literary critic, a rhetorician, and a communication theorist...
(1911–1980), Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar - George Herbert MeadGeorge Herbert MeadGeorge Herbert Mead was an American philosopher, sociologist and psychologist, primarily affiliated with the University of Chicago, where he was one of several distinguished pragmatists. He is regarded as one of the founders of social psychology and the American sociological tradition in general.-...
(1863–1931), American philosopher and social psychologist - Margaret MeadMargaret MeadMargaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s....
(1901–1978), US-American cultural anthropologist - José Medina Echevarría, Spanish sociologist
- Alberto Melucci, Italian sociologist
- Lucio Mendieta y Núñez, Mexican sociologist
- Stephen MennellStephen MennellStephen Mennell is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at University College Dublin.He gained his BA in Economics from the University of Cambridge and his Doctorate at the University of Amsterdam. He was a Frank Knox Memorial Fellow at Harvard University...
(born 1944), English sociologist - Marcel Merle, French sociologist
- Robert K. MertonRobert K. MertonRobert King Merton was a distinguished American sociologist. He spent most of his career teaching at Columbia University, where he attained the rank of University Professor...
(1910–2003), US-American sociologist - Michael MessnerMichael MessnerMichael Alan Messner is an American sociologist. His main areas of research are gender and the sociology of sports...
(1952-), US pro-feminist sociologist - John W. MeyerJohn W. MeyerJohn W. Meyer is a sociologist and professor at Stanford University, located in Palo Alto, California, noted for his contributions to the study of organizations, diffusion, and modern mass education...
, US-American sociologist - Robert MichelsRobert MichelsRobert Michels was a German sociologist who wrote on the political behavior of intellectual elites and contributed to elite theory...
(1876–1936), German political sociologist - Ralph MilibandRalph MilibandRalph Miliband , born Adolphe Miliband, was a Belgian-born British sociologist known as a prominent Marxist thinker...
, British sociologist - C. Wright MillsC. Wright MillsCharles Wright Mills was an American sociologist. Mills is best remembered for his 1959 book The Sociological Imagination in which he lays out a view of the proper relationship between biography and history, theory and method in sociological scholarship...
(1916–1962), US-American sociologist - Munesuke MitaMunesuke Mita-Biography:After graduating from the University of Tokyo in 1960, Mita entered that university's graduate school where he completed the coursework for a doctorate....
, Japanese sociologist - J. Clyde MitchellJ. Clyde MitchellJames Clyde Mitchell was a British sociologist and anthropologist....
(1918–1995), British social anthropologist - Shinji MiyadaiShinji Miyadaiis a Japanese sociologist and is a professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University.He has a Ph.D from Tokyo University for his research on Mathematical sociology. Using the method of game theory, he analyzed how the power of the state works in society...
(born 1959), Japanese sociologist - Tariq ModoodTariq ModoodTariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy at the University of Bristol . Modood is the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship and one of the leading authorities on ethnic minorities in Britain...
, British sociologist - Abraham MolesAbraham MolesAbraham Moles was an engineer of electrical engineering and acoustics, and a doctor of physics and philosophy. He was one of the first researchers to establish and analyze links between aesthetics and information theory....
(1920–1992), French sociologist, psychologist, and engineer - Andres Molina EnriquezAndrés Molina EnríquezAndrés Molina Enríquez was a Mexican positivist sociologist, amateur anthropologist, and former Justice of the Peace in Mexico State.-Los Grandes Problemas Nacionales:...
, Mexican sociologist - Montesquieu, French philosopher
- James D. MontgomeryJames D. MontgomeryJames D. Montgomery is professor of sociology and economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has applied game-theoretic models and non-monotonic logic to present formal analysis and description of social...
, US-American economist and mathematical sociologist - James Moody, US-American mathematical sociologist
- Barrington Moore, Jr., American political sociologist
- Edgar MorinEdgar MorinEdgar Morin is a French philosopher and sociologist born Edgar Nahoum in Paris on July 8, 1921. He is of Judeo-Spanish origin. He is known for the transdisciplinarity of his works.- Biography :...
, French sociologist - Gaetano MoscaGaetano MoscaGaetano Mosca was an Italian political scientist, journalist and public servant. He is credited with developing the Theory of Elitism and the doctrine of the Political class and is one of the three members constituting the Italian School of Elitists together with Vilfredo Pareto and Robert...
(1858–1941), Italian political and social scientist - Serge MoscoviciSerge MoscoviciSerge Moscovici is a Romanian-born French social psychologist, currently the director of the Laboratoire Européen de Psychologie Sociale , which he co-founded in 1974 at the Maison des sciences de l'homme in Paris...
, French psychologist and major influence in the study of social representations and social movements - Chantal MouffeChantal MouffeChantal Mouffe is a Belgian political theorist.-Work:Chantal Mouffe studied at Louvain, Paris and Essex and has worked in many universities throughout the world . She has also held visiting positions at Harvard, Cornell, Princeton and the CNRS...
, Belgian post-Marxist theorist - Nicos Mouzelis, Greek-British sociologist
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDaniel Patrick MoynihanDaniel Patrick "Pat" Moynihan was an American politician and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected to the United States Senate for New York in 1976, and was re-elected three times . He declined to run for re-election in 2000...
(1927–2003), US-American sociologist, diplomat and politician - Radhakamal MukerjeeRadhakamal MukerjeeRadhakamal Mukerjee , a leading thinker and social scientist of modern India, was Professor of Economics and Sociology and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lucknow. Mukerjee played an important and constructive role in the Indian independence movement...
, Indian sociologist - Peter A. MunchPeter A. MunchPeter Andreas Munch was a Norwegian-American sociologist, educator and author.-Biography:Peter Andreas Munch was born in Nes, in Hedmark county, Norway....
(1908–1984), Norwegian/US-American sociologist - Charles MurrayCharles Murray (author)Charles Alan Murray is an American libertarian political scientist, author, columnist, and pundit working as a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, DC...
(born 1943), US-American sociologist
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- Ashis NandyAshis NandyAshis Nandy is an Indian political psychologist, a social theorist, and a contemporary cultural and political critic. A trained sociologist and clinical psychologist, his body of work covers a variety of topics, including public conscience, mass violence, and dialogues of civilizations.He was...
, Indian sociologist - Armin Nassehi, German sociologist
- Victor NeeVictor NeeVictor Nee is the Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society at Cornell University. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology at Harvard University in 1977...
, American sociologist - Antonio NegriAntonio NegriAntonio Negri is an Italian Marxist sociologist and political philosopher.Negri is best-known for his co-authorship of Empire, and secondarily for his work on Spinoza. Born in Padua, he became a political philosophy professor in his hometown university...
, Italian political philosopher and critic of Luhmann - Oswald von Nell-BreuningOswald von Nell-BreuningOswald von Nell-Breuning SJ was a Roman Catholic theologian and sociologist.Born in Trier, Germany into an aristocratic family, Nell-Breuning was ordained in 1921 and appointed Professor of Ethics at the University of Frankfurt am Main in 1928...
(1890–1991), German Roman Catholic theologian, sociologist and social reformer - Otto NeurathOtto NeurathOtto Neurath was an Austrian philosopher of science, sociologist, and political economist...
(1882–1945), Austrian sociologist and political economist - Otto NewmanOtto NewmanOtto Newman is an Adjunct Professor of Sociology at San Diego State University, where he has been since 1987. His extensive writings have been published on four continents. His main works include: Gambling: Hazard and Reward and The Challenge of Corporatism...
( born Neumann 1922), Austrian-British sociologist - Peter NevillePeter NevillePeter Neville was a further education lecturer and sociologist known for his activity in and writings about the anarchist and peace movements in the United Kingdom....
(died 2002), British further education lecturer and sociologist - Norman H. NieNorman H. NieNorman H. Nie is an American social scientist, university professor, inventor, and pioneering technology entrepreneur. Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1943, Dr. Nie was educated at the University of the Americas in Mexico City, Washington University in St. Louis and Stanford University, where he...
(born 1943), Inventor of SPSS - Robert NisbetRobert NisbetRobert Alexander Nisbet was an American sociologist, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Vice-Chancellor at the University of California, Riverside and as the Albert Schweitzer Professor at Columbia University.-Life:Nisbet was born in Los Angeles in 1913 and raised in the small...
(1913–1996), American sociologist - Helga NowotnyHelga NowotnyHelga Nowotny is President of the European Research CouncilERC and Professor emeritus of Social Studies of Science, ETH Zurich. From 1998 on she was also Director of its Collegium Helveticum...
(born 1937), Austrian sociologist
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- Michelle ObamaMichelle ObamaMichelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is the wife of the 44th and incumbent President of the United States, Barack Obama, and is the first African-American First Lady of the United States...
(born 1964), First Lady of the United StatesFirst Lady of the United StatesFirst Lady of the United States is the title of the hostess of the White House. Because this position is traditionally filled by the wife of the president of the United States, the title is most often applied to the wife of a sitting president. The current first lady is Michelle Obama.-Current:The...
, majored in sociology at Princeton UniversityPrinceton UniversityPrinceton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution.... - Claus OffeClaus OffeProfessor Claus Offe is a political sociologist of Marxist orientation. Once a student of Jürgen Habermas, the left-leaning German academic is counted among the second generation Frankfurt School...
(born 1940), German sociologist - William F. Ogburn (1886–1959), American sociologist
- Lloyd OhlinLloyd OhlinLloyd Edgar Ohlin was an American sociologist and criminologist who taught at Harvard Law School, Columbia University, and the University of Chicago over his career where he studied the causes and effects of crime and punishment, especially as it related to youthful offenders and delinquents.Ohlin...
, American sociologist - Michael OmiMichael OmiMichael Omi is an American sociologist. Professor Omi is best known for developing the theory of racial formation along with Howard Winant. Omi serves on the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. Omi's work includes race theory, Asian American studies, and antiracist...
, American sociologist - Gail OmvedtGail OmvedtDr. Gail Omvedt is an American born Indian scholar, sociologist and human rights activist. Omvedt has been involved in Dalit and anti-caste movements, environmental, farmers' and women's movements.-Biography:...
(born 1941), American/Indian sociologist - Franz OppenheimerFranz OppenheimerFranz Oppenheimer was a German-Jewish sociologist and political economist, who published also in the area of the fundamental sociology of the state.-Personal life:...
(1864–1943), German sociologist and political economist - T. K. Oommen, Indian sociologist
- José Ortega y GassetJosé Ortega y GassetJosé Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist working during the first half of the 20th century while Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism and dictatorship. He was, along with Nietzsche, a proponent of the idea of perspectivism.-Biography:José Ortega y Gasset was...
, Spanish philosopher - Stanislaw OssowskiStanislaw OssowskiStanisław Ossowski was one of Poland's most important sociologists. He held professorships at Łódź University and Warsaw University .-Life:...
(1897–1963), Polish sociologist - Moisey OstrogorskyMoisey OstrogorskyMoisey Ostrogorsky was a Belarusian political scientist, historian, jurist and sociologist. Alongside with Max Weber and Robert Michels, he is considered one of the founders of political sociology, especially in the field of theories about Party Systems and political parties...
, Belarusian sociologist - William Outhwaite, British social theorist
- Robert OwenRobert OwenRobert Owen was a Welsh social reformer and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement.Owen's philosophy was based on three intellectual pillars:...
(1771–1858), Welsh social reformer
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- Vilfredo ParetoVilfredo ParetoVilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto , born Wilfried Fritz Pareto, was an Italian engineer, sociologist, economist, political scientist and philosopher. He made several important contributions to economics, particularly in the study of income distribution and in the analysis of individuals' choices....
(1848–1923), Italian economist and sociologist - Gil Sung Park (born 1956), Korean sociologist
- Robert E. ParkRobert E. ParkRobert Ezra Park was an American urban sociologist, one of the main founders of the original Chicago School of sociology.-Life:...
(1864–1944), American sociologist - Talcott ParsonsTalcott ParsonsTalcott Parsons was an American sociologist who served on the faculty of Harvard University from 1927 to 1973....
(1902–1979), American sociologist - Jean-Claude Passeron, French sociologist
- Orlando PattersonOrlando PattersonOrlando Patterson is a Jamaica-born American historical and cultural sociologist known for his work regarding issues of race in the America, as well as the sociology of development, currently holding the John Cowles chair in Sociology at Harvard University. Patterson took his B.Sc in Economics...
, American sociologist - Karl PearsonKarl PearsonKarl Pearson FRS was an influential English mathematician who has been credited for establishing the disciplineof mathematical statistics....
(1857–1936), English statistician - James PetrasJames PetrasJames Petras is a retired Bartle Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York and adjunct professor at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada who has published prolifically on Latin American and Middle Eastern political issues.-Academic and...
, American sociologist - Jean PiagetJean PiagetJean Piaget was a French-speaking Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher known for his epistemological studies with children. His theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemology"....
(1896–1980), Swiss developmental psychologist - Andrew PickeringAndrew PickeringAndrew Pickering is a sociologist, philosopher and historian of science at the University of Exeter. He was a professor of sociology and a director of science and technology studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign until 2007. He holds a doctorate in physics from the University of...
, British sociologist - Trevor PinchTrevor PinchTrevor J. Pinch is a sociologist and former chair of the Science and Technology Studies department at Cornell University.Pinch has a degree in Physics from the Imperial College London and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Bath...
, British sociologist - Joel M. PodolnyJoel M. PodolnyJoel M. Podolny is an American sociologist and is the former Dean of the Yale School of Management. On November 1, 2008, Podolny stepped down as dean to be replaced by Sharon Oster, and in early 2009 assumed the position of Senior Vice President of Human Resources, and Dean of Apple Inc.'s new...
, American sociologist - Karl PolanyiKarl PolanyiKarl Paul Polanyi was a Hungarian philosopher, political economist and economic anthropologist known for his opposition to traditional economic thought and his book The Great Transformation...
, Hungarian economist - Friedrich PollockFriedrich PollockFriedrich Pollock was a German social scientist and philosopher. He was one of the founders of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, and a member of the Frankfurt School of neo-Marxist theory.- Life :...
, German social scientist - Heinrich Popitz, German sociologist
- Karl PopperKarl PopperSir Karl Raimund Popper, CH FRS FBA was an Austro-British philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics...
, Austrian philosopher - John PorterJohn Porter (sociologist)John Arthur Porter was one of Canada's most important sociologists during the period from 1950 to the late 1970s. His work in the field of social stratification opened up new areas of inquiry for many sociologists in Canada.Porter was born in Vancouver and completed his education at the London...
(1921–1979), Canadian sociologist - Alejandro PortesAlejandro PortesAlejandro Portes is a prominent Cuban-American sociologist. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1970. He is currently chair of the department of sociology at Princeton University and a member of the National Academy of Science, and of the Board of Trustees...
, Cuban-American sociologist - Adam PossamaiAdam PossamaiAdam Possamai is a sociologist born in Belgium and living in Australia. Possamai is currently Associate Professor in Sociology and the Acting Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies at the University of Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...
, Belgian Born Sociologist - Nicos PoulantzasNicos PoulantzasNicos Poulantzas was a Greek Marxist political sociologist. In the 1970s, Poulantzas was known, along with Louis Althusser, as a leading Structural Marxist and, while at first a Leninist, eventually became a proponent of eurocommunism. He is most well known for his theoretical work on the state...
(1936–1979), Greek political sociologist - Émile PoulatÉmile PoulatÉmile Poulat , is a French historian and sociologist. Director of Studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, he is also director of research at CNRS and historian of the contemporary church. He is a founding member of the Group of Sociology of Religion, director and member of the...
, French historian and sociologist - Ricardo Pozas ArciniegaRicardo Pozas ArciniegaRicardo Pozas Arciniega was a distinguished Mexican anthropologist, scientific investigator and indigenista...
, Mexican sociologist and anthropologist - Samuel H. PrestonSamuel H. PrestonSamuel H. Preston is an American demographer and sociologist. He is currently a Fredrick J. Warren Professor of Demography at the University of Pennsylvania....
, American demographer and sociologist - Ludger Pries, German sociologist
- Ilya PrigogineIlya PrigogineIlya, Viscount Prigogine was a Russian-born naturalized Belgian physical chemist and Nobel Laureate noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and irreversibility.-Biography :...
, Belgian chemist, main contribution to sociology is dissipative structures theory - Pierre-Joseph ProudhonPierre-Joseph ProudhonPierre-Joseph Proudhon was a French politician, mutualist philosopher and socialist. He was a member of the French Parliament, and he was the first person to call himself an "anarchist". He is considered among the most influential theorists and organisers of anarchism...
(1809–1865), French utopian socialist thinker - Adam PrzeworskiAdam PrzeworskiAdam Przeworski is a Polish-American professor of Political Science. One of the main important theorists and analysers of democratic societies, theory of democracy and political economy, he is currently a full professor at the Wilf Family Department of Politics of New York University.Born in 1940...
, Polish political sociologist - Jade PugetJade PugetJade Errol Puget is the guitarist for the alternative rock band AFI , and the keyboardist/synthesizer operator for the electronic duo Blaqk Audio. Puget is vegetarian and straight edge....
(born 1973), American musician - Robert PutnamRobert PutnamRobert David Putnam is a political scientist and professor of public policy at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is also visiting professor and director of the Manchester Graduate Summer Programme in Social Change, University of Manchester...
(born 1941), American political scientist
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- Al Nouri Qais , Iraqi sociologist
- Enrico QuarantelliEnrico QuarantelliEnrico L. Quarantelli is an American sociologist, pioneering the sociology of disaster.Quarantelli received his Ph. . at the University of Chicago in 1959. From 1963 up to 1984 he worked as professor of sociology at the Ohio State University, where he founded the Disaster Research Center...
, American sociologist - Louis Quéré, French sociologist
- Adolphe QueteletAdolphe QueteletLambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist. He founded and directed the Brussels Observatory and was influential in introducing statistical methods to the social sciences...
, French statistician and sociologist - Richard QuinneyRichard QuinneyRichard Quinney is an American sociologist, writer, and photographer known for his philosophical and critical approach to crime and social justice. After earning his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin, he taught at several universities on the East Coast and in the Midwest...
(born 1934), American sociologist
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- Michael W. Raphael, American sociologist and chess player
- Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austrian sociologist
- Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (1881–1955), British social anthropologist
- Ronald ReaganRonald ReaganRonald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....
, 40th American president, held Bachelor of ArtsBachelor of ArtsA Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
in sociology - Charles C. RaginCharles C. RaginCharles C. Ragin is an American sociologist and Professor of Sociology and Political Science at the University of Arizona.- Biography :Ragin graduated with a B.A. in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin in May, 1972. He completed his Ph.D...
, American sociologist - Stephen RaudenbushStephen RaudenbushStephen Raudenbush is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Sociology and Chairman of the Committee on Education at the University of Chicago. He is best known for his development and application of hierarchical linear models in the field of education but he has also published on other subjects such as...
, American sociologist and statistician - Aviad RazAviad RazAviad E. Raz is an Israeli sociologist and an associate professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, specializing in social organization.-Publications:...
(born 1968), Israeli sociologist and anthropologist - Sal RestivoSal RestivoSal Restivo is a leading contributor to science studies and in particular to the sociology of mathematical knowledge. His current work focuses on the sociology and anthropology of mind and brain, and the sociology of god and religion. He has also done work in the sociology of social and sociable...
, American sociologist - John RexJohn RexJohn Rex is a British sociologist born in Port Elizabeth in 1925. He was radicalised after working for the South African Bantu Affairs Administration and moved to Britain...
(born 1928), British sociologist - Paul RicoeurPaul RicoeurPaul Ricœur was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutic interpretation...
, French philosopher - Sam Richards, American sociologist
- George RitzerGeorge RitzerGeorge Ritzer is a sociologist who studies American patterns of consumption, globalization, metatheory, and modern and postmodern social theory...
(born 1940), American sociologist - Bryan Roberts, American sociologist
- Roland RobertsonRoland RobertsonRoland Robertson is a sociologist and theorist of globalization, who lectures at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, United Kingdom.Robertson's theories have focused significantly on a more phenomenological and psycho-social approach than that of more materialist oriented theorists such as...
, British sociologist - Terje Rød-LarsenTerje Rød-LarsenTerje Rød-Larsen is a Norwegian diplomat, politician and sociologist.He came to wide international prominence as a key figure in the negotiations that led to the Oslo Accords, when he served as the Director of the Fafo institute...
(born 1947), Norwegian diplomat and sociologist - Arnold Marshall Rose, American sociologist
- Gillian RoseGillian RoseGillian Rose was a British scholar who worked in the fields of philosophy and sociology. Notable facets of this social philosopher's work include criticism of neo-Kantianism and post-modernism, along with what has been described as "a forceful defense of Hegel's speculative thought."-Life and...
, British sociologist - Nikolas RoseNikolas RoseNikolas Rose is a prominent British sociologist and social theorist. He is currently the James Martin White Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and acting director of LSE's BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society.-Life and work:Before...
, British sociologist - Paul RosenfelsPaul RosenfelsPaul Rosenfels, M.D. , was one of the first American social scientists to defend homosexuality in print as a valid lifestyle...
(1909–1985), American psychologist and sociologist - Eugen Rosenstock-HuessyEugen Rosenstock-HuessyEugen Rosenstock-Huessy was a historian and social philosopher, whose work spanned the disciplines of history, theology, sociology, linguistics and beyond...
(1888–1973), German social philosopher - Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution as well as the overall development of modern political, sociological and educational thought.His novel Émile: or, On Education is a treatise...
, Swiss philosopher - Chris Rumford, British sociologist and international relations expert
- W. G. Runciman, British sociologist
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- Harvey SacksHarvey SacksHarvey Sacks was an American sociologist influenced by the ethnomethodology tradition. He pioneered extremely detailed studies of the way people use language in everyday life. Despite his early death in a car crash and the fact that he did not publish widely, he founded the discipline of...
(died 1975), American sociologist and ethnomethodologist - Renaud SainsaulieuRenaud SainsaulieuRenaud Sainsaulieu was a French sociologist specializing in the sociology of organizations. He was noted for promoting sociology outside academia...
(1936–2002), French sociologist concerned with the sociology of organizations - Henri de Saint-SimonClaude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-SimonClaude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, often referred to as Henri de Saint-Simon was a French early socialist theorist whose thought influenced the foundations of various 19th century philosophies; perhaps most notably Marxism, positivism and the discipline of sociology...
(1760–1825), French philosopher and social thinker - Robert J. SampsonRobert J. SampsonRobert J. Sampson is the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and Chair of the Department of Sociology. Before joining Harvard he taught in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago for twelve years and before that the University of Illinois at...
, American sociologist - Pierre Sansot, French sociologist
- Boaventura de Sousa SantosBoaventura de Sousa SantosBoaventura de Sousa Santos is a Professor of Sociology at the School of Economics, University of Coimbra. De Sousa Santos has taught in various universities including Yale, Wisconsin-Madison Law School and University of Warwick...
, Portuguese sociologist - Theotonio dos Santos, Brazilian sociologist and economist
- Giovanni SartoriGiovanni SartoriGiovanni Sartori is an Italian political scientist specialized in the study of democracy and comparative politics.-Biography:Born in Florence in 1924. Sartori began his academic career as a lecturer in the History of Modern Philosophy...
, Italian political scientist - Saskia SassenSaskia SassenSaskia Sassen is a Dutch sociologist noted for her analyses of globalization and international human migration. She is currently Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and Centennial visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Sassen coined the term global city...
(born 1949), American sociologist - Peter SaundersPeter SaundersPete or Peter Saunders may refer to:* Peter Gordon Saunders, Australian social researcher* Peter Robert Saunders, Australian social researcher* Peter Saunders , English theatre impresario* Pete Saunders , musician...
, Australian sociologist - Ferdinand de SaussureFerdinand de SaussureFerdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist whose ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in linguistics in the 20th century. He is widely considered one of the fathers of 20th-century linguistics...
(1857–1913), Swiss linguist (structuralism) - Joachim J. Savelsberg, German sociologist
- Thomas J. ScheffThomas J. ScheffThomas J. Scheff is Professor, Emeritus, Dept of Sociology, UCSB. His fields of study are the emotional/relational world, mental illness, restorative justice, and collective violence. He holds a BS from the University of Arizona in Physics , and a PhD in sociology from the University of California...
, American sociologist - Emanuel SchegloffEmanuel SchegloffEmanuel Abraham Schegloff is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Los Angeles. He was born in 1937 in New York. With Harvey Sacks and Gail Jefferson, Schegloff was one of the principal creators of the field of Conversation Analysis...
, American sociologist - Max SchelerMax SchelerMax Scheler was a German philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, ethics, and philosophical anthropology...
, German philosopher and founder of the sociology of knowledge - Helmut SchelskyHelmut SchelskyHelmut Schelsky, , was a German sociologist, the most influential in post-World War II Germany, well into the 1970s.-Biography:...
(1912–1984), German sociologist - Herbert SchillerHerbert SchillerHerbert Irving Schiller was an American media critic, sociologist, author, and scholar. He earned his PhD in 1960 from New York University....
, American sociologist - Kurt C. SchlichtingKurt C. SchlichtingDr. Kurt C. Schlichting is the E. Gerald Corrigan Endowed Chair in the Humanities and Social Sciences and professor of sociology and anthropology at Fairfield University in the United States. He was a recipient of a Fairfield University Distinguished Faculty/Administrator Award in 2003.Dr...
, American sociologist. - Wolfgang Schluchter, German sociologist
- Paul SchnabelPaul SchnabelPaul Schnabel is a Dutch sociologist and the director of an agency of the Dutch government called Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau , usually abbreviated as SCP . He is also professor at Utrecht University.- Biography :Schnabel grew up in Breda. He studied sociology at Utrecht University...
, Dutch sociologist - Allan SchnaibergAllan SchnaibergAllan Schnaiberg was an American sociologist known especially for his contributions to environmental sociology...
(1939–2009), American environmental sociologist - Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950), Austrian economist
- Alfred SchützAlfred SchützAlfred Schütz was an Austrian social scientist, whose work bridged sociological and phenomenological traditions to form a social phenomenology, and who is gradually achieving recognition as one of the foremost philosophers of social science of the [twentieth] century.-Life:Schütz was born in...
(1899–1959), Austrian philosopher and sociologist (phenomenology) - Michael SchwartzMichael Schwartz (sociologist)Michael Schwartz is an American sociologist and prominent critic of the Iraq war. He is Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in New York, where he also serves as faculty director of the Undergraduate College of Global Studies and Chair of the Sociology...
(born 19--), American sociologist - Martin Segalen, French sociologist
- Jean SéguyJean SéguyJean Séguy was a French sociologist of religions.-Biography:He born in a Catholic family from south-western France. In 1970, he was doctor of Letters, then research director of the CNRS...
, French sociologist of religions (1925–2007) - Steven SeidmanSteven SeidmanSteven Seidman is an American sociologist, currently professor at State University of New York at Albany. "He is a world renowned social theorist working the areas of social theory, culture, sexuality, comparative sociology, theory of democracy, nationalism and globalization." He received his A.B....
, American sociologist - Philip SelznickPhilip SelznickPhilip Selznick was professor of law and society at the University of California, Berkeley. A noted author in organizational theory, sociology of law and public administration, Selznick's work has been groundbreaking in several fields in such books as The Moral Commonwealth, TVA and the Grass...
, American sociologist - Amartya SenAmartya SenAmartya Sen, CH is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for his interest in the problems of society's poorest members...
, Indian economist influential in the sociology of development - Richard SennettRichard SennettRichard Sennett is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University...
(born 1943), American sociologist and public figure - William H. SewellWilliam H. SewellWilliam Hamilton Sewell was a United States sociologist and the Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1967-1968. He is known also as the father of another sociologist .-Biography:...
, American sociologist - Steven ShapinSteven ShapinSteven Shapin is a historian and sociologist of science. He is currently the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University...
, American sociologist - Jeremy J. ShapiroJeremy J. ShapiroDr. Jeremy J. Shapiro , is an American academic, a professor at Fielding Graduate University who works in the area of critical social theory with emphasis on the social and cultural effects of information technology and systems, social change, and the aesthetics of music...
, American sociologist - Ali ShariatiAli ShariatiAli Shariati was an Iranian revolutionary and sociologist, who focused on the sociology of religion. He is held as one of the most influential Iranian intellectuals of the 20th century and has been called the 'ideologue of the Iranian Revolution'.-Biography:Ali....
(1933–1977), Iranian sociologist and writer - Tamotsu Shibutani, Japanese-American sociologist
- Edward ShilsEdward ShilsEdward Shils was a Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and in Sociology at the University of Chicago and reputedly an influential sociologist. He was known for his research on the role of intellectuals and their relations to power and public policy...
, American sociologist - Anson ShupeAnson ShupeAnson D. Shupe is an American sociologist noted for his studies of religious groups and their countermovements, family violence and clergy misconduct.-Work:...
, American sociologist - Volkmar SiguschVolkmar SiguschVolkmar Sigusch is a German sexologist, physician and sociologist. He was from 1973 to 2006 director of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft [Institute for Sexual Science] at the clinic of the Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main....
, German sociologist and sexuologe - Charles E. SilbermanCharles E. SilbermanCharles Eliot Silberman was an American journalist and author.Silberman was born in Des Moines, Iowa. After war service in the Pacific, he gained a B.A. in Economics from Columbia University in 1946 and undertook graduate study their...
, American criminologist - François SimiandFrançois SimiandFrançois Simiand was a French sociologist and economist best known as a participant in the Année Sociologique. As a member of the French Historical School of economics, Simiand predicated a rigorous factual and statistical basis for theoretical models and policies...
, French sociologist - Georg SimmelGeorg SimmelGeorg Simmel was a major German sociologist, philosopher, and critic.Simmel was one of the first generation of German sociologists: his neo-Kantian approach laid the foundations for sociological antipositivism, asking 'What is society?' in a direct allusion to Kant's question 'What is nature?',...
(1858–1918), German sociologist and philosopher - Herbert SimonHerbert SimonHerbert Alexander Simon was an American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist, and professor—most notably at Carnegie Mellon University—whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, computer science, public administration, economics,...
, American social scientist - Leslie Sklair, British sociologist
- Iván SzelényiIván SzelényiIván Szelényi is a noted Hungarian-born American sociologist, as of 2009 the William Graham Sumner Professor of Sociology at the Yale University.- Biography :...
, Hungarian-American sociologist - Albion Woodbury Small (1854–1926), American sociologist
- Neil SmelserNeil SmelserNeil Joseph Smelser is an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was an active researcher from 1958 to 1994. His research has been on collective behavior....
, American sociologist - Adam SmithAdam SmithAdam Smith was a Scottish social philosopher and a pioneer of political economy. One of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Smith is the author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations...
(1723–1790), Scottish economist and philosopher - Christian SmithChristian Smith (sociologist)Christian Smith is an American sociologist, currently the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society at the University of Notre Dame...
(born 1960), American sociologist of religion - Dorothy E. SmithDorothy E. SmithDorothy Edith Smith is a Canadian sociologist with research interests, besides in sociology, in many disciplines including women's studies, psychology, and educational studies, as well as sub-fields of sociology including feminist theory, family studies, and methodology...
(born 1926), British/American sociologist and gender theorist - Richard Smith, Scottish sociologist presently researching youth culture and the sociology of music
- Stephen C. SmithStephen C. SmithStephen C. Smith is an economist, author, and educator. He is Director of the Institute for International Economic Policy at George Washington University, where he is also Professor of Economics and International Affairs.-Background:...
(born 1968), American sociologist and 21st century trend researcher - Tom SnijdersTom SnijdersTom A. B. Snijders , is professor of Statistics in the Social Sciences at Nuffield College, Oxford, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford...
, Dutch mathematical sociologist - David A. SnowDavid A. SnowDavid A. Snow is a Chancellor's Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on social movements and protests....
(born 1942), American sociologist - Werner SombartWerner SombartWerner Sombart was a German economist and sociologist, the head of the “Youngest Historical School” and one of the leading Continental European social scientists during the first quarter of the 20th century....
(1863–1941), German economist and sociologist - Georges SorelGeorges SorelGeorges Eugène Sorel was a French philosopher and theorist of revolutionary syndicalism. His notion of the power of myth in people's lives inspired Marxists and Fascists. It is, together with his defense of violence, the contribution for which he is most often remembered. Oron J...
, French philosopher - Pitirim SorokinPitirim SorokinPitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin was a Russian-American sociologist born in Komi . Academic and political activist in Russia, he emigrated from Russia to the United States in 1923. He founded the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. He was a vocal opponent of Talcott Parsons' theories...
(1889–1968), Russian sociologist - Herbert SpencerHerbert SpencerHerbert Spencer was an English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era....
(1820–1903), English philosopher - Oswald SpenglerOswald SpenglerOswald Manuel Arnold Gottfried Spengler was a German historian and philosopher whose interests also included mathematics, science, and art. He is best known for his book The Decline of the West , published in 1918, which puts forth a cyclical theory of the rise and decline of civilizations...
(1880–1936), German philosopher - M N Srinivas (1916–1999), Indian sociologist
- Susan StarSusan StarSusan “Leigh” Star was an American sociologist. She specialized in the study of information in modern society; information worlds; information infrastructure; classification and standardization; sociology of science; sociology of work and the history of science, medicine, technology, and ...
, American sociologist - David C. StarkDavid C. StarkDavid C. Stark is Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Columbia University where he serves as chair of the sociology department and directs the Center on Organizational Innovation. He is an External Faculty Member of the Santa Fe Institute.-Biography:He received a B.A....
, American sociologist - Paul StarrPaul StarrPaul Starr is a Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University. He is also the co-editor and co-founder of The American Prospect, a notable liberal magazine which was created in 1990...
, American sociologist - Rodolfo StavenhagenRodolfo StavenhagenRodolfo Stavenhagen is a Mexican sociologist. He is a professor-researcher at El Colegio de México and former Deputy Director General of UNESCO. In 2001 he was appointed by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights the first United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of the human...
, Mexican anthropologist and sociologist - George Steinmetz, American sociologist
- Judith Stepan-Norris, American sociologist, University of California, Irvine
- Rudolph Stichweh, German sociologist
- Arthur Stinchcombe, American sociologist
- Samuel A. StoufferSamuel A. StoufferSamuel Andrew Stouffer was a prominent American sociologist and developer of survey research techniques. Stouffer spent much of his career attempting to answer the fundamental question - How does one measure an attitude?Dr...
, American sociologist - Anselm L. Strauss (1916–1996), American sociologist
- Lucy SuchmanLucy SuchmanLucy Suchman is a full Professor of Anthropology of Science and Technology in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, in the United Kingdom...
, American sociologist - Thomas SugrueThomas SugrueThomas J. Sugrue is an American historian of the twentieth-century United States at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is currently David Boies Professor of History and Sociology. His areas of expertise include American urban history, American political history, and the history of race...
, American historian and sociologist - William Graham SumnerWilliam Graham SumnerWilliam Graham Sumner was an American academic and "held the first professorship in sociology" at Yale College. For many years he had a reputation as one of the most influential teachers there. He was a polymath with numerous books and essays on American history, economic history, political...
(1840–1910), American sociologist - Eilert SundtEilert SundtEilert Sundt was a Norwegian sociologist, known for his work on mortality, marriage and other subjects among the working class....
(1817–1875), Norwegian sociologist - Edwin SutherlandEdwin SutherlandEdwin H. Sutherland was an American sociologist. He is considered as one of the most influential criminologists of the twentieth century...
(1893–1950), American criminologist - Ian SvenoniusIan SvenoniusIan Folke Svenonius is an American musician, notable as the singer of various Washington, D.C.-based bands including Nation of Ulysses, The Make-Up, Weird War, and Chain and The Gang. Between his numerous projects, Svenonius has released more than 15 full-length albums and more than 20 singles,...
, American cultural sociologist - Richard SwedbergRichard SwedbergRichard Swedberg is a Swedish sociologist at Cornell University. Swedberg has been a contributor to developing a sociological approach to the analysis of the economy....
, Swedish sociologist - Jan SzczepanskiJan Szczepanski (sociologist)Jan Szczepański was a Polish sociologist and politician. Professor of University of Łódź, its rector from 1952-1956. His works concentrated on theory of sociology, history of sociology, as well as studying of transformations of social structure...
(1913–2004), Polish sociologist - Piotr SztompkaPiotr SztompkaPiotr Sztompka is professor of Sociology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles....
(born 1944), Polish sociologist
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- Hippolyte TaineHippolyte TaineHippolyte Adolphe Taine was a French critic and historian. He was the chief theoretical influence of French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism, and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism. Literary historicism as a critical movement has been said to originate...
(1828–1893), French positivist historian and critic - Yasuma TakadaYasuma Takadawas an influential sociologist and economist and is most widely known for his power theory of economics.Takada was born in the village of Toutoumi, Ogi District, Saga Prefecture, Japan, part of what is now the City of Ogi. In July 1910 he graduated from Kyoto Imperial University. He started...
, Japanese sociologist - Salim TamariSalim TamariSalim Tamari is the director of the Institute of Jerusalem Studies and is an associate professor of sociology at Birzeit University, near Ramallah in the West Bank. Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University, has called Tamari "the preeminent Palestinian historical...
, Palestinian historical sociologist - Lisa TarakiLisa TarakiLisa Taraki is a Palestinian journalist, teacher and a sociologist. She was born to an American mother and Afghan father, but now lives in Ramallah with her Palestinian husband and child. She lectures at the University of Birzeit on the West Bank....
, Palestinian sociologist - Alexander TarasovAlexander TarasovAlexander Nikolaevich Tarasov is a Russian Post-Marxist theoretician, sociologist and historian. Tarasov was a left-wing political dissident in the Soviet Union.- Biography :...
, Russian sociologist - Gabriel TardeGabriel TardeJean-Gabriel De Tarde or Gabriel Tarde in short French sociologist, criminologist and social psychologist who conceived sociology as based on small psychological interactions among individuals , the fundamental forces being imitation and innovation.- Theory :Among the concepts...
(1843–1904), French sociologist and social psychologist - Sidney TarrowSidney TarrowSidney G. Tarrow is a professor of political science and sociology, known for his research in the areas of comparative politics, social movements, political parties, collective action and political sociology.-Biography:...
, American sociologist - Ian TaylorIan Taylor (sociologist)Ian Taylor was a British sociologist. He was born in Sheffield.- National Deviancy Symposium and Critical Criminology :...
(1944–2001), English sociologist and criminologist - Laurie TaylorLaurie Taylor (sociologist)Laurence John "Laurie" Taylor is an English sociologist and radio presenter originally from Liverpool.-Academic career:After attending Roman Catholic schools including the direct grant grammar school St Mary's College in Crosby at the same time as Liverpool poet, Roger McGough, Taylor first...
(born 1936), English sociologist and broadcaster - Friedrich Tenbruck, German sociologist
- Lorne Tepperman, Canadian sociologist
- Göran TherbornGöran TherbornGöran Therborn is a professor of sociology at Cambridge University and is amongst the most highly cited contemporary Marxian-influenced sociologists. He has published widely in journals such as the New Left Review, and is notable for his writing on topics that fall within the general political and...
, Swedish-British sociologist - W. I. ThomasW. I. ThomasWilliam Isaac Thomas was an American sociologist. He is noted for his innovative work on the sociology of migration on which he co-operated with Florian Znaniecki, and for his formulation of what became known as the Thomas theorem, a fundamental principle of sociology: "If men define situations as...
(1863–1947), American social psychologist - E. P. ThompsonE. P. ThompsonEdward Palmer Thompson was a British historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner. He is probably best known today for his historical work on the British radical movements in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in particular The Making of the English Working Class...
(1924–1993), British socialist historian - John ThompsonJohn Thompson (sociologist)John Brookshire Thompson is a Sociology professor at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Jesus College. He has studied the influence of the media in the formation of modern societies, a subject on which he is one of the few social theorists to focus...
, British sociologist of culture and media - Charles TillyCharles TillyCharles Tilly was an American sociologist, political scientist, and historian who wrote on the relationship between politics and society. He was the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University....
(1929–2008), American sociologist - Nicholas TimasheffNicholas TimasheffNicholas Sergeyevitch Timasheff was a Russian sociologist, professor of jurisprudence and writer.Timasheff "came from an old family of Russian nobility"; his father was Minister of Trade and Industry under Nicholas II. In St...
, Russian sociologist - Edward Tiryakian, American sociologist
- Valery TishkovValery TishkovValery Tishkov is an ethnologist.Born in Sverdlovsk, Tishkov attended Moscow State University, where he received a B.A. in 1964. He earned an M.A. in 1969 from Moscow Pedagogical University, and a Ph.D. degree in 1978 from the USSR Academy of Sciences...
(born 1941), Russian ethnologist and sociologist - Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis de TocquevilleAlexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville was a French political thinker and historian best known for his Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution . In both of these works, he explored the effects of the rising equality of social conditions on the individual and the state in...
(1805–1859), French essayist and political analyst - Ferdinand TönniesFerdinand TönniesFerdinand Tönnies was a German sociologist. He was a major contributor to sociological theory and field studies, best known for his distinction between two types of social groups, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft...
(1855–1936), German philosopher and founder of German sociology - Alain TouraineAlain TouraineAlain Touraine is a French sociologist born in Hermanville-sur-Mer. He is research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where he founded the Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux . He is best known for being the originator of the term "post-industrial society"...
(born 1925), French sociologist - Peter Townsend, British sociologist of poverty
- Renato TrevesRenato TrevesRenato Treves was born in Turin, Italy of a Jewish family. According to Vincenzo Ferrari, Treves "devoted his first academic study to the diffusion of Claude Henri de Saint-Simon's doctrines in Italy" before turning his attention to the neo-Kantian movement and Hans Kelsen's Pure Theory of...
, Italian sociologist - Raimo TuomelaRaimo TuomelaRaimo Tuomela is a Finnish philosopher. Tuomela received his first degree of doctor of philosophy in 1968 from the University of Helsinki) and the second one in 1969 from Stanford University...
, Finnish philosopher and social theorist - Bryan S. TurnerBryan S. Turner (sociologist)Bryan S. Turner is a British and Australian sociologist . He was born in January 1945 to working class parents in Birmingham, England. Turner has led a remarkably nomadic life having held university appointments in England, Scotland, Australia, Germany, Holland, Singapore and the United States...
, British sociologist - Jonathan H. TurnerJonathan H. TurnerJonathan H. Turner is a professor of sociology at University of California, Riverside.After receiving his PhD from Cornell University in 1968, since the academic year 1969-1970 he has been at UCR. He has been Faculty Research Lecturer at UCR, and in the profession, he has been president of the...
, American social theorist - Victor TurnerVictor TurnerVictor Witter Turner was a British cultural anthropologist best known for his work on symbols, rituals and rites of passage...
, British anthropologist - France Winddance TwineFrance Winddance TwineFrance Winddance Twine is Professor of Sociology and filmmaker at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the former Deputy Editor of American Sociological Review, the flagship journal of the American Sociological Association...
(born 1960), American sociologist and ethnographer - Edward Burnett TylorEdward Burnett TylorSir Edward Burnett Tylor , was an English anthropologist.Tylor is representative of cultural evolutionism. In his works Primitive Culture and Anthropology, he defined the context of the scientific study of anthropology, based on the evolutionary theories of Charles Lyell...
, English anthropologist
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- Lars Udehn, Swedish sociologist
- John UrryJohn Urry (sociologist)John Urry is a British sociologist, Professor at Lancaster University. He is noted for work in the fields of the sociology of tourism and mobility....
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- Francisco VarelaFrancisco VarelaFrancisco Javier Varela García , was a Chilean biologist, philosopher and neuroscientist who, together with his teacher Humberto Maturana, is best known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology.-Biography:...
(1946–2001), Chilean biologist and philosopher - Steven Vallas, American sociologist
- Thorstein VeblenThorstein VeblenThorstein Bunde Veblen, born Torsten Bunde Veblen was an American economist and sociologist, and a leader of the so-called institutional economics movement...
(1857–1929), American sociologist and economist - Ruut Veenhoven, Dutch sociologist
- Calvin VeltmanCalvin VeltmanCalvin Veltman is an American sociologist, demographer and sociolinguist at the Université du Québec à Montréal. He previously worked at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh...
(born 1941), Canadian sociologist, demographer and sociolinguist - Sudhir Alladi VenkateshSudhir Alladi VenkateshSudhir Alladi Venkatesh is an Indian American sociologist and urban ethnographer. Born in India, he is a professor of sociology and African-American studies at Columbia University. He is a board member at Philadelphia-based nonprofit Public/Private Ventures...
, American sociologist - Alfred VierkandtAlfred VierkandtAlfred Vierkandt was a German sociologist, ethnographer, social psychologist, social philosopher and philosopher of history. He is known for a broad and phenomenological Gesellschaftslehre promulgated in the 1920s, and for his formal sociologyHe first studied science and philosophy at Leipzig...
, German sociologist - George Edgar VincentGeorge Edgar VincentGeorge Edgar Vincent was an American sociologist and university president, born at Rockford, Illinois, the son of Bishop John H. Vincent. After graduating at Yale in 1885 he engaged in journalistic and literary work. In 1888 he became associated with the Chautauqua system as vice principal, and...
, American sociologist - Paul VirilioPaul VirilioPaul Virilio is a cultural theorist and urbanist. He is best known for his writings about technology as it has developed in relation to speed and power, with diverse references to architecture, the arts, the city and the military....
, French philosopher and social theorist - Shiv VisvanathanShiv VisvanathanShiv Visvanathan is Professor at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology http://www.daiict.ac.in/daiict/people/faculty.html, Gandhinagar. He was Senior fellow Center for the Study of Developing Societies , Delhi and has taught at the Delhi School of Economics...
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- Loic WacquantLoïc WacquantLoïc Wacquant is a sociologist, specializing in urban sociology, urban poverty, racial inequality, the body, social theory and ethnography....
, French sociologist - Peter WagnerPeter Wagner (Social theorist)Peter Wagner is a German social philosopher. His research focus is with the issues of social theory and political philosophy of contemporary Europe. He has done comparative research in the history of the social sciences, and has in his publications attempted to formulate and utilize a sociology of...
, German sociologist and social theorist - Sylvia WalbySylvia WalbySylvia Walby OBE, is one of the world's leading authorities on gender. She is a British sociologist, currently Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University...
, British sociologist - Immanuel WallersteinImmanuel WallersteinImmanuel Maurice Wallerstein is a US sociologist, historical social scientist, and world-systems analyst...
(born 1930), American sociologist and historian - Lester Frank WardLester Frank WardLester F. Ward was an American botanist, paleontologist, and sociologist. He served as the first president of the American Sociological Association.-Biography:...
(1841–1913), founder of American sociology - Mark R. Warren, American sociologist
- Duncan Watts, American mathematical sociologist and network theorist
- Emile WaxweilerEmile WaxweilerEmile Waxweiler was a Belgian engineer and sociologist. He was a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium as well as the International Institute of Statistics ....
, Belgian sociologist - Beatrice WebbBeatrice WebbMartha Beatrice Webb, Lady Passfield was an English sociologist, economist, socialist and social reformer. Although her husband became Baron Passfield in 1929, she refused to be known as Lady Passfield...
(1858–1943), British socialist and social theorist - Sidney Webb (1859–1947), British socialist and social theorist
- Alfred WeberAlfred WeberAlfred Weber was a German economist, sociologist and theoretician of culture whose work was influential in the development of modern economic geography.-Life:...
(1868–1958), German sociologist - Marianne WeberMarianne WeberMarianne Weber, , sociologist, women's rights activist and wife of Max Weber.-Girlhood, 1870-1893:...
, German sociologist - Max WeberMax WeberKarl Emil Maximilian "Max" Weber was a German sociologist and political economist who profoundly influenced social theory, social research, and the discipline of sociology itself...
(1864–1920), German sociologist - Frank WebsterFrank WebsterFrank Webster is a British sociologist. His critical writing on the "information society" has been translated into many languages. In his book Theories of the Information Society, he examined six analytically separable conceptions of the information society, arguing that all are suspect to some...
(born 1950), British sociologist - Barry WellmanBarry WellmanBarry Wellman, FRSC directs NetLab as the S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. His areas of research are community sociology, the Internet, human-computer interaction and social structure, as manifested in social networks in communities and organizations...
(born 1942), Canadian/American sociologist - Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931), American sociologist, journalist, social worker
- John WestergaardJohn WestergaardJohn Westergaard was a stock analyst and founder of the Westergaard Fund. He also as political advisor to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.-Background:...
(born 1927), British sociologist - Edvard WestermarckEdvard WestermarckEdvard Alexander Westermarck was a Swedish-speaking Finnish philosopher and sociologist. Among other subjects, he studied exogamy and the incest taboo....
(1862–1939), Finnish sociologist and philosopher - Douglas R. WhiteDouglas R. WhiteDouglas R. White is an American complexity researcher , social anthropologist, sociologist, and social network researcher at the University of California, Irvine.-Biography:...
(born 1942), American mathematical sociologist and anthropologist. - Harrison WhiteHarrison WhiteHarrison Colyar White is the emeritus Giddings Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. White is an influential scholar in the domain of social networks. He is credited with the development of a number of mathematical models of social structure including vacancy chains and blockmodels...
, American sociologist - William Foote WhyteWilliam Foote WhyteWilliam Foote Whyte was a sociologist chiefly known for his ethnological study in urban sociology, Street Corner Society...
, American sociologist - William H. WhyteWilliam H. WhyteWilliam Hollingsworth "Holly" Whyte was an American urbanist, organizational analyst, journalist and people-watcher.Whyte was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania in 1917 and died in New York City in 1999. An early graduate of St. Andrew's School in Middletown, Delaware, he graduated from Princeton...
(1917–1999), American sociologist, journalist and peoplewatcher - Leopold von Wiese, German sociologist
- Michel WieviorkaMichel WieviorkaMichel Wieviorka is a French sociologist, noted for his work on violence, terrorism, racism, social movements and the theory of social change....
(born 1946), French sociologist - Norbert Wiley, American sociologist
- Jean-Paul WillaimeJean-Paul WillaimeJean-Paul Willaime is a French sociologist specialized in contemporary Protestantism, Christian ecumenism, Secularism and religions, theories and methods in the sociology of religions.-Cursus:...
(born 1947), French sociologist of religions - Raymond WilliamsRaymond WilliamsRaymond Henry Williams was a Welsh academic, novelist and critic. He was an influential figure within the New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics, culture, the mass media and literature are a significant contribution to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts...
(1921–1988), Welsh sociologist, novelist, and critic - John B. WilliamsonJohn B. WilliamsonJohn B. Williamson is a Professor of Sociology who specializes in gerontology, social policy and social welfare.He joined the faculty of the Department of Sociology at Boston College in 1969 after completing his Ph.D. in social psychology at Harvard University...
(born 1943), American sociologist - Helmut WillkeHelmut WillkeHelmut Willke is a German sociologist who studies the effect of globalization on modern society. He coined the term Atopia to denote a society that exists without borders, with no national identity. He is currently professor at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, Germany.-References:...
, German sociologist - William Julius WilsonWilliam Julius WilsonWilliam Julius Wilson is an American sociologist. He worked at the University of Chicago 1972-1996 before moving to Harvard....
(born 1935), American sociologist - Howard WinantHoward WinantHoward Winant is an American sociologist and race theorist. Professor Winant is best known for developing the theory of racial formation along with Michael Omi...
, American sociologist - Christopher WinshipChristopher WinshipChristopher Winship is Diker-Tishman Professor of sociology at Harvard University, and principal of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard. He is best known for his contributions to quantitative methods in sociology and, since 1995, has served as editor of Sociological Methods...
, American sociologist - Louis WirthLouis WirthLouis Wirth was an American sociologist and member of the Chicago school of sociology.-Life:Louis Wirth was born in the small village of Gemünden in the Hunsrück, Germany. He was one of seven children born to Rosalie Lorig and Joseph Wirth. Gemünden was a pastoral community, and Joseph Wirth...
(1897–1952), German/American sociologist - Edmund Wnuk-LipinskiEdmund Wnuk-LipinskiEdmund Wnuk-Lipiński , professor of Sociology, is the founder and first head of the Polish Academy of Sciences Institute of Political Studies, Rector of Collegium Civitas in Warsaw. He was a Fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna, the University of Notre Dame, and Wissenschaftskolleg...
(born 1944), Polish sociologist - Mary WollstonecraftMary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft was an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book...
(1759–1797), British social reformer - Dominique Wolton, French sociologist
- Steve WoolgarSteve WoolgarStephen Woolgar is a British sociologist. He has worked closely with Bruno Latour, with whom he co-authored Laboratory Life: the Social Construction of Scientific Facts ....
, British sociologist - Monroe WorkMonroe WorkMonroe Nathan Work , was a sociologist who founded the Department of Records and Research at the Tuskegee Institute in 1908 and expanded its national reputation. With much of his career he strove to advance credibility to the anti-lynching campaigns and the Negro Health Week movement...
(1866–1945), American sociologist - Erik Olin WrightErik Olin WrightErik Olin Wright is an American analytical Marxist sociologist, specializing in social stratification, and in egalitarian alternative futures to capitalism.-Biography:...
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- Masahiro YamadaMasahiro Yamadais a Japanese sociologist known for coining popular sociological terms like "parasite singles" and . A graduate of University of Tokyo, he now teaches at Tokyo Gakugei University as professor.-References:* Corresponding Japanese Wikipedia article....
, Japanese sociologist - John Milton YingerJohn Milton YingerJohn Milton Yinger was an American sociologist who was president of the American Sociological Association 1976-1977. Yinger received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1942, and was Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Oberlin College.-Biography :Yinger was born in Quincy,...
, American sociologist who was president of the American Sociological AssociationAmerican Sociological AssociationThe American Sociological Association , founded in 1905 as the American Sociological Society , is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology by serving sociologists in their work and promoting their contributions to serve society.The ASA holds its...
1976–1977. - Michael Young, British Sociologist and LabourLabour Party (UK)The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
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- Benjamin ZablockiBenjamin ZablockiBenjamin Zablocki is and American professor of sociology at Rutgers University where he teaches sociology of religion and social psychology. He has published widely on the subject of charismatic religious movements and cults....
(born 1941), American sociologist and social psychologist - Mayer ZaldMayer ZaldMayer Zald is a professor emeritus of sociology, social work and business administration at the University of Michigan.He is noted for contributions to the sociology of organizations and social movements....
, American sociologist - Tatyana ZaslavskayaTatyana ZaslavskayaTatyana Zaslavskaya is a Russian economic sociologist, a theoretician of perestroika, an author and co-author of several books on economy of the Soviet Union and in sociology of the countryside and a large number of research papers...
, Russian sociologist - René Zavaleta MercadoRené Zavaleta MercadoRené Zavaleta Mercado born in Oruro , died in Mexico City , was a Bolivian politician, sociologist and philosopher. Zavaleta was an extremely influential Bolivian thinker of the second half of twentieth century...
, (1935–1984), Bolivian sociologist - Viviana ZelizerViviana ZelizerViviana A. Zelizer, Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, is a prominent economic sociologist who focuses on the attribution of cultural and moral meaning to the economy. A constant theme in her work is economic valuation of the sacred, as found in such contexts as life insurance...
, American sociologist - Hugo Zemelman, Chilean sociologist
- Eviatar ZerubavelEviatar ZerubavelEviatar Zerubavel is professor of sociology at Rutgers University and a prolific and notable writer on the standardization of time and the sociology of cognition....
, American cognitive sociologist - Jean ZieglerJean ZieglerJean Ziegler is a former professor of sociology at the University of Geneva and the Sorbonne, Paris. He was a Member of Parliament for the Social Democrats in the Federal Assembly of Switzerland from 1981 to 1999...
(born 1934), Swiss sociologist - Slavoj ŽižekSlavoj ŽižekSlavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher, critical theorist working in the traditions of Hegelianism, Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. He has made contributions to political theory, film theory, and theoretical psychoanalysis....
(born 1949), Slovenian sociologist and philosopher - Florian ZnanieckiFlorian ZnanieckiFlorian Witold Znaniecki was a Polish sociologist. He taught and wrote in Poland and the United States. He was the 44th President of the American Sociological Association and the founder of academic sociology studies in Poland...
(1882–1958), Polish/American sociologist - Irving ZolaIrving ZolaIrving Kenneth Zola was an internationally-known activist and writer in the fields of medical sociology and disability rights. He was a founding member of the Society of Disability Studies and the first editor of Disability Studies Quarterly...
, American medical sociologist and disability rights activist - Tukufu ZuberiTukufu ZuberiTukufu Zuberi is an American sociologist, filmmaker, social critic, educator, and writer. He is the Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, and Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Pennsylvania...
, American sociologist - Sharon ZukinSharon ZukinSharon Zukin is a professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, who specializes in modern urban life. She writes about culture and real estate in New York City, and has also examines consumer society and culture, the new economic order in the...
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