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, 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.

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Peter Abell Peter Abell (born 1939) is a British social scientist, currently professor emeritus at the London School of Economics where he has founded and directed the "Interdisciplinary Institute of Management". He has been teaching for many years at L ...

, British sociologist * Mark Abrams (1906–1994), British sociologist, political scientist and pollster *

Janet Abu-Lughod Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod (August 3, 1928 – December 14, 2013) was an American sociologist who made major contributions to world-systems theory and urban sociology. Early life Raised in Newark, New Jersey, she attended Weequahic High School ...

(1928–2013), American sociologist *

Jane Addams Laura Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 May 21, 1935) was an American Settlement movement, settlement activist, Social reform, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, and author. She was an important leader in the history of s ...

(1860–1935), American social worker, sociologist, public philosopher and reformer * Theodor Adorno (1903–1969), German philosopher and cultural sociologist * Richard Alba, American sociologist * Francesco Alberoni, Italian sociologist *

Martin Albrow Martin Albrow (born 1937) is a British sociologist, noted for his works on globalization, the theory of the global age and global civil society. He was appointed in 1963 as the first full-time sociologist at Reading University, and subsequently wo ...

, British sociologist * Jeffrey C. Alexander, American sociologist *

Edwin Amenta Edwin Amenta is an American sociologist best known for his study of social policy, social movements, and the New Deal. Career Through his Political Mediation Theory, developed as a consequence of studying the Townsend movement for old-age pensio ...

, American sociologist *

Nancy Ammerman Nancy Tatom Ammerman (born 1950) is an American professor of sociology of religion at Boston University School of Theology. Life In 1984, Ammerman joined the faculty of Emory University. Her book, ''Baptist Battles'', won the 1992 Distinguishe ...

, American sociologist * Eric Anderson, American-British sociologist * Elijah Anderson, American sociologist * Stanislav Andreski, Polish-British sociologist *

Aaron Antonovsky Aaron Antonovsky (19 December 1923 – 7 July 1994) was an Israeli American sociologist and academic whose work concerned the relationship between stress, health and well-being (salutogenesis). Biography Antonovsky was born in the United ...

, Israeli sociologist *

Arjun Appadurai Arjun Appadurai (born 1949) is an Indian-American anthropologist recognized as a major theorist in globalization studies. In his anthropological work, he discusses the importance of the modernity of nation states and globalization. He is the f ...

, Indian sociologist *

Andrew Arato Andrew Arato ( hu, Arató András ; born 22 August 1944) is a professor of Political and Social Theory in the Department of Sociology at The New School, best known for his influential book ''Civil Society and Political Theory'', coauthored with ...

, Hungarian-American sociologist * Margaret Archer, British sociologist *

Hannah Arendt Hannah Arendt (, , ; 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a political philosopher, author, and Holocaust survivor. She is widely considered to be one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century. Arendt was born ...

(1906–1975), German political theorist *

Alcira Argumedo Alcira Susana Argumedo (7 May 1940 – 2 May 2021) was an Argentine sociologist, academic and was member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies. She was nominated as a candidate for president on the Proyecto Sur ticket for the 2011 general ele ...

(1940–2021), Argentine sociologist *

Aristoteles Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of ...

(384 bC-322 aC), Ancient Greek philosopher and sociologist *

Signe Arnfred Signe Arnfred (born 1944) is a Danish sociologist, feminist and writer who in 1971 became closely involved in Danish feminist activities. A leading figure in the Red Stocking Movement, she organized and participated in meetings and seminars which ...

, Danish sociologist *

Raymond Aron Raymond Claude Ferdinand Aron (; 14 March 1905 – 17 October 1983) was a French philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, historian and journalist, one of France's most prominent thinkers of the 20th century. Aron is best known for his 19 ...

(1905–1983), French philosopher and sociologist *

Stanley Aronowitz Stanley Aronowitz (January 6, 1933 – August 16, 2021) was a professor of sociology, cultural studies, and urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center. He was also a veteran political activist and cultural critic, an advocate for organized labo ...

, American sociologist *

Giovanni Arrighi Giovanni Arrighi (7 July 1937 – 18 June 2009) was an Italian economist, sociologist and world-systems analyst, from 1998 a Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His work has been translated into over fifteen languages. Biography ...

, Italian sociologist *

Johan Asplund Johan Asplund (May 19, 1937 – November 13, 2018) was a Swedish sociologist interested in social interaction and ethnomethodology. At present, his works are not widely translated from the original Swedish.It is said that he thought that the e ...

(1937–2018), Swedish sociologist *

Vilhelm Aubert Johan Vilhelm Aubert (7 June 1922 – 19 July 1988) was an influential Norwegian sociologist. He was a professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo from 1963 to 1971 and at the Department of Sociology from 1971 to 1988. He co-founded ...

(1922–1988), Norwegian sociologist * Francisco Ayala, Spanish sociologist and novelist

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Élisabeth Badinter Élisabeth Badinter (née Bleustein-Blanchet; 5 March 1944) is a French philosopher, author and historian. She is best known for her philosophical treatises on feminism and women's role in society. She is an advocate of liberal feminism and ...

(born 1944), French philosopher and historian * Patrick Baert, British sociologist * Sergio Bagú, Argentinian sociologist *

Kenneth D. Bailey Kenneth Dillon Bailey (October 21, 1910 – September 26, 1942) was a United States Marine Corps officer who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for heroic conduct during action during the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. H ...

, American sociologist *

Georges Balandier Georges Balandier (21 December 1920 – 5 October 2016) was a French sociologist, anthropologist and ethnologist noted for his research in Sub-Saharan Africa. Balandier was born in Aillevillers-et-Lyaumont. He was a professor at the Sorbonne (Un ...

, French sociologist *

Emily Greene Balch Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867 – January 9, 1961) was an American economist, sociologist and pacifist. Balch combined an academic career at Wellesley College with a long-standing interest in social issues such as poverty, child labor, ...

, American professor of sociology and Nobel Peace laureate * Robert Balch, American sociologist *

E. Digby Baltzell Edward Digby Baltzell Jr. (November 14, 1915 – August 17, 1996) was an American sociologist, academic and author. He studied the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant establishment and is credited with popularizing the acronym ''WASP''. He was also a b ...

, American sociologist *

Eileen Barker Eileen Vartan Barker (born 21 April 1938, in Edinburgh, UK) is a professor in sociology, an emeritus member of the London School of Economics (LSE), and a consultant to that institution's Centre for the Study of Human Rights. She is the chairp ...

(born 1938), British sociologist and professor * Barry Barnes, British sociologist * Liberty Barnes, American sociologist *

Roland Barthes Roland Gérard Barthes (; ; 12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western pop ...

(1915–1980), French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician * Robert Bartholomew (born 1958), American medical sociologist living in New Zealand * Roger Bastide, French sociologist *

Gregory Bateson Gregory Bateson (9 May 1904 – 4 July 1980) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. His writings include ''Steps to ...

(1904–1980), English/American cybernetician *

Jean Baubérot Jean Baubérot (born 26 July 1941 in Châteauponsac, Haute-Vienne), is a French historian and sociologist specializing in sociology of religions. He is the founder of the sociology of secularism. After holding the chair of "History and Sociology ...

(born 1941), French historian and sociologist *

Jean Baudrillard Jean Baudrillard ( , , ; 27 July 1929 – 6 March 2007) was a French sociologist, philosopher and poet with interest in cultural studies. He is best known for his analyses of media, contemporary culture, and technological communication, as ...

(1929–2007), French cultural theorist *

Zygmunt Bauman Zygmunt Bauman (; 19 November 1925 – 9 January 2017) was a Polish sociologist and philosopher. He was driven out of the Polish People's Republic during the 1968 Polish political crisis and forced to give up his Polish citizenship. He emigrat ...

(1925–2017), Polish/British sociologist * Frank Bean, American sociologist *

Peter Bearman Peter Shawn Bearman (born 1956) is an American sociologist, notable for his contributions to the fields of adolescent health, research design, structural analysis, textual analysis, oral history and social networks. He is the Jonathan R. Cole ...

(born 1956), American sociologist *

Ulrich Beck Ulrich Beck (15 May 1944 – 1 January 2015) was a German sociologist, and one of the most cited social scientists in the world during his lifetime. His work focused on questions of uncontrollability, ignorance and uncertainty in the modern ag ...

(1944–2015), German sociologist *

Gary Becker Gary Stanley Becker (; December 2, 1930 – May 3, 2014) was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago, and was a leader of ...

, American economist *

Howard P. Becker Howard Paul Becker (December 9, 1899 – June 8, 1960) was a longtime professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Biography Becker was born in New York in 1899, the son of Charles Becker, a New York police officer, and Le ...

, American sociologist *

Howard S. Becker Howard Saul Becker (born 1928) is an American sociologist who teaches at Northwestern University. Becker has made contributions to the sociology of deviance, sociology of art, and sociology of music. Becker also wrote extensively on sociologic ...

(born 1928), American sociologist *

Jens Beckert Jens Beckert (born 21 July 1967, in Frankfurt am Main) is a German sociologist with a strong interest in economic sociology. The author of books on inherited wealth and the social foundations of economic efficiency, he focuses on the role of the ...

, German sociologist * Richard F. Behrendt (1908–1973), German sociologist *

Daniel Bell Daniel Bell (May 10, 1919 – January 25, 2011) was an American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor at Harvard University, best known for his contributions to the study of post-industrialism. He has been described as "one of the leading A ...

(1919–2011), American sociologist *

Robert N. Bellah Robert Neelly Bellah (February 23, 1927 – July 30, 2013) was an American sociologist and the Elliott Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was internationally known for his work related to the sociology of reli ...

, American sociologist *

Walden Bello Walden Flores Bello (born November 11, 1945) is a Filipino academic, environmentalist, and social activist who served as a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines. He is an international adjunct professor at Binghamton Univers ...

, Filipino sociologist *

Reinhard Bendix Reinhard Bendix (February 25, 1916 – February 28, 1991) was a German-American sociologist. Life and career Born in Berlin, Germany, in 1916, he briefly belonged to Neu Beginnen and Hashomer Hatzair, groups that resisted the Nazis. In 19 ...

, German-American sociologist *

Walter Benjamin Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (; ; 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist. An eclectic thinker, combining elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Marxism, and Jewish ...

(1892–1940), German cultural writer and sociologist * Albert Benschop (1949–2018), Dutch sociologist * Joseph Berger, American sociologist *

Peter L. Berger Peter Ludwig Berger (17 March 1929 – 27 June 2017) was an Austrian-born American sociologist and Protestant theologian. Berger became known for his work in the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of religion, study of modernization, and theor ...

(1929–2017), Austro-American sociologist * Pierre L. van den Berghe, Belgian sociologist *

Henri Bergson Henri-Louis Bergson (; 18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a French philosopherHenri Bergson. 2014. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 13 August 2014, from https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/61856/Henri-Bergson Le Roy, ...

(1859–1941), French philosopher *

Jessie Bernard Jessie Shirley Bernard (born Jessie Sarah Ravitch, 1903 – 1996) was an American sociologist and noted feminist scholar. She was a persistent forerunner of feminist thought in American sociology and her life's work is characterized as extraordi ...

, American feminist sociologist *

Eduard Bernstein Eduard Bernstein (; 6 January 1850 – 18 December 1932) was a German social democratic Marxist theorist and politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), Bernstein had held close association to Karl Marx and Friedr ...

, German politician and intellectual * Jean-Michel Berthelot, French sociologist * Andre Beteille, Indian sociologist *

Krishna Bhattachan Krishna Bhattchan a Nepali sociologist and indigenous activist. He is a Professor of Sociology at the Central Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Tribhuvan University. He received his graduate degree in sociology from Banaras Hind ...

, Nepalese sociologist * Robert Bierstedt, American sociologist * Norman Birnbaum, American sociologist *

Margunn Bjørnholt Margunn Bjørnholt (born 9 October 1958 in Bø, Telemark) is a Norwegian sociologist and economist. She is a research professor at the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies (NKVTS) and a professor of sociology at the Univers ...

(born 1958), Norwegian sociologist and economist * Donald Black, American sociologist *

Peter Blau Peter Michael Blau (February 7, 1918 – March 12, 2002) was an American sociologist and theorist. Born in Vienna, Austria, he immigrated to the United States in 1939. He completed his PhD doctoral thesis with Robert K. Merton at Columbia Univ ...

(1918–2002), American sociologist * Kathleen M. Blee (born 1953), American sociologist * Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg (born 1929), German sociologist, ethnologist, and sexologist *

Danielle Bleitrach Danielle Bleitrach (born 1938) is a French sociologist and journalist. From the 1970s through the end of the century, she was CNRS researcher and lecturer at the Aix-Marseille University, focusing on the sociology of the working class and urbani ...

(born 1938), French sociologist and journalist * David Bloor, British sociologist *

Herbert Blumer Herbert George Blumer (March 7, 1900 – April 13, 1987) was an American sociologist whose main scholarly interests were symbolic interactionism and methods of social research. Believing that individuals create social reality through collective ...

(1900–1987), American sociologist * Olivier Bobineau (born 1972), French sociologist *

Sophie Body-Gendrot Sophie Body-Gendrot (30 October 1942 – 21 September 2018) was a French political scientist, criminologist and sociologist who specalised in security issues, urban violence, social inequality, and the discrimination young migrants suffered in the ...

(1942–2018), French sociologist *

Luc Boltanski Luc Boltanski (born 4 January 1940) is a French sociologist, Professor at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris, and founder of the Groupe de Sociologie Politique et Morale, known as the leading figure in the new "pragmati ...

, French sociologist *

Scott Boorman Scott Archer Boorman (born February 1, 1949) is a mathematical sociologist at Yale University. Life His father, Howard L. Boorman, was a Foreign Service Officer in Beijing, China, and he was born there as Chinese Communists troops entered the ...

(born 1949), American sociologist * Charles Booth, British social researcher * Ernst Borinski (1901–1983), German sociologist *

Thomas Bottomore Thomas Burton Bottomore (8 April 1929, England – 9 December 1992, Sussex, England) was a British Marxist sociologist. Bottomore was Secretary of the International Sociological Association from 1953 to 1959. He was the eighth president ...

(1920–1992), British sociologist *

Raymond Boudon Raymond Boudon (27 January 1934 – 10 April 2013) was a sociologist, philosopher and Professor in the Paris-Sorbonne University. Career With Alain Touraine, Michel Crozier and Pierre Bourdieu, Raymond Boudon is one of the leading French soc ...

, French sociologist *

Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Bourdieu (; 1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influence ...

(1930–2002), French sociologist *

Victor Branford Victor Branford (25 September 1863 – 22 June 1930) was a British sociologist. He was the founder of the Sociological Society and was made an Honorary member of the American Sociological Society, now the American Sociological Association. Lif ...

(1863–1930), British sociologist * Ronald Breiger, American sociologist *

John David Brewer John David Brewer HDSSc, MRIA, FRSE, FAcSS, FRSA (born 1951) is an Irish-British sociologist who was the former President of the British Sociological Association (2009–12), and has been the Professor of Post Conflict Studies in the Senator ...

(born 1951), British sociologist * Carl Brinkmann (1885–1954), German sociologist *

David G. Bromley David G. Bromley (born 1941) is a professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, specialized in sociology of religion and the academic study of new religious movements. ...

, American sociologist *

Rogers Brubaker Rogers Brubaker (; born 1956) is professor of sociology at University of California, Los Angeles and UCLA Foundation Chair. He has written academic works on social theory, immigration, citizenship, nationalism, ethnicity, religion, diasporas, gen ...

, American sociologist * Hauke Brunkhorst, German sociologist * Hans Henrik Reventlow Bruun, Danish sociologist *

Walter F. Buckley Walter Frederick Buckley (April 17, 1921 – January 27, 2006) was an American sociologist, and professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire. Buckley was among the first to apply concepts from general systems theory based on the work ...

, American sociologist * Michael Burawoy, American sociologist * Ernest Burgess (1886–1966), Canadian sociologist *

Tom R. Burns Tom R. Burns (born 1937) is an American/ Swedish sociologist, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Uppsala in Sweden and founder of the Uppsala Theory Circle. Biography He grew up in Arkansas, and was in a Franciscan Monaster ...

, European-American sociologist * Ronald Burt, American sociologist *

Judith Butler Judith Pamela Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American philosopher and gender theorist whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave feminism, queer theory, and literary theory. In 1993, Butler b ...

(born 1956), American gender theorist

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Roger Caillois Roger Caillois (; 3 March 1913 – 21 December 1978) was a French intellectual whose idiosyncratic work brought together literary criticism, sociology, ludology and philosophy by focusing on diverse subjects such as games and play as well as th ...

, French sociologist * Craig Calhoun, American sociologist *

Michel Callon Michel Callon (born 1945) is a professor of sociology at the École des mines de Paris and member of the Centre de sociologie de l'innovation. He is an author in the field of Science and Technology Studies and one of the leading proponents of act ...

, French sociologist *

Elias Canetti Elias Canetti (; bg, Елиас Канети; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994) was a German-language writer, born in Ruse, Bulgaria to a Sephardic family. They moved to Manchester, England, but his father died in 1912, and his mother took her ...

, Bulgaria-born novelist and outsider sociologist *

Georges Canguilhem Georges Canguilhem (; ; 4 June 1904 – 11 September 1995) was a French philosopher and physician who specialized in epistemology and the philosophy of science (in particular, biology). Life and work Canguilhem entered the École Normale Supé ...

, French intellectual *

Fernando Henrique Cardoso Fernando Henrique Cardoso (; born 18 June 1931), also known by his initials FHC (), is a Brazilian sociologist, professor and politician who served as the 34th president of Brazil from 1 January 1995 to 31 December 2002. He was the first Brazi ...

(born 1931), Brazilian sociologist, former President of Brazil *

Kathleen Carley Kathleen 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 at Carnegie Mellon University and also holds appointments i ...

, American computational sociologist * Antonio Caso, Mexican sociologist * Robert Castel, French sociologist * Julieta Castellanos (born 1952), Honduran sociologist *

Manuel Castells Manuel Castells Oliván (; ; born 9 February 1942) is a Spanish sociologist. He is well known for his authorship of a trilogy of works, entitled The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. He is a scholar of the information society, co ...

(born 1942), Spanish sociologist and urban planner *

Cornelius Castoriadis Cornelius Castoriadis ( el, Κορνήλιος Καστοριάδης; 11 March 1922 – 26 December 1997) was a Greek-FrenchMemos 2014, p. 18: "he was ... granted full French citizenship in 1970." philosopher, social critic, economist, ps ...

(1922–1997), Greek philosopher and political theorist *

Michel de Certeau Michel de Certeau (; 17 May 1925 – 9 January 1986) was a French Jesuit priest and scholar whose work combined history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the social sciences as well as hermeneutics, semiotics, ethnology, and religion. He was ...

, French cultural sociologist * Francis Stuart Chapin (1888–1974), American sociologist *

Christopher Chase-Dunn Christopher K. Chase-Dunn (born January 10, 1944, Corvallis, Oregon) is an American sociologist best known for his contributions to world-systems theory. Education and career Chase-Dunn earned his PhD in 1975 at Stanford University (studying ...

, American sociologist * Louis Chauvel (born 1967), French sociologist * Nancy Chodorow (born 1944), American sociologist, psychoanalyst, and gender theorist *

Nicholas A. Christakis Nicholas A. Christakis (born May 7, 1962) is a Greek-American sociologist and physician known for his research on social networks and on the socioeconomic, biosocial, and evolutionary determinants of human welfare (including the behavior, healt ...

, American sociologist * Ann-Dorte Christensen, Danish sociologist *

Chua Beng Huat Chua Beng Huat () is a Singaporean sociologist. He is currently a professor in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Science at the National University of Singapore, and concurrently serving as a faculty member (Social Science ...

, Singaporean sociologist *

Aaron Cicourel Aaron Victor Cicourel, who is 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 in ...

, American sociologist * Dieter Claessens (1921–1997), German sociologist *

Lars Clausen Lars Michael Clausen (8 April 1935, Berlin – 20 May 2010, Hamburg) was a German sociologist and professor at the University of Kiel. Life and work During World War II, the family lived on the Darß (in Pomerania). 1944 his father Jürgen C ...

(1935–2010), German sociologist * Marshall B. Clinard (1911–2010), American sociologist (criminology) * Clifford Clogg, American sociologist *

Richard Cloward Richard Andrew Cloward (December 25, 1926 – August 20, 2001) was an American sociologist and activist. He influenced the Strain theory of criminal behavior and the concept of anomie, and was a primary motivator for the passage of the Na ...

(1926–2001), American sociologist * Philip N. Cohen, American sociologist *

Ronald L. Cohen Ronald L. Cohen was a social psychologist whose research was focused on justice. He was born in 1945 and died in 2020. He was a faculty member at Bennington College and the co-author or editor of several books and numerous peer-reviewed journal art ...

, American social psychologist * Stanley Cohen, British sociologist (criminology) *

James Samuel Coleman James Samuel Coleman (May 12, 1926 – March 25, 1995) was an American sociologist, theorist, and empirical researcher, based chiefly at the University of Chicago. He was elected president of the American Sociological Association in 1991. He stud ...

(1926–1995), American sociologist *

Harry Collins Harry Collins, (born 13 June 1943), is a British sociologist of science at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Wales. In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Career While at the University of Bath Professor C ...

, British sociologist * Patricia Hill Collins (born 1948), American sociologist *

Randall Collins Randall Collins (born July 29, 1941) is an American sociologist who has been influential in both his teaching and writing. He has taught in many notable universities around the world and his academic works have been translated into various langu ...

, American sociologist *

Auguste Comte Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte (; 19 January 1798 – 5 September 1857) was a French philosopher and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense ...

(1798–1857), French founder of sociology * Nicolas de Condorcet, French mathematician and early sociologist *

Dalton Conley Dalton Clark Conley (born 1969) is an American sociologist. Conley is a professor at Princeton University and has written eight books, including a memoir and a sociology textbook. Education Conley attended Stuyvesant High School. He subsequentl ...

, American sociologist * R.W. Connell (born 1944), Australian sociologist * Paul Connerton, British sociologist *

Charles Cooley Charles Horton Cooley (August 17, 1864 – May 7, 1929) was an American sociologist and the son of Michigan Supreme Court Judge Thomas M. Cooley. He studied and went on to teach economics and sociology at the University of Michigan, was a foundi ...

(1864–1929), American sociologist * Anna Julia Cooper, American sociologist *

Lewis A. Coser Lewis Alfred Coser (27 November 1913 in Berlin – 8 July 2003 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a German-American sociologist, serving as the 66th president of the American Sociological Association in 1975. Biography Born in Berlin as Ludwig ...

(1913–2003), American sociologist * Carl J. Couch (1925–1994), American sociologist *

Douglas E. Cowan Douglas Edward Cowan (born 14 August 1958) is a Canadian academic in religious studies and the sociology of religion and currently holds a teaching position at Renison University College, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Prior to this a ...

, Canadian sociologist * Maxine Leeds Craig, American sociologist * Colin Crouch, British sociologist * Michel Crozier, French sociologist *

Agustin Cueva Agustín Cueva Dávila ( Ibarra, September 23, 1937 – Quito, May 1, 1992) was an Ecuadorian writer, literary critic, and Marxist sociologist. He had great interest in dependency theory and was at the center of many political debates both wi ...

, Ecuadorian sociologist *

Stefan Czarnowski Stefan Zygmunt Czarnowski (1 September 1879 – 29 December 1937) was a Polish sociologist, folklorist and professor of the University of Warsaw. Czarnowski was a member of the Polish pro-independence movements, he fought in the Polish Leg ...

(1879–1937), Polish sociologist

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Robert Dahl Robert Alan Dahl (; December 17, 1915 – February 5, 2014) was an American political theorist and Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He established the pluralist theory of democracy—in which political outcomes ar ...

(1915–2014), American political scientist *

Ralf Dahrendorf Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, (1 May 1929 – 17 June 2009) was a German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and liberal politician. A class conflict theorist, Dahrendorf was a leading expert on explaining and a ...

(1929–2009), German-British sociologist and politician * Dankwart Danckwerts (1933–2012), German sociologist *

Randy David Randolf "Randy" Siongco David (born January 8, 1946) is a Filipino journalist, sociologist, and public intellectual. He is a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He currently pens a weekly newspaper colu ...

, Filipino sociologist *

Leonore Davidoff Leonore Davidoff (31 January 1932 – 19 October 2014) was a feminist historian and sociologist who pioneered new approaches to women's history and gender relations, including through her analysis of the gendered division of roles in public a ...

(1932–2014), American-British sociologist and historian *

Kingsley Davis Kingsley Davis (August 20, 1908 – February 27, 1997) was an internationally recognized American sociologist and demographer. He was identified by the American Philosophical Society as one of the most outstanding social scientists of the twen ...

, American sociologist *

Georges Davy Georges Davy (; 31 December 1883, Bernay – 27 July 1976, Coutances) was a French sociologist. He was a student and disciple of Émile Durkheim. With Marcel Mauss Marcel Mauss (; 10 May 1872 – 10 February 1950) was a French sociologist ...

, French sociologist *

François de Singly François de Singly (1948) was born in Dreux, is a French sociologist and professor of sociology at Paris Descartes University. He has worked a lot about family Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinit ...

, French sociologist *

Régis Debray Jules Régis Debray (; born 2 September 1940) is a French philosopher, journalist, former government official and academic. He is known for his theorization of mediology, a critical theory of the long-term transmission of cultural meaning in ...

, French mediologist *

Alexander Deichsel Alexander Deichsel (born 23 February 1935) is a German sociologist and professor at the University of Hamburg (Germany). Deichsel completed his abitur at the Christianeum Hamburg. He is the founder of sociology of brand ( Markensoziologie) and ...

(born 1935), German sociologist * Christine Delphy (born 1941), French sociologist, feminist, and theorist *

Gilles Deleuze Gilles Louis René Deleuze ( , ; 18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volu ...

(1925–1995), French philosopher * Donatella della Porta, Italian sociologist and political scientist * Christine Delphy, French sociologist *

Bogdan Denitch Bogdan Denitch (born Bogdan Denis Denić, sr-Cyrl, Богдан Денис Денић; August 9, 1929 – March 28, 2016) was an American sociologist of Serb origin. He was a leading authority on the political sociology of the former Yugoslavia, ...

, American sociologist *

Régis Dericquebourg Régis Dericquebourg (born 1947) 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 t ...

(born 1947), French sociologist of religions *

Jacques Derrida Jacques Derrida (; ; born Jackie Élie Derrida; See also . 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in numerous texts, and which was developed th ...

, French philosopher *

Heinz Dieterich Heinz Dieterich or Heinz Dieterich Steffan (born 1943) is a German sociologist and a political analyst residing in Mexico. He is better known for his leftist ideals. He contributes to several journals and has published more than 30 books about c ...

, German-Mexican sociologist *

Bulent Diken Bulent Diken (born 1964) is a Danish-Turkish philosopher and sociologist who teaches at Lancaster University. He has studied urban planning at the Aarhus School of Architecture. He is known for his research on social theory, post-structuralis ...

, Danish sociologist *

Wilhelm Dilthey Wilhelm Dilthey (; ; 19 November 1833 – 1 October 1911) was a German historian, psychologist, sociologist, and hermeneutic philosopher, who held G. W. F. Hegel's Chair in Philosophy at the University of Berlin. As a polymathic philosopher, w ...

, German historian, psychologist and sociologist *

Helen Dinerman Helen Schneider Dinerman (December 25, 1920 – August 14, 1974) 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 DiMaggio, American cultural sociologist * Georgi Dimitrov Dimitrov, Bulgarian sociologist * Stuart C. Dodd, American sociologist *

G. William Domhoff George William "Bill" Domhoff (born August 6, 1936) is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus and research professor of psychology and sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a founding faculty member of UCSC's Cowell College. He i ...

, American sociologist *

Mary Douglas Dame Mary Douglas, (25 March 1921 – 16 May 2007) was a British anthropologist, known for her writings on human culture and symbolism, whose area of speciality was social anthropology. Douglas was considered a follower of Émile Durkheim ...

, British anthropologist and sociologist of perception *

Tommy Douglas Thomas Clement Douglas (20 October 1904 – 24 February 1986) was a Scottish-born Canadian politician who served as seventh premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961 and Leader of the New Democratic Party from 1961 to 1971. A Baptist min ...

, Canadian politician *

W. E. B. Du Bois William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ( ; February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American-Ghanaian sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up i ...

(1868–1963), American sociologist and civil rights leader *

Denis Duclos Denis Duclos (born 1947 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French sociologist, Ph.D. and research director at the CNRS (''National Centre for Scientific Research'') in Paris. He is the author of ''The werewolf complex: America's fascination ...

, French sociologist * Otis Dudley Duncan, American sociologist *

Mitchell Duneier Mitchell Duneier is an American sociologist and ethnographer. He is currently Maurice P. During Professor and department chair of Sociology at Princeton University and has also served as a regular Visiting Distinguished Professor of Sociology ...

, American sociologist *

Eric Dunning Eric Dunning (27 December 1936 – 10 February 2019) was a British sociologist who was Emeritus Professor of sociology at the University of Leicester. Career Eric Dunning was a pioneer in the sociology of sport and the founder, with Patrick Murp ...

, British sociologist *

Émile Durkheim David Émile Durkheim ( or ; 15 April 1858 – 15 November 1917) was a French sociologist. Durkheim formally established the academic discipline of sociology and is commonly cited as one of the principal architects of modern social science, al ...

(1858–1917), French sociologist * Troy Duster, American sociologist *

Maurice Duverger Maurice Duverger (5 June 1917 – 16 December 2014) was a French jurist, sociologist, political scientist and politician born in Angoulême, Charente. Starting his career as a jurist at the University of Bordeaux, Duverger became more and m ...

, French sociologist * Jean Duvignaud, French sociologist

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* Gerald L. Eberlein (1930–2010), German sociologist * Alain Ehrenberg, French sociologist * Eugen Ehrlich, German sociologist *

Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt (Hebrew: שמואל נח אייזנשטדט‎ 10 September 1923, Warsaw – 2 September 2010, Jerusalem) was an Israeli sociologist and writer. In 1959 he was appointed to a teaching post in the sociology department ...

(1923–2010), Israeli sociologist * Riane Eisler (born 1931), cultural historian, systems scientist, educator, and attorney *

Norbert Elias Norbert Elias (; 22 June 1897 – 1 August 1990) was a German sociologist who later became a British citizen. He is especially famous for his theory of civilizing/decivilizing processes. Biography Elias was born on 22 June 1897 in Bresla ...

(1897–1990), German sociologist *

Jacques Ellul Jacques Ellul (; ; January 6, 1912 – May 19, 1994) was a French philosopher, sociologist, lay theologian, and professor who was a noted Christian anarchist. Ellul was a longtime Professor of History and the Sociology of Institutions on ...

(1912-1994), French sociologist *

Jon Elster Jon Elster (; born 22 February 1940, Oslo) is a Norwegian philosopher and political theorist who holds the Robert K. Merton professorship of Social Science at Columbia University. He received his PhD in social science from the École Norma ...

, Norwegian sociologist * Mustafa Emirbayer, American sociologist * Hugo O. Engelmann (1917–2002), American sociologist *

Friedrich Engels Friedrich Engels ( ,"Engels"
'' Paula England Paula S. England (born 4 December 1949), is an American sociologist and Dean of Social Science at New York University Abu Dhabi. Her research has focused on gender inequality in the labor market, the family, and sexuality. She has also studied ...

, American sociologist * Ronald Enroth (born 1938), American sociologist * Kai T. Erikson (born 1931), American sociologist * Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo, Mexican sociologist * Gosta Esping-Andersen, Danish sociologist *

Amitai Etzioni Amitai Etzioni (; Werner Falk; born 4 January 1929) is a German-born Israeli-American sociologist, best known for his work on socioeconomics and communitarianism. He founded the Communitarian Network, a non-profit, non-partisan organization ...

(born 1929), American sociologist * Peter B. Evans, American sociologist

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Orlando Fals Borda Orlando Fals Borda (Barranquilla, 11 July 1925 - Bogotá, 12 August 2008) 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 Fath ...

, Colombian sociologist *

Frantz Fanon Frantz Omar Fanon (, ; ; 20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961), also known as Ibrahim Frantz Fanon, was a French West Indian psychiatrist, and political philosopher from the French colony of Martinique (today a French department). His works have b ...

, Martinican intellectual and sociologist * Rick Fantasia, American sociologist * Thomas Fararo (1933–2020), American mathematical sociologist * Paul Fauconnet (1874–1938), French sociologist * Joe Feagin, American sociologist * Fei Xiaotong (1910–2005), Chinese sociologist and anthropologist *

Anuška Ferligoj Anuška Ferligoj is a Slovenian mathematician, born August 19, 1947 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, whose specialty is statistics and network analysis. Her specific interests include multivariate analysis (theory and application in social sciences, ...

, Slovenian mathematical sociologist * Florestan Fernandes (1920–1995), Brazilian sociologist * Myra Marx Ferree (born 1949), American sociologist * Enrico Ferri, Italian sociologist and criminologist * Gary Alan Fine (born 1950), American sociologist *

Claude Fischer Claude Serge Fischer (born January 9, 1948) is an American sociologist and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in urban sociology, research methods, and American soci ...

(born 1948), American author of the subcultural theory of urbanism *

George Fitzhugh George Fitzhugh (November 4, 1806 – July 30, 1881) was an American social theorist who published racial and slavery-based sociological theories in the antebellum era. He argued that the negro was "but a grown up child" needing the economic and ...

(1806–1881), American social theorist * Crystal Marie Fleming (born 1981), American sociologist and author *

Peter Flora Peter Flora (*3 March 1944, in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria) is an Austrian citizen and taught until his retirement in spring 2009 as a professor of sociology at the University of Mannheim. Peter Flora is a son of the Austrian drawer, caricaturist, gr ...

, Austrian sociologist *

Heinz von Foerster Heinz von Foerster ( German spelling: Heinz von Förster; November 13, 1911 – October 2, 2002) was an Austrian American scientist combining physics and philosophy, and widely attributed as the originator of Second-order cybernetics. He was twice ...

(1911–2002), Austrian/American cybernetician * Pim Fortuyn (1948–2002), Dutch sociologist author and politician * Daniel A. Foss (1940–2014), American sociologist *

John Bellamy Foster John Bellamy Foster (born August 15, 1953) is an American professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and editor of the '' Monthly Review''. He writes about political economy of capitalism and economic crisis, ecology and ecological cri ...

, American sociologist and journalist *

Michel Foucault Paul-Michel Foucault (, ; ; 15 October 192625 June 1984) was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationship between power and knowledge, and ho ...

(1926–1984), French philosopher * Alfred Jules Émile Fouillée, French philosopher and sociologist *

Charles Fourier François Marie Charles Fourier (;; 7 April 1772 – 10 October 1837) was a French philosopher, an influential early socialist thinker and one of the founders of utopian socialism. Some of Fourier's social and moral views, held to be radical ...

(1772–1837), French proto-sociologist * Renée Fox, American sociologist *

Andre Gunder Frank Andre Gunder Frank (February 24, 1929 – April 25, 2005) was a German-American sociologist and economic historian who promoted dependency theory after 1970 and world-systems theory after 1984. He employed some Marxian concepts on politi ...

(1929–2005), German economic historian and sociologist *

Nancy Fraser Nancy Fraser (; born May 20, 1947) is an American philosopher, critical theorist, feminist, and the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science and professor of philosophy at The New School in New York City.Jadžić, Milo� ...

, American social theorist * Hans Freyer (1887–1969), German sociologist and philosopher *

Gilberto Freyre Gilberto de Mello Freyre (March 15, 1900 – July 18, 1987) was a Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist, congressman born in Recife, Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil. He is commonly associated with other m ...

(1900–1987), Brazilian sociologist *

Georges Friedmann Georges Philippe Friedmann (; 13 May 1902 – 15 November 1977), was a French sociologist and philosopher, known for his influential work on the effects of industrial labor on individuals and his criticisms of the uncontrolled embrace of techn ...

, French sociologist * Steve Fuller, American sociologist *

Celso Furtado Celso Monteiro Furtado (July 26, 1920 – November 20, 2004) was a 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 persi ...

, Brazilian economist

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* Luciano Gallino, Italian sociologist *

Francis Galton Sir Francis Galton, FRS FRAI (; 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911), was an English Victorian era polymath: a statistician, sociologist, psychologist, Anthropology, anthropologist, tropical Exploration, explorer, geographer, Inventio ...

(1822–1911), English statistician *

Johan Galtung Johan Vincent Galtung (born 24 October 1930) is a Norwegian sociologist who is the principal founder of the discipline of peace and conflict studies. He was the main founder of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) in 1959 and served as its ...

, Norwegian sociologist, mathematician, and founder of peace studies * Diego Gambetta, Italian sociologist * Herbert Gans (born 1927), American sociologist * Delphine Gardey (born 1967), French sociologist * Harold Garfinkel (1917–2011), American sociologist * David W Garland, British sociologist * Marcel Gauchet, French sociologist * John Gaventa, American-British sociologist *

Patrick Geddes Sir Patrick Geddes (2 October 1854 – 17 April 1932) was a British biologist, sociologist, Comtean positivist, geographer, philanthropist and pioneering town planner. He is known for his innovative thinking in the fields of urban planning ...

, Scottish sociologist *

Clifford Geertz Clifford James Geertz (; August 23, 1926 – October 30, 2006) 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 decade ...

, American anthropologist * Arnold Gehlen (1904–1976), German philosopher and sociologist *

Theodor Geiger Theodor Julius Geiger (9 November 1891 in Munich, Germany - 16 June 1952) was a German socialist, lawyer and sociologist who studied Sociology of Law, social stratification and social mobility, methodology, and intelligentsia, among other ...

(1891–1952), German sociologist *

Ernest Gellner Ernest André Gellner FRAI (9 December 1925 – 5 November 1995) was a British- Czech philosopher and social anthropologist described by ''The Daily Telegraph'', when he died, as one of the world's most vigorous intellectuals, and by ''The ...

(1925–1995), Czech-British philosopher and social anthropologist * Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1893–1983), Indian sociologist *

Anthony Giddens Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens (born 18 January 1938) is an English 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 sociologists and is ...

(born 1938), English sociologist * Franklin Henry Giddings, American sociologist *

Nigel Gilbert Geoffrey Nigel Gilbert (born 21 March 1950) 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'' (University of Surre ...

, British sociologist * Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American sociologist * Paul Gilroy, British sociologist * Salvador Giner, Spanish sociologist * Corrado Gini (1884–1965), Italian statistician *

Morris Ginsberg Morris Ginsberg FBA (14 May 1889 – 31 August 1970) was a British sociologist, who played a key role in the development of the discipline. He served as editor of '' The Sociological Review'' in the 1930s and later became the founding chairm ...

, British sociologist *

Herbert Gintis Herbert Gintis (February 11, 1940 – January 5, 2023) was an American economist, behavioral scientist, and educator known for his theoretical contributions to sociobiology, especially altruism, cooperation, epistemic game theory, gene-culture c ...

, American behavioral scientist *

Henry Giroux Henry Armand Giroux (born 1943) is an American-Canadian scholar and 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 s ...

, American sociologist of education * Todd Gitlin, American sociologist *

Barney Glaser Barney Galland Glaser (1930-2022) was an American sociologist and one of the founders of the grounded theory methodology. Glaser was born on February 27, 1930, in San Francisco, California, and lived in nearby Mill Valley. He received his Bach ...

, American sociologist * David Glass (1911–1978), British sociologist *

Barry Glassner Barry Glassner is a professor of sociology and author or co-author of nine books, including ''The Culture of Fear'', which discussed the culture of fear phenomenon. He says that many of Americans' concerns and fears are largely unfounded. In ...

(born 1952), American sociologist * Nathan Glazer, American sociologist * Max Gluckman (1911–1975), South African/English social anthropologist *

Erving Goffman Erving Goffman (11 June 1922 – 19 November 1982) was a Canadian-born sociologist, social psychologist, and writer, considered by some "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century". In 2007 '' The Times Higher Ed ...

(1922–1982), Canadian interactionistic sociologist * Steven J. Gold (born 1955), American sociologist *

Lucien Goldmann Lucien Goldmann (; 20 July 1913 – 8 October 1970) was a French philosopher and sociologist of Jewish-Romanian origin. A professor at the EHESS in Paris, he was a Marxist theorist. His wife was sociologist Annie Goldmann. Biography Goldmann w ...

, Romanian/French sociologist * Jack Goldstone, American sociologist * John H. Goldthorpe (born 1935), British sociologist * Yasunosuke Gonda, Japanese sociologist *

Jeff Goodwin Jeffrey Roger Goodwin (born January 28, 1958) is a professor of sociology at New York University. He holds a BA, MA (Sociology) and PhD (Sociology) from Harvard University. His research interests include social movements, revolutions, ...

, American sociologist *

Alvin Gouldner Alvin Ward Gouldner (July 29, 1920 – December 15, 1980) taught sociology at Antioch College (1952–1954) and was professor of sociology at Washington University in St. Louis (1957–1967), at the University at Buffalo (1947-1952), president o ...

, American sociologist * Ziya Gökalp (1876–1924), Turkish sociologist, writer, poet and political activist *

Isacque Graeber Isacque (Isaac) Graeber (August 29, 1905 – 1984) was a sociologist, Jewish historian, and writer. He wrote several books and numerous papers ranging in subject matters from Jewish-Gentile relations to Jewish Education. He studied at Columbia ...

(1905–1984), sociologist and Jewish historian *

Antonio Gramsci Antonio Francesco Gramsci ( , , ; 22 January 1891 – 27 April 1937) was an Italian Marxist philosopher, journalist, linguist, writer, and politician. He wrote on philosophy, political theory, sociology, history, and linguistics. He was a fo ...

(1891–1937), Italian Marxist and social theorist *

Mark Granovetter Mark Sanford Granovetter (; born October 20, 1943) is an American sociologist and professor at Stanford University. He is best known for his work in social network theory and in economic sociology, particularly his theory on the spread of inf ...

, American sociologist *

Richard Grathoff Richard Helmut Grathoff (1934–2013) was a Phenomenology (psychology), 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 P ...

(1934–2013), German sociologist and phenomenologist * Andrew M. Greeley, American sociologist, priest, writer *

Liah Greenfeld Liah Greenfeld is an Israeli-American Russian-Jewish interdisciplinary scholar engaged in the scientific explanation of human social reality on various levels, beginning with the individual mind and ending with the level of civilization. She has ...

(born 1954), Russian/American sociologist *

Leonid Grinin Leonid Efimovich Grinin (russian: Леони́д Ефи́мович Гри́нин; born in 1958) is a Russian philosopher of history, sociologist, political anthropologist, economist, and futurologist. Born in Kamyshin (the Volgograd Region), G ...

(born 1958), Russian sociologist *

Ludwig Gumplowicz Ludwig Gumplowicz (March 9, 1838 – August 19, 1909), was a Polish sociologist, jurist, historian, and political scientist, who taught constitutional and administrative law at the University of Graz. Gumplowicz was the son of a Jewish carpet ...

(1838–1909), Polish sociologist, one of the founders of European sociology * Dipankar Gupta (born 1949), Indian sociologist *

Georges Gurvitch Georges Gurvitch (russian: Гео́ргий Дави́дович Гу́рвич; October 20, 1894, Novorossiysk – December 12, 1965, Paris) was a Russian-born French sociologist and jurist. One of the leading sociologists of his times, he was a ...

, Russian/French sociologist *

Dimitrie Gusti Dimitrie Gusti (; 13 February 1880 – 30 October 1955) 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 o ...

(1880–1955), Romanian sociologist, the creator of the sociological monographic method

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Jürgen Habermas Jürgen Habermas (, ; ; born 18 June 1929) is a German social theorist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. His work addresses communicative rationality and the public sphere. Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas's wo ...

(born 1929), German social theorist * Jeffrey K. Hadden (1937–2003), American sociologist * Maurice Halbwachs (1877–1945), French philosopher and sociologist * Drew Halfmann (born 1967), American sociologist *

Bente Halkier Bente Halkier (born 1964) is a Danish sociologist and academic. Since 2016, she has been Professor in Sociology at the University of Copenhagen. Career Halkier was born in 1964 and completed studied at Lancaster University in England, graduati ...

, Danish sociologist *

John A. Hall John A. Hall (born 1949) is the James McGill Emeritus Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology at McGill University, Montreal. He is the author or editor of over 30 books. Education and Previous Posts Hall graduated from the Oxford Univ ...

(born 1949), British/Canadian sociologist * Stuart Hall (1932–2014), British cultural theorist *

Donna Haraway Donna J. Haraway is an American Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department and Feminist Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a prominent scholar in the field of science and technology studies. S ...

(born 1944), American gender and technology theorist * Eszter Hargittai, Hungarian sociologist * Marta Harnecker, Chilean sociologist *

David Harvey David W. Harvey (born 31 October 1935) is a British-born Marxist economic geographer, podcaster and Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He received his P ...

, British social theorist *

Chandrakala A. Hate Chandrakala Anandrao Hate (pronounced Haa-tay) (1903–1990) (née Murkute) was a writer, feminist, social worker, and professor in Bombay, India. Biography Early years Born Chandrakala Jagannath Murkute on 12 September 1903 to Dr. Jagannath a ...

(1903–1990), Indian sociologist, social worker, and author *

Darnell Hawkins Darnell Felix Hawkins (born November 24, 1946) is an American sociologist and criminologist. He is emeritus professor of African-American studies, sociology, and criminal justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is known for his researc ...

(born 1946), American sociologist, criminologist, and emeritus professor *

Peter Hedström Peter Hedström is one of the founders of the field of analytical sociology. He has made contributions to the analysis of social contagion processes and complex social networks, as well as to the philosophical and meta-theoretical foundations o ...

, Swedish sociologist *

Samuel Heilman Samuel C. 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 Heilman was born in May, 1946, to Henry and Lucia Heilman, ...

, American sociologist * Wilhelm Heitmeyer, German sociologist * Dirk Helbing, Swiss sociologist * Horst Helle, German sociologist * Ágnes Heller, Hungarian philosopher and sociologist * Celia Stopnicka Heller, American sociologist *

Will Herberg William Herberg (June 30, 1901 – March 26, 1977) was an American writer, intellectual and scholar. A communist political activist during his early years, Herberg gained wider public recognition as a social philosopher and sociologist of relig ...

(1901–1977), American sociologist *

John Heritage John Heritage (born July 10, 1946) 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. He came to prominence in 1984 with the publication of his book ...

, American sociologist * Robert Hertz, French sociologist *

Danièle Hervieu-Léger Danièle Hervieu-Léger (born 3 February 1947) is a French sociologist specialized in the sociology of religion. Biography A graduate of the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris with a doctorate in sociology, she is also editor of the journal ' ...

, French sociologist * Michael D. Higgins, Irish sociologist and current Irish president * Paul Hirst, British sociologist *

Thomas Hobbes Thomas Hobbes ( ; 5/15 April 1588 – 4/14 December 1679) was an English philosopher, considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book '' Leviathan'', in which he expounds an influ ...

, British philosopher *

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, FBA (8 September 1864 – 21 June 1929) was an English liberal political theorist and sociologist, who has been considered one of the leading and earliest proponents of social liberalism. His works, culminating i ...

, pioneer British sociologist *

Arlie Russell Hochschild Arlie Russell Hochschild (; born January 15, 1940) is an American professor emeritus of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and writer. Hochschild has long focused on the human emotions that underlie moral beliefs, practices, a ...

, American sociologist *

Richard Hoggart Herbert Richard Hoggart (24 September 1918 – 10 April 2014) was a British academic whose career covered the fields of sociology, English literature and cultural studies, with emphasis on British popular culture. Early life Hoggart was bor ...

(1918–2014), British sociologist * John Holloway, Irish sociologist * Susanne Holmström, Danish sociologist * Robert J. Holton, British sociologist *

George C. Homans George Caspar Homans (August 11, 1910 – May 29, 1989) was an American sociologist, founder of behavioral sociology, and a major contributor to the social exchange theory. Homans is best known for his research in social behavior and his works ' ...

(1910–1989), American behavioral sociologist *

Axel Honneth Axel Honneth (; ; born 18 July 1949) is a German philosopher who is the Professor for Social Philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt and the Jack B. Weinstein Professor of the Humanities in the department of philosophy at Columbia University ...

(born 1949), German social theorist * Ida R. Hoos (1912–2007), American sociologist *

Max Horkheimer Max Horkheimer (; ; 14 February 1895 – 7 July 1973) was a German philosopher and sociologist who was famous for his work in critical theory as a member of the Frankfurt School of social research. Horkheimer addressed authoritarianism, militari ...

(1895–1973), German social theorist *

Irving Louis Horowitz Irving Louis Horowitz (September 25, 1929 – March 21, 2012) was an American sociologist, author, and college professor who wrote and lectured extensively in his field, and his later years came to fear that it risked being seized by left-wing ide ...

, American sociologist *

Eugenio María de Hostos Eugenio María de Hostos (January 11, 1839 – August 11, 1903), known as "''El Gran Ciudadano de las Américas''" ("The Great Citizen of the Americas"), was a Puerto Rican educator, philosopher, intellectual, lawyer, sociologist, novelist, an ...

, Puerto Rican sociologist *

Philip N. Howard Philip N. Howard is a sociologist and communication researcher who studies the impact of information technologies on democracy and social inequality. He studies how new information technologies are used in both civic engagement and social contr ...

, Canadian American sociologist *

Spomenka Hribar Spomenka Hribar (born 25 January 1941) is a Slovenian author, philosopher, sociologist, politician, columnist, and public intellectual. She was one of the most influential Slovenian intellectuals in the 1980s, and was frequently called "the Firs ...

(born 1941), Slovenian sociologist, philosopher politician, and public intellectual * Everett Hughes, American sociologist *

Stephen J. Hunt Stephen John Hunt is a British professor of sociology at the University of the West of England.Profile ...

, British sociologist

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* Octavio Ianni (1926–2004), Brazilian sociologist *

Ibn Khaldun Ibn Khaldun (; ar, أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن خلدون الحضرمي, ; 27 May 1332 – 17 March 1406, 732-808 AH) was an Arab The Historical Muhammad', Irving M. Zeitlin, (Polity Press, 2007), p. 21; "It is, of ...

(1332/ah732–1406/ah808), North African historian, forerunner of modern historiography, sociology, and economics * Kancha Ilaiah (born 1952), Indian political scientist and social activist *

Eva Illouz Eva Illouz ( ar, إيفا اللوز ; he, אווה אילוז) (born April 30, 1961 in Fes, Morocco) is a professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. She was ...

, Moroccan sociologist * Jose Ingenieros, Argentinian sociologist * Harold Innis, Canadian sociologist who developed staples theory * John Keith Irwin (1929–2010), American sociologist known for his expertise on the American prison system * Larry Isaac, American sociologist

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* Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Danish sociologist * Eliezer Jaffe, Israeli-American sociologist * Jacquelyne Jackson (1932–2004), American sociologist and educator *

Stevi Jackson Stevi Jackson (born 23 June 1951), is an academic and writer working in the field of gender and sexuality. She has been Professor of Women's studies at the University of York, England since 1998,University of York, 2014 and is Director of the Un ...

(born 1951), British sociologist * Janet L. Jacobs (born 1948), American sociologist *

Marie Jahoda Marie Jahoda (26 January 1907 – 28 April 2001) was an Austrian-British social psychology, social psychologist. Biography Jahoda was born in Vienna to a Jewish merchant's family, and like many other psychologists of her time, grew up in Austri ...

(1907–2001), Austrian-British sociologist and social psychologist *

Marie Jaisson Marie Jaisson is a sociologist studying the sociology of medical practices and of biological phenomena, and the history of Sociology. After a Ph.D. in Sociology at EHESS (Paris), she was junior professor at the niversity of Toursand she is full p ...

, French sociologist *

Ayesha Jalal Ayesha Jalal (Punjabi, ur, ) is a Pakistani-American historian who serves as the Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University, and was the recipient of the 1998 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Family and early life Ayesha Jala ...

, Pakistani-American historian, sociologist, and professor *

Fredric Jameson Fredric Jameson (born April 14, 1934) is an American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends, particularly his analysis of postmodernity and capitalism. Jam ...

, American philosopher and social theorist * Morris Janowitz, American sociologist *

James M. Jasper James Macdonald Jasper (born 1957) is a writer and sociologist who has taught Ph.D. students at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York since 2007. He is best known for his research and theories about culture and politics, especi ...

(born 1957), American sociologist * Gail Jefferson (1938–2008), American sociologist and conversation analyst * Yasmin Jiwani, feminist academic and activist * Hans Joas, German social theorist * Carole Joffe, American sociologist *

Benton Johnson Benton Johnson (born 1928) is an American sociologist and professor emeritus of the University of Oregon's Department of Sociology. Life Benton Johnson is the son of Guy Benton Johnson and Guion Griffis Johnson. He was named Guy Benton Johns ...

(born 1928), American sociologist *

Guy Benton Johnson Guy B. Johnson (February 28, 1901 – March 23, 1991) was an American sociologist and social anthropologist. He was a distinguished student of black culture in the rural South and a pioneer advocate of racial equality. Life Johnson was born in ...

(1901–1991), American sociologist * Miriam M. Johnson (1928–2007), American sociologist *

Rodrigo Jokisch Rodrigo Jokisch (born 1946) is a German sociologist. 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, Tec ...

(born 1946), German-Mexican sociologist and social theorist * Frank Lancaster Jones (born 1937), Australian sociologist *

Lewis Wade Jones Lewis Wade Jones (March 13, 1910September 1979) was a sociologist and teacher. 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 AB degree from Fisk University in ...

(1910–1979), African/American sociologist and educator *

Danny Jorgensen Danny Lynn Jorgensen (born 1951) 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. Jorgensen's research interests include Sociology of Culture, K ...

, American sociologist * Paul Jorion, Belgian American sociologist and cognitive scientist
Jharana Jhaveri
Indian Documentary Film maker and Sociologist of Social Movements & Oppressed People's Struggle, Environmental & Human Rights.

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* Dirk Kaesler (born 1944), German sociologist * Boris Kagarlitsky, Russian sociologist * Irawati Karve, Indian anthropologist and sociologist * Alexandr Kapto, Russian and Ukrainian scientist, sociologist, and political scientist; a diplomat, journalist, politician, and statesman * Elihu Katz, American sociologist * Nitasha Kaul, Indian Kashmiri sociologist, writer, and poet *

Karl Kautsky Karl Johann Kautsky (; ; 16 October 1854 – 17 October 1938) was a Czech-Austrian philosopher, journalist, and Marxist theorist. Kautsky was one of the most authoritative promulgators of orthodox Marxism after the death of Friedrich Engels ...

, Czech Marxist theorist * Vytautas Kavolis, Lithuanian-American sociologist and literary critic * Frances Kellor (1873–1952), American sociologist, social reformer, and investigator * Stephen A. Kent, Canadian sociologist *

Lane Kenworthy Lane Kenworthy is an American professor of sociology and political science. He has worked at the University of Arizona since 2004, being a full professor since 2007. He is known for his statistical and analytic work on the economic effects of incom ...

, American sociologist *

Sherin Khankan Sherin Khankan (born Ann Christine Khankan; 13 October 1974) is Denmark's (and Scandinavia's) first female imam; she founded a women-led mosque in Copenhagen. She is also an activist on Muslim issues including female integration and extremism, a ...

, Danish sociologist *

Abdelkebir Khatibi Abdelkebir Khatibi ( ar, عبد الكبير الخطيبي) (11 February 1938 – 16 March 2009) was a prolific Moroccan literary critic, novelist, philosopher, playwright, poet, and sociologist. Affected in his late twenties by the rebellious ...

(1938–2009), Moroccan literary critic, novelist, philosopher, playwright, poet, and sociologist * Aquila Berlas Kiani (1921–2012), Indian sociologist and educator * Baruch Kimmerling, Israeli sociologist * Susan Myra Kingsbury (1870–1949), American sociologist * Julieta Kirkwood (1936–1985), Chilean sociologist, political scientist, and feminist activist *

Evelyn M. Kitagawa Evelyn Mae Kitagawa (1920 – September 15, 2007) was an American sociologist and demographer who worked as a professor at the University of Chicago and became president of the Population Association of America and chair of the U.S. Census Bureau ...

(1920–2007), American sociologist, demographer, and educator *

John Kitsuse John Itsuro Kitsuse (1923, Imperial Valley, California, US - 27 November 2003, Santa Cruz, California, US) was an American professor of sociology who contributed to the sociology of social problems, criminology Criminology (from Latin , "a ...

, Japanese-American sociologist * Gabriele Klein (born 1957), sociologist, dance theorist, and educator * Bernardo Kliksberg, Argentinian sociologist * Eric Klinenberg, American sociologist *

Karin Knorr Cetina Karin Knorr Cetina (also Karin Knorr-Cetina) (born 19 July 1944 in Graz, Austria) is an Austrian sociologist well known for her work on epistemology and social constructionism, summarized in the books ''The Manufacture of Knowledge: An Essay o ...

(born 1944), Austrian sociologist * Antonina Kłoskowska (1919–2001), Polish sociologist *

(born 1944), Austrian sociologist *

Katsuya Kodama is a Japanese peace researcher and sociologist specialized in the research of non-violent peace activism, study on Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, refugee issues, foreign workers, and peace-building. He is a current Secretary-General of I ...

(born 1959), Japanese sociologist and peace researcher * Mirra Komarovsky (1905–1999), Russian-American sociologist * René König (1906–1992), German sociologist *

Andrey Korotayev Andrey Vitalievich Korotayev (russian: link=yes, Андре́й Вита́льевич Корота́ев; born 17 February 1961) is a Russian anthropologist, economic historian, comparative political scientist, demographer and sociologist, ...

(born 1961), Russian sociologist * Reinhart Koselleck (1923–2006), German historian and social theorist * Maksim Kovalevsky (1851–1916), Russian sociologist * Siegfried Kracauer, German sociologist *

Julia Kristeva Julia Kristeva (; born Yuliya Stoyanova Krasteva, bg, Юлия Стоянова Кръстева; on 24 June 1941) is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, semiotician, psychoanalyst, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who ha ...

, Bulgarian-French feminist sociologist * Alfred L. Kroeber (1876–1960), American anthropologist *

Peter Kropotkin Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (; russian: link=no, Пётр Алексе́евич Кропо́ткин ; 9 December 1842 – 8 February 1921) was a Russian anarchist, socialist, revolutionary, historian, scientist, philosopher, and activist ...

(1842–1921), Russian anarchist thinker * Thomas S. Kuhn (1922–1996), American science theorist * Eugene M. Kulischer (1891–1956), Russian/American sociologist *

Charles Kurzman Charles Kurzman is a Professor of Sociology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who specializes in Middle East and Islamic studies. Education and employment After completing his B.A. at Harvard University in 1986, he completed his M.A. ...

, American sociologist *

Martin Kusch Martin Kusch (born 19 October 1959) 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. Pri ...

, Austrian philosopher and sociologist

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* William Labov (born 1927), American sociolinguist and dialectologist *

Jacques Lacan Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (, , ; 13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Described as "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud", Lacan gave yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, and ...

(1901–1981), French psychoanalyst * Richard Lachmann, American sociologist, specialist in comparative historical sociology *

Ernesto Laclau Ernesto Laclau (; 6 October 1935 – 13 April 2014) was an Argentine political theorist and philosopher. He is often described as an 'inventor' of post-Marxist political theory. He is well known for his collaborations with his long-term partner ...

, Argentinian sociologist *

Joyce Ladner Joyce Ann Ladner (born October 12, 1943) is an American civil rights activist, author, civil servant, and sociologist. Early life and education Ladner was born in Battles, Wayne County, Mississippi, on October 12, 1943, and grew up in nearby Hatt ...

, American sociologist and activist * Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher *

Janja Lalich Janja Lalich (b. 1945) is an American sociologist and writer. Lalich is best known as a foremost expert on cults and coercion, charismatic authority, power relations, ideology and social control. She is a professor emerita of sociology at the C ...

(born 1945), American sociologist * Michele Lamont, American sociologist * Diane Lamoureux (born 1954), Canadian sociologist, professor, and writer *

David C. Lane David Christopher Lane (born April 29, 1956 in Burbank, California) is a professor of philosophy and sociology at Mt. San Antonio College, in Walnut, California. He is notable for his book ''The Making of a Spiritual Movement: The Untold Story o ...

(born 1956), American sociologist * Ralph Larkin, American sociologist *

Scott Lash Scott Lash (born December 23, 1945) is a professor of sociology and cultural studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. Lash obtained a BSc in Psychology from the University of Michigan, an MA in Sociology from Northwestern University, and a PhD ...

, American sociologist *

Harold Lasswell Harold Dwight Lasswell (February 13, 1902December 18, 1978) was an American political scientist and communications theorist. He earned his bachelor's degree in philosophy and economics and was a PhD student at the University of Chicago. He was ...

, American political sociologist *

Bruno Latour Bruno Latour (; 22 June 1947 – 9 October 2022) was a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist.Wheeler, Will. ''Bruno Latour: Documenting Human and Nonhuman Associations'' Critical Theory for Library and Information Science. Libraries ...

(born 1947), French sociologist of science * Peter Lavrovich Lavrov, Russian sociologist *

John Law John Law may refer to: Arts and entertainment * John Law (artist) (born 1958), American artist * John Law (comics), comic-book character created by Will Eisner * John Law (film director), Hong Kong film director * John Law (musician) (born 1961) ...

, British sociologist * Paul F. Lazarsfeld (1901–1976), Austrian/American sociologist *

Gustave Le Bon Charles-Marie Gustave Le Bon (; 7 May 1841 – 13 December 1931) was a leading French polymath whose areas of interest included anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, invention, and physics. He is best known for his 1895 work '' The Crowd ...

(1841–1931), French social psychologist * Frederic Le Play, early French sociologist *

Anna Leander Anna Leander is a sociologist and political scientist. Leander is currently a professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. She previously taught at the Copenhagen Business School and the Inst. de Relaco ...

, Danish sociologist *

Emil Lederer Emil Lederer (22 July 1882 – 29 May 1939) was a Bohemian-born German economist and sociologist. Purged from his position at Humboldt University of Berlin in 1933 for being Jewish, Lederer fled into exile. He helped establish the "University ...

, German sociologist *

Henri Lefebvre Henri Lefebvre ( , ; 16 June 1901 – 29 June 1991) was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist, best known for pioneering the critique of everyday life, for introducing the concepts of the right to the city and the production of s ...

(1901–1991),

French French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...

Marxist Marxism is a left-wing to far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand class relations and social conflict and a dialecti ...

philosopher * Charles Lemert (born 1937), American sociologist * Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary and intellectual * Gerhard Lenski, American evolutionary sociologist * Magdalena León de Leal (born 1939), Colombian sociologist * Yuri Levada, Russian sociologist * John Levi Martin, American sociologist * Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009), French anthropologist * Jack Levin (born 1941), American sociologist/criminologist * Barry B. Levine (1941–2020), American sociologist * Ruth Levitas, British sociologist * Daniel Levy (sociologist), Daniel Levy, German-American sociologist * Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857–1939), French philosopher, sociologist, and ethnographer * Kurt Lewin, German social psychologist * Loet Leydesdorff, Dutch sociologist * Li Yinhe (born 1952), Chinese sociologist, sexologist, and activist * Nan Lin, American sociologist * Alfred R. Lindesmith (1905–1991), American sociologist of drug policy * Frederick B. Lindstrom (1915–1998), American sociologist of the arts * Gilles Lipovetsky, French philosopher * Seymour Martin Lipset (1922–2006), American comparativist sociologist * Émile Littré, French philosopher and sociologist, disciple of Comte * Omar Lizardo, American sociologist * John Locke, English philosopher * David Lockwood (sociologist), David Lockwood, British sociologist * Joseph Lopreato, American sociologist * Leo Löwenthal, German sociologist * Michael Löwy, Brazilian-French sociologist * Nathalie Luca (born 1966), French sociologist * Thomas Luckmann (1927–2016), German sociologist * Anthony Ludovici (1882–1971), British conservative sociologist and philosopher * Niklas Luhmann (1927–1998), German sociologist (systems theory) * György Lukács, Hungarian philosopher * Steven Lukes, British social theorist * George A. Lundberg, George Lundberg (1895–1966), American sociologist (scientific) * Rosa Luxemburg (1870–1919), German socialist theoretician * Robert Staughton Lynd (1892–1970), American sociologist * Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998), French philosopher

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* Amin Maalouf, Lebanese author with a degree in sociology * Richard Machalek (born 1946), American sociologist and sociobiologist * Robert Morrison MacIver (1882–1970), Scottish/American sociologist * Donald Angus MacKenzie, Donald A. MacKenzie, British sociologist * Annie Marion MacLean (1869–1934), Canadian-American applied sociologist * Michel Maffesoli, French sociologist * Henry Maine (1822–1888), British jurist and legal historian * Sinisa Malesevic (born 1969), Irish political and historical sociologist * Bronisław Malinowski (1884–1942), Polish social anthropologist * Thomas Malthus (1766–1834), English demographer * Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Brazilian social theorist * Michael Mann (sociologist), Michael Mann (born 1942), British/American sociologist * Karl Mannheim (1893–1947), Hungarian/German sociologist * Peter K. Manning (born 1940), American sociologist * José María Maravall, Spanish sociologist * Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), German/American sociologist (Frankfurt School) * Władysław Markiewicz (1920–2017), Polish sociologist * Catherine Marry, French sociologist * Dennis Marsden, British sociologist * Alfred Marshall, English economist * Thomas Humphrey Marshall, British sociologist * Everett Dean Martin, American sociologist * Jean Martin (sociologist), Jean Martin, Australian sociologist * John Levi Martin, American sociologist * Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), English writer described as 'first female sociologist' * Vladimir Martynenko (born 1957), Russian sociologist, economist, political scientist * Margaret Maruani (born 1954), Tunisian-French sociologist * Gary T. Marx, American sociologist * Karl Marx (1818–1883), German political philosopher, social theorist * Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czech sociologist * Douglas Massey, American sociologist * Brian Massumi, Canadian social theorist * Humberto Maturana, Chilean biologist and sociologist of knowledge * Marcel Mauss (1872–1950), French sociologist * Carl R May (born 1961), British medical sociologist * Doug McAdam, American sociologist * Fayette Avery McKenzie (1872–1957), American sociologist * Robert McKenzie (psephologist), Robert McKenzie (1917–1981), Canadian Politics professor and psephologist * Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980), Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar * George Herbert Mead (1863–1931), American philosopher and social psychologist * Margaret Mead (1901–1978), American cultural anthropologist * Stephen Mennell (born 1944), English sociologist *Fatema Mernissi (1940–2015), Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist * Robert K. Merton (1910–2003), American sociologist * Michael Messner (born 1952), American pro-feminist sociologist * John W. Meyer, American sociologist * Robert Michels (1876–1936), German political sociologist * Ralph Miliband, British sociologist * C. Wright Mills (1916–1962), American sociologist * Andrew Milner (born 1950), British-Australian sociologist of literature * Ann Mische, American sociologist * Munesuke Mita, Japanese sociologist * J. Clyde Mitchell (1918–1995), British social anthropologist * Shinji Miyadai (born 1959), Japanese sociologist * Tariq Modood, British sociologist * Abraham Moles (1920–1992), French sociologist, psychologist, and engineer * Andres Molina Enriquez, Mexican sociologist * Montesquieu, French philosopher * James D. Montgomery (economist), James D. Montgomery, American economist and mathematical sociologist * Barrington Moore, Jr., American political sociologist * Edgar Morin, French sociologist * Gaetano Mosca (1858–1941), Italian political and social scientist * Serge Moscovici, French psychologist and major influence in the study of social representations and social movements * Chantal Mouffe, Belgian post-Marxist theorist * Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927–2003), American sociologist, diplomat and politician * Radhakamal Mukerjee, Indian sociologist * Peter A. Munch (1908–1984), Norwegian/American sociologist * Charles Murray (political scientist), Charles Murray (born 1943), American sociologist * Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987), Swedish economist, sociologist, and politician

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* Ashis Nandy, Indian sociologist * Vicenç Navarro, Spanish sociologist * Victor Nee, American sociologist * Antonio Negri, Italian political philosopher and critic of Luhmann * Oswald von Nell-Breuning (1890–1991), German Roman Catholic theologian, sociologist and social reformer * Otto Neurath (1882–1945), Austrian sociologist and political economist * Otto Newman (born Neumann 1922–2015), Austrian-British sociologist * Norman H. Nie (1943–2015), Inventor of SPSS * Robert Nisbet (1913–1996), American sociologist * Helga Nowotny (born 1937), Austrian sociologist

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* Claus Offe (born 1940), German sociologist * William F. Ogburn (1886–1959), American sociologist * Lloyd Ohlin, American sociologist * Michael Omi, American sociologist * Gail Omvedt (1941–2021), American/Indian sociologist * T. K. Oommen, Indian sociologist * Franz Oppenheimer (1864–1943), German sociologist and political economist * José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher * Stanislaw Ossowski (1897–1963), Polish sociologist * Moisey Ostrogorsky, Russian sociologist

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* Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923), Italian economist and sociologist * Robert E. Park (1864–1944), American sociologist * Talcott Parsons (1902–1979), American sociologist * CJ Pascoe, C.J. Pascoe, American sociologist * Jean-Claude Passeron, French sociologist * Orlando Patterson, American sociologist * Karl Pearson (1857–1936), English statistician * Willie Pearson Jr, American sociologist * Jacqueline Peschard (1965), Mexican sociologist * James Petras, American sociologist * Jean Piaget (1896–1980), Swiss developmental psychologist * Andrew Pickering, British sociologist * Trevor Pinch, British sociologist * Michael Plekon, American sociologist * Helmuth Plessner, German sociologist * Joel M. Podolny, American sociologist * Karl Polanyi, Hungarian economist * Friedrich Pollock, German social scientist * Karl Popper, Austrian philosopher * John Porter (sociologist), John Porter (1921–1979), Canadian sociologist * Alejandro Portes, Cuban-American sociologist * Adam Possamai, Belgian Born Sociologist * Nicos Poulantzas (1936–1979), Greek political sociologist * Émile Poulat, French historian and sociologist * Walter W. Powell, American sociologist * Ricardo Pozas Arciniega, Mexican sociologist and anthropologist * Suzana Prates (1940-1988), Brazilian feminist sociologist and academic * Anette Prehn, Danish sociologist * Harriet B. Presser (died 2012), American sociologist and demographer * Samuel H. Preston, American demographer and sociologist * Ilya Prigogine, Belgian chemist, main contribution to sociology is dissipative structures theory * Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865), French utopian socialist thinker * Adam Przeworski, Polish political sociologist * Jade Puget (born 1973), American musician * Robert Putnam (born 1941), American political scientist * Bindeshwar Pathak (born 1943), Indian sociologist

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* Sigrid Quack, German sociologist * Enrico Quarantelli, American sociologist * Adolphe Quetelet, French statistician and sociologist * Anibal Quijano, Peruvian sociologist * Richard Quinney (born 1934), American sociologist

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* Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (1881–1955), British social anthropologist * Charles C. Ragin, American sociologist * Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austrian sociologist * Stephen Raudenbush, American sociologist and statistician * Aviad Raz (born 1968), Israeli sociologist and anthropologist * Sal Restivo, American sociologist * John Rex (1925–2011), British sociologist * James Mahmud Rice (born 1972), Australian sociologist * Sam Richards (sociologist), Sam Richards, American sociologist * Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher * David Riesman, American sociologist * George Ritzer (born 1940), American sociologist * Roland Robertson, British sociologist * William I. Robinson, American sociologist * Terje Rød-Larsen (born 1947), Norwegian diplomat and sociologist * Jesús M. de Miguel Rodríguez (born 1947), Spanish sociologist * Arnold Marshall Rose, American sociologist * Gillian Rose, British sociologist * Nikolas Rose, British sociologist * Paul Rosenfels (1909–1985), American psychologist and sociologist * Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888–1973), German social philosopher * Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher * Rubén G. Rumbaut, Cuban-American sociologist * Walter Garrison Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford, W. G. Runciman, British sociologist * Arne Runeberg (1912–1979), Finnish sociologist, anthropologist and linguist

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* Harvey Sacks (died 1975), American sociologist and ethnomethodologist * Renaud Sainsaulieu (1936–2002), French sociologist concerned with the sociology of organizations * Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, Henri de Saint-Simon (1760–1825), French philosopher and social thinker * Robert J. Sampson, American sociologist * Pierre Sansot, French sociologist * Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Portuguese sociologist * Giovanni Sartori (1924–2017), Italian political scientist * Saskia Sassen (born 1949), American sociologist * Peter Robert Saunders, Peter Saunders, Australian sociologist * Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913), Swiss linguist (structuralism) * Albert Schäffle, German sociologist * Thomas J. Scheff, American sociologist * Emanuel Schegloff, American sociologist * Max Scheler, German philosopher and founder of the sociology of knowledge * Helmut Schelsky (1912–1984), German sociologist * Juraj Schenk (born 1948), Slovak sociologist * Herbert Schiller, American sociologist * Kurt C. Schlichting, American sociologist * Wolfgang Schluchter, German sociologist * Paul Schnabel, Dutch sociologist * Allan Schnaiberg (1939–2009), American environmental sociologist * Juliet Schor, American sociologist * Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950), Austrian economist * Alfred Schütz (1899–1959), Austrian philosopher and sociologist (phenomenology) * Michael Schwartz (sociologist), Michael Schwartz (born 1942), American sociologist * John Scott (sociologist), John Scott (born 1949), British sociologist * Leonard Seabrooke, Australian sociologist * Jean Séguy, French sociologist of religions (1925–2007) * Steven Seidman, American sociologist * Pınar Selek, Turkish sociologist * Philip Selznick, American sociologist * Amartya Sen, Indian economist influential in the sociology of development * Richard Sennett (born 1943), American sociologist and public figure * William H. Sewell, American sociologist * Steven Shapin, American sociologist * Jeremy J. Shapiro, American sociologist * Ali Shariati (1933–1977), Iranian sociologist and writer * Tamotsu Shibutani, Japanese-American sociologist * Bahija Ahmed Shihab (1932–2012), Iraqi sociologist and professor * Edward Shils, American sociologist * Anson Shupe, American sociologist * Volkmar Sigusch, German sociologist and sexuologe * Charles E. Silberman, American criminologist * François Simiand, French sociologist * Georg Simmel (1858–1918), German sociologist and philosopher * Herbert A. Simon, American social scientist * Theda Skocpol (born 1947), American sociologist and political scientist * Albion Woodbury Small (1854–1926), American sociologist * Neil Smelser, American sociologist * Adam Smith (1723–1790), Scottish economist and philosopher * Christian Smith (sociologist), Christian Smith (born 1960), American sociologist of religion * Dorothy E. Smith (born 1926), British/American sociologist and gender theorist * Stephen C. Smith (sociologist), Stephen C. Smith (born 1968), American sociologist and 21st century trend researcher * Tom Snijders, Dutch mathematical sociologist * David A. Snow (born 1942), American sociologist * Werner Sombart (1863–1941), German economist and sociologist * Georges Sorel, French philosopher * Bernardo Sorj (born 1948), Brazilian sociologist * Pitirim Sorokin (1889–1968), Russian sociologist * Herbert Spencer (1820–1903), English philosopher * Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), German philosopher * Lynette Spillman, American sociologist * Hasso Spode, German sociologist and historian * M N Srinivas (1916–1999), Indian sociologist * Susan Star, American sociologist * Carl Nicolai Starcke, Danish sociologist * David C. Stark, American sociologist * Paul Starr, American sociologist * Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Mexican anthropologist and sociologist * George Steinmetz (academic), George Steinmetz, American sociologist * Ana María Díaz Stevens, Puerto Rican-American sociologist * Samuel A. Stouffer, American sociologist * Anselm L. Strauss (1916–1996), American sociologist * Lucy Suchman, American sociologist * Mark Suchman, American sociologist * Thomas Sugrue, American historian and sociologist * William Graham Sumner (1840–1910), American sociologist * Eilert Sundt (1817–1875), Norwegian sociologist * Edwin Sutherland (1893–1950), American criminologist * Ian Svenonius, American cultural sociologist * Richard Swedberg, Swedish sociologist * Ann Swidler, American sociologist * Jan Szczepanski (sociologist), Jan Szczepanski (1913–2004), Polish sociologist * Iván Szelényi, Hungarian-American sociologist * Piotr Sztompka (born 1944), Polish sociologist

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* Hippolyte Taine (1828–1893), French positivist historian and critic * Yasuma Takada, Japanese sociologist * Salim Tamari, Palestinian historical sociologist * Lisa Taraki, Palestinian sociologist * Alexander Tarasov, Russian sociologist * Gabriel Tarde (1843–1904), French sociologist and social psychologist * Sidney Tarrow, American sociologist * R. H. Tawney, English ethical socialist * Dorceta Taylor, American environmental sociologist * Ian Taylor (Sociologist), Ian Taylor (1944–2001), English sociologist and criminologist * Laurie Taylor (sociologist), Laurie Taylor (born 1936), English sociologist and broadcaster * Göran Therborn, Swedish-British sociologist * W. I. Thomas (1863–1947), American social psychologist * E. P. Thompson (1924–1993), British socialist historian * John Thompson (sociologist), John Thompson, British sociologist of culture and media * Sarah Thornton (born 1965), Canadian sociologist, writer, and ethnographer * Ole Thyssen, Danish sociologist * Charles Tilly (1929–2008), American sociologist * Nicholas Timasheff, Russian sociologist * Valery Tishkov (born 1941), Russian ethnologist and sociologist * Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859), French essayist and political analyst * Ferdinand Tönnies (1855–1936), German philosopher and founder of German sociology * Alain Touraine (born 1925), French sociologist * Peter Townsend (sociologist), Peter Townsend, British sociologist of poverty * Judith Treas, American sociologist * Renato Treves, Italian sociologist * Ernst Troeltsch, German sociologist and philosopher * Raimo Tuomela, Finnish philosopher and social theorist * Sherry Turkle, American sociologist * Bryan S. Turner (sociologist), Bryan S. Turner, British sociologist * Jonathan H. Turner, American social theorist * Victor Turner, British anthropologist * France Winddance Twine (born 1960), American sociologist and ethnographer * Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist

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* John Urry (sociologist), John Urry, British sociologist

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* Mariana Valverde, Canadian sociologist * Francisco Varela (1946–2001), Chilean biologist and philosopher * Aninhalli Vasavi (born 1958), Indian sociologist * Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), American sociologist and economist * Ruut Veenhoven, Dutch sociologist * Calvin Veltman (born 1941), Canadian sociologist, demographer and sociolinguist * Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, American sociologist * Alfred Vierkandt, German sociologist * George Edgar Vincent, American sociologist * Paul Virilio, French philosopher and social theorist * Shiv Visvanathan, Indian sociologist and social scientist

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* Loïc Wacquant, French sociologist * Peter Wagner (social theorist), Peter Wagner, German sociologist and social theorist * Sylvia Walby, British sociologist * Immanuel Wallerstein (1930–2019), American sociologist and historian * Margit Warburg, Danish sociologist * Lester Frank Ward (1841–1913), founder of American sociology * Vron Ware, British educator and journalist * Duncan Watts, American mathematical sociologist and network theorist * Emile Waxweiler, Belgian sociologist * Beatrice Webb (1858–1943), British socialist and social theorist * Sidney Webb (1859–1947), British socialist and social theorist * Alfred Weber (1868–1958), German sociologist * Marianne Weber, German sociologist * Max Weber (1864–1920), German sociologist * Frank Webster (sociologist), Frank Webster (born 1950), British sociologist * Margaret Weir, sociologist and political scientist * Barry Wellman (born 1942), Canadian/American sociologist * Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931), American sociologist, journalist, social worker * John Westergaard (1931–2003), British sociologist * Edvard Westermarck (1862–1939), Finnish sociologist and philosopher * Nathan Whetten (1900–1984), American sociologist and academic administrator * Douglas R. White (1942–2021), American mathematical sociologist and anthropologist * Harrison White, American sociologist * William Foote Whyte, American sociologist * William H. Whyte (1917–1999), American sociologist, journalist and peoplewatcher * Saskia Wieringa (born in 1950), Dutch sociologist and professor * Leopold von Wiese, German sociologist * Michel Wieviorka (born 1946), French sociologist * Jean-Paul Willaime (born 1947), French sociologist of religions * Sidney M. Willhelm (1934–2018), American sociologist, author * Raymond Williams (1921–1988), British sociologist, novelist, and critic * Paul Willis (born 1945), British sociologist and social scientist * Helmut Willke, German sociologist * William Julius Wilson (born 1935), American sociologist * Howard Winant, American sociologist * Christopher Winship, American sociologist * Louis Wirth (1897–1952), German/American sociologist * Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski (1944–2015), Polish sociologist * Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), British social reformer * Steve Woolgar, British sociologist * Monroe Work (1866–1945), American sociologist * Erik Olin Wright, American sociologist * Robert Wuthnow, American sociologist

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* Lewis Yablonsky, American sociologist * Kazuo Yamaguchi, Japanese sociologist, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago 1946– * Masahiro Yamada (sociologist), Masahiro Yamada, Japanese sociologist * John Milton Yinger, American sociologist, president of the American Sociological Association 1976–1977 * Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington, Michael Young, British sociologist and Labour Party (UK), Labour politician

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* Benjamin Zablocki (1941–2020), American sociologist and social psychologist * Mayer Zald, American sociologist * Tatyana Zaslavskaya, Russian sociologist * René Zavaleta Mercado (1935–1984), Bolivian sociologist * Viviana Zelizer, American sociologist * Eviatar Zerubavel, American cognitive sociologist * Jean Ziegler (born 1934), Swiss sociologist * Florian Znaniecki (1882–1958), Polish/American sociologist * Irving Zola, American medical sociologist and disability rights activist * Tukufu Zuberi, American sociologist * Harriet Zuckerman, American sociologist, specializes in science * Sharon Zukin, American sociologist

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