This is a list of sociologists. It is intended to cover those who have made substantive contributions to social theory and research, including any sociological subfield. Scientists in other fields and philosophers are not included, unless at least some of their work is defined as being specifically sociological in nature.

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* Peter Abell, British sociologist * Mark Abrams (1906–1994), British sociologist, political scientist and pollster * Janet Abu-Lughod (1928–2013), American sociologist * Jane Addams (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, 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, American sociologist * Eric Anderson, American-British sociologist *

Elijah Anderson Elijah Anderson may refer to: * Elijah Anderson (rugby league) (born 1999), Australian rugby league footballer *Elijah Anderson (sociologist) Elijah Anderson (born 1943 in Hermondale, Missouri) is an American sociologist. He is the Sterling Pr ...

, American sociologist * Stanislav Andreski, Polish-British sociologist * Aaron Antonovsky, Israeli sociologist * Arjun Appadurai, Indian sociologist * Andrew Arato, 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 (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 (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, 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 ess ...

(1937–2018), Swedish sociologist * Vilhelm Aubert (1922–1988), Norwegian sociologist * Francisco Ayala, Spanish sociologist and novelist

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* Élisabeth Badinter (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. He ...

, 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 ( ...

, French sociologist * Emily Greene Balch, 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 (born 1938), British sociologist and professor * Barry Barnes, British sociologist *

Liberty Barnes Liberty Walther Barnes is a sociologist, ethnographer, and writer. She holds affiliations at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and the University of Oregon in the United States. Trained in medical sociology and gender studies, B ...

, American sociologist * Roland Barthes (1915–1980), French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician *

Robert Bartholomew Robert Emerson Bartholomew (born August 17, 1958) is an American medical sociologist, journalist and author living in New Zealand. He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the University of Auckland in New ...

(born 1958), American medical sociologist living in New Zealand *

Roger Bastide Roger Bastide ( Nîmes, 1 April 1898 – Maisons-Laffitte, 10 April 1974) was a French sociologist and anthropologist, specialist in sociology and Brazilian literature. He was raised as a Protestant and studied philosophy in France, developing at ...

, 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 an ...

(1904–1980), English/American cybernetician * Jean Baubérot (born 1941), French historian and sociologist * Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007), French cultural theorist * Zygmunt Bauman (1925–2017), Polish/British sociologist *

Frank Bean Frank Dawson Bean Jr. (born May 20, 1942) is Chancellor's Professor of Sociology and Director of thCenter for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policyat the University of California, Irvine. Bean came to Irvine in 1999, after holdi ...

, 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 Pr ...

(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 a ...

(1944–2015), German sociologist * Gary Becker, 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 Let ...

, 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 (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, Filipino sociologist * Reinhard Bendix, German-American sociologist * Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), German cultural writer and sociologist * Albert Benschop (1949–2018), Dutch sociologist * Joseph Berger, American sociologist * Peter L. Berger (1929–2017), Austro-American sociologist *

Pierre L. van den Berghe Pierre L. van den Berghe (1933–2019) was a professor emeritus of sociology and anthropology at the University of Washington, where he had worked since 1965. Born in the Belgian Congo to Belgian parents, and spending World War II in occupied ...

, 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

(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 extraord ...

, 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 Friedric ...

, 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 Hin ...

, Nepalese sociologist *

Robert Bierstedt Robert Bierstedt (1913–1998) was an American sociologist who often wrote about sociological theory, culture, and constitutional law. He was a native of Burlington, Iowa and graduated in philosophy from the University of Iowa in 1934. He received ...

, American sociologist *

Norman Birnbaum Norman Birnbaum (July 21, 1926 – January 4, 2019) was an American sociologist. He was an emeritus professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, and a member of the editorial board of ''The Nation''. Early life He was educated in New Yo ...

, American sociologist * Margunn Bjørnholt (born 1958), Norwegian sociologist and economist * Donald Black, American sociologist * Peter Blau (1918–2002), American sociologist *

Kathleen M. Blee Kathleen M. Blee (born 1953) is a professor of sociology and Bettye J. and Ralph E. Bailey Dean of the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and the College of General Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Biography Blee completed ...

(born 1953), American sociologist *

Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg (born August 2, 1929) is a German sociologist, ethnologist, sexologist, and writer further specializing into the fields of psychology, Indo-European studies, religious studies, and philosophy, since 1980 also increasin ...

(born 1929), German sociologist, ethnologist, and sexologist *

Danielle Bleitrach Danielle Bleitrach (born 1938) is a French people, French sociologist and journalist. From the 1970s through the end of the century, she was Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS researcher and lecturer at the Aix-Marseille University ...

(born 1938), French sociologist and journalist * David Bloor, British sociologist * Herbert Blumer (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 "pragmatic ...

, 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 c ...

(born 1949), American sociologist * Charles Booth, British social researcher *

Ernst Borinski Ernst Borinski (November 26, 1901 – May 26, 1983) was a German-Jewish sociologist and intellectual, who contributed to undermining Jim Crow laws in Mississippi during the 1950s and 1960s. Background Borinski was born in the city of Kattowi ...

(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, French sociologist * Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002), French sociologist * Victor Branford (1863–1930), British sociologist *

Ronald Breiger Ronald Breiger is an American sociologist and a Regents Professor, a professor of sociology and (by courtesy) government and public policy, an affiliate of the interdisciplinary graduate program in statistics and data science, and an affiliate of ...

, American sociologist * John David Brewer (born 1951), British sociologist *

Carl Brinkmann Carl Brinkmann (19 March 1885 – 20 May 1954) was a German sociologist and economist, focusing on socioeconomics and the history of political economy. Brinkmann was born in Tilsit, East Prussia, now in Kaliningrad, and died in Oberstdorf, Allgäu ...

(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 Hauke Brunkhorst (born 24 October 1945) is a German political sociologist, Professor of Sociology and Head of the Institute of Sociology at the University of Flensburg The University of Flensburg (''Europa-Universität Flensburg'') is a universi ...

, 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 Monastery ...

, 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 ...

(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 the ...

, French sociologist * Craig Calhoun, American sociologist * Michel Callon, French sociologist * Elias Canetti, Bulgaria-born novelist and outsider sociologist * Georges Canguilhem, French intellectual * Fernando Henrique Cardoso (born 1931), Brazilian sociologist, former President of Brazil * Kathleen Carley, American computational sociologist * Antonio Caso, Mexican sociologist * Robert Castel, French sociologist * Julieta Castellanos (born 1952), Honduran sociologist * Manuel Castells (born 1942), Spanish sociologist and urban planner * Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–1997), Greek philosopher and political theorist * Michel de Certeau, 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 Louis Chauvel (born 2 November 1967) is a French sociologist, full professor at University of Luxembourg, PhD Université de Lille (1997), Habilitation Sciences Po (2003). He is specialized in social generations, in the analysis of social struct ...

(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 Ann-Dorte Christensen is a Danish professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Aalborg University. Education In 1982 Christensen graduated as Master of Philosophy in social science at Aalborg University. Subsequently, Christe ...

, 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, American sociologist *

Dieter Claessens Dieter Claessens (2 August 1921 in Berlin – 30 March 1997 in Berlin) was a German sociologist and anthropologist. Life Returning as POW from the Soviet Union Dieter Claessens studied sociology, anthropology, and psychology in Berlin, where ...

(1921–1997), German sociologist * Lars Clausen (1935–2010), German sociologist *

Marshall B. Clinard Marshall Barron Clinard (November 12, 1911 – May 30, 2010) was an American sociologist who specialized in criminology. Criminological studies spanned across his entire career, from an examination of the Black Market during World War II to much m ...

(1911–2010), American sociologist (criminology) *

Clifford Clogg Clifford Collier Clogg (October 16, 1949 – May 7, 1995) was an American sociologist, demographer, and statistician. He is best known for his contributions to population statistics, categorical data analysis, and latent class analysis. Biograp ...

, American sociologist * Richard Cloward (1926–2001), American sociologist *

Philip N. Cohen Philip N. Cohen is an American sociology, sociologist. He is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and director of SocArXiv, an open archive of the social sciences. Early life Cohen grew up in Ithaca, New York an ...

, 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 ...

, British sociologist * Patricia Hill Collins (born 1948), American sociologist * Randall Collins, 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, American sociologist * R.W. Connell (born 1944), Australian sociologist * Paul Connerton, British sociologist * Charles Cooley (1864–1929), American sociologist * Anna Julia Cooper, American sociologist * Lewis A. Coser (1913–2003), American sociologist *

Carl J. Couch Carl J. Couch (June 9, 1925 - September 15, 1994) a noted American sociologist, was the founder of the New Iowa School of Symbolic Interaction. He was also one of the founders oSociety for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Couch's key areas of scho ...

(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 appo ...

, Canadian sociologist *

Maxine Leeds Craig Maxine Leeds Craig is a professor in the Sociology Department at the University of California, Davis (USA). Craig was a doctoral student of Todd Gitlin at the University of California, Berkeley; her doctoral dissertation became the book, ''Ain't I ...

, American sociologist * Colin Crouch, British sociologist * Michel Crozier, French sociologist * Agustin Cueva, 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 Legio ...

(1879–1937), Polish sociologist

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* Robert Dahl (1915–2014), American political scientist * Ralf Dahrendorf (1929–2009), German-British sociologist and politician *

Dankwart Danckwerts Dankwart Danckwerts (14 March 1933, in Hamburg – 11 May 2012, in Hamburg) was a German sociologist. After some time in business he qualified in (Sociology and Economics), graduated at the Hamburg University, 1960, and worked after that at the ...

(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 (1932–2014), American-British sociologist and historian * Kingsley Davis, 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 and Paul Huvelin he pioneered anthropological studies of the origins of the idea o ...

, 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 Social group, group of people related either b ...

, French sociologist * Régis Debray, 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 Christine Delphy (born 1941) is a French feminist sociologist, writer and theorist. Known for pioneering materialist feminism, she co-founded the French women's liberation movement (Mouvement de Libération des Femmes, or MLF) in 1970 and the j ...

(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 *

, French sociologist * Bogdan Denitch, 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 the ...

(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 t ...

, 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 ...

, German-Mexican sociologist * Bulent Diken, 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 (1920–1974), American public opinion researcher * Paul DiMaggio, American cultural sociologist *

Georgi Dimitrov Dimitrov Georgi D. Dimitrov ( bg, Георги Д. Димитров; born April 13, 1958) is a Bulgarian sociologist and Professor at the European Studies department of Sofia University. Doctor Habilis in Sociology (2000). He works in the field of histor ...

, Bulgarian sociologist *

Stuart C. Dodd Stuart Carter Dodd (1900-1975) was an American sociologist and an educator, who published research on the Middle East and on mathematical sociology, and was a pioneer in scientific polling. Biography Stuart C. Dodd was born in 1900 in Talas, ...

, 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 Durkhei ...

, British anthropologist and sociologist of perception * Tommy Douglas, 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 in ...

(1868–1963), American sociologist and civil rights leader * Denis Duclos, French sociologist * Otis Dudley Duncan, American sociologist * Mitchell Duneier, 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 (1858–1917), French sociologist * Troy Duster, American sociologist * Maurice Duverger, French sociologist * Jean Duvignaud, French sociologist

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Gerald L. Eberlein Gerald L. Eberlein (5 May 1930 – 12 August 2010) was a German sociology educator. Biography Eberlein was born in Berlin, Germany to Kurt Karl and Alice Caroline (b. Seiffermann) Eberlein. Gerald L. Eberlein became Ph.D at the Technical Univ ...

(1930–2010), German sociologist *

Alain Ehrenberg Alain Ehrenberg (born 1950) is a French sociologist, known for his major work on clinical depression, ''The Weariness of the Self''. His work focuses on the culture of individualism in modern times, and its relationship to mental health. he i ...

, French sociologist * Eugen Ehrlich, German sociologist * Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt (1923–2010), Israeli sociologist * Riane Eisler (born 1931), cultural historian, systems scientist, educator, and attorney * Norbert Elias (1897–1990), German sociologist * Jacques Ellul (1912-1994), French sociologist * Jon Elster, Norwegian sociologist * Mustafa Emirbayer, American sociologist * Hugo O. Engelmann (1917–2002), American sociologist * Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), German socialist philosopher * Paula England, American sociologist * Ronald Enroth (born 1938), American sociologist *

Kai T. Erikson Kai Theodor Erikson (born February 12, 1931) is an Austrian-born American sociologist, noted as an authority on the social consequences of catastrophic events. He served as the 76th president of the American Sociological Association. Life and c ...

(born 1931), American sociologist *

Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo is a Mexican sociologist and public intellectual of wide renown in Mexico and Spain. He is perhaps most well known for his study of nineteenth-century civic culture in Mexico, ''Imaginary Citizens'', a book that made h ...

, Mexican sociologist *

Gosta Esping-Andersen Gosta may refer to: *Barankinya Gosta (1935–1998), prominent Zimbabwean Chewa sculptor * Gosta Green, area in the city of Birmingham, England *Gosta River, tributary of the Valea Padeşului River in Romania *Predrag Gosta (born 1972), Serbian-bor ...

, 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 Peter B. Evans (born 1944) is an American academic. He is a Faculty Fellow in International and Public Affairs at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University and Professor of Sociology emeritus at the University o ...

, American sociologist

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* Orlando Fals Borda, Colombian sociologist * Frantz Fanon, Martinican intellectual and sociologist * Rick Fantasia, American sociologist *

Thomas Fararo Thomas J. Fararo (February 11, 1933 - August 20, 2020) was Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh. After earning a Ph.D. in sociology at Syracuse University in 1963, he received a three-year postdoctoral fellowshi ...

(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, med ...

, Slovenian mathematical sociologist * Florestan Fernandes (1920–1995), Brazilian sociologist *

Myra Marx Ferree Myra Marx Ferree (born October 10, 1949) is a former professor of sociology and director of the Center for German and European Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she was also a member of the Women's Studies Program. In 2005 s ...

(born 1949), American sociologist * Enrico Ferri, Italian sociologist and criminologist * Gary Alan Fine (born 1950), American sociologist * Claude Fischer (born 1948), American author of the subcultural theory of urbanism * George Fitzhugh (1806–1881), American social theorist *

Crystal Marie Fleming Crystal Marie Fleming (born November 26, 1981) is an American sociologist and author. She is an associate professor of sociology and Africana studies at Stony Brook University. Fleming is the author of two books about race and white supremacy. ...

(born 1981), American sociologist and author * Peter Flora, Austrian sociologist * Heinz von Foerster (1911–2002), Austrian/American cybernetician * Pim Fortuyn (1948–2002), Dutch sociologist author and politician * Daniel A. Foss (1940–2014), American sociologist * John Bellamy Foster, 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 how ...

(1926–1984), French philosopher *

Alfred Jules Émile Fouillée Alfred Jules Émile Fouillée (18 October 183816 January 1912) was a French philosopher. Life Fouillée was born at La Pouëze, Maine-et-Loire. He held several minor philosophical lectureships, and from 1864 was professor of philosophy at the l ...

, French philosopher and sociologist * Charles Fourier (1772–1837), French proto-sociologist * Renée Fox, American sociologist * Andre Gunder Frank (1929–2005), German economic historian and sociologist * Nancy Fraser, American social theorist * Hans Freyer (1887–1969), German sociologist and philosopher * Gilberto Freyre (1900–1987), Brazilian sociologist * Georges Friedmann, French sociologist * Steve Fuller, American sociologist * Celso Furtado, Brazilian economist

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Luciano Gallino Luciano Gallino (15 May 1927 – 8 November 2015) was an Italian sociologist. Born in Turin, between 1956 and 1971 he worked in the Research Department of Social Relations of Olivetti. He was instrumental in introducing Sociology into Italian u ...

, 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, anthropologist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto- ...

(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 Delphine Gardey (born 1967, France) is a French historian and sociologist. She is a professor of contemporary history at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and director of the Institute of Gender Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences. She ...

(born 1967), French sociologist * Harold Garfinkel (1917–2011), American sociologist *

David W Garland David Garland is Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and professor of sociology at New York University, and an honorary professor in Criminology at Edinburgh Law School. He is well known for his historical and sociological studies of penal in ...

, British sociologist * Marcel Gauchet, French sociologist * John Gaventa, American-British sociologist * Patrick Geddes, 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 decades. ...

, American anthropologist * Arnold Gehlen (1904–1976), German philosopher and sociologist * Theodor Geiger (1891–1952), German sociologist * Ernest Gellner (1925–1995), Czech-British philosopher and social anthropologist *

Govind Sadashiv Ghurye Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (12 December 1893 – 28 December 1983) was a pioneering Indian academic who was a professor of sociology. In 1924, he became the second person to head the Department of Sociology at the University of Bombay. And, is wid ...

(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 t ...

(born 1938), English sociologist * Franklin Henry Giddings, American sociologist * Nigel Gilbert, British sociologist * Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American sociologist * Paul Gilroy, British sociologist *

Salvador Giner Salvador Giner i de San Julián (10 February 1934 – 19 October 2019) was a Spanish sociologist, who was the president of the Institute of Catalan Studies between 2005 and 2013. Biography Salvador Giner got his PhD in the University of Chica ...

, Spanish sociologist * Corrado Gini (1884–1965), Italian statistician * Morris Ginsberg, British sociologist * Herbert Gintis, American behavioral scientist * Henry Giroux, American sociologist of education * Todd Gitlin, American sociologist * Barney Glaser, 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 sociology, sociologist, Social psychology (sociology), social psychologist, and writer, considered by some "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth ...

(1922–1982), Canadian interactionistic sociologist *

Steven J. Gold Steven James Gold (born 1955) is a sociologist involved in research on ethnic economies, international migration, the development of ethnic communities, visual sociology, and qualitative methods. Having served as President of the International Vis ...

(born 1955), American sociologist * Lucien Goldmann, Romanian/French sociologist * Jack Goldstone, American sociologist *

John H. Goldthorpe John Harry Goldthorpe (born 27 May 1935) is a British sociologist. He is an emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. His main research interests are in the fields of social stratification and mobility, and comparative macro-sociology. He ...

(born 1935), British sociologist *

Yasunosuke Gonda (17 May 1887 – 5 January 1951) was a Japanese sociologist and film theorist who played an important role in the study of popular entertainment and helped pioneer statistical studies of everyday life in Japan. Career Born in the Kanda area of ...

, Japanese sociologist * Jeff Goodwin, American sociologist * Alvin Gouldner, 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 ...

(1891–1937), Italian Marxist and social theorist * Mark Granovetter, American sociologist * Richard Grathoff (1934–2013), German sociologist and phenomenologist *

Andrew M. Greeley Andrew M. Greeley (February 5, 1928 – May 29, 2013) was an American Catholic priest, sociologist, journalist and popular novelist. Greeley was a professor of sociology at the University of Arizona and the University of Chicago, and a researc ...

, 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 (born 1958), Russian sociologist * Ludwig Gumplowicz (1838–1909), Polish sociologist, one of the founders of European sociology *

Dipankar Gupta Dipankar Gupta (born 11 October 1949) is an Indian sociologist and public intellectual. He was formerly Professor in the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. For a brief period from 1993 to 1994, he ...

(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 (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 wor ...

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

Drew Halfmann Drew Halfmann (born June 28, 1967) is an American Sociology, sociologist best known for his research on social policy in the United States. Career Drew Halfmann is currently Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis ...

(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 (born 1949), British/Canadian sociologist * Stuart Hall (1932–2014), British cultural theorist * Donna Haraway (born 1944), American gender and technology theorist * Eszter Hargittai, Hungarian sociologist * Marta Harnecker, Chilean sociologist * David Harvey, British social theorist * Chandrakala A. Hate (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 resear ...

(born 1946), American sociologist, criminologist, and emeritus professor * Peter Hedström, 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 Wilhelm Heitmeyer (born 28 June 1945, in Nettelstedt, Germany) is sociologist and professor of education specializing in socialisation. From 1996 to 2013 he headed the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG) at Bie ...

, German sociologist * Dirk Helbing, Swiss sociologist * Horst Helle, German sociologist * Ágnes Heller, Hungarian philosopher and sociologist *

Celia Stopnicka Heller Celia Heller (20 November 1922 – 15 April 2011) was an American sociologist. She was born in Poland. Biography After graduating from Brooklyn College, in 1950, she entered a graduate program in sociology at Columbia University, earning a Masters ...

, American sociologist * Will Herberg (1901–1977), American sociologist * John Heritage, American sociologist * Robert Hertz, French sociologist * Danièle Hervieu-Léger, French sociologist * Michael D. Higgins, Irish sociologist and current Irish president *

Paul Hirst Paul Quentin Hirst (1946–2003) was a British sociologist and political theorist. He became Professor of Social Theory at Birkbeck College, London, in 1985 and held the post until his death from a stroke and brain haemorrhage. Biography On 20 ...

, British sociologist * Thomas Hobbes, British philosopher * Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, pioneer British sociologist * Arlie Russell Hochschild, American sociologist * Richard Hoggart (1918–2014), British sociologist * John Holloway, Irish sociologist *

Susanne Holmström Susanne Holmström (born 1947) is a Danish sociologist, best known for her writings on organizational legitimacy based on the systems theory of Niklas Luhmann. For her dissertation ''Perspectives & Paradigms: An Intersubjective and a Social S ...

, Danish sociologist *

Robert J. Holton Robert J Holton (born 9 September 1946) is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Trinity College, Dublin. He is a specialist in social theory, historical sociology and the study of globalization, and the sociology of artificial intelligence. Holto ...

, British sociologist * George C. Homans (1910–1989), American behavioral sociologist * Axel Honneth (born 1949), German social theorist *

Ida R. Hoos Ida Simone Russakoff Hoos (October 9, 1912 – April 24, 2007) was an American sociologist best known as a critic of systems analysis using mathematical formulae and disregarding social factors, especially when analyzing technology and public poli ...

(1912–2007), American sociologist * Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), German social theorist * Irving Louis Horowitz, American sociologist * Eugenio María de Hostos, Puerto Rican sociologist * Philip N. Howard, Canadian American sociologist * Spomenka Hribar (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 Octavio Ianni (1926 in Itu, São Paulo – 2004 in São Paulo, São Paulo), Brazilian sociologist graduated, mastered and doctored at the University of São Paulo (USP) and was one of the founders of Cebrap. Ianni was a pupil of Florestan Ferna ...

(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 Jose is the English transliteration of the Hebrew and Aramaic name ''Yose'', which is etymologically linked to ''Yosef'' or Joseph. The name was popular during the Mishnaic and Talmudic periods. *Jose ben Abin *Jose ben Akabya * Jose the Galil ...

, 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 Larry W. Isaac is an American sociologist, the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Political Economy at Vanderbilt University. Early life and education Isaac was born in Cleveland, Ohio, graduated from Avon High S ...

, American sociologist

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* Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Danish sociologist * Eliezer Jaffe, Israeli-American sociologist *

Jacquelyne Jackson Jacquelyne Mary Johnson Jackson (February 24, 1932 – January 28, 2004) was an American sociologist, educator, and researcher on issues that affect elderly minority populations. She was involved in public policy debates on programs for this gro ...

(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 Janet Liebman Jacobs (born 1948) is an American sociologist specializing in gender and religion. Jacobs' research focuses on women, religion, ethnicity, genocide and the social psychology of gender. She has authored seven books, including ''Hidde ...

(born 1948), American sociologist *

Marie Jahoda Marie Jahoda (26 January 1907 – 28 April 2001) was an Austrian-British 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 Austria where political o ...

(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, Pakistani-American historian, sociologist, and professor * Fredric Jameson, 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 CUNY Graduate Center, Graduate Center of the City University of New York since 2007. He is best known for his research and theories about cultur ...

(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 (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 C ...

(1901–1991), American sociologist *

Miriam M. Johnson Miriam M. Johnson (January 12, 1928 – November 21, 2007) was an American sociologist and professor emerita of the University of Oregon's Sociology Department. Life Miriam Johnson was born Miriam Massey in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 12, 1928 ...

(1928–2007), American sociologist * Rodrigo Jokisch (born 1946), German-Mexican sociologist and social theorist * Frank Lancaster Jones (born 1937), Australian sociologist * Lewis Wade Jones (1910–1979), African/American sociologist and educator * Danny Jorgensen, 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 Dirk Kaesler (born in Wiesbaden on 19 October 1944 as ''Dirk Käsler'') is a German sociologist and Max Weber expert. Now retired, he was formerly Professor of Sociology at the University of Marburg. He is the author of ''Max Weber: An Introductio ...

(born 1944), German sociologist * Boris Kagarlitsky, Russian sociologist * Irawati Karve, Indian anthropologist and sociologist *

Alexandr Kapto Aleksandr Semyonovich Kapto (; April 14, 1933 – April 19, 2020) was a Soviet and Russian sociologist, political scientist, diplomat, journalist and politician. He earned a philosophy degree in 1967 and his Ph.D. in 1985. In 2008 he was head of ...

, 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, Czech Marxist theorist *

Vytautas Kavolis Vytautas Kavolis (October 8, 1930 in Kaunas – June 25, 1996 in Vilnius) was a Lithuanian sociologist, literary critic, and culture historian. Biography With his parents, Kavolis left Lithuania in the wake of the Soviet occupation in 1944, livi ...

, Lithuanian-American sociologist and literary critic * Frances Kellor (1873–1952), American sociologist, social reformer, and investigator *

Stephen A. Kent Stephen A. Kent is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He researches new religious movements (NRMs), and has published research on several such groups including the Children of Go ...

, 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, 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 Aquila Berlas Kiani (1921 – 30 March 2012),Note: the transliteration of the family name -- Berlas not Barlas -- is preferred by the Institute for Cultural Research and in her memorial obituary. She also herself preferred the transliteration of ...

(1921–2012), Indian sociologist and educator * Baruch Kimmerling, Israeli sociologist * Susan Myra Kingsbury (1870–1949), American sociologist *

Julieta Kirkwood María Julieta Kirkwood Bañados (5 April 1936 – 8 April 1985) was a Chilean sociologist , political scientist, university professor and feminist activist. She is considered one of the founders and impellers of the Chilean feminist movement in ...

(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's ...

(1920–2007), American sociologist, demographer, and educator * John Kitsuse, Japanese-American sociologist *

Gabriele Klein Gabriele Klein (born 1957) is a sociologist, dance theorist and professor at the University of Hamburg. Life From 1977 to 1987 Gabriele Klein studied Sociology, History, Sports Sciences, Contemporary Dance and Education at the Universities of B ...

(born 1957), sociologist, dance theorist, and educator *

Bernardo Kliksberg Bernardo Kliksberg (Buenos Aires, 1940) is an Argentine Doctor of Economics, recognized around the world as the founder of a new discipline, social management, and a pioneer of development ethics, social capital and corporate social responsibilit ...

, Argentinian sociologist * Eric Klinenberg, American sociologist * Karin Knorr Cetina (born 1944), Austrian sociologist *

Antonina Kłoskowska Antonina Kłoskowska (7 November 1919, Piotrków Trybunalski – 12 July 2001, Warsaw), was a Polish sociologist. In her work, she focused on the sociology of culture. Kłoskowska taught at the universities Łódź (1966-1977) and Warsaw (1977-199 ...

(1919–2001), Polish sociologist * Karin Knorr Cetina (born 1944), Austrian sociologist * Katsuya Kodama (born 1959), Japanese sociologist and peace researcher * Mirra Komarovsky (1905–1999), Russian-American sociologist * René König (1906–1992), German sociologist * Andrey Korotayev (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 has ...

, 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 activis ...

(1842–1921), Russian anarchist thinker *

Thomas S. Kuhn Thomas Samuel Kuhn (; July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American philosopher of science whose 1962 book ''The Structure of Scientific Revolutions'' was influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term '' paradigm ...

(1922–1996), American science theorist *

Eugene M. Kulischer Eugene M. Kulischer (russian: Евгений Михайлович Кулишер; September 4, 1881 – April 2, 1956) was a Russian-American sociologist; an authority on demography, migration and manpower; and an expert on Russia. He also coined t ...

(1891–1956), Russian/American sociologist * Charles Kurzman, American sociologist * Martin Kusch, 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 pu ...

(1901–1981), French psychoanalyst * Richard Lachmann, American sociologist, specialist in comparative historical sociology * Ernesto Laclau, 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 (born 1945), American sociologist * Michele Lamont, American sociologist *

Diane Lamoureux Diane Lamoureux (born 20 October 1954) is a Canadian professor, essayist, and writer. She serves as Professor of Sociology in the Political Science Department of Laval University in Quebec. Her research focuses on the intersection of politics, so ...

(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 ...

(born 1956), American sociologist *

Ralph Larkin Ralph Wild Larkin (born May 27, 1940) is an American sociologist and research consultant. He is the author of ''Suburban Youth in Cultural Crisis'' (1979), ''Beyond Revolution: A New Theory of Social Movements'' (1986), and ''Comprehending Colum ...

, American sociologist * Scott Lash, 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 (born 1947), French sociologist of science * Peter Lavrovich Lavrov, Russian sociologist * John Law, British sociologist * Paul F. Lazarsfeld (1901–1976), Austrian/American sociologist * Gustave Le Bon (1841–1931), French social psychologist *

Frederic Le Play Frederic may refer to: Places United States * Frederic, Wisconsin, a village in Polk County * Frederic Township, Michigan, a township in Crawford County ** Frederic, Michigan, an unincorporated community Other uses * Frederic (band), a Japanese r ...

, 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 Relac ...

, 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 (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 politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a Materialism, materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand S ...

philosopher *

Charles Lemert Charles Lemert (born 1937) is an American born social theorist and sociologist. He has written extensively on social theory, globalization and culture. He has contributed to many key debates in social thought, authoring dozens of books including hi ...

(born 1937), American sociologist * Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary and intellectual *

Gerhard Lenski Gerhard Emmanuel "Gerry" Lenski, Jr. (August 13, 1924 – December 7, 2015) was an American sociologist known for contributions to the sociology of religion, social inequality, and introducing the ecological-evolutionary theory. He spent much of ...

, American evolutionary sociologist *

Magdalena León de Leal Magdalena León (, León Gómez; pen name, Magdalena León de Leal; Barichara, Santander, June 30, 1939) is a Colombian feminist sociologist specializing in social research and women's studies. Trained with the founders of Colombian sociology, Or ...

(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 Barry B. Levine (1941-2020) was an American academic and founding professor of Sociology at the Florida International University. Background Barry B. Levine was born on January 22, 1941, in Brooklyn, New York. His parents were labor lawyer N ...

(1941–2020), American sociologist * Ruth Levitas, British 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 Alfred Ray Lindesmith (August 3, 1905 – February 14, 1991) was an Indiana University professor of sociology. He was among the early scholars providing a rigorous and thoughtful account of the nature of addiction. He was a critic of legal prohib ...

(1905–1991), American sociologist of drug policy *

Frederick B. Lindstrom Frederick B. Lindstrom (June 8, 1915 – January 8, 1998) was an American sociologist specializing in popular culture and demography who spent over four decades, starting in 1953, as professor (later professor emeritus) of sociology at Arizona ...

(1915–1998), American sociologist of the arts *

Gilles Lipovetsky Gilles Lipovetsky (born September 24, 1944) is a French philosopher, writer, and sociologist, professor at Stendhal University in Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. Life and career Lipovetsky was born in Millau in 1944. He studied phi ...

, French philosopher * Seymour Martin Lipset (1922–2006), American comparativist sociologist * Émile Littré, French philosopher and sociologist, disciple of Comte *

Omar Lizardo Omar Lizardo (born 7 September 1974) is an American sociologist who is LeRoy Neiman Term Chair Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was previously professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame (2006-2 ...

, American sociologist *

John Locke John Locke (; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism ...

, English philosopher * David Lockwood, British sociologist *

Joseph Lopreato Joseph Lopreato (July 13, 1928 in Stefanaconi, Italy – March 25, 2015 in Georgetown, Texas, United States) was a sociobiologist, a social theorist, and a professor of sociology. After receiving his Ph.D. from Yale University (1960) he taught a ...

, American sociologist * Leo Löwenthal, German sociologist * Michael Löwy, Brazilian-French sociologist *

Nathalie Luca Nathalie Luca (born 1966) is a French research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), an anthropologist and a sociologist of religions. She is director of the Center for Studies on Social Sciences of the Religious (C ...

(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 Lundberg (1895–1966), American sociologist (scientific) *

Rosa Luxemburg Rosa Luxemburg (; ; pl, Róża Luksemburg or ; 5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a Polish and naturalised-German revolutionary socialist, Marxist philosopher and anti-war activist. Successively, she was a member of the Proletariat party, ...

(1870–1919), German socialist theoretician *

Robert Staughton Lynd Robert Staughton Lynd (September 26, 1892 – November 1, 1970) was an American sociologist and professor at Columbia University, New York City. He is best known for conducting the first Middletown studies of Muncie, Indiana, with his wife, Hel ...

(1892–1970), American sociologist * Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998), French philosopher

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Amin Maalouf Amin Maalouf (; ar, أمين معلوف; born 25 February 1949) is a Lebanese-born French"Amin ...

, Lebanese author with a degree in sociology * Richard Machalek (born 1946), American sociologist and sociobiologist *

Robert Morrison MacIver Robert Morrison MacIver (April 17, 1882 – June 15, 1970) was a sociologist. Early life and family Robert Morrison MacIver was born in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland on April 17, 1882, to Donald MacIver, a general merchant and tweed manu ...

(1882–1970), Scottish/American sociologist * Donald A. MacKenzie, British sociologist *

Annie Marion MacLean Annie Marion MacLean (1869–1934) was a pioneering American sociologist of the Chicago School of Sociology, women's Chicago School, and is sometimes referred to as the "mother of contemporary ethnography". She was one of the first women to pursu ...

(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 Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (; 7 April 1884 – 16 May 1942) was a Polish-British anthropologist and ethnologist whose writings on ethnography, social theory, and field research have exerted a lasting influence on the discipline of anthropol ...

(1884–1942), Polish social anthropologist * Thomas Malthus (1766–1834), English demographer * Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Brazilian social theorist * Michael Mann (born 1942), British/American sociologist * Karl Mannheim (1893–1947), Hungarian/German sociologist *

Peter K. Manning Peter K. Manning (born September 27, 1940) is an American sociologist who is an author and speaker on the topic of policing organizations. Background Peter K. Manning was born in Salem, Oregon on September 27, 1940. He graduated from Willame ...

(born 1940), American sociologist *

José María Maravall José María Maravall Herrero is a Spaniards, Spanish academic and a politician of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, Spanish Socialist Party. Education Maravall holds doctorates from both the Complutense University of Madrid and University ...

, Spanish sociologist *

Herbert Marcuse Herbert Marcuse (; ; July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German-American philosopher, social critic, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Born in Berlin, Marcuse studied at the Humboldt University ...

(1898–1979), German/American sociologist (Frankfurt School) *

Władysław Markiewicz Władysław Markiewicz (2 January 1920 – 18 January 2017) was a Polish sociologist; professor of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań since 1966, and Warsaw University since 1972, director of the Western Institute (Instytut Zachodni) in Pozna� ...

(1920–2017), Polish sociologist *

Catherine Marry Catherine Marry (née Guyon) is a French sociologist. Her research concerns the sociology of education, the sociology of work and gender studies. She was awarded an Irène Joliot-Curie Prize in 2008 for her mentorship activities and is a research ...

, French sociologist *

Dennis Marsden Dennis Marsden (1933–2009) was a British sociologist based at the University of Essex The University of Essex is a public university, public research university in Essex, England. Established by royal charter in 1965, Essex is one of the ori ...

, British sociologist *

Alfred Marshall Alfred Marshall (26 July 1842 – 13 July 1924) was an English economist, and was one of the most influential economists of his time. His book '' Principles of Economics'' (1890) was the dominant economic textbook in England for many years. I ...

, English economist * Thomas Humphrey Marshall, British sociologist * Everett Dean Martin, American sociologist * Jean Martin, Australian sociologist * John Levi Martin, American sociologist * Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), English writer described as 'first female sociologist' *

Vladimir Martynenko Vladimir Vladimirovich Martynenko (russian: Владимир Владимирович Мартыненко, born March 24, 1957, Kiev, Ukraine) is a Russian sociologist, economist, and political scientist; Doctor of political sciences, Professo ...

(born 1957), Russian sociologist, economist, political scientist *

Margaret Maruani Margaret Rose Maruani Rey (25 February 1954 – 4 August 2022)Gary T. Marx Gary T. Marx (born 1938) is Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and retired from the University of Colorado in 1996. He has worked in the areas of race and ethnicity, collective behavior and social movements, l ...

, 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 (1917–1981), Canadian Politics professor and psephologist *

Marshall McLuhan Herbert Marshall McLuhan (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory. He studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge. He began his ...

(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 Stephen Mennell (born 1944 in Yorkshire, England) is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at University College Dublin. Mennell was educated at Huddersfield New College in West Yorkshire, and gained his BA in Economics in 1966 from St Catharine's Col ...

(born 1944), English sociologist * Fatema Mernissi (1940–2015), Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist * Robert K. Merton (1910–2003), American sociologist *

Michael Messner Michael Alan Messner (born 1952) is an American sociologist. His main areas of research are gender (especially men's studies) and the sociology of sports. He is the author of several books, he gives public speeches and teaches on issues of gend ...

(born 1952), American pro-feminist sociologist *

John W. Meyer John Wilfred Meyer (born 1935) is a sociologist and emeritus professor at Stanford University. Beginning in the 1970s and continuing to the present day, Meyer has contributed fundamental ideas to the field of sociology, especially in the areas ...

, American sociologist * Robert Michels (1876–1936), German political sociologist * Ralph Miliband, British sociologist * C. Wright Mills (1916–1962), American sociologist *

Andrew Milner Andrew John Milner (born 9 September 1950) is Professor Emeritus of English studies, English and Comparative Literature at Monash University. From 2014 until 2019 he was also Honorary Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the ...

(born 1950), British-Australian sociologist of literature *

Ann Mische Ann Mische (born March 21, 1965) is an American sociologist and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame and a Professor of Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. She is particularly known for ...

, American sociologist * Munesuke Mita, Japanese sociologist *

J. Clyde Mitchell James Clyde Mitchell (usually known as J. Clyde Mitchell) (21 June 1918 Pietermaritzburg – 15 November 1995) was a British sociologist and anthropologist. In 1937 Mitchell helped found the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute group of social ...

(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 Andres or Andrés may refer to: *Andres, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Will County, Illinois, US *Andres, Pas-de-Calais, a commune in Pas-de-Calais, France *Andres (name) *Hurricane Andres * "Andres" (song), a 1994 song by L7 See also ...

, Mexican sociologist * Montesquieu, French philosopher * James D. Montgomery, American economist and mathematical sociologist *

Barrington Moore, Jr. Barrington Moore Jr. (12 May 1913 – 16 October 2005) was an American political sociology, political sociologist, and the son of forester Barrington Moore, Sr., Barrington Moore. He is well-known for his ''Social Origins of Dictatorship an ...

, American political sociologist * Edgar Morin, French sociologist *

Gaetano Mosca Gaetano Mosca (; 1 April 1858 – 8 November 1941) was an Italian political scientist, journalist and public servant. He is credited with developing the elite theory and the doctrine of the political class and is one of the three members constitu ...

(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 Daniel Patrick Moynihan (March 16, 1927 – March 26, 2003) was an American politician, diplomat and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented New York in the United States Senate from 1977 until 2001 and served as an ...

(1927–2003), American sociologist, diplomat and politician * Radhakamal Mukerjee, Indian sociologist *

Peter A. Munch Peter Andreas Munch (December 19, 1908 – January 10, 1984) was a Norwegian-born sociologist, educator, and writer. In 1948, he immigrated to the United States as a post-doctoral research fellow studying Norwegian-American rural sociology in th ...

(1908–1984), Norwegian/American sociologist * 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 Vicente Navarro (born 1937 in Gironella, Spain) is a Spanish sociologist and political scientist. He has been a Professor of Health and Public Policy at Johns Hopkins University, USA, for over 30 years. He is also emeritus professor in political ...

, Spanish sociologist *

Victor Nee The name Victor or Viktor may refer to: * Victor (name), including a list of people with the given name, mononym, or surname Arts and entertainment Film * ''Victor'' (1951 film), a French drama film * ''Victor'' (1993 film), a French shor ...

, American sociologist * Antonio Negri, Italian political philosopher and critic of Luhmann *

Oswald von Nell-Breuning Oswald von Nell-Breuning (8 March 1890 – 21 August 1991) was a Roman Catholic theologian and sociologist. Born in Trier, Germany into an aristocratic family, Nell-Breuning was ordained in 1921 and appointed Professor of Ethics at the Sa ...

(1890–1991), German Roman Catholic theologian, sociologist and social reformer * Otto Neurath (1882–1945), Austrian sociologist and political economist *

Otto Newman Otto Newman (born Otto Neumann 2 July 1922 – 29 November 2015) was an Austrian-born sociologist who was a professor at Stirling University in Scotland, Chairman of the Sociology Department at South Bank University in London, and adjunct profe ...

(born Neumann 1922–2015), Austrian-British sociologist *

Norman H. Nie Norman H. Nie was an American social scientist, university professor, inventor, and pioneering technology entrepreneur, known for being one of the developers of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Born in St. Louis, Missouri in ...

(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 William Fielding Ogburn (June 29, 1886 – April 27, 1959) was an American sociologist who was born in Butler, Georgia and died in Tallahassee, Florida. He was also a statistician and an educator. Ogburn received his B.A. degree from Mercer Un ...

(1886–1959), American sociologist *

Lloyd Ohlin Lloyd Edgar Ohlin (August 27, 1918 – December 6, 2008) was an American sociologist and criminologist who taught at Harvard Law School, Columbia University, and the University of Chicago over his career where he studied the causes and effe ...

, American sociologist * Michael Omi, American sociologist * Gail Omvedt (1941–2021), American/Indian sociologist *

T. K. Oommen T. K. Oommen (in full Tharailath Koshy Oommen) is an Indian sociologist, author, teacher, and Professor Emeritus at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He was awarded Padm ...

, Indian sociologist * Franz Oppenheimer (1864–1943), German sociologist and political economist * José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher *

Stanislaw Ossowski Stanislav and variants may refer to: People * Stanislav (given name), a Slavic given name with many spelling variations (Stanislaus, Stanislas, Stanisław, etc.) Places * Stanislav, a coastal village in Kherson, Ukraine * Stanislaus County, C ...

(1897–1963), Polish sociologist *

Moisey Ostrogorsky Moisey Yakovlevich Ostrogorsky (also Moisei Ostrogorsky; russian: Моисе́й Я́ковлевич Острого́рский, Moisey Yakovlevich Ostrogorskiy; be, Майсей Якаўлевiч Aстрaгорскi, Majsiej Jakaŭlievič Ast ...

, 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 * C.J. Pascoe, American sociologist * Jean-Claude Passeron, French sociologist *

Orlando Patterson Horace Orlando Patterson (born 5 June 1940) is a Jamaican historical and cultural sociologist known for his work regarding issues of race and slavery in the United States and Jamaica, as well as the sociology of development. He is the John Cowl ...

, American sociologist *

Karl Pearson Karl Pearson (; born Carl Pearson; 27 March 1857 – 27 April 1936) was an English mathematician and biostatistician. He has been credited with establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics. He founded the world's first university st ...

(1857–1936), English statistician *

Willie Pearson Jr Willie Pearson Jr. is an American sociologist, who has studied and encouraged the participation of African-Americans and other minorities, as well as women, in science. He has published several books on the experience of African-American scientis ...

, American sociologist * Jacqueline Peschard (1965), Mexican sociologist * James Petras, American sociologist * Jean Piaget (1896–1980), Swiss developmental psychologist *

Andrew Pickering Andrew Pickering (born 1948) is a British sociologist, philosopher and history of science, historian of science at the University of Exeter. He was a professor of sociology and a director of science and technology studies at the University of Il ...

, British sociologist * Trevor Pinch, British sociologist * Michael Plekon, American sociologist * Helmuth Plessner, German sociologist *

Joel M. Podolny Joel Marc Podolny is an American sociologist. Formerly the dean of the Yale School of Management, he is currently an executive at Apple Inc., where he is the dean of Apple University (the in-house corporate training center for Apple employees) a ...

, American sociologist * Karl Polanyi, Hungarian economist * Friedrich Pollock, German social scientist *

Karl Popper Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian-British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known for his rejection of the cl ...

, Austrian philosopher * 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 Anette Prehn (born 1975) is a Danish author, sociologist, keynote speaker and MD of Centre for Brain-Based Leadership and Learning. She is the author of five non-fiction books about the rules of the brain, which are published in seven languages, ...

, Danish sociologist * Harriet B. Presser (died 2012), American sociologist and demographer *

Samuel H. Preston Samuel Hulse Preston (born December 2, 1943) is an American demographer and sociologist. He is one of the leading demographers in the United States. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 1968. Preston is a professor em ...

, 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 Enrico L. (Henry) Quarantelli (November 10, 1924 – April 3, 2017) was an American sociologist, pioneering the sociology of disaster. Education Quarantelli received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1959. From 1963 to 1984 he worked as ...

, American sociologist * Adolphe Quetelet, French statistician and sociologist * Anibal Quijano, Peruvian sociologist *

Richard Quinney Richard Quinney (born 1934) is an American sociologist, writer, and photographer known for his philosophical and critical approach to crime and social justice. Quinney grew up on a farm in Walworth County, Wisconsin.Richard Quinney. ''Of Time and ...

(born 1934), American sociologist

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* Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (1881–1955), British social anthropologist * Charles C. Ragin, American sociologist *

Gustav Ratzenhofer Gustav Ratzenhofer (July 4, 1842 in Vienna – October 8, 1904 in the Atlantic Ocean) was an Austrian military officer, philosopher and sociologist. He also wrote under the pseudonym Gustav Renehr. Life Ratzenhofer was a watchmaker and joined in 18 ...

, Austrian sociologist *

Stephen Raudenbush Stephen Webb Raudenbush (born 1946) is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Sociology and Chairman of the Committee on Education at the University of Chicago. He is best known for his development and application of hierarchical linear models (HLM) in ...

, American sociologist and statistician *

Aviad Raz Aviad Raz is an Israeli professor of sociology. He is director of the Behavioral Sciences program of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Academic career Aviad Raz earned his B.Sc. and Ph.D. from Te ...

(born 1968), Israeli sociologist and anthropologist * Sal Restivo, American sociologist *

John Rex John Rex (5 March 1925 – 18 December 2011) was a South African-born British sociologist. Born in Port Elizabeth, he was radicalised after working for the South African Bantu Affairs Administration and moved to Britain. He was a lecturer at ...

(1925–2011), British sociologist *

James Mahmud Rice James Mahmud Rice (born 1972) is an Australian sociologist in the Demography and Ageing Unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne. He works at the intersection of sociology, economics, and political science, ...

(born 1972), Australian 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 William I. Robinson (born March 28, 1959) is an American professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His work focuses on political economy, globalization, Latin America and historical materialism. He is a member of the ...

, American sociologist * Terje Rød-Larsen (born 1947), Norwegian diplomat and sociologist *

Jesús M. de Miguel Rodríguez Jesús M. de Miguel Rodríguez (born 1947) is a sociologist and professor of sociology at the University of Barcelona where he is director of the sociological research group GRS. He is also the representative for Spain on the committee of Social S ...

(born 1947), Spanish sociologist *

Arnold Marshall Rose Arnold Marshall Rose (July 2, 1918 – January 2, 1968) was an American sociologist and politician. He was elected to the Minnesota Legislature and to the presidency of the American Sociological Association (ASA). He held faculty appointments a ...

, American sociologist * Gillian Rose, British sociologist * Nikolas Rose, British sociologist *

Paul Rosenfels Paul Rosenfels (March 21, 1909 in Chicago – 1985 in New York City) was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Rosenfels is known as one of the first American social scientists to publish about homosexuality as part of the human condition, ...

(1909–1985), American psychologist and sociologist * Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888–1973), German social philosopher * Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher *

Rubén G. Rumbaut Rubén G. Rumbaut is a prominent Cuban-American sociologist and a leading expert on immigration and refugee resettlement in the United States. He is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Education and Emplo ...

, Cuban-American sociologist *

W. G. Runciman Walter Garrison Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford, (10 November 193410 December 2020), usually known informally as Garry Runciman, was a British historical sociologist. A senior research fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge Runciman ...

, British sociologist *

Arne Runeberg Sven Arne Runeberg (7 April 1912 — 15 November 1979) was a Finnish anthropologist and linguist, best known for his studies on magic, witchcraft, and sociolinguistics. Arne Runeberg was born in Helsinki into the Swedish-speaking cultural famil ...

(1912–1979), Finnish sociologist, anthropologist and linguist

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Harvey Sacks Harvey Sacks (July 19, 1935 – November 14, 1975) was an American sociologist influenced by the ethnomethodology tradition. He pioneered extremely detailed studies of the way people use language in everyday life. Despite his early death in ...

(died 1975), American sociologist and ethnomethodologist *

Renaud Sainsaulieu Renaud Sainsaulieu (4 November 1935 – 26 July 2002) was a French sociologist specializing in the sociology of organizations. He was noted for promoting sociology outside academia. He was the director of the Centre d'Etudes Sociologiques (Ce ...

(1936–2002), French sociologist concerned with the sociology of organizations * Henri de Saint-Simon (1760–1825), French philosopher and social thinker *

Robert J. Sampson Robert J. Sampson (born July 9, 1956, in Utica, New York) is the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and Director of the Social Sciences Program at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. From 2005 through 2010 ...

, American sociologist *

Pierre Sansot Pierre Sansot (9 June 1928, Antibes6 May 2005, Grenoble lat, Gratianopolis , commune status = Prefecture and commune , image = Panorama grenoble.png , image size = , caption = From upper left: ...

, French sociologist * Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Portuguese sociologist * Giovanni Sartori (1924–2017), Italian political scientist * Saskia Sassen (born 1949), American sociologist * Peter Saunders, Australian sociologist *

Ferdinand de Saussure Ferdinand de Saussure (; ; 26 November 1857 – 22 February 1913) was a Swiss linguist, semiotician and philosopher. His ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in both linguistics and semiotics in the 20th century. He is widel ...

(1857–1913), Swiss linguist (structuralism) *

Albert Schäffle Albert Eberhard Friedrich Schäffle (24 February 183125 December 1903) was a German sociologist, political economist, and newspaper editor. Biography Early years Albert Schäffle was born at Nürtingen in Württemberg on 24 February 1831. In 18 ...

, German sociologist *

Thomas J. Scheff Thomas J. Scheff (born 1929) is an American Professor, Emeritus, Department of Sociology at University of California, Santa Barbara. His fields of study are the emotional/relational world, mental illness, restorative justice, and collective violen ...

, American sociologist *

Emanuel Schegloff Emanuel Abraham Schegloff (born 1937 in New York) is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Los Angeles. Along with his collaborators Harvey Sacks and Gail Jefferson, Schegloff is regarded as the creator of ...

, American sociologist * Max Scheler, German philosopher and founder of the sociology of knowledge *

Helmut Schelsky Helmut Schelsky (14 October 1912 – 24 February 1984), was a German sociologist, the most influential in post-World War II Germany, well into the 1970s. Biography Schelsky was born in Chemnitz, Saxony. He turned to social philosophy and even ...

(1912–1984), German sociologist *

Juraj Schenk Juraj Schenk (born May 6, 1948) is former Foreign Minister of Slovakia from 1994 to 1996 in cabinet of Vladimír Mečiar. Schenk studied sociology at the Univezita Komenského, Bratislava and is working there since 1972. In 1994 he became a p ...

(born 1948), Slovak sociologist * Herbert Schiller, American sociologist *

Kurt C. Schlichting Kurt C. Schlichting (born 1948) is the E. Gerald Corrigan Endowed Chair in the Humanities and Social Sciences and professor of sociology and anthropology at Fairfield University in the United States. He was a recipient of a Fairfield University Di ...

, American sociologist *

Wolfgang Schluchter Wolfgang Schluchter (born 4 April 1938 in Ludwigsburg, Germany) is a German sociologist and, as of 2006, professor emeritus at the University of Heidelberg. Schluchter is recognized as a leading sociologist of religion and an authority on the his ...

, German sociologist * Paul Schnabel, Dutch sociologist *

Allan Schnaiberg Allan Schnaiberg (August 20, 1939 – June 6, 2009) was an American sociologist known especially for his contributions to environmental sociology. At the time of his death, Schnaiberg was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Northwestern University ...

(1939–2009), American environmental sociologist * Juliet Schor, American sociologist * Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950), Austrian economist *

Alfred Schütz Alfred Schutz (; born Alfred Schütz, ; 1899–1959) was an Austrian philosopher and social phenomenologist whose work bridged sociological and phenomenological traditions. Schutz is gradually being recognized as one of the 20th century's leadin ...

(1899–1959), Austrian philosopher and sociologist (phenomenology) * Michael Schwartz (born 1942), American sociologist *

John Scott John Scott may refer to: Academics * John Scott (1639–1695), English clergyman and devotional writer * John Witherspoon Scott (1800–1892), American minister, college president, and father of First Lady Caroline Harrison * John Work Scott (180 ...

(born 1949), British sociologist *

Leonard Seabrooke Leonard Seabrooke (born 1974) is an Australian academic and a professor in International Political Economy and Economic sociology at the Copenhagen Business School, and Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. ...

, Australian sociologist *

Jean Séguy Jean Séguy (5 mar 1925 – 9 november 2007) was a French sociologist of religions. He was born in a Catholic family from south-western France. In 1970, he became a doctor of Letters, specialized in English literature. Under the influence of H ...

, 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 William Hamilton Sewell (November 27, 1909 – June 24, 2001) was a United States sociologist and the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison during the 1967–1968 school year. He is the father of William H. Sewell Jr. Biography Se ...

, 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 Bahija Ahmed Shihab ( ar, بهيجة احمد شهاب; 1932–2012) was an Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia ...

(1932–2012), Iraqi sociologist and professor * Edward Shils, American sociologist * Anson Shupe, American sociologist * Volkmar Sigusch, German sociologist and sexuologe *

Charles E. Silberman Charles Eliot Silberman (January 31, 1925 – February 5, 2011) was an American journalist and author. Silberman was born in Des Moines, Iowa. After service in the Pacific during World War II, he gained a B.A. in Economics from Columbia Unive ...

, American criminologist * François Simiand, French sociologist *

Georg Simmel Georg Simmel (; ; 1 March 1858 – 26 September 1918) was a German sociologist, philosopher, and critic. Simmel was influential in the field of sociology. Simmel was one of the first generation of German sociologists: his neo-Kantian approach l ...

(1858–1918), German sociologist and philosopher * Herbert A. Simon, American social scientist * Theda Skocpol (born 1947), American sociologist and political scientist *

Albion Woodbury Small Albion Woodbury Small (May 11, 1854 – March 24, 1926) founded the first independent Department of Sociology in the United States at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois in 1892. He was influential in the establishment of sociology as ...

(1854–1926), American sociologist *

Neil Smelser Neil Joseph Smelser (1930–2017) was an American sociologist who served as professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was an active researcher from 1958 to 1994. His research was on collective behavior, sociological theo ...

, American sociologist *

Adam Smith Adam Smith (baptized 1723 – 17 July 1790) was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the thinking of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment. Seen by some as "The Father of Economics"——— ...

(1723–1790), Scottish economist and philosopher * Christian Smith (born 1960), American sociologist of religion * Dorothy E. Smith (born 1926), British/American sociologist and gender theorist * Stephen C. Smith (born 1968), American sociologist and 21st century trend researcher * Tom Snijders, Dutch mathematical sociologist *

David A. Snow David A. Snow is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Intellectual Contributions Snow's research constitutes one of the most original and groundbreaking bodies of work in the discipline. While it addre ...

(born 1942), American sociologist * Werner Sombart (1863–1941), German economist and sociologist * Georges Sorel, French philosopher *

Bernardo Sorj Bernardo Sorj (born September 1948, Montevideo, Uruguay) is a Brazilian social scientist, retired professor of Sociology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He is Director of The Edelstein Center for Social Research and of the ''Platafor ...

(born 1948), Brazilian sociologist * Pitirim Sorokin (1889–1968), Russian sociologist * Herbert Spencer (1820–1903), English philosopher * Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), German philosopher *

Lynette Spillman Lynette Patrice Spillman (born 1960) is a sociologist and professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame, and a Faculty Fellow of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, as well as the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale ...

, American sociologist * Hasso Spode, German sociologist and historian *

M N Srinivas Mysore Narasimhachar Srinivas (1916–1999) was an Indian sociologist and social anthropologist. He is mostly known for his work on caste and caste systems, social stratification, Sanskritisation and Westernisation in southern India and the ...

(1916–1999), Indian sociologist *

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, American sociologist *

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, Danish sociologist *

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, American sociologist * Paul Starr, American sociologist * Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Mexican anthropologist and sociologist *

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, American sociologist *

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, Puerto Rican-American sociologist *

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, 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

T

* 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

U

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

V

* 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

W

* 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

Y

* 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

Z

* 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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