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 (born 1935), German sociologist * Christine Delphy (born 1941), French sociologist, feminist, and theorist * Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995), French philosopher * Donatella della Porta, Italian sociologist and political scientist * Christine Delphy, French sociologist * Bogdan Denitch, American sociologist * Régis Dericquebourg (born 1947), French sociologist of religions * Jacques Derrida, French philosopher * Heinz Dieterich, German-Mexican sociologist * Bulent Diken, Danish sociologist * Wilhelm Dilthey, German historian, psychologist and sociologist * Helen Dinerman (1920–1974), American public opinion researcher * Paul DiMaggio, American cultural sociologist * Georgi Dimitrov Dimitrov, Bulgarian sociologist * Stuart C. Dodd, American sociologist * G. William Domhoff, American sociologist * Mary Douglas, British anthropologist and sociologist of perception * Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician * W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), American sociologist and civil rights leader * Denis Duclos, French sociologist * Otis Dudley Duncan, American sociologist * Mitchell Duneier, American sociologist * Eric Dunning, 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 (1930–2010), German sociologist * Alain Ehrenberg, 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 (born 1931), American sociologist * Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo, Mexican sociologist * Gosta Esping-Andersen, Danish sociologist * Amitai Etzioni (born 1929), American sociologist * Peter B. Evans, American sociologist

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* Orlando Fals Borda, Colombian sociologist * Frantz Fanon, Martinican intellectual and sociologist * Rick Fantasia, American sociologist * Thomas Fararo (1933–2020), American mathematical sociologist * Paul Fauconnet (1874–1938), French sociologist * Joe Feagin, American sociologist * Fei Xiaotong (1910–2005), Chinese sociologist and anthropologist * Anuška Ferligoj, Slovenian mathematical sociologist * Florestan Fernandes (1920–1995), Brazilian sociologist * Myra Marx Ferree (born 1949), American sociologist * Enrico Ferri (criminologist), 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 (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 Foss, Daniel A. Foss (1940–2014), American sociologist * John Bellamy Foster, American sociologist and journalist * Michel Foucault (1926–1984), French philosopher * Alfred Jules Émile Fouillée, 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 (sociologist), Steve Fuller, American sociologist * Celso Furtado, Brazilian economist

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* Luciano Gallino, Italian sociologist * Francis Galton (1822–1911), English statistician * Johan Galtung, Norwegian sociologist, mathematician, and founder of peace studies * Diego Gambetta, Italian sociologist * Herbert Gans (born 1927), American sociologist * Delphine Gardey (born 1967), French sociologist * Harold Garfinkel (1917–2011), American sociologist * David W Garland, British sociologist * Marcel Gauchet, French sociologist * John Gaventa, American-British sociologist * Patrick Geddes, Scottish sociologist * Clifford Geertz, 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 * G. S. Ghurye, Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1893–1983), Indian sociologist * Anthony Giddens (born 1938), English sociologist * Franklin Henry Giddings, American sociologist * Nigel Gilbert, British sociologist * Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American sociologist * Paul Gilroy, British sociologist * Salvador Giner, 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 (sociologist), David Glass (1911–1978), British sociologist * Barry Glassner (born 1952), American sociologist * Nathan Glazer, American sociologist * Max Gluckman (1911–1975), South African/English social anthropologist * Erving Goffman (1922–1982), Canadian interactionistic sociologist * Steven J. Gold (born 1955), American sociologist * Lucien Goldmann, Romanian/French sociologist * Jack Goldstone, American sociologist * John H. Goldthorpe (born 1935), British sociologist * Yasunosuke Gonda, Japanese sociologist * Jeff Goodwin, American sociologist * Alvin Gouldner, American sociologist * Ziya Gökalp (1876–1924), Turkish sociologist, writer, poet and political activist * Isacque Graeber (1905–1984), sociologist and Jewish historian * Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937), Italian Marxist and social theorist * Mark Granovetter, American sociologist * Richard Grathoff (1934–2013), German sociologist and phenomenologist * Andrew M. Greeley, American sociologist, priest, writer * Liah Greenfeld (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 (born 1949), Indian sociologist * Georges Gurvitch, Russian/French sociologist * Dimitrie Gusti (1880–1955), Romanian sociologist, the creator of the sociological monographic method

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* Jürgen Habermas (born 1929), German social theorist * Jeffrey K. Hadden (1937–2003), American sociologist * Maurice Halbwachs (1877–1945), French philosopher and sociologist * Drew Halfmann (born 1967), American sociologist * Bente Halkier, Danish sociologist * John A. Hall (born 1949), British/Canadian sociologist * Stuart Hall (cultural theorist), 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 (social theorist and geographer), David Harvey, British social theorist * Chandrakala A. Hate (1903–1990), Indian sociologist, social worker, and author * Darnell Hawkins (born 1946), American sociologist, criminologist, and emeritus professor * Peter Hedström, Swedish sociologist * Samuel Heilman, American sociologist * Wilhelm Heitmeyer, German sociologist * Dirk Helbing, Swiss sociologist * Horst Helle, German sociologist * Ágnes Heller, Hungarian philosopher and sociologist * Celia Stopnicka Heller, American sociologist * Will Herberg (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, 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 (sociologist), John Holloway, Irish sociologist * Susanne Holmström, Danish sociologist * Robert J. Holton, British sociologist * George C. Homans (1910–1989), American behavioral sociologist * Axel Honneth (born 1949), German social theorist * Ida R. Hoos (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 (sociologist), Everett Hughes, American sociologist * Stephen J. Hunt, British sociologist

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* Octavio Ianni (1926–2004), Brazilian sociologist * Ibn Khaldun (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, Moroccan sociologist * Jose Ingenieros, Argentinian sociologist * Harold Innis, Canadian sociologist who developed staples theory * John Keith Irwin (1929–2010), American sociologist known for his expertise on the American prison system * Larry Isaac, American sociologist

J

* Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Danish sociologist * Eliezer Jaffe, Israeli-American sociologist * Jacquelyne Jackson (1932–2004), American sociologist and educator * Stevi Jackson (born 1951), British sociologist * Janet L. Jacobs (born 1948), American sociologist * Marie Jahoda (1907–2001), Austrian-British sociologist and social psychologist * Marie Jaisson, French sociologist * Ayesha Jalal, Pakistani-American historian, sociologist, and professor * Fredric Jameson, American philosopher and social theorist * Morris Janowitz, American sociologist * James M. Jasper (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 (1901–1991), American sociologist * Miriam M. Johnson (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.

K

* Dirk Kaesler (born 1944), German sociologist * Boris Kagarlitsky, Russian sociologist *Irawati Karve, Indian anthropologist and sociologist * Alexandr Kapto, Russian and Ukrainian scientist, sociologist, and political scientist; a diplomat, journalist, politician, and statesman * Elihu Katz, American sociologist * Nitasha Kaul, Indian Kashmiri sociologist, writer, and poet * Karl Kautsky, Czech Marxist theorist * Vytautas Kavolis, Lithuanian-American sociologist and literary critic * Frances Kellor (1873–1952), American sociologist, social reformer, and investigator * Stephen A. Kent, Canadian sociologist * Lane Kenworthy, American sociologist * Sherin Khankan, Danish sociologist *Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938–2009), Moroccan literary critic, novelist, philosopher, playwright, poet, and sociologist * Aquila Berlas Kiani (1921–2012), Indian sociologist and educator * Baruch Kimmerling, Israeli sociologist * Susan Myra Kingsbury (1870–1949), American sociologist * Julieta Kirkwood (1936–1985), Chilean sociologist, political scientist, and feminist activist * Evelyn M. Kitagawa (1920–2007), American sociologist, demographer, and educator * John Kitsuse, Japanese-American sociologist * Gabriele Klein (born 1957), sociologist, dance theorist, and educator * Bernardo Kliksberg, Argentinian sociologist * Eric Klinenberg, American sociologist * Karin Knorr Cetina (born 1944), Austrian sociologist * Antonina Kłoskowska (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, Bulgarian-French feminist sociologist * Alfred L. Kroeber (1876–1960), American anthropologist * Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), Russian anarchist thinker * Thomas Samuel Kuhn, Thomas S. Kuhn (1922–1996), American science theorist * Eugene M. Kulischer (1891–1956), Russian/American sociologist * Charles Kurzman, American sociologist * Martin Kusch, Austrian philosopher and sociologist

L

* William Labov (born 1927), American sociolinguist and dialectologist * Jacques Lacan (1901–1981), French psychoanalyst * Richard Lachmann, American sociologist, specialist in comparative historical sociology * Ernesto Laclau, Argentinian sociologist * Joyce Ladner, American sociologist and activist * Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher * Janja Lalich (born 1945), American sociologist * Michele Lamont, American sociologist * Diane Lamoureux (born 1954), Canadian sociologist, professor, and writer * David C. Lane (born 1956), American sociologist * Ralph Larkin, American sociologist * Scott Lash, American sociologist * Harold Lasswell, American political sociologist * Bruno Latour (born 1947), French sociologist of science * Peter Lavrovich Lavrov, Russian sociologist * John Law (sociologist), John Law, British sociologist * Paul F. Lazarsfeld (1901–1976), Austrian/American sociologist * Gustave Le Bon (1841–1931), French social psychologist * Frederic Le Play, early French sociologist * Anna Leander, Danish sociologist * Emil Lederer, German sociologist * Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991), French people, French Marxism, Marxist philosopher * Charles Lemert (born 1937), American sociologist * Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary and intellectual * Gerhard Lenski, American evolutionary sociologist * Magdalena León de Leal (born 1939), Colombian sociologist * Yuri Levada, Russian sociologist * John Levi Martin, American sociologist * Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009), French anthropologist * Jack Levin (born 1941), American sociologist/criminologist * Barry B. Levine (1941–2020), American sociologist * Ruth Levitas, British sociologist * Daniel Levy (sociologist), Daniel Levy, German-American sociologist * Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857–1939), French philosopher, sociologist, and ethnographer * Kurt Lewin, German social psychologist * Loet Leydesdorff, Dutch sociologist * Li Yinhe (born 1952), Chinese sociologist, sexologist, and activist * Nan Lin, American sociologist * Alfred R. Lindesmith (1905–1991), American sociologist of drug policy * Frederick B. Lindstrom (1915–1998), American sociologist of the arts * Gilles Lipovetsky, French philosopher * Seymour Martin Lipset (1922–2006), American comparativist sociologist * Émile Littré, French philosopher and sociologist, disciple of Comte * Omar Lizardo, American sociologist * John Locke, English philosopher * David Lockwood (sociologist), David Lockwood, British sociologist * Joseph Lopreato, American sociologist * Leo Löwenthal, German sociologist * Michael Löwy, Brazilian-French sociologist * Nathalie Luca (born 1966), French sociologist * Thomas Luckmann (1927–2016), German sociologist * Anthony Ludovici (1882–1971), British conservative sociologist and philosopher * Niklas Luhmann (1927–1998), German sociologist (systems theory) * György Lukács, Hungarian philosopher * Steven Lukes, British social theorist * George A. Lundberg, George Lundberg (1895–1966), American sociologist (scientific) * Rosa Luxemburg (1870–1919), German socialist theoretician * Robert Staughton Lynd (1892–1970), American sociologist * Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998), French philosopher

M

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

N

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

O

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

P

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

Q

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

R

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

S

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

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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