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This is a list of sociologists. It is intended to cover those who have made substantive contributions to
social theory Social theories are analytical frameworks, or paradigms, that are used to study and interpret social phenomena.Seidman, S., 2016. Contested knowledge: Social theory today. John Wiley & Sons. A tool used by social scientists, social theories rel ...
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research Research is " creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge". It involves the collection, organization and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness ...
, 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 Theodor is a masculine given name. It is a German form of Theodore. It is also a variant of Teodor. List of people with the given name Theodor * Theodor Adorno, (1903–1969), German philosopher * Theodor Aman, Romanian painter * Theodor Blue ...
(1903–1969), German philosopher and cultural sociologist *
Richard Alba Richard D. Alba (born December 22, 1942) is an American sociologist, who is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is known for developing assimilation theory to fit the contemporary, multi-racial era of immigration, with stud ...
, American sociologist *
Francesco Alberoni Francesco Alberoni (born 31 December 1929, in Borgonovo Val Tidone, Piacenza) is an Italian journalist and a professor of sociology. He was a board member and senior board member (chairman) of RAI, the Italian state television network, from 200 ...
, Italian sociologist * Martin Albrow, British sociologist * Jeffrey C. Alexander, American sociologist * Edwin Amenta, American sociologist * Nancy Ammerman, American sociologist * Eric Anderson, American-British sociologist * Elijah Anderson, American sociologist * Stanislav Andreski, Polish-British sociologist * Aaron Antonovsky, Israeli sociologist * Arjun Appadurai, Indian sociologist *
Andrew Arato Andrew Arato ( hu, Arató András ; born 22 August 1944) is a professor of Political and Social Theory in the Department of Sociology at The New School, best known for his influential book ''Civil Society and Political Theory'', coauthored with ...
, Hungarian-American sociologist * Margaret Archer, British sociologist * Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), German political theorist * Alcira Argumedo (1940–2021), Argentine sociologist * Aristoteles (384 bC-322 aC), Ancient Greek philosopher and sociologist * Signe Arnfred, Danish sociologist * Raymond Aron (1905–1983), French philosopher and sociologist * Stanley Aronowitz, American sociologist *
Giovanni Arrighi Giovanni Arrighi (7 July 1937 – 18 June 2009) was an Italian economist, sociologist and world-systems analyst, from 1998 a Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His work has been translated into over fifteen languages. Biography ...
, Italian sociologist * Johan Asplund (1937–2018), Swedish sociologist *
Vilhelm Aubert Johan Vilhelm Aubert (7 June 1922 – 19 July 1988) was an influential Norwegian sociologist. He was a professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo from 1963 to 1971 and at the Department of Sociology from 1971 to 1988. He co-founded ...
(1922–1988), Norwegian sociologist * Francisco Ayala, Spanish sociologist and novelist


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* Élisabeth Badinter (born 1944), French philosopher and historian *
Patrick Baert Patrick Baert (born 23 January 1961, in Brussels) is a Belgian sociologist and social theorist, based in Britain. He is a Professor of Social Theory at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. Baert studied at the Vri ...
, British sociologist *
Sergio Bagú Sergio Bagú (January 10, 1911 – December 2, 2002) was an Argentinian Marxist historian, sociologist and political philosopher. Bagú, who was born in Buenos Aires, was a lecturer at the University of Illinois, Middlebury College and the Univ ...
, Argentinian sociologist * Kenneth D. Bailey, American sociologist * Georges Balandier, French sociologist *
Emily Greene Balch Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867 – January 9, 1961) was an American economist, sociologist and pacifist. Balch combined an academic career at Wellesley College with a long-standing interest in social issues such as poverty, child labor ...
, American professor of sociology and Nobel Peace laureate *
Robert Balch Robert William Balch is a sociologist from the University of Montana. Balch is best known for his studies of Heaven's Gate (with David Taylor), the Aryan Nations, and the Love Family. Heaven's Gate Balch found a UFO flyer for Heaven's Gate ...
, American sociologist * E. Digby Baltzell, American sociologist * Eileen Barker (born 1938), British sociologist and professor * Barry Barnes, British sociologist * Liberty Barnes, American sociologist * Roland Barthes (1915–1980), French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician * Robert Bartholomew (born 1958), American medical sociologist living in New Zealand * Roger Bastide, French sociologist * Gregory Bateson (1904–1980), English/American cybernetician * Jean Baubérot (born 1941), French historian and sociologist * Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007), French cultural theorist *
Zygmunt Bauman Zygmunt Bauman (; 19 November 1925 – 9 January 2017) was a Polish sociologist and philosopher. He was driven out of the Polish People's Republic during the 1968 Polish political crisis and forced to give up his Polish citizenship. He emigrat ...
(1925–2017), Polish/British sociologist *
Frank Bean 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 (born 1956), American sociologist * Ulrich Beck (1944–2015), German sociologist *
Gary Becker Gary Stanley Becker (; December 2, 1930 – May 3, 2014) was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago, and was a leader of ...
, American economist * Howard P. Becker, American sociologist * Howard S. Becker (born 1928), American sociologist * Jens Beckert, German sociologist * Richard F. Behrendt (1908–1973), German sociologist *
Daniel Bell Daniel Bell (May 10, 1919 – January 25, 2011) was an American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor at Harvard University, best known for his contributions to the study of post-industrialism. He has been described as "one of the leading A ...
(1919–2011), American sociologist * Robert N. Bellah, American sociologist *
Walden Bello Walden Flores Bello (born November 11, 1945) is a Filipino academic, environmentalist, and social activist who served as a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines. He is an international adjunct professor at Binghamton Univers ...
, Filipino sociologist * Reinhard Bendix, German-American sociologist *
Walter Benjamin Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (; ; 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist. An eclectic thinker, combining elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Marxism, and Jewish ...
(1892–1940), German cultural writer and sociologist *
Albert Benschop Albert Benschop (10 May 1949, Rijswijk - 27 February 2018) was a Dutch sociologist with the University of Amsterdam's faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences. He was the chief editor of the university's SocioSite project. His internet studies a ...
(1949–2018), Dutch sociologist * Joseph Berger, American sociologist *
Peter L. Berger Peter Ludwig Berger (17 March 1929 – 27 June 2017) was an Austrian-born American sociologist and Protestant theologian. Berger became known for his work in the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of religion, study of modernization, and theor ...
(1929–2017), Austro-American sociologist * Pierre L. van den Berghe, Belgian sociologist * Henri Bergson (1859–1941), French philosopher * Jessie Bernard, American feminist sociologist * Eduard Bernstein, German politician and intellectual * Jean-Michel Berthelot, French sociologist * Andre Beteille, Indian sociologist *
Krishna Bhattachan Krishna Bhattchan a Nepali sociologist and indigenous activist. He is a Professor of Sociology at the Central Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Tribhuvan University. He received his graduate degree in sociology from Banaras Hind ...
, Nepalese sociologist * Robert Bierstedt, American sociologist * Norman Birnbaum, American sociologist * Margunn Bjørnholt (born 1958), Norwegian sociologist and economist * Donald Black, American sociologist *
Peter Blau Peter Michael Blau (February 7, 1918 – March 12, 2002) was an American sociologist and theorist. Born in Vienna, Austria, he immigrated to the United States in 1939. He completed his PhD doctoral thesis with Robert K. Merton at Columbia Univers ...
(1918–2002), American sociologist * Kathleen M. Blee (born 1953), American sociologist * Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg (born 1929), German sociologist, ethnologist, and sexologist * Danielle Bleitrach (born 1938), French sociologist and journalist *
David Bloor David Bloor (; born 1942) is a British sociologist. He is a professor in, and a former director of, the Science Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh. He is a key figure in the Edinburgh school and played a major role in the development ...
, British sociologist *
Herbert Blumer Herbert George Blumer (March 7, 1900 – April 13, 1987) was an American sociologist whose main scholarly interests were symbolic interactionism and methods of social research. Believing that individuals create social reality through collective ...
(1900–1987), American sociologist *
Olivier Bobineau Olivier Bobineau (born 6 March 1972, La Roche-sur-Yon) is a French sociologist specialized in the sociology of religion. He teaches sociology at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, the Institut Catholique de Paris and the École supérieur ...
(born 1972), French sociologist * Sophie Body-Gendrot (1942–2018), French sociologist * Luc Boltanski, French sociologist * Scott Boorman (born 1949), American sociologist * Charles Booth, British social researcher * Ernst Borinski (1901–1983), German sociologist * Thomas Bottomore (1920–1992), British sociologist * Raymond Boudon, French sociologist *
Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Bourdieu (; 1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influence ...
(1930–2002), French sociologist * Victor Branford (1863–1930), British sociologist * Ronald Breiger, American sociologist *
John David Brewer John David Brewer HDSSc, MRIA, FRSE, FAcSS, FRSA (born 1951) is an Irish-British sociologist who was the former President of the British Sociological Association (2009–12), and has been the Professor of Post Conflict Studies in the Senator ...
(born 1951), British sociologist * Carl Brinkmann (1885–1954), German sociologist * David G. Bromley, American sociologist * Rogers Brubaker, American sociologist * Hauke Brunkhorst, German sociologist *
Hans Henrik Reventlow Bruun Hans Henrik Eduard Reventlow Bruun (born 1943) is a Danish sociologist and diplomat. He is an MA in political science (cand.scient.pol.) from University of Aarhus. Through nearly thirty years, he served in the Danish diplomatic mission. From 198 ...
, Danish sociologist * Walter F. Buckley, American sociologist *
Michael Burawoy Michael Burawoy (born 15 June 1947) is a sociologist working within Marxist social theory, best known as the leading proponent of public sociology and the author of '' Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism ...
, American sociologist * Ernest Burgess (1886–1966), Canadian sociologist * Tom R. Burns, European-American sociologist * Ronald Burt, American sociologist * Judith Butler (born 1956), American gender theorist


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* Roger Caillois, French sociologist *
Craig Calhoun Craig Jackson Calhoun (born 1952) is an American sociologist, currently University Professor of Social Sciences at Arizona State University. An advocate of using social science to address issues of public concern, he was the Director of the ...
, American sociologist *
Michel Callon Michel Callon (born 1945) is a professor of sociology at the École des mines de Paris and member of the Centre de sociologie de l'innovation. He is an author in the field of Science and Technology Studies and one of the leading proponents of act ...
, French sociologist * Elias Canetti, Bulgaria-born novelist and outsider sociologist *
Georges Canguilhem Georges Canguilhem (; ; 4 June 1904 – 11 September 1995) was a French philosopher and physician who specialized in epistemology and the philosophy of science (in particular, biology). Life and work Canguilhem entered the École Normale Supé ...
, French intellectual *
Fernando Henrique Cardoso Fernando Henrique Cardoso (; born 18 June 1931), also known by his initials FHC (), is a Brazilian sociologist, professor and politician who served as the 34th president of Brazil from 1 January 1995 to 31 December 2002. He was the first Brazi ...
(born 1931), Brazilian sociologist, former President of Brazil * Kathleen Carley, American computational sociologist *
Antonio Caso Antonio Caso Andrade (December 19, 1883 – March 6, 1946) was a Mexican philosopher and rector of the former ''Universidad Nacional de México'', nowadays known as the National Autonomous University of Mexico from December 1921 to August ...
, Mexican sociologist *
Robert Castel Robert Castel (1 August 1933 – 12 March 2013) was a French sociologist and researcher at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. Academic career Castel was born in Saint-Pierre-Quilbignon, now part of Brest. He initially studi ...
, French sociologist *
Julieta Castellanos Julieta Castellanos (born 8 January 1954) is a Honduran sociologist and the dean of the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) since 2009. Castellanos is known for campaigning against violence in Honduras, focusing on both drug cartel ...
(born 1952), Honduran sociologist *
Manuel Castells Manuel Castells Oliván (; ; born 9 February 1942) is a Spanish sociologist. He is well known for his authorship of a trilogy of works, entitled The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. He is a scholar of the information society, co ...
(born 1942), Spanish sociologist and urban planner *
Cornelius Castoriadis Cornelius Castoriadis ( el, Κορνήλιος Καστοριάδης; 11 March 1922 – 26 December 1997) was a Greek-FrenchMemos 2014, p. 18: "he was ... granted full French citizenship in 1970." philosopher, social critic, economist, ps ...
(1922–1997), Greek philosopher and political theorist * Michel de Certeau, French cultural sociologist *
Francis Stuart Chapin Francis Stuart Chapin (3 February 1888 – 7 July 1974) was an American sociologist and educator; he was a professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota from 1922 to 1953. Background He received his bachelor's degree from Columbia Universi ...
(1888–1974), American sociologist * Christopher Chase-Dunn, American sociologist * Louis Chauvel (born 1967), French sociologist *
Nancy Chodorow Nancy Julia Chodorow (born January 20, 1944) is an American sociologist and professor. She began her career as a professor of Women's studies at Wellesley College in 1973, and from 1974 on taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz, unti ...
(born 1944), American sociologist, psychoanalyst, and gender theorist * Nicholas A. Christakis, American sociologist * Ann-Dorte Christensen, Danish sociologist * Chua Beng Huat, Singaporean sociologist *
Aaron Cicourel Aaron Victor Cicourel, who is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of California, San Diego, specializes in sociolinguistics, medical communication, decision-making, and child socialization. Early in his career, he was intellectually in ...
, American sociologist * Dieter Claessens (1921–1997), German sociologist * Lars Clausen (1935–2010), German sociologist * Marshall B. Clinard (1911–2010), American sociologist (criminology) * Clifford Clogg, American sociologist *
Richard Cloward Richard Andrew Cloward (December 25, 1926 – August 20, 2001) was an American sociologist and activist. He influenced the Strain theory of criminal behavior and the concept of anomie, and was a primary motivator for the passage of the Na ...
(1926–2001), American sociologist * Philip N. Cohen, American sociologist * Ronald L. Cohen, American social psychologist * Stanley Cohen, British sociologist (criminology) * James Samuel Coleman (1926–1995), American sociologist * Harry Collins, British sociologist *
Patricia Hill Collins Patricia Hill Collins (born May 1, 1948) is an American academic specializing in race, class, and gender. She is a distinguished university professor of sociology emerita at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is also the former head of ...
(born 1948), American sociologist *
Randall Collins Randall Collins (born July 29, 1941) is an American sociologist who has been influential in both his teaching and writing. He has taught in many notable universities around the world and his academic works have been translated into various langu ...
, American sociologist * Auguste Comte (1798–1857), French founder of sociology *
Nicolas de Condorcet Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet (; 17 September 1743 – 29 March 1794), known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French philosopher and mathematician. His ideas, including support for a liberal economy, free and equal pu ...
, French mathematician and early sociologist * Dalton Conley, American sociologist * R.W. Connell (born 1944), Australian sociologist * Paul Connerton, British sociologist *
Charles Cooley Charles Horton Cooley (August 17, 1864 – May 7, 1929) was an American sociologist and the son of Michigan Supreme Court Judge Thomas M. Cooley. He studied and went on to teach economics and sociology at the University of Michigan, was a foundi ...
(1864–1929), American sociologist *
Anna Julia Cooper Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (August 10, 1858February 27, 1964) was an American author, educator, sociologist, speaker, Black liberation activist, and one of the most prominent African-American scholars in United States history. Born into slaver ...
, American sociologist * Lewis A. Coser (1913–2003), American sociologist * Carl J. Couch (1925–1994), American sociologist * Douglas E. Cowan, Canadian sociologist * Maxine Leeds Craig, American sociologist *
Colin Crouch Colin John Crouch, (born 1 March 1944) is an English sociologist and political scientist. He coined the post-democracy concept in 2000 in his book '' Coping with Post-Democracy''. Colin Crouch is currently Emeritus Professor at the University ...
, British sociologist * Michel Crozier, French sociologist * Agustin Cueva, Ecuadorian sociologist * Stefan Czarnowski (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 (1933–2012), German sociologist * Randy David, Filipino sociologist * Leonore Davidoff (1932–2014), American-British sociologist and historian * Kingsley Davis, American sociologist * Georges Davy, French sociologist * François de Singly, French sociologist *
Régis Debray Jules Régis Debray (; born 2 September 1940) is a French philosopher, journalist, former government official and academic. He is known for his theorization of mediology, a critical theory of the long-term transmission of cultural meaning in h ...
, 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 Paul Joseph DiMaggio (born January 10, 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American educator, and professor of sociology at New York University since 2015. Previously, he was a professor of sociology at Princeton University. Biography A grad ...
, 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 Thomas Clement Douglas (20 October 1904 – 24 February 1986) was a Scottish-born Canadian politician who served as seventh premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961 and Leader of the New Democratic Party from 1961 to 1971. A Baptist min ...
, Canadian politician * W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), American sociologist and civil rights leader *
Denis Duclos Denis Duclos (born 1947 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French sociologist, Ph.D. and research director at the CNRS (''National Centre for Scientific Research'') in Paris. He is the author of ''The werewolf complex: America's fascination ...
, French sociologist *
Otis Dudley Duncan Otis Dudley Duncan (December 2, 1921 in Nocona, Texas – November 16, 2004, in Santa Barbara, California) was "the most important quantitative sociologist in the world in the latter half of the 20th century", according to sociologist Leo Goodma ...
, 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 Jean Duvignaud (22 February 1921 – 17 February 2007) was a French novelist, sociologist and anthropologist. He was born in La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, on February 22, 1921. Duvignaud was a secondary school teacher first at Abbeville, then a ...
, French sociologist


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* Gerald L. Eberlein (1930–2010), German sociologist * Alain Ehrenberg, French sociologist *
Eugen Ehrlich Eugen Ehrlich (14 September 1862 – 2 May 1922) was an Austrian legal scholar and sociologist of law. He is widely regarded as one of the primary founders of the modern field of sociology of law. Biography Ehrlich was born in Czernowitz (now Ch ...
, German sociologist *
Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt (Hebrew: שמואל נח אייזנשטדט‎ 10 September 1923, Warsaw – 2 September 2010, Jerusalem) was an Israeli sociologist and writer. In 1959 he was appointed to a teaching post in the sociology department ...
(1923–2010), Israeli sociologist *
Riane Eisler Riane Tennenhaus Eisler (born 22 July 1931) is an Austrian-born American systems scientist and author who writes about the effect of gender politics historically on society. She is most known for her 1987 book '' The Chalice and the Blade'', i ...
(born 1931), cultural historian, systems scientist, educator, and attorney *
Norbert Elias Norbert Elias (; 22 June 1897 – 1 August 1990) was a German sociologist who later became a British citizen. He is especially famous for his theory of civilizing/decivilizing processes. Biography Elias was born on 22 June 1897 in Bresla ...
(1897–1990), German sociologist *
Jacques Ellul Jacques Ellul (; ; January 6, 1912 – May 19, 1994) was a French philosopher, sociologist, lay theologian, and professor who was a noted Christian anarchist. Ellul was a longtime Professor of History and the Sociology of Institutions on ...
(1912-1994), French sociologist * Jon Elster, Norwegian sociologist *
Mustafa Emirbayer Mustafa Emirbayer is an American sociologist and professor of sociology at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is known for his theoretical contributions to social network analysis, and is "one of the most vocal advocates of the relational appr ...
, American sociologist * Hugo O. Engelmann (1917–2002), American sociologist *
Friedrich Engels Friedrich Engels ( ,"Engels"
'' Paula England Paula S. England (born 4 December 1949), is an American sociologist and Dean of Social Science at New York University Abu Dhabi. Her research has focused on gender inequality in the labor market, the family, and sexuality. She has also studied ...
, American sociologist *
Ronald Enroth Ronald M. Enroth (born October 28, 1938) has been a professor of sociology at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara, California, and an Evangelicalism, evangelical Christian author of books concerning what he defines as "c ...
(born 1938), American sociologist * Kai T. Erikson (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 hi ...
, 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 Frantz Omar Fanon (, ; ; 20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961), also known as Ibrahim Frantz Fanon, was a French West Indian psychiatrist, and political philosopher from the French colony of Martinique (today a French department). His works have b ...
, Martinican intellectual and sociologist *
Rick Fantasia Rick Fantasia is a Professor in the Social Sciences at Smith College in the United States and Director of its Kahn Liberal Arts Institute. He frequently conducts research in France, and his research interests include the interaction between labor ...
, American sociologist * Thomas Fararo (1933–2020), American mathematical sociologist *
Paul Fauconnet Paul Fauconnet (March 13, 1874 in Saint-Denis – 1938) was a French sociologist who is best known as a contributor to the '' L'Année Sociologique''. Fauconnet aggregated in philosophy in 1892 and earned his doctorate in philosophy in 1895. H ...
(1874–1938), French sociologist *
Joe Feagin Joe Richard Feagin (last name pronounced ; born May 6, 1938) is an American sociologist and social theorist who has conducted extensive research on racial and gender issues, especially in regard to the United States. He is currently the Ella C. M ...
, American sociologist *
Fei Xiaotong Fei Xiaotong or Fei Hsiao-tung (November 2, 1910 – April 24, 2005) was a Chinese anthropologist and sociologist. He was a pioneering researcher and professor of sociology and anthropology; he was also noted for his studies in the study o ...
(1910–2005), Chinese sociologist and anthropologist * Anuška Ferligoj, Slovenian mathematical sociologist *
Florestan Fernandes Florestan Fernandes (22 July 1920 – 10 August 1995) was a Brazilian sociologist and politician. He was also elected federal deputy twice. Life and career Fernandes came from a poor family with his mother being a "washerwoman". In youth he to ...
(1920–1995), Brazilian sociologist * Myra Marx Ferree (born 1949), American sociologist * Enrico Ferri, Italian sociologist and criminologist * Gary Alan Fine (born 1950), American sociologist * Claude Fischer (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 Peter Flora (*3 March 1944, in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria) is an Austrian citizen and taught until his retirement in spring 2009 as a professor of sociology at the University of Mannheim. Peter Flora is a son of the Austrian drawer, caricaturist, gr ...
, Austrian sociologist * Heinz von Foerster (1911–2002), Austrian/American cybernetician *
Pim Fortuyn Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn (; 19 February 1948 – 6 May 2002), was a Dutch politician, author, civil servant, businessman, sociologist and academic who founded the party Pim Fortuyn List (Lijst Pim Fortuyn or LPF) ...
(1948–2002), Dutch sociologist author and politician * 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 François Marie Charles Fourier (;; 7 April 1772 – 10 October 1837) was a French philosopher, an influential early socialist thinker and one of the founders of utopian socialism. Some of Fourier's social and moral views, held to be radical ...
(1772–1837), French proto-sociologist * Renée Fox, American sociologist *
Andre Gunder Frank Andre Gunder Frank (February 24, 1929 – April 25, 2005) was a German-American sociologist and economic historian who promoted dependency theory after 1970 and world-systems theory after 1984. He employed some Marxian concepts on politi ...
(1929–2005), German economic historian and sociologist *
Nancy Fraser Nancy Fraser (; born May 20, 1947) is an American philosopher, critical theorist, feminist, and the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science and professor of philosophy at The New School in New York City.Jadžić, Milo� ...
, American social theorist *
Hans Freyer Hans Freyer (31 July 1887 – 18 January 1969) was a German conservative revolutionary sociologist and philosopher. Life Freyer began studying theology, national economics, history and philosophy at the University of Greifswald in 1907, with the ...
(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 (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 Harold Garfinkel (October 29, 1917 – April 21, 2011) was an American sociologist and ethnomethodologist, who taught at the University of California, Los Angeles. Having developed and established ethnomethodology as a field of inquiry in sociolo ...
(1917–2011), American sociologist * David W Garland, British sociologist *
Marcel Gauchet Marcel Gauchet (; born 1946) is a French historian, philosopher, and sociologist. He is professor emeritus of the Centre de recherches politiques Raymond Aron at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and head of the periodical ''Le D ...
, French sociologist *
John Gaventa John Gaventa (born 1949) is currently the director of research at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, where he has been a Fellow since 1996. From 2011 to 2014, he served as the director of the Coady International Institute ...
, American-British sociologist *
Patrick Geddes Sir Patrick Geddes (2 October 1854 – 17 April 1932) was a British biologist, sociologist, Comtean positivist, geographer, philanthropist and pioneering town planner. He is known for his innovative thinking in the fields of urban planning ...
, Scottish sociologist * Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist * Arnold Gehlen (1904–1976), German philosopher and sociologist * Theodor Geiger (1891–1952), German sociologist *
Ernest Gellner Ernest André Gellner FRAI (9 December 1925 – 5 November 1995) was a British- Czech philosopher and social anthropologist described by ''The Daily Telegraph'', when he died, as one of the world's most vigorous intellectuals, and by ''The ...
(1925–1995), Czech-British philosopher and social anthropologist * Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1893–1983), Indian sociologist * Anthony Giddens (born 1938), English sociologist * Franklin Henry Giddings, American sociologist * Nigel Gilbert, British sociologist *
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Charlotte Perkins Gilman (; née Perkins; July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935), also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, advocate for social reform, and eugenicist. She w ...
, American sociologist *
Paul Gilroy Paul Gilroy (born 16 February 1956) is an English sociologist and cultural studies scholar who is the founding Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Race and Racism at University College, London (UCL). Gilroy is the 2019 ...
, British sociologist * Salvador Giner, Spanish sociologist *
Corrado Gini Corrado Gini (23 May 1884 – 13 March 1965) was an Italian statistician, demographer and sociologist who developed the Gini coefficient, a measure of the income inequality in a society. Gini was a proponent of organicism and applied it to nati ...
(1884–1965), Italian statistician * Morris Ginsberg, British sociologist * Herbert Gintis, American behavioral scientist * Henry Giroux, American sociologist of education *
Todd Gitlin Todd Alan Gitlin (January 6, 1943 – February 5, 2022) was an American sociologist, political activist and writer, novelist, and cultural commentator. He wrote about the mass media, politics, intellectual life and the arts, for both popular an ...
, American sociologist *
Barney Glaser Barney Galland Glaser (1930-2022) was an American sociologist and one of the founders of the grounded theory methodology. Glaser was born on February 27, 1930, in San Francisco, California, and lived in nearby Mill Valley. He received his Bache ...
, American sociologist *
David Glass David Glass may refer to: *David Glass (businessman) (1935–2020), American executive *David Glass (Canadian politician) (1829–1906), Canadian lawyer and political figure * David Glass (Israeli politician) (1936–2014), Israeli politician *Davi ...
(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 Nathan Glazer (February 25, 1923 – January 19, 2019) was an American sociologist who taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and for several decades at Harvard University. He was a co-editor of the now-defunct policy journal ''The Pu ...
, American sociologist *
Max Gluckman Herman Max Gluckman (; 26 January 1911 – 13 April 1975) was a South African and British social anthropologist. He is best known as the founder of the Manchester School of anthropology. Biography and major works Gluckman was born in Johan ...
(1911–1975), South African/English social anthropologist * Erving Goffman (1922–1982), Canadian interactionistic sociologist * Steven J. Gold (born 1955), American sociologist *
Lucien Goldmann Lucien Goldmann (; 20 July 1913 – 8 October 1970) was a French philosopher and sociologist of Jewish-Romanian origin. A professor at the EHESS in Paris, he was a Marxist theorist. His wife was sociologist Annie Goldmann. Biography Goldmann w ...
, Romanian/French sociologist *
Jack Goldstone Jack A. Goldstone (born September 30, 1953) is an American sociologist, political scientist, and historian, specializing in studies of social movements, revolutions, political demography, and the 'Rise of the West' in world history. He is an a ...
, American sociologist * John H. Goldthorpe (born 1935), British sociologist * Yasunosuke Gonda, Japanese sociologist * Jeff Goodwin, American sociologist *
Alvin Gouldner Alvin Ward Gouldner (July 29, 1920 – December 15, 1980) taught sociology at Antioch College (1952–1954) and was professor of sociology at Washington University in St. Louis (1957–1967), at the University at Buffalo (1947-1952), president ...
, American sociologist *
Ziya Gökalp Mehmet Ziya Gökalp (23 March 1876 – 25 October 1924) was a Turkish sociologist, writer, poet, and politician. After the 1908 Young Turk Revolution that reinstated constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire, he adopted the pen name Gökalp ("ce ...
(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 (1891–1937), Italian Marxist and social theorist * Mark Granovetter, American sociologist *
Richard Grathoff Richard Helmut Grathoff (1934–2013) was a Phenomenology (psychology), phenomenologist and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany. Born on August 30, 1934, in Unna, Westphalia, Germany, he received his P ...
(1934–2013), German sociologist and phenomenologist * Andrew M. Greeley, American sociologist, priest, writer * Liah Greenfeld (born 1954), Russian/American sociologist *
Leonid Grinin Leonid Efimovich Grinin (russian: Леони́д Ефи́мович Гри́нин; born in 1958) is a Russian philosopher of history, sociologist, political anthropologist, economist, and futurologist. Born in Kamyshin (the Volgograd Region), G ...
(born 1958), Russian sociologist *
Ludwig Gumplowicz Ludwig Gumplowicz (March 9, 1838 – August 19, 1909), was a Polish sociologist, jurist, historian, and political scientist, who taught constitutional and administrative law at the University of Graz. Gumplowicz was the son of a Jewish carpet ...
(1838–1909), Polish sociologist, one of the founders of European sociology * Dipankar Gupta (born 1949), Indian sociologist * Georges Gurvitch, Russian/French sociologist *
Dimitrie Gusti Dimitrie Gusti (; 13 February 1880 – 30 October 1955) was a Romanian sociologist, ethnologist, historian, and voluntarist philosopher; a professor at the University of Iaşi and the University of Bucharest, he served as Romania's Minister o ...
(1880–1955), Romanian sociologist, the creator of the sociological monographic method


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* Jürgen Habermas (born 1929), German social theorist *
Jeffrey K. Hadden Jeffrey K. Hadden (1937–2003) was an American professor of sociology. He began his teaching career at Western Reserve University and then at the University of Virginia commencing in 1972. Hadden earned his Ph.D. in 1963 at the University of Wis ...
(1937–2003), American sociologist *
Maurice Halbwachs Maurice Halbwachs (; 11 March 1877 – 16 March 1945) was a French philosopher and sociologist known for developing the concept of collective memory. Halbwachs also contributed to the sociology of knowledge with his ''La Topographie Legendaire de ...
(1877–1945), French philosopher and sociologist * Drew Halfmann (born 1967), American sociologist *
Bente Halkier Bente Halkier (born 1964) is a Danish sociologist and academic. Since 2016, she has been Professor in Sociology at the University of Copenhagen. Career Halkier was born in 1964 and completed studied at Lancaster University in England, graduati ...
, Danish sociologist *
John A. Hall John A. Hall (born 1949) is the James McGill Emeritus Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology at McGill University, Montreal. He is the author or editor of over 30 books. Education and Previous Posts Hall graduated from the Oxford Univ ...
(born 1949), British/Canadian sociologist * Stuart Hall (1932–2014), British cultural theorist *
Donna Haraway Donna J. Haraway is an American Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department and Feminist Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a prominent scholar in the field of science and technology studies. Sh ...
(born 1944), American gender and technology theorist *
Eszter Hargittai Eszter Hargittai (born 1973 in Budapest, Hungary) is a communication studies scholar and Professor at the University of Zurich. Biography She holds a BA in Sociology from Smith College and a PhD in Sociology from Princeton University where she ...
, Hungarian sociologist *
Marta Harnecker Marta Harnecker (1937 - 14 June 2019) was a Chilean journalist, author, psychologist, sociologist, and Marxist intellectual. She studied the analysis of labor movements and acted as an advisor to the government of Cuba, as well as a collaborat ...
, Chilean sociologist *
David Harvey David W. Harvey (born 31 October 1935) is a British-born Marxist economic geographer, podcaster and Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He received his P ...
, British social theorist *
Chandrakala A. Hate Chandrakala Anandrao Hate (pronounced Haa-tay) (1903–1990) (née Murkute) was a writer, feminist, social worker, and professor in Bombay, India. Biography Early years Born Chandrakala Jagannath Murkute on 12 September 1903 to Dr. Jagannath a ...
(1903–1990), Indian sociologist, social worker, and author *
Darnell Hawkins Darnell Felix Hawkins (born November 24, 1946) is an American sociologist and criminologist. He is emeritus professor of African-American studies, sociology, and criminal justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is known for his researc ...
(born 1946), American sociologist, criminologist, and emeritus professor * Peter Hedström, Swedish sociologist * Samuel Heilman, American sociologist * Wilhelm Heitmeyer, German sociologist *
Dirk Helbing Dirk Helbing (born January 19, 1965) is Professor of Computational Social Science at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences and affiliate of the Computer Science Department at ETH Zurich. Biography Dirk Helbing studied phy ...
, Swiss sociologist *
Horst Helle Horst Jürgen Helle (born July 19, 1934) is a German sociologist, who is currently Professor Emeritus at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Munich, Germany. Career Horst Helle received a business degree from the university in his homet ...
, German sociologist * Ágnes Heller, Hungarian philosopher and sociologist * Celia Stopnicka Heller, American sociologist *
Will Herberg William Herberg (June 30, 1901 – March 26, 1977) was an American writer, intellectual and scholar. A communist political activist during his early years, Herberg gained wider public recognition as a social philosopher and sociologist of relig ...
(1901–1977), American sociologist *
John Heritage John Heritage (born July 10, 1946) is Professor of Sociology at University of California at Los Angeles. He is one of the key figures in the approach known as conversation analysis. He came to prominence in 1984 with the publication of his book ...
, American sociologist *
Robert Hertz Robert Hertz (22 June 1881, Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine – 13 April 1915, Marchéville, Meuse (department), Meuse) was a French sociologist who was killed in active service during World War I. Hertz was a student at the École Normale Supérieure ...
, French sociologist * Danièle Hervieu-Léger, French sociologist *
Michael D. Higgins Michael Daniel Higgins ( ga, Mícheál Dónal Ó hUigínn; born 18 April 1941) is an Irish politician, poet, sociologist, and broadcaster, who has served as the ninth president of Ireland since November 2011. Entering national politics throug ...
, Irish sociologist and current Irish president * Paul Hirst, British sociologist *
Thomas Hobbes Thomas Hobbes ( ; 5/15 April 1588 – 4/14 December 1679) was an English philosopher, considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book ''Leviathan'', in which he expounds an influ ...
, British philosopher * Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, pioneer British sociologist * Arlie Russell Hochschild, American sociologist *
Richard Hoggart Herbert Richard Hoggart (24 September 1918 – 10 April 2014) was a British academic whose career covered the fields of sociology, English literature and cultural studies, with emphasis on British popular culture. Early life Hoggart was bor ...
(1918–2014), British sociologist * John Holloway, Irish sociologist * Susanne Holmström, Danish sociologist * Robert J. Holton, British sociologist * George C. Homans (1910–1989), American behavioral sociologist * Axel Honneth (born 1949), German social theorist * Ida R. Hoos (1912–2007), American sociologist *
Max Horkheimer Max Horkheimer (; ; 14 February 1895 – 7 July 1973) was a German philosopher and sociologist who was famous for his work in critical theory as a member of the Frankfurt School of social research. Horkheimer addressed authoritarianism, militari ...
(1895–1973), German social theorist *
Irving Louis Horowitz Irving Louis Horowitz (September 25, 1929 – March 21, 2012) was an American sociologist, author, and college professor who wrote and lectured extensively in his field, and his later years came to fear that it risked being seized by left-wing ide ...
, American sociologist * Eugenio María de Hostos, 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, British sociologist


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Octavio Ianni Octavio Ianni (1926 in Itu, Brazil, Itu, São Paulo – 2004 in São Paulo, São Paulo), Brazilian sociology, sociologist graduated, mastered and doctored at the University of São Paulo (USP) and was one of the founders of Cebrap. Ianni was a pup ...
(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 Harold Adams Innis (November 5, 1894 – November 9, 1952) was a Canadian professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of seminal works on media, communication theory, and Canadian economic history. He helped deve ...
, Canadian sociologist who developed staples theory *
John Keith Irwin John Keith Irwin (May 21, 1929 – January 3, 2010) was an American sociologist and criminologist who was known internationally as an expert on the American prison system.
(1929–2010), American sociologist known for his expertise on the American prison system * Larry Isaac, American sociologist


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Michael Hviid Jacobsen Michael Hviid Jacobsen (born 13 May 1971 in Næstved, Denmark) is a Danish professor of sociology. Since 1997 he has been employed at Aalborg University, acting from 2009 as a professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Work. He is a freq ...
, 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 Ayesha Jalal (Punjabi, ur, ) is a Pakistani-American historian who serves as the Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University, and was the recipient of the 1998 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Family and early life Ayesha Jala ...
, Pakistani-American historian, sociologist, and professor *
Fredric Jameson Fredric Jameson (born April 14, 1934) is an American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends, particularly his analysis of postmodernity and capitalism. Jam ...
, American philosopher and social theorist *
Morris Janowitz Morris Janowitz (October 22, 1919 – November 7, 1988) was an American sociologist and professor who made major contributions to sociological theory, the study of prejudice, urban issues, and patriotism. He was one of the founders of military ...
, American sociologist * James M. Jasper (born 1957), American sociologist *
Gail Jefferson Gail Jefferson (22 April 1938 – 21 February 2008) was an American sociologist with an emphasis in sociolinguistics. She was, along with Harvey Sacks and Emanuel Schegloff, one of the founders of the area of research known as conversation analysi ...
(1938–2008), American sociologist and conversation analyst *
Yasmin Jiwani Yasmin Jiwani is a feminist academic and activist. In her research, she examines the intersectionality of race and gender in media narratives of violence against women and representations of racialized peoples. Currently, Dr. Jiwani is a full p ...
, feminist academic and activist *
Hans Joas Hans Joas (; ; born November 27, 1948) is a German sociologist and social theorist. Hans Joas is Ernst Troeltsch Professor for the Sociology of Religion at the Humboldt University of Berlin. From 2011 until 2014 he was a Permanent Fellow at th ...
, 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 Rodrigo Jokisch (born 1946) is a German sociologist. Some books * Determinants of the Technological Evolution in Europe. Structural Models for a better Understanding of the Process of Industrialization between the 17th and the 19th Century, Tec ...
(born 1946), German-Mexican sociologist and social theorist *
Frank Lancaster Jones Frank Lancaster Jones (born 1937) is an Australian sociologist specialising in social inequality, social stratification, social mobility, and national identity. He was Head of the Department of Sociology in the Research School of Social Sciences ...
(born 1937), Australian sociologist * Lewis Wade Jones (1910–1979), African/American sociologist and educator * Danny Jorgensen, American sociologist *
Paul Jorion Paul Jorion (born 22 July 1946 in Brussels) is by training an anthropologist, sociologist with a special interest in the cognitive sciences. He has also written seven books on capitalist economics. Paul was born and raised in Belgium, and has ...
, Belgian American sociologist and cognitive scientist
Jharana Jhaveri
Indian Documentary Film maker and Sociologist of Social Movements & Oppressed People's Struggle, Environmental & Human Rights.


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* Dirk Kaesler (born 1944), German sociologist *
Boris Kagarlitsky Boris Yulyevich Kagarlitsky (russian: Бори́с Ю́льевич Кагарли́цкий; born 29 August 1958) is a Russian Marxist theoretician and sociologist who has been a political dissident in the Soviet Union. He is coordinator of ...
, Russian sociologist *
Irawati Karve Irawati Karve (15 December 1905 – 11 August 1970) was a pioneering Indian sociologist, anthropologist, educationist and writer from Maharashtra, India. She was one of the students of G.S. Ghurye, founder of Indian Sociology & Sociol ...
, Indian anthropologist and sociologist * Alexandr Kapto, Russian and Ukrainian scientist, sociologist, and political scientist; a diplomat, journalist, politician, and statesman *
Elihu Katz Elihu Katz (Hebrew: אליהוא כ"ץ, 21 May 1926 – 31 December 2021) was an American and Israeli sociologist and communication scientist, usually associated with uses and gratifications theory. He is known for his work with Paul Lazarsfel ...
, American sociologist *
Nitasha Kaul Nitasha Kaul is a British Indians, British-Indian academic, writer and poet based in London. In addition to fiction, she writes and speaks about topics that cover the political economy, Bhutan, Kashmir, nationalism in India, gender and identity. ...
, Indian Kashmiri sociologist, writer, and poet * Karl Kautsky, Czech Marxist theorist * Vytautas Kavolis, Lithuanian-American sociologist and literary critic *
Frances Kellor Frances Alice Kellor (October 20, 1873 – January 4, 1952) was an American social reformer and investigator, who specialized in the study of immigrants to the United States and women. Early life and education Frances Alice Kellor was born Oct ...
(1873–1952), American sociologist, social reformer, and investigator * Stephen A. Kent, Canadian sociologist * Lane Kenworthy, American sociologist *
Sherin Khankan Sherin Khankan (born Ann Christine Khankan; 13 October 1974) is Denmark's (and Scandinavia's) first female imam; she founded a women-led mosque in Copenhagen. She is also an activist on Muslim issues including female integration and extremism, a ...
, Danish sociologist * Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938–2009), Moroccan literary critic, novelist, philosopher, playwright, poet, and sociologist * Aquila Berlas Kiani (1921–2012), Indian sociologist and educator *
Baruch Kimmerling Baruch Kimmerling (Hebrew: ברוך קימרלינג; 16 October 1939 – 20 May 2007) was an Israeli scholar and professor of sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Upon his death in 2007, ''The Times'' described him as "the first academ ...
, Israeli sociologist *
Susan Myra Kingsbury Susan Myra Kingsbury (October 18, 1870 – November 28, 1949) was an American professor of economics and a pioneer of social research. Biography Susan was born in San Pablo, California, in 1870, the daughter of Willard Belmont Kingsbury, M.D., an ...
(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 John Itsuro Kitsuse (1923, Imperial Valley, California, US - 27 November 2003, Santa Cruz, California, US) was an American professor of sociology who contributed to the sociology of social problems, criminology Criminology (from Latin , "a ...
, Japanese-American sociologist * Gabriele Klein (born 1957), sociologist, dance theorist, and educator * Bernardo Kliksberg, Argentinian sociologist *
Eric Klinenberg Eric M. Klinenberg (born November 14, 1970) is an American sociologist and a scholar of urban studies, culture, and media. He is currently Helen Gould Shepard Professor in Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New ...
, American sociologist *
Karin Knorr Cetina Karin Knorr Cetina (also Karin Knorr-Cetina) (born 19 July 1944 in Graz, Austria) is an Austrian sociologist well known for her work on epistemology and social constructionism, summarized in the books ''The Manufacture of Knowledge: An Essay o ...
(born 1944), Austrian sociologist * Antonina Kłoskowska (1919–2001), Polish sociologist *
Karin Knorr Cetina Karin Knorr Cetina (also Karin Knorr-Cetina) (born 19 July 1944 in Graz, Austria) is an Austrian sociologist well known for her work on epistemology and social constructionism, summarized in the books ''The Manufacture of Knowledge: An Essay o ...
(born 1944), Austrian sociologist *
Katsuya Kodama is a Japanese peace researcher and sociologist specialized in the research of non-violent peace activism, study on Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, refugee issues, foreign workers, and peace-building. He is a current Secretary-General of I ...
(born 1959), Japanese sociologist and peace researcher *
Mirra Komarovsky Mirra Komarovsky (February 5, 1905 – January 30, 1999), was an American pioneer in the sociology of gender. Early years Born to Mendel and Anna Komarovsky (née Steinberg)
(1905–1999), Russian-American sociologist * René König (1906–1992), German sociologist *
Andrey Korotayev Andrey Vitalievich Korotayev (russian: link=yes, Андре́й Вита́льевич Корота́ев; born 17 February 1961) is a Russian anthropologist, economic historian, comparative political scientist, demographer and sociologist, ...
(born 1961), Russian sociologist *
Reinhart Koselleck Reinhart Koselleck (23 April 1923 – 3 February 2006) was a German historian. He is widely considered to be one of the most important historians of the twentieth century. He occupied a distinctive position within history, working outside of any p ...
(1923–2006), German historian and social theorist * Maksim Kovalevsky (1851–1916), Russian sociologist *
Siegfried Kracauer Siegfried Kracauer (; ; February 8, 1889 – November 26, 1966) was a German writer, journalist, sociologist, cultural critic, and film theorist. He has sometimes been associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. He is notable for a ...
, German sociologist * Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French feminist sociologist *
Alfred L. Kroeber Alfred Louis Kroeber (June 11, 1876 – October 5, 1960) was an American cultural anthropologist. He received his PhD under Franz Boas at Columbia University in 1901, the first doctorate in anthropology awarded by Columbia. He was also the first ...
(1876–1960), American anthropologist * Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), Russian anarchist thinker * Thomas S. Kuhn (1922–1996), American science theorist * Eugene M. Kulischer (1891–1956), Russian/American sociologist * Charles Kurzman, American sociologist *
Martin Kusch Martin Kusch (born 19 October 1959) is Professor of philosophy at the University of Vienna. Until 2009, Kusch was Professor of Philosophy and Sociology of science at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University. Pri ...
, Austrian philosopher and sociologist


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William Labov William Labov ( ; born December 4, 1927) is an American linguist widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics. He has been described as "an enormously original and influential figure who has created much of ...
(born 1927), American sociolinguist and dialectologist * Jacques Lacan (1901–1981), French psychoanalyst * Richard Lachmann, American sociologist, specialist in comparative historical sociology *
Ernesto Laclau Ernesto Laclau (; 6 October 1935 – 13 April 2014) was an Argentine political theorist and philosopher. He is often described as an 'inventor' of post-Marxist political theory. He is well known for his collaborations with his long-term partner ...
, Argentinian sociologist * Joyce Ladner, American sociologist and activist *
Imre Lakatos Imre Lakatos (, ; hu, Lakatos Imre ; 9 November 1922 – 2 February 1974) was a Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science, known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its "methodology of proofs and refutations" in its pr ...
, Hungarian philosopher *
Janja Lalich Janja Lalich (b. 1945) is an American sociologist and writer. Lalich is best known as a foremost expert on cults and coercion, charismatic authority, power relations, ideology and social control. She is a professor emerita of sociology at the ...
(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 Bruno Latour (; 22 June 1947 – 9 October 2022) was a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist.Wheeler, Will. ''Bruno Latour: Documenting Human and Nonhuman Associations'' Critical Theory for Library and Information Science. Libraries ...
(born 1947), French sociologist of science *
Peter Lavrovich Lavrov Pyotr Lavrovich Lavrov (russian: Пётр Ла́врович Лавро́в; alias Mirtov (); (June 14 O.S.">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="une 2 Old Style and New Style dates">O.S. 1823 – February 6 anuary 6 O.S. 1900) was a ...
, Russian sociologist * John Law, British sociologist * Paul F. Lazarsfeld (1901–1976), Austrian/American sociologist *
Gustave Le Bon Charles-Marie Gustave Le Bon (; 7 May 1841 – 13 December 1931) was a leading French polymath whose areas of interest included anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, invention, and physics. He is best known for his 1895 work '' The Crowd ...
(1841–1931), French social psychologist * Frederic Le Play, early French sociologist * Anna Leander, Danish sociologist * Emil Lederer, German sociologist *
Henri Lefebvre Henri Lefebvre ( , ; 16 June 1901 – 29 June 1991) was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist, best known for pioneering the critique of everyday life, for introducing the concepts of the right to the city and the production of s ...
(1901–1991), French Marxist philosopher * Charles Lemert (born 1937), American sociologist *
Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. ( 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin,. was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1 ...
, Russian revolutionary and intellectual * Gerhard Lenski, American evolutionary sociologist * Magdalena León de Leal (born 1939), Colombian sociologist *
Yuri Levada Yuri Alexandrovich Levada (russian: Ю́рий Алекса́ндрович Лева́да; 24 April 1930 in Vinnytsia – 16 November 2006 in Moscow) was a well known Russian sociologist, political scientist and the founder of the Levada Cent ...
, Russian sociologist *
John Levi Martin John Levi Martin (born 1964) is an American sociologist and the Florence Borchert Bartling Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of five books: ''Thinking Through Statistics'', ''Thinking Through Methods'', ''Think ...
, American sociologist *
Claude Lévi-Strauss Claude Lévi-Strauss (, ; 28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. He held the chair of Social An ...
(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 Ruth Levitas (born 15 May 1949 in London) is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Bristol. She is well known internationally for her research on utopia and utopian studies. Her book, ''The Concept of Utopia'' (19 ...
, British sociologist * Daniel Levy, German-American sociologist *
Lucien Lévy-Bruhl Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (10 April 1857 – 13 March 1939) was a French scholar trained in philosophy who furthered anthropology with his contributions to the budding fields of sociology and ethnology. His primary field interest was ways of thinking. ...
(1857–1939), French philosopher, sociologist, and ethnographer *
Kurt Lewin Kurt Lewin ( ; 9 September 1890 – 12 February 1947) was a German-American psychologist, known as one of the modern pioneers of social, organizational, and applied psychology in the United States. During his professional career Lewin applied hi ...
, German social psychologist *
Loet Leydesdorff Louis André (Loet) Leydesdorff (born 21 August 1948 in Djakarta (Dutch Indies) is a Dutch sociologist, cyberneticist and Professor in the Dynamics of Scientific Communication and Technological Innovation at the University of Amsterdam. He is kn ...
, 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 Seymour Martin Lipset ( ; March 18, 1922 – December 31, 2006) was an American sociologist and political scientist (President of the American Political Science Association). His major work was in the fields of political sociology, trade union o ...
(1922–2006), American comparativist sociologist * Émile Littré, French philosopher and sociologist, disciple of Comte * Omar Lizardo, American sociologist * John Locke, English philosopher * David Lockwood, British sociologist * Joseph Lopreato, American sociologist *
Leo Löwenthal Leo Löwenthal (; 3 November 1900 – 21 January 1993) was a German sociologist and philosopher usually associated with the Frankfurt School. Life Born in Frankfurt as the son of assimilated Jews (his father was a physician), Löwenthal came of ...
, German sociologist * Michael Löwy, Brazilian-French sociologist * Nathalie Luca (born 1966), French sociologist *
Thomas Luckmann Thomas Luckmann (; October 14, 1927 – May 10, 2016) was an American-Austrian sociologist of German and Slovene origin who taught mainly in Germany. Born in Jesenice, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Luckmann studied philosophy and linguistics at the Un ...
(1927–2016), German sociologist * Anthony Ludovici (1882–1971), British conservative sociologist and philosopher * Niklas Luhmann (1927–1998), German sociologist (systems theory) *
György Lukács György Lukács (born György Bernát Löwinger; hu, szegedi Lukács György Bernát; german: Georg Bernard Baron Lukács von Szegedin; 13 April 1885 – 4 June 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, critic, and aesth ...
, Hungarian philosopher *
Steven Lukes Steven Michael Lukes (born 1941) is a British political and social theorist. Currently he is a professor of politics and sociology at New York University. He was formerly a professor at the University of Siena, the European University Institute ...
, British social theorist * George Lundberg (1895–1966), American sociologist (scientific) * Rosa Luxemburg (1870–1919), German socialist theoretician * Robert Staughton Lynd (1892–1970), American sociologist *
Jean-François Lyotard Jean-François Lyotard (; ; ; 10 August 1924 – 21 April 1998) was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist. His interdisciplinary discourse spans such topics as epistemology and communication, the human body, modern art and ...
(1924–1998), French philosopher


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* Amin Maalouf, Lebanese author with a degree in sociology * Richard Machalek (born 1946), American sociologist and sociobiologist * Robert Morrison MacIver (1882–1970), Scottish/American sociologist * Donald A. MacKenzie, British sociologist * Annie Marion MacLean (1869–1934), Canadian-American applied sociologist *
Michel Maffesoli Michel Maffesoli (born 14 November 1944) is a French sociologist. He is a former pupil of Gilbert Durand and Julien Freund, and an emeritus professor at Paris Descartes University. His work touches upon the issue of community links and the p ...
, 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 Roberto Mangabeira Unger (; born 24 March 1947) is a Brazilian philosopher and politician. His work is in the tradition of classical social theory and pragmatism, and is developed across many fields including legal theory, philosophy and religion ...
, Brazilian social theorist * 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 Thomas Humphrey Marshall (1893–1981) was an English sociologist who is best known for his essay " Citizenship and Social Class," a key work on citizenship that introduced the idea that full citizenship includes civil, political, and social ci ...
, British sociologist *
Everett Dean Martin Everett Dean Martin (July 5, 1880 – May 10, 1941) was an American minister, writer, journalist, instructor, lecturer, social psychologist, social philosopher, and an advocate of adult education. He was an instructor and lecturer at The New Sc ...
, American sociologist *
Jean Martin Jean Martin (6 March 1922 – 2 February 2009Jean Martin
''The Guardian'', 12 February 2009
, Australian sociologist *
John Levi Martin John Levi Martin (born 1964) is an American sociologist and the Florence Borchert Bartling Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of five books: ''Thinking Through Statistics'', ''Thinking Through Methods'', ''Think ...
, American sociologist *
Harriet Martineau Harriet Martineau (; 12 June 1802 – 27 June 1876) was an English social theorist often seen as the first female sociologist, focusing on race relations within much of her published material.Michael R. Hill (2002''Harriet Martineau: Theoretic ...
(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 Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 ...
(1818–1883), German political philosopher, social theorist *
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Tomáš () is a Czech and Slovak given name, equivalent to the name Thomas. It may refer to: * Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850–1937), first President of Czechoslovakia * Tomáš Baťa (1876–1932), Czech footwear entrepreneur * Tomáš Berdyc ...
, 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 Carl May FAcSS (born 1961, in Farnham, Surrey) is a British sociologist. He researches in the fields of medical sociology and science and technology studies. Formerly based at Southampton University and Newcastle University, he is now Profess ...
(born 1961), British medical sociologist *
Doug McAdam Doug McAdam (born August 31, 1951) is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. He is the author or co-author of over a dozen books and over fifty articles, and is widely credited as one of the pioneers of the political process model in socia ...
, American sociologist * Fayette Avery McKenzie (1872–1957), American sociologist * Robert McKenzie (1917–1981), Canadian Politics professor and psephologist * Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980), Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar *
George Herbert Mead George Herbert Mead (February 27, 1863 – April 26, 1931) was an American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist, primarily affiliated with the University of Chicago, where he was one of several distinguished pragmatists. He is regarded a ...
(1863–1931), American philosopher and social psychologist *
Margaret Mead Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and the 1970s. She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard C ...
(1901–1978), American cultural anthropologist * Stephen Mennell (born 1944), English sociologist *
Fatema Mernissi Fatema Mernissi ( ar, فاطمة مرنيسي, Fāṭima Marnīsī; 27 September 1940 – 30 November 2015) was a Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist. Biography Fatema Mernissi was born on 27 September 1940 in Fez, Morocco. She grew up in ...
(1940–2015), Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist *
Robert K. Merton Robert King Merton (born Meyer Robert Schkolnick; July 4, 1910 – February 23, 2003) was an American sociologist who is considered a founding father of modern sociology, and a major contributor to the subfield of criminology. He served as th ...
(1910–2003), American sociologist * Michael Messner (born 1952), American pro-feminist sociologist * John W. Meyer, American sociologist *
Robert Michels Robert Michels (; 9 January 1876 – 3 May 1936) was a German-born Italian sociologist who contributed to elite theory by describing the political behavior of intellectual elites. He belonged to the Italian school of elitism. He is best know ...
(1876–1936), German political sociologist *
Ralph Miliband Ralph Miliband (born Adolphe Miliband; 7 January 1924 – 21 May 1994) was a British sociologist. He has been described as "one of the best known academic Marxists of his generation", in this manner being compared with E. P. Thompson, Eric Hob ...
, British sociologist * C. Wright Mills (1916–1962), American sociologist * Andrew Milner (born 1950), British-Australian sociologist of literature * Ann Mische, American sociologist *
Munesuke Mita
was one of the most famous sociologists in Japan. Mita has studied about modern society at
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, Japanese sociologist * J. Clyde Mitchell (1918–1995), British social anthropologist *
Shinji Miyadai is a Japanese sociologist and is a professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University. He has a PhD from the University of Tokyo for his research on Mathematical sociology. Using the method of game theory, he analyzed how the power of the state works ...
(born 1959), Japanese sociologist * Tariq Modood, British sociologist *
Abraham Moles Abraham Moles (19 August 1920 – 22 May 1992) was a pioneer in information science and communication studies in France, He was a professor at Ulm school of design and University of Strasbourg. He is known for his work on kitsch. Biography Mo ...
(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 Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (; ; 18 January 168910 February 1755), generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French judge, man of letters, historian, and political philosopher. He is the princi ...
, French philosopher * James D. Montgomery, American economist and mathematical sociologist * Barrington Moore, Jr., American political sociologist *
Edgar Morin Edgar Morin (; ; born Edgar Nahoum; 8 July 1921) is a French philosopher and sociologist of the theory of information who has been recognized for his work on complexity and "complex thought" ( pensée complexe), and for his scholarly contributio ...
, 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 Radhakamal Mukerjee (1889–1968), a leading thinker and social scientist of modern India, was Professor of Economics and Sociology and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lucknow. Mukerjee played an important and constructive role in the Ind ...
, Indian sociologist * Peter A. Munch (1908–1984), Norwegian/American sociologist * Charles Murray (born 1943), American sociologist *
Gunnar Myrdal Karl Gunnar Myrdal ( ; ; 6 December 1898 – 17 May 1987) was a Swedish economist and sociologist. In 1974, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences along with Friedrich Hayek for "their pioneering work in the theory of money a ...
(1898–1987), Swedish economist, sociologist, and politician


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* Ashis Nandy, Indian sociologist * Vicenç Navarro, Spanish sociologist * Victor Nee, American sociologist *
Antonio Negri Antonio "Toni" Negri (born 1 August 1933) is an Italian Spinozistic-Marxist sociologist and political philosopher, best known for his co-authorship of ''Empire'' and secondarily for his work on Spinoza. Born in Padua, he became a political p ...
, Italian political philosopher and critic of Luhmann * Oswald von Nell-Breuning (1890–1991), German Roman Catholic theologian, sociologist and social reformer *
Otto Neurath Otto Karl Wilhelm Neurath (; 10 December 1882 – 22 December 1945) was an Austrian-born philosopher of science, sociologist, and political economist. He was also the inventor of the ISOTYPE method of pictorial statistics and an innovator in mu ...
(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 Robert Alexander Nisbet (; September 30, 1913 – September 9, 1996) was an American sociologist, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Vice-Chancellor at the University of California, Riverside, and an Albert Schweitzer Profess ...
(1913–1996), American sociologist *
Helga Nowotny Helga Nowotny (born 1937) is Professor emeritus of Social Studies of Science, ETH Zurich. She has held numerous leadership roles on Academic boards and public policy councils, and she has authored many publications in the social studies of science ...
(born 1937), Austrian sociologist


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Claus Offe Claus Offe (born 16 March 1940 in Berlin) is a political sociologist of Marxist orientation. He received his PhD from the University of Frankfurt and his Habilitation at the University of Konstanz. In Germany, he has held chairs for Political Sci ...
(born 1940), German sociologist * William F. Ogburn (1886–1959), American sociologist * Lloyd Ohlin, American sociologist * Michael Omi, American sociologist *
Gail Omvedt Gail Omvedt (2 August 1941 – 25 August 2021) was an American-born Indian sociologist and human rights activist. She was a prolific writer and published numerous books on the anti-caste movement, Dalit politics, and women's struggles in India. ...
(1941–2021), American/Indian sociologist * T. K. Oommen, Indian sociologist *
Franz Oppenheimer Franz Oppenheimer (March 30, 1864 – September 30, 1943) was a German Jewish sociologist and political economist, who published also in the area of the fundamental sociology of the state. Life and career After studying medicine in Freiburg and ...
(1864–1943), German sociologist and political economist * José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher * Stanislaw Ossowski (1897–1963), Polish sociologist * Moisey Ostrogorsky, Russian sociologist


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Vilfredo Pareto Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto ( , , , ; born Wilfried Fritz Pareto; 15 July 1848 – 19 August 1923) was an Italians, Italian polymath (civil engineer, sociologist, economist, political scientist, and philosopher). He made several important ...
(1848–1923), Italian economist and sociologist * Robert E. Park (1864–1944), American sociologist *
Talcott Parsons Talcott Parsons (December 13, 1902 – May 8, 1979) was an American sociologist of the classical tradition, best known for his social action theory and structural functionalism. Parsons is considered one of the most influential figures in soci ...
(1902–1979), American sociologist * C.J. Pascoe, American sociologist *
Jean-Claude Passeron Jean-Claude Passeron (born 26 November 1930) is a French sociologist and leader of social science studies. As part of a mixed interdisciplinary team involving sociologists, historians, and anthropologists, he led the magazine ''Enquêtes''. Bio ...
, French sociologist * Orlando Patterson, American sociologist * Karl Pearson (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 scienti ...
, American sociologist * Jacqueline Peschard (1965), Mexican sociologist * James Petras, American sociologist *
Jean Piaget Jean William Fritz Piaget (, , ; 9 August 1896 – 16 September 1980) was a Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development. Piaget's theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemolo ...
(1896–1980), Swiss developmental psychologist * Andrew Pickering, British sociologist *
Trevor Pinch Trevor J. Pinch (1 January 1952 – 16 December 2021) was a British sociologist, part-time musician and chair of the Science and Technology Studies department at Cornell University. In 2018, he won the J.D. Bernal Prize from the Society for ...
, British sociologist *
Michael Plekon Michael Plekon ( Yonkers born April 3, 1948) is an American priest, professor, author, sociologist and theologian. He has published more than a dozen books, as well as hundreds of journal papers, book chapters and reviews on faith and holiness. H ...
, 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) ...
, American sociologist *
Karl Polanyi Karl Paul Polanyi (; hu, Polányi Károly ; 25 October 1886 – 23 April 1964),''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. 2003) vol 9. p. 554 was an Austro-Hungarian economic anthropologist and politician, best known ...
, Hungarian economist * Friedrich Pollock, German social scientist * Karl Popper, Austrian philosopher *
John Porter John Porter may refer to: Politicians * John Porter (portreeve), 1390–94, Member of Parliament (MP) for Taunton * John Porter (Illinois politician) (1935–2022), Illinois politician, U.S. Representative * John Porter (MP for Bramber) (died 1599 ...
(1921–1979), Canadian sociologist *
Alejandro Portes Alejandro Portes (born October 13, 1944) is a Cuban-American sociologist. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and of the Board of Trustees and the Scientific Council at the IMDEA Social Sciences ...
, 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 Ricardo Pozas Arciniega (May 4, 1912, Amealco de Bonfil, Querétaro – January 19, 1994, Mexico City) was a distinguished Mexican anthropologist, scientific investigator and indigenista. He wrote the classic anthropological works ''Juan Pé ...
, Mexican sociologist and anthropologist *
Suzana Prates Suzana Prates (June 27, 1940 – January 5, 1988) was a Brazilian feminist sociologist and academic. She spent most of her professional career in Uruguay where she dedicated her life to national and Latin American feminist thought. She was the fou ...
(1940-1988), Brazilian feminist sociologist and academic *
Anette Prehn Anette Prehn (born 1975) is a Denmark, 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 la ...
, Danish sociologist *
Harriet B. Presser Harriet B. Presser (1936–2012) was a sociologist and demographer. Having served on the faculty at the University of Maryland, College Park, for more than 30 years, at the time of her death she was a Distinguished University Professor. She was ...
(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 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (, , ; 15 January 1809, Besançon – 19 January 1865, Paris) was a French socialist,Landauer, Carl; Landauer, Hilde Stein; Valkenier, Elizabeth Kridl (1979) 959 "The Three Anticapitalistic Movements". ''European Socia ...
(1809–1865), French
utopian socialist Utopian socialism is the term often used to describe the first current of modern socialism and socialist thought as exemplified by the work of Henri de Saint-Simon, Charles Fourier, Étienne Cabet, and Robert Owen. Utopian socialism is often de ...
thinker *
Adam Przeworski Adam Przeworski (; born May 5, 1940) is a Polish-American professor of political science specializing in comparative politics. He is Carroll and Milton Professor Emeritus in the Department of Politics of New York University. He is a scholar of de ...
, Polish political sociologist * Jade Puget (born 1973), American musician * Robert Putnam (born 1941), American political scientist *
Bindeshwar Pathak Bindeshwar Pathak is an Indian sociologist and social entrepreneur. He is the founder of Sulabh International, an India-based social service organisation which works to promote human rights, environmental sanitation, non-conventional sources ...
(born 1943), Indian sociologist


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Sigrid Quack Sigrid Quack (born 17 July 1958) is a German social scientist working in the field of comparative sociology. She is a professor of sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, where she is the Director of the Centre for Global Cooper ...
, German sociologist * Enrico Quarantelli, American sociologist *
Adolphe Quetelet Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet FRSF or FRSE (; 22 February 1796 – 17 February 1874) was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist who founded and directed the Brussels Observatory and was influential in intro ...
, French statistician and sociologist * Anibal Quijano, Peruvian sociologist * Richard Quinney (born 1934), American sociologist


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Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown, FBA (born Alfred Reginald Brown; 17 January 1881 – 24 October 1955) was an English social anthropologist who helped further develop the theory of structural functionalism. Biography Alfred Reginald Radcl ...
(1881–1955), British social anthropologist *
Charles C. Ragin Charles C. Ragin (born ) is Chancellor's Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Biography Born , Ragin graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin in May 1972. He complet ...
, American sociologist * Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austrian sociologist * Stephen Raudenbush, American sociologist and statistician * Aviad Raz (born 1968), Israeli sociologist and anthropologist *
Sal Restivo Sal Restivo (born 1940) is a sociologist/anthropologist. Work Restivo is a leading contributor to science studies and in particular to the sociology of mathematics. His current work focuses on the sociology of mind and brain, and the sociology o ...
, American sociologist * John Rex (1925–2011), British sociologist * James Mahmud Rice (born 1972), Australian sociologist * Sam Richards, American sociologist *
Paul Ricoeur Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity * Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chri ...
, French philosopher * David Riesman, American sociologist *
George Ritzer George Ritzer (born October 14, 1940) is an American sociologist, professor, and author who has mainly studied globalization, metatheory, patterns of consumption, and modern/postmodern social theory. His concept of McDonaldization draws upon M ...
(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 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 Nikolas Rose is a British sociologist and social theorist. He is Distinguished Honorary Professor at the Research School of Social Sciences, in the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University and Honorary Profes ...
, British sociologist * Paul Rosenfels (1909–1985), American psychologist and sociologist * Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888–1973), German social philosopher *
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Jacques Rousseau (, ; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolu ...
, Swiss philosopher * Rubén G. Rumbaut, Cuban-American sociologist * W. G. Runciman, British sociologist * Arne Runeberg (1912–1979), Finnish sociologist, anthropologist and linguist


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* Harvey Sacks (died 1975), American sociologist and ethnomethodologist *
Renaud Sainsaulieu 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 (Cen ...
(1936–2002), French sociologist concerned with the sociology of organizations *
Henri de Saint-Simon Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon (17 October 1760 – 19 May 1825), often referred to as Henri de Saint-Simon (), was a French political, economic and socialist theorist and businessman whose thought had a substantial influence on p ...
(1760–1825), French philosopher and social thinker * Robert J. Sampson, American sociologist * Pierre Sansot, French sociologist * Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Portuguese sociologist *
Giovanni Sartori Giovanni Sartori (; 13 May 1924 – 4 April 2017) was an Italian political scientist who specialized in the study of democracy, political parties and comparative politics. Biography Born in Florence in 1924, Sartori graduated in Political and So ...
(1924–2017), Italian political scientist * Saskia Sassen (born 1949), American sociologist * 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 Joseph Alois Schumpeter (; February 8, 1883 – January 8, 1950) was an Austrian-born political economist. He served briefly as Finance Minister of German-Austria in 1919. In 1932, he emigrated to the United States to become a professor at Ha ...
(1883–1950), Austrian economist * Alfred Schütz (1899–1959), Austrian philosopher and sociologist (phenomenology) * Michael Schwartz (born 1942), American sociologist * John Scott (born 1949), British sociologist * Leonard Seabrooke, Australian sociologist * Jean Séguy, French sociologist of religions (1925–2007) *
Steven Seidman Steven Seidman (born October 17, 1948) is a sociologist, currently professor at State University of New York at Albany. He is a social theorist working the areas of social theory, culture, sexuality, comparative sociology, theory of democracy, nat ...
, American sociologist * Pınar Selek, Turkish sociologist * Philip Selznick, American sociologist *
Amartya Sen Amartya Kumar Sen (; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, econom ...
, Indian economist influential in the sociology of development *
Richard Sennett Richard Sennett (born 1 January 1943) is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and former University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. He is currently a Senior Fellow of the Center on Capitalis ...
(born 1943), American sociologist and public figure * William H. Sewell, American sociologist *
Steven Shapin Steven Shapin (born 1943) is an American historian and sociologist of science. He is the Franklin L. Ford Research Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. He is considered one of the earliest scholars on the sociology of scienti ...
, American sociologist *
Jeremy J. Shapiro Jeremy J. Shapiro (born 1940), is an American academic, a professor emeritus at Fielding Graduate University who works in the area of critical theory, critical social theory with emphasis on the social and cultural effects of information technolo ...
, American sociologist *
Ali Shariati Ali Shariati Mazinani ( fa, علی شریعتی مزینانی, 23 November 1933 – 18 June 1977) was an Iranian revolutionary and sociologist who focused on the sociology of religion. He is held as one of the most influential Iranian intell ...
(1933–1977), Iranian sociologist and writer *
Tamotsu Shibutani Tamotsu Shibutani (15 October 1920 – 8 August 2004) was a Japanese American sociologist working on the tradition of symbolic interactionism. Biography Born in 1920, Shibutani majored in sociology and philosophy at the University of California ...
, Japanese-American sociologist * Bahija Ahmed Shihab (1932–2012), Iraqi sociologist and professor *
Edward Shils Edward Albert Shils (1 July 1910 – 23 January 1995) was a Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and in Sociology at the University of Chicago and an influential sociologist. He was known for his research on the rol ...
, American sociologist *
Anson Shupe Anson D. Shupe, Jr. (21 January 1948 – 4 May 2015) was an American sociologist noted for his studies of religious groups and their countermovements, family violence and clergy misconduct. He was affiliated with the New Cult Awareness Network, ...
, American sociologist * Volkmar Sigusch, German sociologist and sexuologe * Charles E. Silberman, American criminologist *
François Simiand François Joseph Charles Simiand (18 April 1873 – 13 April 1935) was a French sociologist and economist best known as a participant in the Année Sociologique. As a member of the French Historical School of economics, Simiand predicated a rig ...
, French sociologist * Georg Simmel (1858–1918), German sociologist and philosopher *
Herbert A. Simon Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001) was an American political scientist, with a Ph.D. in political science, whose work also influenced the fields of computer science, economics, and cognitive psychology. His primary ...
, American social scientist *
Theda Skocpol Theda Skocpol (born May 4, 1947) is an American sociologist and political scientist, who is currently the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University. She is a highly influential figure in both sociology and pol ...
(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 (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 Tom A. B. Snijders (born 26 September 1949) is professor of Statistics in the Social Sciences at Nuffield College, Oxford, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford (since 1 October 2006). He is also professor of Methodology at t ...
, Dutch mathematical sociologist * David A. Snow (born 1942), American sociologist *
Werner Sombart Werner Sombart (; ; 19 January 1863 – 18 May 1941) was a German economist and sociologist, the head of the "Youngest Historical School" and one of the leading Continental European social scientists during the first quarter of the 20th century. ...
(1863–1941), German economist and sociologist * Georges 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 Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin (; russian: Питири́м Алекса́ндрович Соро́кин; – 10 February 1968) was a Russian American sociologist and political activist, who contributed to the social cycle theory. Background ...
(1889–1968), Russian sociologist *
Herbert Spencer Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English philosopher, psychologist, biologist, anthropologist, and sociologist famous for his hypothesis of social Darwinism. Spencer originated the expression " survival of the fi ...
(1820–1903), English philosopher *
Oswald Spengler Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler (; 29 May 1880 – 8 May 1936) was a German historian and philosopher of history whose interests included mathematics, science, and art, as well as their relation to his organic theory of history. He is best kno ...
(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, American sociologist * Ana María Díaz Stevens, Puerto Rican-American sociologist * Samuel A. Stouffer, American sociologist * Anselm L. Strauss (1916–1996), American sociologist *
Lucy Suchman Lucy Suchman is a Professor of Anthropology of Science and Technology in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, in the United Kingdom. Her current research extends her longstanding critical engagement with the field of human-comp ...
, American sociologist * Mark Suchman, American sociologist * Thomas Sugrue, American historian and sociologist * William Graham Sumner (1840–1910), American sociologist *
Eilert Sundt Eilert Lund Sundt (8 August 1817 – 13 June 1875) was a Norwegian theologist and sociologist, known for his work on mortality, marriage and other subjects among the working class. He was an early pioneer of the field of sociology in Norway. Earl ...
(1817–1875), Norwegian sociologist * Edwin Sutherland (1893–1950), American criminologist *
Ian Svenonius Ian F Svenonius is an American musician and singer of various Washington, D.C.-based punk bands including Nation of Ulysses, the Make-Up, Weird War, XYZ, Escape-ism, and Chain and the Gang. Between his numerous projects, Svenonius has release ...
, American cultural sociologist * Richard Swedberg, Swedish sociologist * Ann Swidler, American sociologist * Jan Szczepanski (1913–2004), Polish sociologist * Iván Szelényi, Hungarian-American sociologist * Piotr Sztompka (born 1944), Polish sociologist


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* Hippolyte Taine (1828–1893), French positivist historian and critic * Yasuma Takada, Japanese sociologist * Salim Tamari, Palestinian historical sociologist * Lisa Taraki, Palestinian sociologist * Alexander Tarasov, Russian sociologist * Gabriel Tarde (1843–1904), French sociologist and social psychologist *
Sidney Tarrow Sidney George Tarrow (born 1938) is an emeritus professor of political science, known for his research in the areas of comparative politics, social movements, political parties, collective action and political sociology. Biography B.A. Syracuse U ...
, American sociologist * R. H. Tawney, English ethical socialist * Dorceta Taylor, American environmental sociologist * Ian Taylor (1944–2001), English sociologist and criminologist * Laurie Taylor (born 1936), English sociologist and broadcaster * Göran Therborn, Swedish-British sociologist *
W. I. Thomas William Isaac Thomas (August 13, 1863 – December 5, 1947) was an American sociologist, understood today as a key figure behind the theory of symbolic interactionism. Collaborating with Polish sociologist Florian Znaniecki, Thomas developed an ...
(1863–1947), American social psychologist * E. P. Thompson (1924–1993), British socialist historian * John Thompson, British sociologist of culture and media * Sarah Thornton (born 1965), Canadian sociologist, writer, and ethnographer * Ole Thyssen, Danish sociologist *
Charles Tilly Charles Tilly (May 27, 1929 – April 29, 2008) was an American sociologist, political scientist, and historian who wrote on the relationship between politics and society. He was a professor of history, sociology, and social science at the Uni ...
(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, British sociologist of poverty *
Judith Treas Judith K. Treas (born 1947) is an American sociologist. She is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Demographic and Social Analysis at the University of California, Irvine. Treas is recognized for her research on gender, family, i ...
, American sociologist * Renato Treves, Italian sociologist *
Ernst Troeltsch Ernst Peter Wilhelm Troeltsch (; ; 17 February 1865 – 1 February 1923) was a German liberal Protestant theologian, a writer on the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of history, and a classical liberal politician. He was a member of ...
, German sociologist and philosopher * Raimo Tuomela, Finnish philosopher and social theorist *
Sherry Turkle Sherry Turkle (born June 18, 1948) is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She obtained an BA in social studies and later a PhD in sociology and perso ...
, American sociologist * Bryan S. Turner, British sociologist * Jonathan H. Turner, American social theorist *
Victor Turner Victor Witter Turner (28 May 1920 – 18 December 1983) was a British cultural anthropologist best known for his work on symbols, rituals, and rites of passage. His work, along with that of Clifford Geertz and others, is often referred to as ...
, British anthropologist * France Winddance Twine (born 1960), American sociologist and ethnographer *
Edward Burnett Tylor Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (2 October 18322 January 1917) was an English anthropologist, and professor of anthropology. Tylor's ideas typify 19th-century cultural evolutionism. In his works ''Primitive Culture'' (1871) and ''Anthropology'' (1 ...
, English anthropologist


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* John Urry, British sociologist


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Mariana Valverde Mariana Valverde is a Canadian criminologist and sociologist. She is currently a professor in the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research mainly focuses on the sociology of law. She is also an oc ...
, Canadian sociologist * Francisco Varela (1946–2001), Chilean biologist and philosopher * Aninhalli Vasavi (born 1958), Indian sociologist * Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), American sociologist and economist * Ruut Veenhoven, Dutch sociologist * Calvin Veltman (born 1941), Canadian sociologist, demographer and sociolinguist * Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, American sociologist * Alfred Vierkandt, German sociologist * George Edgar Vincent, American sociologist * Paul Virilio, French philosopher and social theorist * Shiv Visvanathan, Indian sociologist and social scientist


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


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


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


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