List of Jewish American social and political scientists
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This is a list of famous Jewish American social and political scientists. For other famous Jewish Americans, see list of Jewish Americans.
- Theodor Adorno, sociologist & philosopher (Jewish father)
- Hannah Arendt, political theorist
- Daniel Bell, sociologist
- Reinhard Bendix, sociologist
- Sanford Berman, radical librarian
- Peter Blau, sociologist
- Franz Boas, cultural anthropologist
- Kate Bornstein, gender theorist
- Judith Butler, queer theorist
- Lewis A. Coser, sociologist
- Amitai Etzioni, sociologist
- Norman Finkelstein, political theorist
- Mark Granovetter, sociologist
- Marvin Harris, anthropologist
- Melville J. Herskovits, anthropologist
- Arthur Jensen, race and intelligence researcher (Jewish mother)
- Evelyn Fox Keller, science & gender theorist
- Irving Kristol, neoconservative
- Paul Lazarsfeld, sociologist
- Seymour Martin Lipset, political sociologist
- Robert Lowie, anthropologist
- Herbert Marcuse, sociologist, New Left figurehead
- Robert King Merton, sociologist
- Ashley Montagu, anthropologist
- Paul Radin, anthropologist
- David Riesman, sociologist
- Robert Rosenthal, experimental sociologist
- Marshall Sahlins, anthropologist
- David M. Schneider, cultural anthropologist
- Alfred Schütz, sociologist & philosopher
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, queer theorist
- Immanuel Velikovsky, controversial writer on cosmology
- Louis Wirth, sociologist
- Eric Wolf, anthropologist
- Milford H. Wolpoff, physical anthropologist
