List of sociologists

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This article provides a list of noted sociologists and major contributors to sociology (even if they did not primarily work as sociologists):

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

[edit] A

• Andrew Abbott, US-American sociologist
• Nancy Ammerman, US-American sociologist
• Jane Addams (1860-1935), US-American social worker and reformer
• Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), German cultural sociologist (Frankfurt School)
• Jeffrey C. Alexander, American sociologist
• Louis Althusser (1918-1990), Algerian-French philosopher and sociologist
• Margaret Archer, British sociologist
• Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), German political theorist
• Raymond Aron (1905-1983), French philosopher and sociologist
• Johan Asplund (b. 1937), Swedish sociologist
• Sarah Allred, US American sociologist

[edit] B

• Earl Babbie, US-American sociologist
• Robert Balch, US-American sociologist
• Eileen Barker, British sociologist
• Barry Barnes, British sociologist
• Gregory Bateson (1904-1980), English/American cybernetican
• Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007), French cultural theorist
• Zygmunt Bauman (b. 1925), Polish/British sociologist
• Peter Bearman (b. 1956), US-American sociologist
• Ulrich Beck (b. 1944), German sociologist
• Howard S. Becker (b. 1928), US-American sociologist
• Daniel Bell (b. 1919), US-American sociologist
• Robert N. Bellah, US-American sociologist
• Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), German cultural writer and sociologist
• Joseph Berger, US-American theoretical sociologist
• Peter L. Berger (b. 1929), Austro-American sociologist
• Henri Bergson (1859-1941), French philosopher
• Peter Blau (1918-2002), US-American sociologist
• Kathleen M. Blee, (b. 1953)
• David Bloor, British sociologist
• Herbert Blumer (1900-1987), US-American sociologist
• Luc Boltanski, French Sociologist
• Phillip Bonacich, US-American mathematical sociologist
• Scott Boorman (b. 1949) American sociologist, Professor of sociology at Yale University
• Thomas Bottomore (1920-1992), British sociologist
• Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002), French sociologist
• Ronald Breiger, US-American Sociologist
• David G. Bromley, US-American sociologist
• Ernest Burgess (1886-1966), Canadian-born sociologist
• Judith Butler (b. 1956), US-American gender theorist
• Carter Butts, US-American mathematical sociologist

[edit] C

• Michel Callon, French sociologist
• Fernando Henrique Cardoso (b. 1931), Brazilian sociologist, former President of Brazil
• Kathleen Carley US-American computational sociologist
• Manuel Castells (b. 1942), Spanish sociologist and urban planner
• Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997), Greek philosopher and political theorist
• [[Francis Stuart Chapin] (1888-1974), US-American sociologist
• Louis Chauvel (b. 1967), French sociologist
• Nancy Chodorow (b. 1944), US-American sociologist, psychoanalyst and gender theorist
• Dieter Claessens (1921-1997), German sociologist,
• Lars Clausen (b. 1935), German Sociologist
• Richard Cloward(1926-2001), US-American sociologist
• Ronald L. Cohen, US-American social psychologist
• Stanley Cohen, British sociologist (criminology)
• James S. Coleman (1926-1995), US-American sociologist
• Patricia Hill Collins (b. 1948), US-American sociologist
• Randall Collins, US-American sociologist
• Auguste Comte (1798-1857), French founder of sociology
• Charles Cooley (1864-1929), US-American sociologist
• Lewis A. Coser (1913-2003), US-American sociologist
• Douglas E. Cowan, Canadian sociologist
• Maxine Leeds Craig, US-American sociologist
• Stefan Czarnowski (1879-1937), Polish sociologist

[edit] D

• Hamid Dabashi, American-Iranian cultural critic and intellectual historian
• Robert Dahl (b. 1915), US-American political scientist
• Ralf Dahrendorf (b.1929), German-British sociologist and politician
• Mathieu Deflem (b.1962), sociologist
• Gilles Deleuze (1925 - 1995), French philosopher
• Nancy Denton, US-American sociologist and demographer
• Georgi Dimitrov Dimitrov, Bulgarian sociologist
• G. William Domhoff, US-American sociologist
• Patrick Doreian, Irish-American mathematical sociologist
• W.E.B. DuBois (1868-1963), African-American sociologist and civil rights leader
• Mitchell Duneier, US-American sociologist
• Émile Durkheim (1858-1917), French sociologist
• Mukul R. Dwivedi (b. 1984), Indo-American cultural critic and sociologist

[edit] E

• Norbert Elias (1897-1990), German sociologist
• Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), German socialist philosopher
• Ronald Enroth (b. 1938), US-American sociologist
• Kai T. Erikson (b. 1931), US-American sociologist
• Hartmut Esser (b. 1943), German sociologist
• Amitai Etzioni (b. 1929), US-American sociologist

[edit] F

• Rick Fantasia, US-American sociologist
• Thomas Fararo (b. 1933), US-American mathematical sociologist
• Paul Fauconnet (1874-1938) French sociologist
• Katherine Faust, US-American sociologist and social network methodologist
• Scott Feld, US-American mathematical sociologist
• Myra Marx Ferree, (b. 1949), US-American sociologists
• Gary Alan Fine (b. 1950), US-American sociologist
• Claude Fischer (b. 1947), US-American author of the subcultural theory of urbanism
• Fei Xiaotong (1910-2005,) Chinese sociologist and anthropologist
• Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002), Austrian-American cybernetican
• John Bellamy Foster, US-American sociologist and journalist
• Michel Foucault (1926-1984), French philosopher
• Charles Fourier (1772-1837), French proto-sociologist
• Andre Gunder Frank (1929-2005), German economic historian and sociologist
• Hans Freyer (1887-1969) German sociologist and philosopher
• Gilberto Freyre (1900-1987), Brazilian sociologist
• Erich Fromm (1900-1980), German-American social psychologist and psychoanalyst

[edit] G

• Francis Galton (1822-1911), English statistican
• Harold Garfinkel (b. 1917), US-American sociologist
• Felix Guattari (1930-1992), French institutional psychotherapist, founder of schizoanalysis and ecosophy
• Anthony Giddens (b. 1938), English sociologist
• Corrado Gini (1884-1965), Italian statistician
• Arnold Gehlen (1904-1976), German philosopher and sociologist
• Theodor Geiger (1891-1952), German sociologist
• Ernest Gellner(1925-1995), philosopher and social anthropologist
• David Glass, (1911-1978), British sociologist
• Max Gluckman (1911-1975), South African/English social anthropologist
• John H. Goldthorpe (b. 1935), British sociologist
• Leo Goodman (b.1928), US-American social statistician
• Erving Goffman (1922-1982), Canadian interactionistic sociologist
• Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), Italian Marxist
• Richard Grathoff (1934- ), German sociologist and phenomenologist
• Mark Granovetter, US-American sociologist
• Andrew M. Greeley, US-American sociologist, priest, writer
• Ludwig Gumplovicz (1838-1909), Polish-Austrian sociologist, one of the founders of European sociology

[edit] H

• Jürgen Habermas (b. 1929), German social theorist
• Jeffrey K. Hadden (1937-2003), US-American sociologist
• Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945), French philosopher and sociologist
• Stuart Hall (b. 1932), British cultural theorist
• Donna Haraway (b. 1944), US-American gender and technology theorist
• David Harvey (b. 1935), British geographer
• Richard Hoggart (b. 1918), British sociologist
• George C. Homans (1910-1989), US-American behavioural sociologist
• Axel Honneth (b. 1949), German social theorist
• Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), German social philosopher
• Patrick Hunout, Belgian sociologist
• Stephen J. Hunt, British sociologist
• Floyd Hunter (b. 1912), US-American sociologist

[edit] I

• Octavio Ianni (b. 1926), Brazilian sociologist
• Ibn Khaldun (1332/ah732 - 1406/ah808), North African historian, forerunner of modern historiography, sociology and economics
• Kancha Ilaiah, (b. 1952), Indian political scientist and social activist

[edit] J

• Jane Jacobs (b.1916-2006), US/Canadian writer and activist
• Jang Yong Suk, Korean sociologist
• Rodrigo Jokisch, (b. 1946), German-Mexican sociologist and social theorist
• Lewis Wade Jones (1910 - 1979), African-American sociologist and educator
• Danny Jorgensen, US-American sociologist

[edit] K

• Elihu Katz, US-American sociologist
• Vytautas Kavolis, Lithuanian-American sociologist and literary critic
• Stephen A. Kent, Canadian sociologist
• Karin Knorr-Cetina (b. 1944), German sociologist
• René König (1906-1992), German sociologist
• Alfred L. Kroeber (1876–1960,) US-American anthropologist
• Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921), Russian anarchist thinker
• Thomas S. Kuhn (1922-1996), US-American science theorist
• Antonina Kłoskowska (1919-2001), Polish sociologist

[edit] L

• William Labov (b.1927), American sociolinguist and dialectologist
• Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), French psychoanalyst
• Ernesto Laclau, Argentinian sociologist
• Janja Lalich (b. 1945$), US-American sociologist
• David C. Lane (b. 1956), US-American sociologist
• Scott Lash, US-American sociologist
• Bruno Latour (1947- ) French sociologist of science
• John Law (sociologist), British sociologist
• Paul F. Lazarsfeld (1901-1976), Austrian-American sociologist
• Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931) ,French social psychologist
• Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991), French Marxist philosopher
• Charles Lemert (b. 1937) US-American sociologist
• Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908), French anthropologist
• Jack Levin (b. 1941) American sociologist/criminologist
• Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857-1939) French philosopher, sociologist and ethnographer
• Alfred R. Lindesmith (1905-1991), US-American sociologist of drug policy
• Seymour Martin Lipset (b. 1922), US-American comparativist sociologist
• David Lockwood, British sociologist
• Thomas Luckmann (b. 1927), German sociologist
• Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998), German sociologist (systems theory)
• Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919), German socialist theoretician
• Robert Staughton Lynd (1892-1970) American sociologist
• Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998), French philosopher

[edit] M

• Henry Maine (1822-1888), British jurist and legal historian
• Robert Morrison MacIver (1882-1970), Scottish-American sociologist.
• Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942), Polish social anthropologist
• Thomas Malthus (1766-1834), English demographer
• Richard Machalek (b. 1946), US-American sociologist and sociobiologist
• Michael Mann (b. 1942), British-American sociologist
• Karl Mannheim (1893-1947), German sociologist
• Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), German-American sociologist (Frankfurt School)
• Wladyslaw Markiewicz (b. 1920) Polish sociologist
• Harriet Martineau (1802-1876), English writer described as 'first female sociologist'
• Vladimir Martynenko (b. 1957), Russian sociologist, economist, political scientist
• Karl Marx (1818-1883), German political philosopher, social theorist
• Douglas Massey, US-American sociologist
• John Levi Martin, US-American sociologist
• Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) French sociologist
• Dale McConkey, US-American sociologist
• Robert McKenzie(1917-1981), Canadian-born Politics professor and psephologist
• George Herbert Mead (1863-1931), US-American philosopher and social psychologist
• Margaret Mead (1901-1978), US-American cultural anthropologist
• Henri Mendras (1927-2003), French sociologist, chronicler of La fin des paysans
• Stephen Mennell (b. 1944), English sociologist
• Robert K. Merton (1910-2003), US-American sociologist
• Robert Michels (1876-1936) German political sociologist
• C. Wright Mills (1916-1962), US-American sociologist
• Sue Mirra, American Socioligist and Educator
• J. Clyde Mitchell (1918-1995), British Social Anthropologist
• Shinji Miyadai (b. 1959), Japanese sociologist
• Brij Mohan (b. 1939), Indian-American social scientist
• James Moody, US-American mathematical sociologist
• James D. Montgomery, US-American economist and mathematical sociologist
• Charles Murray (b. 1943), US-American sociologist

[edit] N

• Oswald von Nell-Breuning (1890-1991), German Roman Catholic theologian, sociologist and social reformer
• Otto Neurath (1882-1945), Austrian sociologist and political economist
• Peter Neville (d. 2002), British further education lecturer and sociologist
• Robert Nisbet (1913-1996), US-American sociologist
• Helga Nowotny, Austrian sociologist

[edit] O

• William F. Ogburn (1886-1959), US-American sociologist
• Claus Offe (b. 1940), German sociologist
• Richard Ofshe (b. 1941), US-American sociologist
• Lloyd Ohlin, US-American sociologist
• Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943) German sociologist and political economist
• Stanislaw Ossowski (1897-1963), Polish sociologist
• Robert Owen (1771-1858), Welsh social reformer

[edit] P

• Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923), Italian economist and sociologist
• Robert E. Park (1864-1944), US-American sociologist
• Ray Pahl, British sociologist
• Talcott Parsons (1902-1979), US-American sociologist
• Karl Pearson (1857-1936), English statistician
• Jean Piaget (1896 – 1980), Swiss developmental psychologist
• Trevor Pinch, British sociologist
• John Porter (1921-1979), Canadian sociologist
• Nicos Poulantzas (1936-1979), Greek political sociologist
• Samuel H. Preston, US-American demographer and sociologist
• Jade Puget (b. 1973), American musician
• Robert Putnam (b. 1941), US-American political scientist
• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865), French socialist or anarchist philosopher
• Gil Sung Park (b. 1956), Korean sociologist

[edit] Q

• Enrico Quarantelli, US-American sociologist

[edit] R

• Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (1881–1955), British social anthropologist
• Aviad Raz (b. 1968), Israeli sociologist and anthropologist
• John Rex (b. 1928), British sociologist
• Jürgen Ritsert , German sociologist
• George Ritzer (b. 1940), US-American sociologist
• Terje Rød-Larsen (b. 1947), Norwegian diplomat and sociologist
• Dale A. Rose (b. 1972, US-American Sociologist
• Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888-1973), German social philosopher
• Walter Garrison Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford, British sociologist

[edit] S

• Harvey Sacks (d. 1975), US-American sociologist and ethnomethodologist
• Moisés Espírito Santo (b. 1934), Portuguese sociologist, ethnologist and ethnolinguist (Lisbon, Portugal, European Union).
• Henri de Saint-Simon (1760 - 1825), French philosopher and social thinker
• Saskia Sassen, (b. 1949), US-American sociologist
• Peter Saunders, Australian sociologist
• Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913), Swiss linguist (structuralism)
• Helmut Schelsky (1912-1984), German sociologist
• Paul Schnabel Dutch sociologist
• Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950), Austrian economist
• Alfred Schütz (1899-1959), Austrian philosopher and sociologist (phenomenology)
• Richard Sennett (b. 1943), US-American sociologist and public figure
• Steven Shapin, US-American sociologist
• Ali Shariati (1933-1977), Iranian sociologist and writer
• Anson Shupe, US-American sociologist
• Charles E. Silberman, US-American criminologist
• Georg Simmel (1858-1918), German sociologist
• John Skvoretz, US-American mathematical sociologist
• Albion Woodbury Small (1854-1926), US-American sociologist
• Neil Smelser, US-American sociologist
• Adam Smith(1723-1790), Scottish economist and philosopher
• Christian Smith (b. 1960), US-American sociologist of religion
• Dorothy E. Smith (b. 1926), British-American sociologist and gender theorist
• Werner Sombart (1863-1941), German economist and sociologist
• Pitirim Sorokin (1889-1968), Russian sociologist
• Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), English philosopher
• Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), German philosopher
• Steven Spitzer, US-American sociologist
• M N Srinivas (1916-1999), Indian sociologist
• Anselm L. Strauss (1916-1996), US-American sociologist (sociology of medicine, qualitative methods)
• William Graham Sumner (1840-1910), US-American advocate of Social Darwinism
• Eilert Sundt (1817-1875), Norwegian sociologist
• Edwin Sutherland (1893-1950), US-American criminologist
• Gerald Suttles, US-American urban sociologist
• Jan Szczepański (1913-2004), Polish sociologist
• Piotr Sztompka (b. 1944), Polish sociologist

[edit] T

• Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904), French sociologist and social psychologist
• Sidney Tarrow, US-American sociologist
• Laurie Taylor (b. 1936), English sociologist and broadcaster
• Verta Taylor, US-American sociologist
• W. I. Thomas (1863-1947), US-American social psychologist
• Charles Tilly (b. 1929), US-American sociologist
• Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), French essayist and political analyst
• Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936), German sociologist
• Alain Touraine (b. 1925), French sociologist
• France Winddance Twine (b. 1960), US-American sociologist and ethnographer

[edit] U

[edit] V

• Francisco Varela (1946-2001), Chilean biologist and philosopher
• Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929), US-American economist and sociologist
• Calvin Veltman (b.1941), Canadian sociologist, demographer and sociolinguist
• Nildo Viana (b. 1965), Brazilian sociologist and philosopher

[edit] W

• Peter Wagner, German sociologist and social theorist
• Immanuel Wallerstein (b. 1930), US-American sociologist and historian
• Lester Frank Ward (1841-1913), founder of American sociology
• Stanley Wasserman, US-American sociologist, psychologist, statistician
• Anita Waters (b. 1953), US-American sociologist
• Duncan Watts, US-American mathematical sociologist and network theorist
• Beatrice Webb (1858-1943), British socialist and social theorist
• Sidney Webb (1859-1947), British socialist and social theorist
• Alfred Weber (1868-1958), German sociologist
• Max Weber (1864-1920), German sociologist
• Barry Wellman (b. 1942), US-Canadian-American sociologist (dual citizenship)
• John Westergaard (b. 1927), British sociologist
• Edward Westermarck (1862-1939), Finnish sociologist and philosopher
• Douglas R. White (b. 1942), US-American Mathematical Sociologist and Anthropologist.
• Harrison White, US-American Sociologist
• William H. Whyte (1917-1999), US-American sociologist, journalist and peoplewatcher
• Leopold von Wiese (1876-1969), German Sociologist
• Raymond Williams (1921-1988), Welsh sociologist, novelist and critic
• William Julius Wilson (b. 1935), US-American sociologist
• Howard Winant, US.American sociologist
• Christopher Winship, US-American sociologist
• Louis Wirth (1897-1952), German-American sociologist
• Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski (b. 1944), Polish sociologist
• Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), British social reformer
• Steve Woolgar, British sociologist
• Erik Olin Wright, US-American sociologist

[edit] Y

• Yu Xie, US-American sociologist and statistician
• Yogender Singh, Indian sociologist

[edit] Z

• Benjamin Zablocki (b. 1941), US-American soiologist and social psychologist
• Henry Zentner (d. 1986), Canadian sociologist
• Eviatar Zerubavel, US-American Cognitive Sociologist
• Jean Ziegler (b. 1934), Swiss sociologist
• Slavoj Zizek (b. 1949), Slovenian sociologist and philosopher
• Florian Znaniecki (1882-1958), Polish-American sociologist
• Irving Zola, US-American medical sociologist and disability rights activist

[edit] External link

• Timeline of Sociology