This article provides a list of noted sociologists and major contributors to sociology (even if they did not primarily work as sociologists): Sociology (from Latin: socius, companion; and the suffix -ology, the study of, from Greek λόγος, lógos, knowledge [1]) is the systematic and scientific study of society, including patterns of social relationships, social action, and culture[2]. Areas studied in sociology can range from the analysis of brief contacts between anonymous...

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• 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
• Karl Alexander, US-American sociologist
• Louis Althusser (1918–1990), Algerian-French philosopher and sociologist
• Arjun Appadurai, Indian sociologist
• Margaret Archer, British sociologist
• Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), German political theorist
• Raymond Aron (1905–1983), French philosopher and sociologist
• Johan Asplund (born 1937), Swedish sociologist
• Sarah Allred, US American sociologist
• Vilhelm Aubert (1922–1988), Norwegian sociologist
• Ameli Saied Reza, Iranian communication studies and Globalization theorist, sociologist

Nancy T. Ammerman is a scholar who was commissioned in 1993 by the U.S. government to find out what went wrong in its dealings with the Branch Davidians at Waco. ... Laura Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was a founder of the U.S. Settlement House Movement and the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. ... Max Horkheimer (front left), Theodor Adorno (front right), and Jürgen Habermas in the background, right, in 1965 at Heidelberg. ... Max Horkheimer (front left), Theodor Adorno (front right), and Jürgen Habermas in the background, right, in 1965 at Heidelberg The Frankfurt School is a school of neo-Marxist social theory (which is more akin to anarchism than communism), social research, and philosophy. ... Louis Pierre Althusser (Pronunciation: altuË¡seʁ) (October 16, 1918 – October 22, 1990) was a Marxist philosopher. ... Born in Bombay,India in 1949 and educated in the United States, Arjun Appadurai is a contemporary social-cultural anthropologist whose work centers on the ethnographic landscapes of modernity and globalization. ... Margaret Archer is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK, since 1973. ... Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906 – December 4, 1975) was a German Jewish political theorist. ... Raymond-Claude-Ferdinand Aron (March 14, 1905 — October 17, 1983) was a French philosopher, sociologist and political scientist. ... Johan Asplund (born 1937) is a Swedish sociologist interested in social interaction and ethnomethodology, who appears cited in the works of Mats Alvesson (on reflexive methodology and critical management theory). ... Vilhelm Aubert Vilhelm Aubert ---- (more info) Stage 2 : In Progress (How-to) comment here Punkmorten 22:36, 25 February 2007 (UTC) Influential sociologist Hydrostatics 15%   25th April Join this translation   ---   Update this information (instructions)   Vilhelm Aubert (7 June 1922 − 1988) was an influential Norwegian sociologist. ...

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• Eric Baldwin, US-American sociologist
• Robert Balch, US-American sociologist
• Eileen Barker, British sociologist
• Barry Barnes, British sociologist
• Roland Barthes (1915–1980), French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician
• Gregory Bateson (1904–1980), English/American cybernetican
• Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007), French cultural theorist
• Zygmunt Bauman (born 1925), Polish/British sociologist
• Peter Bearman (born 1956), US-American sociologist
• Ulrich Beck (born 1944), German sociologist
• Howard S. Becker (born 1928), US-American sociologist
• Richard F. Behrendt (1908–1973), German sociologist
• Daniel Bell (born 1919), US-American sociologist
• Robert N. Bellah, US-American sociologist
• Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), German cultural writer and sociologist
• Joseph Berger, US-American sociologist
• Peter L. Berger (born 1929), Austro-American sociologist
• Henri Bergson (1859–1941), French philosopher
• Andre Beteille, Indian sociologist
• Peter Blau (1918–2002), US-American sociologist
• Kathleen M. Blee (born 1953), US-American sociologist
• David Bloor, British sociologist
• Herbert Blumer (1900–1987), US-American sociologist
• Luc Boltanski, French Sociologist
• Phillip Bonacich, US-American mathematical sociologist
• Scott Boorman (born 1949), US-American sociologist
• Thomas Bottomore (1920–1992), British sociologist
• Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002), French sociologist
• Ronald Breiger, US-American Sociologist
• David G. Bromley, US-American sociologist
• Michael Burawoy, US-American sociologist
• Ernest Burgess (1886–1966), Canadian sociologist
• Ronald Burt, US-American sociologist
• Judith Butler (born 1956), US-American gender theorist
• Carter Butts, US-American sociologist

Robert Balch is a sociologist from the University of Montana. ... Eileen Barker is a professor in sociology and is an emeritus member of the London School of Economics, and a consultant to that institutions Centre for the Study of Human Rights at. ... S. Barry Barnes is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Exeter. ... Roland Barthes Roland Barthes (November 12, 1915 – March 25, 1980) (pronounced ) was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician. ... Gregory Bateson (9 May 1904–4 July 1980) was a British anthropologist, social scientist, linguist and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. ... Jean Baudrillard (July 29, 1929 – March 6, 2007) (IPA pronunciation: [1]) was a French cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer. ... Bauman in Warsaw, 2005 Zygmunt Bauman (born 19 November 1925 in PoznaÅ„) is a Polish-born sociologist who, since 1971, has resided in England after being driven there by an anti-Semitic purge organized by the communist party of Poland. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Ulrich Beck Dr. Ulrich Beck (b. ... Howard Saul Becker was born in Chicago, Illinois on April 18, 1928. ... Richard Fritz Behrendt(* 6. ... Daniel Bell Daniel Bell (born 10 May 1919) is a sociologist and professor emeritus at Harvard University. ... Robert Neelly Bellah is a sociologist at University of California at Berkeley and author of a number of books including Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life. ... Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (July 15, 1892 – September 27, 1940) was a German Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. ... Josef Berger, or Joseph Isadore Berger (May 12, 1903 - November 1971), was born in Denver, Colorado in 1903 and graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 1924. ... Peter Ludwig Berger (born March 17, 1929) is an American sociologist well known for his work The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (New York, 1966). ... Henri-Louis Bergson (October 18, 1859–January 4, 1941) was a major French philosopher, influential in the first half of the 20th century. ... Andre Beteille is an Indian sociologist and writer. ... Peter Blau Peter Michael Blau was a sociologist, born February 7, 1918 in Vienna, Austria. ... Kathleen M. Blee (1953-) is a professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. ... David Bloor is the director of the Science Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh (see Edinburgh School). ... Herbert Blumer (born March 7, 1900 in St. ... Luc Boltanski is the leading figure in the new pragmatic school of French sociology (see: French Pragmatism). ... Scott Archer Boorman (born February 1, 1949) is a mathematical_sociologist at Yale University. ... Thomas Burton Bottomore (1920-19920 was a British Marxist sociologist. ... Pierre Bourdieu (August 1, 1930 â€“ January 23, 2002) was an acclaimed French sociologist whose work employed methods drawn from a wide range of disciplines: from philosophy and literary theory to sociology and anthropology. ... David G. Bromley is a professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. Education and Career Bromley received his B.A. in sociology (1963) from Colby College. ... Michael Burawoy is a Marxist sociologist, best known as author of Manufacturing Consent (a famous study on work and organizations) and as a leading proponent of public sociology. ... Ernest W. Burgess (May 16, 1886 - December 27, 1966) was an urban sociologist at the University of Chicago. ... -1... Image:J Butler. ...

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• Michel Callon, French sociologist
• Fernando Henrique Cardoso (born 1931), Brazilian sociologist, former President of Brazil
• Kathleen Carley US-American computational sociologist
• Manuel Castells (born 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 (born 1967), French sociologist
• Nancy Chodorow (born 1944), US-American sociologist, psychoanalyst and gender theorist
• Dieter Claessens (1921–1997), German sociologist,
• Lars Clausen (born 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 (born 1948), US-American sociologist
• Randall Collins, US-American sociologist
• R.W. Connell (born 1944), Australian 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

Michel Callon is a Professor at the Ecole des Mines de Paris. ... Fernando Henrique Cardoso (born June 18, 1931) was the President of the Federative Republic of Brazil for two terms from January 1, 1995 to January 1, 2003. ... Manuel Castells (full Spanish name: Manuel Castells Oliván[1]; born 1942 in Hellín, Albacete, Spain) is a sociologist, particularly associated with research into the information society and communications. ... Cornelius Castoriadis (Greek: Κορνήλιος Καστοριάδης) (March 11, 1922-December 26, 1997) was a Greek-French philosopher, economist and psychoanalyst. ... Francis Stuart Chapin (3 February 1888 - 7 July 1974) was an American sociologist and educator. ... Louis Chauvel, born in 1967, is a French sociologist, PhD Université de Lille (1997), Habilitation Sciences Po (2003). ... Nancy Chodorow is a feminist sociologist and psychoanalyst born 20 January 1944 in New York City. ... -1... Richard A. Cloward (December 25, 1926 - August 20, 2001) was a American sociologist and political activist. ... Ronald L. Cohen is a social psychologist whose research is focused on justice. ... Professor Stanley Cohen is the Martin White Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. ... James S. Coleman, born May 12, 1926 in Bedford, Indiana, died March 25, 1995 in Chicago, was an American sociologist. ... Patricia Hill Collins, (born May 1, 1948-) is Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park and former head of the Department of African American Studies at the University of Cincinnati. ... Randall Collins, Ph. ... Raewyn Connell (formerly Robert William Connell or Bob Connell) is an Australian sociologist who deals critically with culture, media (ruling class - ruling culture) and political hegemony and became widely known for her research in the field of Gender Studies, especially masculinity (Mens studies). ... Auguste Comte (full name: Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte; January 17, 1798 - September 5, 1857) was a French thinker who coined the term sociology. ... Charles Horton Cooley (1864-1929) was an American sociologist. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... Douglas E. Cowan Ph. ... Maxine Leeds Craig is a Professor of Sociology at California State University East Bay. ...

D

• Bob Dole, American-Iranian cultural critic and intellectual historian
• Robert Dahl (born 1915), US-American political scientist
• Dankwart Danckwerts (born 1933), German sociologist
• Ralf Dahrendorf (born 1929), German-British sociologist and politician
• Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995), French philosopher
• Jacqueline Donkers (born 1980), Dutch sociologist
• 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
• Troy Duster, US-American sociologist
• Émile Durkheim (1858–1917), French sociologist
• Mukul R. Dwivedi (born 1984), Indo-American cultural critic and sociologist

§ Robert Joseph Dole (born July 22, 1923) was a United States Senator from Kansas from 1969-1996, serving part of that time as United States Senate Majority Leader. ... Robert A. Dahl (b. ... Dankwart Danckwerts (* 1933 at Hamburg) is a German sociologist. ... Ralf Dahrendorf Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, KBE, (born May 1, 1929) is a German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and politician. ... Gilles Deleuze (IPA: ), (January 18, 1925 – November 4, 1995) was a French philosopher of the late 20th century. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... G. William (Bill) Domhoff is a Research Professor in psychology and sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. ... W. E. B. Du Bois William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (pronounced ) (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was a civil rights activist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar, and socialist. ... [[Category:Wikify from {{subst:December}} {{subst:2006}}]] American sociologist currently professor of sociology at Princeton University [[1]]. Mitchell Duneier earned his Ph. ... Troy Duster is a sociologist with research interests in the sociology of science, public policy, race and ethnicity and deviance. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Émile Durkheim Émile Durkheim (IPA: ; April 15, 1858 – November 15, 1917) was a French sociologist whose contributions were instrumental in the formation of sociology and anthropology. ...

E

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

Umberto Eco (born January 5, 1932) is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa) and his many essays. ... Norbert Elias (born June 22, 1897 in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland); died August 1, 1990 in Amsterdam) was a German sociologist of Jewish descent, who later became a British citizen. ... Engels redirects here. ... Ronald M. Enroth (born October 28, 1938) is Professor of Sociology at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California, and a prominent evangelical Christian author of books concerning cults and new religious movements. ... Amitai Etzioni. ...

F

• Rick Fantasia, US-American sociologist
• Thomas Fararo (born 1933), US-American mathematical sociologist
• George Farkas, US-American sociologist
• Paul Fauconnet (1874–1938), French sociologist
• Katherine Faust, US-American sociologist and social network methodologist
• Scott Feld, US-American mathematical sociologist
• Florestan Fernandes (1920–1995), Brazilian sociologist
• Myra Marx Ferree (born 1949), US-American sociologists
• Mike Featherstone, British sociologist
• Gary Alan Fine (born 1950), US-American sociologist
• Claude Fischer (born 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
• Daniel A. Foss (born 1940), US-American sociologist
• 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

Rick Fantasia is a professor of sociology at Smith College. ... Thomas Fararo (born February 11, 1933) is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh. ... Paul Fauconnet (1874-1938) was a French sociologist who is best known as a contributor to the Annee Sociologique. ... -1... Gary Alan Fine Gary Alan Fine (born May 11, 1950 in New York City) is an American sociologist and author. ... Claude Serge Fischer (b. ... Fei Xiaotong (Chinese: 費孝通) (November 2, 1910 – April 24, 2005) was a pioneering Chinese researcher and professor of sociology and anthropology; he was also noted for his studies in the study of Chinas ethnic groups as well as a social activist. ... He is a twat He was born in Vienna and died in Pescadero, California. ... Daniel A. Foss (born July 26, 1940) is an American sociologist and database researcher. ... John Bellamy Foster is an editor of the Monthly Review, a prominent socialist magazine. ... Michel Foucault (IPA pronunciation: ) (October 15, 1926 – June 25, 1984) was a French philosopher, historian and sociologist. ... This article is about the French utopian socialist philosopher. ... Andre Gunder Frank (Berlin, February 24, 1929 – Luxembourg, April 23, 2005) was a German economic historian and sociologist who was one of the founders of the Dependency theory and the World Systems Theory in the 1960s. ... Hans Freyer, born July 31, 1887 in Leipzig, died January 18, 1969 in Ebersteinburg near Wiesbaden, was an important, conservative German sociologist and philosopher. ... Gilberto Freyre (1900-1987) was a Brazilian author, known for his 1933 sociological treatise Casa-Grande & Senzala (The Masters and the Slaves). ... Erich Fromm Erich Pinchas Fromm (March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was an internationally renowned Jewish-German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, and humanistic philosopher. ...

G

• Francis Galton (1822–1911), English statistican
• Herbert Gans (born 1927), American sociologist
• Harold Garfinkel (born 1917), US-American sociologist
• Felix Guattari (1930–1992), French institutional psychotherapist, founder of schizoanalysis and ecosophy
• Anthony Giddens (born 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 (born 1935), British sociologist
• Leo Goodman (born 1928), US-American social statistician
• Erving Goffman (1922–1982), Canadian interactionistic sociologist
• Mark Gottdiener, U.S-American sociologist
• Isacque Graeber (1905–1984), Sociologist and Jewish Historian
• Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937), Italian Marxist
• Richard Grathoff (born 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

This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Herbert J. Gans (1927– ) is an American sociologist. ... Harold Garfinkel is Professor Emeritus in sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. ... Félix Guattari (1930 - 1992) was a French pioneer of institutional psychotherapy, as well as the founder of both Schizoanalysis and the science of Ecosophy. ... Image needed Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens (born January 18, 1938) is a British sociologist who is renowned for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies. ... Corrado Gini (May 23, 1884 - March 13, 1965) was an Italian statistician, demographer and sociologist who developed the Gini coefficient, a measure of the income inequality in a society. ... Arnold Gehlen (January 29, 1904 - January 30, 1976) was an influential conservative German philosopher and sociologist. ... Theodor Julius Geiger (9 November 1891 in Munich, Germany - 16 June 1952 at sea in Atlantic Ocean) was a German socialist lawyer and sociologist. ... I do not think I could have written the book on nationalism which I did write, were I not capable of crying, with the help of a little alcohol, over folk songs . ... David Glass (2 January, 1911-23 September, 1978) was an eminent British sociologist. ... Max Gluckman, born 26 January 1911 in Johannesburg of Russian Jewish parents, died 1975, was a South African social anthropologist. ... John H. Goldthorpe (born 1935) is a British sociologist. ... Erving Goffman Erving Goffman (June 11, 1922 – November 19, 1982), was a sociologist and writer. ... Dr. Isacque Graeber --> Dr. Isacque (Isaac) Graeber was a Sociologist, Jewish historian and author. ... Antonio Gramsci (IPA: ) (January 22, 1891 – April 27, 1937) was an Italian writer, politician and political theorist. ... Richard Helmut Grathoff is a phenomenologist and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. ... Mark Granovetter is a sociologist who gave some of the most influential theories in modern sociology, since the 1970s. ... // The Rev. ... Ludwig Gumplowicz, born March 9, 1838 in Kraków, Poland, died August 19, 1909 in Graz, Austria, was one of the founders of European sociology. ...

H

• Jürgen Habermas (born 1929), German social theorist
• Jeffrey K. Hadden (1937–2003), US-American sociologist
• Maurice Halbwachs (1877–1945), French philosopher and sociologist
• Stuart Hall (born 1932), British cultural theorist
• Maureen Hallinan, US-American sociologist
• Donna Haraway (born 1944), US-American gender and technology theorist
• David Harvey (born 1935), British geographer
• Chandrakala A. Hate (1903–1990), Indian sociologist, social worker, and author
• Michael Hechter, US-American sociologist
• Richard Hoggart (born 1918), British sociologist and founding member of the Birmingham University Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
• George C. Homans (1910–1989), US-American behavioural sociologist
• Axel Honneth (born 1949), German social theorist
• Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), German social philosopher
• Patrick Hunout, Belgian sociologist
• Stephen J. Hunt, British sociologist
• Floyd Hunter (born 1912), US-American sociologist

Jürgen Habermas (IPA: ; born June 18, 1929) is a German philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and American pragmatism. ... Jeffrey K. Hadden (1937 - 2003) was a Professor of Sociology who began teaching at the University of Virginia in 1972. ... Maurice Halbwachs (pronounced: ; Rheims, 11 March 1877 - Buchenwald 16 March 1945) was a French philosopher and sociologist known for developing the concept of collective memory. ... Stuart Hall (born 1932 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a cultural theorist from the United Kingdom. ... Donna Haraway, born in 1944 in Denver, Colorado, is currently a professor and former chair of the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, United States. ... David Harvey, 1990s David Harvey (b. ... Dr. Chandrakala Anandrao Hate, M.A., Ph. ... Richard Hoggart (born September 24, 1918) is a British sociologist, widely known for his 1957 book The Uses of Literacy. ... The University of Birmingham is the oldest of three universities in the English city of Birmingham. ... The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) was a research centre at the University of Birmingham. ... George C. Homans Born in Boston, Massachusetts August 11, 1910. ... Axel Honneth (1949-) is a professor at the Institut für Sozialforschung in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany (the so-called Frankfurt School. ... Max Horkheimer (front left), Theodor Adorno (front right), and Jürgen Habermas in the background, right, in 1965 at Heidelberg Max Horkheimer (February 14, 1895 – July 7, 1973) was a Jewish-German philosopher and sociologist, known especially as the founder and guiding thinker of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. ... Patrick Hunout is a researcher and policymaker who in 1999 created The International Scope Review, one of the largest peer-reviewed academic journals in the economic and social sciences. ... Stephen John Hunt is a British professor of sociology at the University of the West of England[1]. Prior to his appointment at the University of West England in 2001, Hunt had taught at the Sociology Department at the University of Reading for thirteen years, as well as in the...

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• Octavio Ianni (1926–2004), Brazilian sociologist
• Ibn Khaldun (1332/ah732–1406/ah808), North African historian, forerunner of modern historiography, sociology and economics
• Kancha Ilaiah (born 1952), Indian political scientist and social activist

Octavio Ianni (Itu, São Paulo, 1926 - ), Brazilian sociologist, was one of the founders of Cebrap. ... Ibn Khaldūn or Ibn Khaldoun (full name, Arabic: , ) (May 27, 1332 AD/732 AH – March 19, 1406 AD/808 AH), was a famous Berber Muslim polymath: a historian, historiographer, demographer, economist, philosopher, political theorist, sociologist and social scientist born in present-day Tunisia. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Kancha Ilaiah Kancha Ilaiah is the Chairman of the Political Science department at Osmania University, a social activist and author. ...

J

• Marie Jahoda (1907–2001), Austrian sociologist
• Jane Jacobs (1916–2006), US/Canadian writer and activist
• Yong Suk Jang (born 1968), Korean sociologist
• Rodrigo Jokisch (born 1946), German-Mexican sociologist and social theorist
• Lewis Wade Jones (1910–1979), African-American sociologist and educator
• Danny Jorgensen, US-American sociologist

Marie Jahoda (January 26, 1907 - April 28, 2001) was a British social psychologist of Austrian descent. ... Jane Jacobs Jane Jacobs, OC, O.Ont (May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was an American-born Canadian urbanist, writer and activist. ... Yong Suk Jang( Hangul: 장용석, born July 3, 1968 in Seoul, Korea ) is an Korean sociologist who is best known for his work in organizations, new institutionalism and comparative political and economic sociology, particularly his research on the factors affecting national administrative rationalization in the context of the current worldwide movement... // Jokisch (born March 18, 1946) is a German-Mexican sociologist who holds a professorship in Social Theory and Methodology of the Social Sciences at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) - and at the University of Darmstadt (University of Applied Sciences) in Sociology of Technology giving lectures and seminars in this... Lewis Wade Jones Lewis Wade Jones (born March 13, 1910 - 1979) was a sociologist and educator. ... -1...

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• Dirk Kaesler (born 1944), German sociologist
• Rand Kannenberg (born 1960), American clinical sociologist
• Alexandr Kapto, Russian and Ukrainian scientist, sociologist and political scientist; a diplomat, journalist, politician and statesman.
• Elihu Katz, US-American sociologist
• Vytautas Kavolis, Lithuanian-American sociologist and literary critic
• Stephen A. Kent, Canadian sociologist
• Tai-Young Kim, Korean sociologist
• Karin Knorr-Cetina (born 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
• Krishan Kumar, Indian sociologist
• Antonina Kłoskowska (1919–2001), Polish sociologist

Dirk Kaesler is the author of Max Weber:An introduction to his life and work, first published by University of Chicago Press in 1989. ... Rand Kannenberg (b. ... Alexandr Semenovich Kapto (b. ... Elihu Katz (b. ... Vytautas Kavolis (b. ... Distribution of Lithuanian-Americans according to the 2000 census Lithuanian-Americans are citizens of the United States who are of Lithuanian ancestry. ... Stephen A. Kent, Ph. ... Tai-Young Kim (Hangul: 김태영, born November 2, 1967 in Seoul, South Korea) is one of the most prominent professors in management and sociology fields. ... It has been suggested that Knowledge object be merged into this article or section. ... -1... Alfred Louis Kroeber Alfred Louis Kroeber (June 11, 1876–October 5, 1960) was one of the most influential figures in American anthropology in the first half of the twentieth century. ... Prince Peter (Pyotr) Alexeyevich Kropotkin (Russian: ) (December 9, 1842–February 8, 1921) was one of Russias foremost anarchists and one of the first advocates of anarchist communism: the model of society he advocated for most of his life was that of a communalist society free from central government. ... Thomas Samuel Kuhn (pronounced )(July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American intellectual who wrote extensively on the history of science and developed several important notions in the philosophy of science. ... Antonina Kłoskowska (b. ...

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• William Labov (born 1927), American sociolinguist and dialectologist
• Jacques Lacan (1901–1981), French psychoanalyst
• Ernesto Laclau, Argentinian sociologist
• Janja Lalich (born 1945), US-American sociologist
• David C. Lane (born 1956), US-American sociologist
• Ralph Larkin US-American sociologist
• Scott Lash, US-American sociologist
• Bruno Latour (born 1947), French sociologist of science
• Edward Laumann, US-American sociologist
• 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 (born 1937), US-American sociologist
• Claude Lévi-Strauss (born 1908), French anthropologist
• Jack Levin (born 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 (born 1922), US-American comparativist sociologist
• David Lockwood, British sociologist
• Thomas Luckmann (born 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

Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from an article revision dated 2006-02-04, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... Jacques-Marie-Émile Lacan (French IPA: ) (April 13, 1901 – September 9, 1981) was a French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor, who made prominent contributions to the psychoanalytic movement. ... Ernesto Laclau is a political theorist often described as post-marxist. ... Janja Lalich, Ph. ... David Christopher Lane (born April 29, 1956 in Burbank, California) is a professor of philosophy and sociology at Mount San Antonio College, USA and lecturer in religious studies at California State University, Long Beach, California. ... Ralph W. Larkin (May 27, 1940) is an American sociologist and research consultant. ... Scott Lash is a professor of sociology and cultural studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. ... Bruno Latour Bruno Latour (born June 1947, Beaune, France) is a French sociologist of science best known for his books We Have Never Been Modern, Laboratory Life, and Science in Action, describing the process of scientific research from the perspective of social construction based on field observations of working scientists. ... John Law is a sociologist at Lancaster University and key proponent of Actor-network theory. ... Paul Felix Lazarsfeld (1901-1976) was one of the major figures in 20th century American Sociology. ... Gustave Le Bon (May 7, 1841 – December 13, 1931) was a French social psychologist, sociologist, and amateur physicist. ... Henri Lefebvre (16 June 1901 â€“ 29 June 1991) was a French sociologist, intellectual and philosopher who was generally considered a Neo-Marxist[1]. // Lefebvre was born in Hagetmau, Landes, France. ... Marxism is both the theory and the political practice (that is, the praxis) derived from the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. ... // Charles Lemert (b. ... This article is about the anthropologist. ... Jack Levin, Ph. ... Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857-1939) was a French philosopher, sociologist, and ethnographer, whose primary field of study involved primitive mentality. ... Alfred R. Lindesmith was an Indiana University professor of sociology. ... Seymour Martin Lipset (born 1922) is a political sociologist. ... David Lockwood (The Blackcoated Worker, 1958 & 1989) sought to analyse the changes in the stratification position of the clerical worker by using a framework based on Max Webers distinction between market and work situations. ... Thomas Luckmann (b. ... Niklas Luhmann (December 8, 1927 - November 6, 1998) was a German sociologist, administration expert, and social systems theorist, as well as one the most prominent modern day thinkers in the sociological systems theory. ... Rosa Luxemburg Rosa Luxemburg (March 5, 1870 or 1871 – January 15, 1919, in Polish Róża Luksemburg) was a Jewish Polish-born Marxist political theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary. ... Robert Staughton Lynd (1892 - 1970) was a significant American sociologist. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

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• 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 (born 1946), US-American sociologist and sociobiologist
• Michael Macy, US-American sociologist
• Michael Mann (born 1942), British-American sociologist
• Karl Mannheim (1893–1947), German sociologist
• Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), German-American sociologist (Frankfurt School)
• Wladyslaw Markiewicz (born 1920), Polish sociologist
• Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), English writer described as 'first female sociologist'
• Vladimir Martynenko (born 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
• Alex Mattson (born 1964), US-American Sociologist
• Marcel Mauss (1872–1950), French sociologist
• Dale McConkey, US-American sociologist
• Robert McKenzie (1917–1981), Canadian-born Politics professor and psephologist
• Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980), Canadian educator, philosopher and scholar
• 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 (born 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 Sociologist and Educator
• J. Clyde Mitchell (1918–1995), British Social Anthropologist
• Shinji Miyadai (born 1959), Japanese sociologist
• Brij Mohan (born 1939), Indian-American social scientist
• James Moody, US-American mathematical sociologist
• James D. Montgomery, US-American economist and mathematical sociologist
• Peter A. Munch (1908–1984), Norwegian/US-American sociologist
• Charles Murray (born 1943), US-American sociologist

Sir Henry James Sumner Maine (August 15, 1822 - February 3, 1888), English comparative jurist and historian, son of Dr James Maine, of Kelso, Roxburghshire. ... Robert Morrison MacIver (April 17, 1882 - June 15, 1970), was a U.S. (Scottish-born) sociologist. ... For the Olympic champion athlete see Bronislaw Malinowski (athlete). ... Thomas Robert Malthus, FRS (13th February, 1766 – 29th December, 1834), was an English demographer and political economist. ... Richard Machalek (born April 12, 1946) is a social theorist, sociobiologist, and professor of sociology. ... Michael Mann (1942-) is a British-born professor of Sociology at the University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) and Visiting Research Professor at Queens University Belfast. ... Karl Mannheim (March 27, 1893, Budapest - January 9, 1947, London) was a Jewish Hungarian-born sociologist, influential in the first half of the 20th century and one of the founding fathers of classical sociology. ... Herbert Marcuse (July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German-born philosopher, sociologist and a member of the Frankfurt School. ... Władysław Markiewicz (b. ... Harriet Martineau Harriet Martineau (June 12, 1802 - June 27, 1876) was an English writer and philosopher, renowned in her day as a controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818 – March 14, 1883) was a 19th century philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary. ... Image needed Douglas S. Massey (1952 in Olympia, Washington, U.S.A., - ) is an American sociologist. ... John Levi Martin is an American sociologist; associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison since 2003. ... Marcel Mauss (May 10, 1872 – February 10, 1950) was a French sociologist best known for his role in elaborating on and securing the legacy of his uncle Émile Durkheim and the Année Sociologique. ... Robert Trelford McKenzie (September 11, 1917–October 12, 1981) was a Vancouver, Canada-born professor of Politics and a psephologist. ... “McLuhan” redirects here. ... 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. ... Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901, Philadelphia – November 15, 1978, New York City) was an American cultural anthropologist. ... Stephen Mennell (born 1944 in Yorkshire, England) is a Professor of Sociology at University College Dublin. ... This article is about the sociologist. ... Robert Michels (9 January 1876, Cologne, Germany — 3 May 1936, Rome, Italy) was a German sociologist who wrote on the political behavior of intellectual elites. ... Charles Wright Mills (August 28, 1916, Waco, Texas – March 20, 1962, West Nyack, New York) was an American sociologist. ... James Clyde Mitchell (usually known as J. Clyde Mitchell) b. ... Shinji Miyadai is a Japanese sociologist and is an assistant professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University. ... James Moody (born March 26, 1925) is a jazz saxophone and flute player. ... James D. Montgomery is professor of sociology and economics at the University of Wisconsin. ... -1... Charles Murray Charles Alan Murray (born 1943) is a controversial libertarian American political scientist. ...

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• 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 (died 2002), British further education lecturer and sociologist
• Robert Nisbet (1913–1996), US-American sociologist
• Helga Nowotny, Austrian sociologist

Otto Neurath (December 10, 1882-December 22, 1945) was an Austrian sociologist, political economist, and an unorthodox Marxist. ... Peter Neville (died August 9, 2002) was a further education lecturer and sociologist known for his activity and writings in the anarchist and peace movements in Britain. ... Robert Nisbet (1962- ) is a prolific author and an acknowledged expert on the subject of workplace bullying. ... Helga Nowotny is Vice President of ERC Scientific Council and has been Professor for Social Studies of Science at ETH Zurich since 1996. ...

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• Amber Wokoff (born 1984), British sociologist
• William F. Ogburn (1886–1959), US-American sociologist
• Claus Offe (born 1940), German sociologist
• Shelia B. (born 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

Image needed William Fielding Ogburn, (June 29, 1886—April 27, 1959) was a US sociologist who was born in Butler, Georgia and died in Tallahassee, Florida. ... Professor Claus Offe (born 1940 in Berlin) is one of the worlds leading political sociologists. ... Franz Oppenheimer Franz Oppenheimer (born 30 March 1864 in Berlin; died 30 September 1943 in Los Angeles) was a German sociologist and political economist, who also in the area of the fundamental sociology of the state. ... Stanislaw Ossowski was one of the most important Polish sociologists. ... For other uses, see Robert Owen (disambiguation). ...

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• 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
• Joel M. Podolny, US-American sociologist and Dean of the Yale School of Management
• John Porter (1921–1979), Canadian sociologist
• Nicos Poulantzas (1936–1979), Greek political sociologist
• Samuel H. Preston, US-American demographer and sociologist
• Jade Puget (born 1973), American musician
• Robert Putnam (born 1941), US-American political scientist
• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865), French socialist or anarchist philosopher
• Gil Sung Park (born 1956), Korean sociologist

Vilfredo Pareto Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto [vilfre:do pare:to] (July 15, 1848, Paris – August 19, 1923, Geneva) was a French-Italian sociologist, economist and philosopher. ... Robert Ezra Park (February 14, 1864–February 7, 1944) was an American urban sociologist, one of the main founders of the original Chicago School of sociology. ... Talcott Parsons Talcott Edgar Frederick Parsons (December 13, 1902–May 8, 1979) was for many years the best-known sociologist in the United States, and indeed one of the best-known in the world. ... Karl Pearson FRS (March 27, 1857 – April 27, 1936) established the discipline of mathematical statistics. ... Jean Piaget (August 9, 1896 – September 16, 1980) was a Swiss philosopher, natural scientist and developmental psychologist, well known for his work studying children, his theory of cognitive development and for his epistemological view called genetic epistemology. He created in 1955 the International Centre for Genetic Epistemology in Geneva and... Trevor J. Pinch is the chair of the Science and Technology Studies department at Cornell University. ... Joel M. Podolny is Dean of the Yale School of Management. ... In an educational setting, a dean is a person with significant authority . ... The Yale School of Management (also known as Yale SOM) is the graduate business school of Yale University and is located on Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Yale SOM offers M.B.A. and Ph. ... The common English name John Porter can refer to: John Clinton Porter -- California politician, mayor of Los Angeles John Edward Porter -- Illinois politician, state Representative John Porter (politician) -- Pennsylvania politician, US Representative John Porter (musician) -- guitarist, bassist, producer for Roxy Music, among others John Porter (sociologist) -- Canadian sociologist John Porter... Nicos Poulantzas (1936-1979) was a Greco-French Marxist political sociologist. ... This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... Jade Errol Puget (born November 28, 1973 in Santa Rosa, California) is the guitarist for American rock band AFI, and the keyboardist/synthesizer operator for the electronic duo Blaqk Audio. ... Robert D. Putnam (2006) Robert David Putnam (born 1941 in Rochester, New York) is a political scientist and professor at Harvard University. ... Theory and practice Issues History Culture By region Lists Related Anarchism Portal Politics Portal ·        Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (pronounced [ˈpruːd É’n] in British English, [pʁu dɔ̃] in French) (January 15, 1809 – January 19, 1865) was a French mutualist political philosopher of the socialist tradition. ... Park Gil Sung in 2005 Park Gil Sung ( Hangul: 박길성, born May 9, 1957 in Myungju, Gangwon-do, Korea ) is a prominent Korean sociologist. ...

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• Enrico Quarantelli, US-American sociologist

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• Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (1881–1955), British social anthropologist
• Stephen Raudenbush, US-American sociologist and statistician
• Aviad Raz (born 1968), Israeli sociologist and anthropologist
• John Rex (born 1928), British sociologist
• Jürgen Ritsert , German sociologist
• George Ritzer (born 1940), US-American sociologist
• Terje Rød-Larsen (born 1947), Norwegian diplomat and sociologist
• Dale A. Rose (born 1972), US-American sociologist
• Paul Rosenfels (1909–1985), American psychologist and sociologist
• Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888–1973), German social philosopher
• Walter Garrison Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford, British sociologist

Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (January 17, 1881–October 24, British social anthropologist who developed the theory of Structural Functionalism, a framework that describes basic concepts relating to the social structure of primitive civilizations. ... -1... Aviad Raz Sociologist at Tel Aviv University who specialises, inter alia, in the IDF, kibbutz organisations, and Japanese organisations. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... George Ritzer (born 1940) is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. ... Terje Rød-Larsen (born November 22, 1947) is a Norwegian diplomat and sociologist. ... The subject of this article may not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ... Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888-1973) was a social philosopher, who taught at Dartmouth College from 1935 to 1957. ... Walter Garrison Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford, CBE, is a leading British sociologist. ...

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• Harvey Sacks (died 1975), US-American sociologist and ethnomethodologist
• Moisés Espírito Santo (born 1934), Portuguese sociologist, ethnologist and ethnolinguist
• Henri de Saint-Simon (1760–1825), French philosopher and social thinker
• Saskia Sassen (born 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)
• Leo Semashko (born 1941), Russian sociologist, tetrasociology founder, social philosopher and public fugure
• Richard Sennett (born 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
• Volkmar Sigusch, German sociologist and sexuologe
• 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 (born 1960), US-American sociologist of religion
• Dorothy E. Smith (born 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
• Arthur Stinchcombe, US-American sociologist
• Ross Stolzenberg, US-American sociologist
• John Storey, British 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 Szczepanski (1913–2004), Polish sociologist
• Piotr Sztompka (born 1944), Polish sociologist
• Rahmatollah Sedigh Sarvestani, Iranian sociologist and criminologist

Harvey Sacks (1935-November 1975) was an American sociologist influenced by the ethnomethodology tradition. ... Henri de Saint-Simon Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, often referred to as Henri de Saint-Simon (October 17, 1760 – May 19, 1825), the founder of French socialism, was born in Paris. ... Saskia Sassen Saskia Sassen (born January 5th in 1949 at The Hague, in The Netherlands) is an American sociologist and economist noted for her analyses of globalization and international human migration. ... There are two Australian Peter Saunders involved in social research, they are: Professor Peter Saunders is Director of the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales and was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1995) [1] Professor Emeritus Peter Saunders... Saussure Ferdinand de Saussure (pronounced ) (November 26, 1857 – February 22, 1913) was a Geneva-born Swiss linguist whose ideas laid the foundation for many of the significant developments in linguistics in the 20th century. ... Helmut Schelsky, (b. ... Paul Schnabel (1948- ) is a Dutch sociologist and as of 2006 the director of an agency of the Dutch government called Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau (Social and Cultural Planning Office), usually abbreviated as SCP. Schnabel grew up in the Catholic city of Breda. ... Joseph Alois Schumpeter (February 8, 1883 – January 8, 1950) was one of the greatest 20th century economists and one of the best read. ... Alfred Schütz (1899-1959, aka Alfred Schutz) was a philosopher and sociologist. ... Richard Sennett (born Chicago, 1 January 1943) is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Professor of the Humanities at New York University. ... Steven Shapin is Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science, joining Harvard in 2004 after previous appointments as Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego, and at the Science Studies Unit, Edinburgh University. ... Ali Shariati (Persian: علی شريعتی‎) (1933–1977) was an Iranian sociologist, well known and respected for his works in the field of sociology of religion. ... Anson D. Shupe American sociologist who studies religious groups and the anti-cult movement. ... Volkmar Sigusch (born June 11, 1940 in Bad Freienwalde) is a german sexologist, physician and sociologist. ... Charles E. Silberman is the author of Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice (1978), a study of crime and the American criminal justice system. ... Georg Simmel Georg Simmel (March 1, 1858 – September 28, 1918, Berlin, Germany) was one of the first generation of German sociologists. ... Albion Woodbury Small (May 11, 1854 - 1926) founded the first Department of Sociology in the USA at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois in 1892. ... Neil J. Smelser was a University of California Berkeley sociologist who studied collective behavior. ... For other persons named Adam Smith, see Adam Smith (disambiguation). ... Christian Smith, a sociologist of religion and culture, is the William R. Kenan, Jr. ... Dorothy Edith Smith is a Canadian sociologist who has had immense impacts on sociology and many other disciplines including womens studies, psychology, and educational studies, as well as sub-fields of sociology including feminist theory, family studies, and methodology. ... Werner Sombart Werner Sombart (January 19, 1863-May 18, 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. ... Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin (1889-1968) immigrated from Russia to the United States in 1923 where he founded the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. ... For other persons named Herbert Spencer, see Herbert Spencer (disambiguation). ... Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler (Blankenburg am Harz May 29, 1880 – May 8, 1936, Munich) was a German historian and philosopher, although his studies ranged throughout mathematics, science, philosophy, history, and art. ... M N Srinivas is Indias foremost sociologist. ... John Storey (Born Jervis Bay, May 15, 1869; Died Sydney October 5, 1921. ... Anselm L. Strauss (December 18, 1916_September 5, 1996) was a sociologist, who worked the field of medical sociology. ... William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) was the leading American advocate of a free-trade industrial society, which is what he believed the socialists meant by capitalism. ... Eilert Sundt (Farsund, 1817-1875) was a Norwegian sociologist, known for his work on mortality, marriage and other subjects among the working class. ... Image needed Edwin H. Sutherland (1883–1950) is considered to be one of the most influential criminologists of the twentieth century. ... Piotr Sztompka is a Polish sociologist. ...

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• Gabriel Tarde (1843–1904), French sociologist and social psychologist
• Sidney Tarrow, US-American sociologist
• Ian Taylor (1944–2001), English sociologist and criminologist
• Laurie Taylor (born 1936), English sociologist and broadcaster
• Verta Taylor, US-American sociologist
• Julien Teitler, US-American sociologist
• W. I. Thomas (1863–1947), US-American social psychologist
• Charles Tilly (born 1929), US-American sociologist
• Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859), French essayist and political analyst
• Ferdinand Tönnies (1855–1936), German sociologist
• Alain Touraine (born 1925), French sociologist
• France Winddance Twine (born 1960), US-American sociologist and ethnographer

Gabriel Tarde (March 12, 1843 in Dordogne, France – May 13, 1904 in Paris) French sociologist and social psychologist who conceived sociology as based on small psychological interactions among individuals (much as if it were chemistry), the fundamental forces being imitation and innovation. ... Sidney G. Tarrow is a professor of political science and sociology, known for his research in the areas of comparative politics, social movements, political parties, collective action and political sociology. ... Ian Taylor was a British sociologist who was born March 11, 1944 in Sheffield and died on January 19, 2001. ... Laurie Taylor may refer to the following people: Laurie Taylor — the British sociologist and radio presenter This is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... W.I. and D.S. Thomas wrote several watershed articles on the influence of social situations on individual behavior. ... Charles Tilly (born 1929) is a well known sociologist who has written a large number of books on the relationship between politics, economics and society. ... Tocqueville redirects here. ... Ferdinand Tönnies (July 26, 1855, near Oldenswort (Eiderstedt) - April 9, 1936, Kiel, Germany) was a German sociologist. ... Alain Touraine (1925- ) is a French sociologist born in Hermanville-sur-Mer. ... [[Category:Wikify from {{subst:December}} {{subst:2006}}]] at the top of the article. ...

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• John Urry, British sociologist

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• Francisco Varela (1946–2001), Chilean biologist and philosopher
• Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), US-American economist and sociologist
• Calvin Veltman (born 1941), Canadian sociologist, demographer and sociolinguist
• Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, US-American sociologist
• Nildo Viana (born 1965), Brazilian sociologist and philosopher
• Richard R. Verdugo (born 1948), US-American sociologist

Francisco Varela (Santiago, September 7, 1946 – May 28, 2001, Paris) was a Chilean biologist and philosopher who, together with his teacher Humberto Maturana, is best known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology. ... Thorstein Bunde Veblen (born Tosten Bunde Veblen July 30, 1857 – August 3, 1929) was a Norwegian-American sociologist and economist and a founder, along with John R. Commons, of the Institutional economics movement. ... Calvin Veltman is an American sociologist, demographer and sociolinguist at the Université du Québec à Montréal. ... -1...

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• Peter Wagner, German sociologist and social theorist
• Immanuel Wallerstein (born 1930), US-American sociologist and historian
• Lester Frank Ward (1841–1913), founder of US-American sociology
• Stanley Wasserman, US-American sociologist, psychologist, statistician
• Anita Waters (born 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
• Frank Webster (born 1950), British sociologist
• Barry Wellman (born 1942), US-Canadian-American sociologist (dual citizenship)
• Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931), US-American sociologist,journalist, social worker
• John Westergaard (born 1927), British sociologist
• Edward Westermarck (1862–1939), Finnish sociologist and philosopher
• Douglas R. White (born 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 (born 1935), US-American sociologist
• Howard Winant, US.American sociologist
• Christopher Winship, US-American sociologist
• Louis Wirth (1897–1952), German/US-American sociologist
• Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski (born 1944), Polish sociologist
• Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), British social reformer
• Steve Woolgar, British sociologist
• Monroe Work (1866–1945), US-American sociologist
• Erik Olin Wright, US-American sociologist

Peter Wagner is a German social theorist. ... Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (born 28 September 1930, New York City) is a U.S. sociologist by credentials, but a historical social scientist, or world-systems analyst by trade. ... Lester Frank Ward Lester F. Ward (June 18, 1841–April 18, 1913) was an American botanist, paleontologist, and sociologist. ... Duncan J. Watts is an associate professor of sociology at Columbia University, head of the CDG Collective Dynamics Group and author of the book Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (Norton, 2003). ... Beatrice Webb Martha Beatrice Potter Webb (January 2, 1858 - April 30, 1943) (also called Beatrice Webb) was a British socialist, economist and reformer, usually referred to in the same breath as her husband, Sidney Webb. ... Categories: UK Labour Party politicians | British MPs | Peers | Secretaries of State for the Colonies (UK) | 1859 births | 1947 deaths | People stubs ... Alfred Weber (July 30, 1868 in Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany - May 2, 1958 in Heidelberg) was a German economist, sociologist and theoretician of culture whose work was influential in the development of modern economic geography. ... For the politician, see Max Weber (politician). ... Frank Webster is a British sociologist born September 27th 1950. ... Barry Wellman directs NetLab as a professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. ... Ida Wells-Barnett Ida B. Wells, ( July 16, 1862- March 25, 1931), later known as Ida Wells-Barnett, was an African-American civil rights advocate, and led a strong cause against lynching. ... Edward Alexander Westermarck (November 20, 1862 - September 3, 1939) was a Finnish philosopher and sociologist. ... Douglas R. White is an American social anthropologist, sociologist, and social network researcher at the University of California, Irvine. ... Harrison C. White is Professor of sociology at Columbia University. ... William Hollingsworth Holly Whyte (1917- January 12, 1999) was an American sociologist, journalist, and peoplewatcher. ... Raymond Henry Williams (31 August 1921 - 26 January 1988) was a Welsh academic, novelist and critic. ... William Julius Wilson (born December 20, 1935) is one of the most a significant American sociologists. ... Howard Winant is a American sociologist and a race theorist. ... This article lacks information on the importance of the subject matter. ... Louis Wirth was born in Germany, but studied in the United States and became a leading figure in Chicago School sociology. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Mary Wollstonecraft (circa 1797) by John Opie Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was a British writer, philosopher and feminist. ... Steve Woolgar is a sociologist who has worked very close to Bruno Latour, with whom he co-authored Laboratory Life: the Social Construction of Scientific Facts. ... Monroe Nathan Work (1866-1945), was a sociologist who worked primarily within the anti-lynching campaigns and the Negro Health Week movement. ... Erik Olin Wright (b. ...

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

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• Benjamin Zablocki (born 1941), US-American soiologist and social psychologist
• Henry Zentner (died 1986), Canadian sociologist
• Eviatar Zerubavel, US-American Cognitive Sociologist
• Jean Ziegler (born 1934), Swiss sociologist
• Slavoj Zizek (born 1949), Slovenian sociologist and philosopher
• Florian Znaniecki (1882–1958), Polish-American sociologist
• Irving Zola, US-American medical sociologist and disability rights activist
• Sharon Zukin, U.S-American sociologist
• René Zavaleta Mercado, (1935–1984), Bolivian sociologist

Benjamin Zablocki (b. ... Eviatar Zerubavel is professor of sociology at Rutgers University. ... Jean Ziegler Jean Ziegler (born April 19, 1934) is the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and a senior professor of sociology at the University of Geneva and the Sorbonne, Paris. ... Slavoj Žižek. ... Florian Zaniecki // Florian Witold Znaniecki (January 15, 1882 - March 23, 1958) was a philosopher and a sociologist. ... Irving Kenneth Zola (1935—1994) was an internationally-known activist and writer in the fields of medical sociology and disability rights. ... Sharon Zukin is a professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and the Graduate School, City University of New York. ... René Zavaleta Mercado born in Oruro (1935), died in Mexico City (1984), was a Bolivian politician, sociologist and philosopher. ...

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• Timeline of Sociology