Sociologists - Definition and Overview

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

A

• Jane Addams (1860-1935), American social worker and reformer
• Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), German cultural sociologist (Frankfurt School)
• Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), German political theorist
• Raymond Aron

B

• Gregory Bateson (1904-1980), English/American cybernetican
• Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929), French cultural theorist
• Zygmunt Bauman (b. 1925)
• Ulrich Beck, German sociologist
• Daniel Bell
• Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), German cultural sociologist
• Peter L. Berger (b. 1929), Austro-American sociologist
• Henri Bergson (1859-1941), French philosopher
• Herbert Blumer
• Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002), French sociologist
• Ernest Burgess
• Judith Butler (b. 1956), American gender theorist

C

• Manuel Castells (b. 1942), Spanish sociologist and urban planner
• James S. Coleman
• Auguste Comte (1798-1857), French founder of sociology
• Charles Cooley, American sociologist
• Stefan Czarnowski (1879-1937), Polish sociologist

D

• Robert Dahl
• Ralf Dahrendorf, German sociologist
• W.E.B. DuBois (1868-1963), African-American civil rights leader
• Émile Durkheim (1858-1917), French founder of sociology
• Nancy Denton

E

• Norbert Elias (1897-1990), German sociologist
• Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), German socialist philosopher

F

• /Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist
• Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002), Austrian-American cybernetican
• Michel Foucault (1926-1984), French sociologist
• Charles Fourier (1772-1837), French proto-sociologist
• Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian psycho-analyst
• Hans Freyer, German sociologist
• Erich Fromm (1900-1980), German-American psychologist

G

• Francis Galton (1822-1911), English statistican
• Anthony Giddens (b. 1938), English sociologist
• Corrado Gini (1884-1965), Italian statistician
• Arnold Gehlen, German philosopher and anthropologist
• Theodor Geiger, German sociologist
• Erving Goffman (1922-1982), Canadian interactionistic sociologist
• Antonio Gramsci (1891-1931), Italian Marxist
• Richard Grathoff (1934- ), German sociologist and phenomenologist
• Mark Granovetter

H

• Jürgen Habermas (b. 1929), German social theorist
• Maurice Halbwachs, French sociologist
• Stuart Hall British cultural theorist
• Donna Haraway, American gender and technology theorist
• David Harvey, British geographer
• Georg F. Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher
• Richard Hoggart (b. 1918), British sociologist (Birmingham School, culture studies)
• George C. Homans, American sociologist
• Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), German social philosopher (Frankfurt School)
• Floyd Hunter

I

• Ibn Khaldun, medieval Arab historian

J

• Jane Jacobs

K

• Karin Knorr Cetina, German sociologist
• Alfred L. Kroeber
• Thomas S. Kuhn (1922-1996), American science theorist
• Antonina Kłoskowska (1919-2001), Polish sociologist

L

• William Labov
• Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), French psychoanalyst
• Paul F. Lazarsfeld, Austrian-American sociologist
• Claude Levi-Strauss (b. 1908), French anthropologist
• Seymour Martin Lipset
• Thomas Luckmann (b. 1927), German sociologist
• Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998), German sociologist (systems theory)
• Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919), German socialist theoretician
• Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998), French philosopher

M

• Henry Maine (1822-1888), British jurist and legal historian
• Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942), Polish anthropologist
• Thomas Malthus (1766-1834), English demographer
• Karl Mannheim (1893-1947), German-speaking sociologist
• Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), German-American sociologist (Frankfurt School)
• Karl Marx (1818-1883), German political philosopher and social theorist
• Douglas Massey
• Humberto Maturana
• Marcel Mauss French sociologist
• Dale McConkey
• Robert McKenzie
• George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) American philosopher and social psychologist
• Margaret Mead (1901-1978), American cultural anthropologist
• Henri Mendras (1927-2003), French sociologist, chronicler of La fin des paysans
• Robert K. Merton, American sociologist
• Robert Michels, German political sociologist
• C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) American sociologist

N

• Oswald von Nell-Breuning (1890-1991), German Roman Catholic theologian, sociologist and social reformer
• Otto Neurath (1882-1945), Austrian sociologist and political economist

O

• William F. Ogburn
• Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943) German sociologist and political economist
• Stanisław Ossowski (1897-1963), Polish sociologist
• Robert Owen

P

• Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923), Italian economist and sociologist
• Robert E. Park, American sociologist
• Vance Packard (1914-1996), American proto-pop-sociologist
• Talcott Parsons (1902-1979), American functionalist sociologist
• Karl Pearson (1857-1936), English statistican
• Robert Putnam

Q

R

• Aviad Raz
• George Ritzer (b. 1940), American sociologist

S

• Henri Saint-Simon, French philosopher and social thinker
• Saskia Sassen
• Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913), Swiss linguist (structuralism)
• Helmut Schelsky (1912-1984), German sociologist
• Alfred Schütz (1899-1959), Austrian philosopher and sociologist (phenomenology)
• Richard Sennett
• Ali Shariati (1933-1977), Iranian sociologist
• Charles E. Silberman, criminologist
• Albion Woodbury Small (1854-1926), American sociologist, founder of Chicago University Dept. of Sociology
• Georg Simmel (1858-1918), German sociologist
• Adam Smith(1723-1790), Scottish economist and philosopher
• Pitirim Sorokin (1889-1968), Russian sociologist
• Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), English philosopher
• Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), German philosopher
• M N Srinivas, Indian Sociologist
• Anselm L. Strauss, American sociologist (sociology of medicine, qualitative methods)
• Gerald Suttles
• Jan Szczepański

T

• W. I. Thomas, American social psychologist
• Alexis de Tocqueville, French essayist and political analyst
• Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936) German sociologist

U

V

• Francisco Varela (1946-2001), Chilean biologist and philosopher
• Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929), American economist and sociologist

W

• Immanuel Wallerstein
• Peter Wagner, German sociologist and social 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
• Edward Westermarck (1862-1939), Finnish sociologist & philosopher
• William Julius Wilson
• Louis Wirth
• Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski (b. 1944), Polish sociologist
• Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), British social reformer

X

Y

Z

• Florian Znaniecki (1882-1958), Polish and American sociologist
• Slavoj Zizek (b. 1949), Slovenian sociologist and philosopher

External link

• Timeline of Sociology (http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/timeline.html)