List of sociologists

List of sociologists

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

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, B, C

Jane Addams (1860-1935), American social worker and reformer
Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), German cultural sociologist (Frankfurt School)
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), German political theorist
Raymond Aron
Gregory Bateson (1904-1980), English/American cybernetican
Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929), French cultural theorist
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
Manuel Castells (b. 1942), Catalan-American sociologist and urban planner
James S. Coleman
Auguste Comte (1798-1857), French proto-sociologist
Charles Cooley
Stefan Czarnowski (1879-1937), Polish sociologist

D, E, F

Ralf Dahrendorf

W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963), African-American civil rights leader
Emile Durkheim (1858-1917), French founder of sociology
Nancy Denton
Norbert Elias (1897-1990), German sociologist
Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), German socialist philosopher
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
Erich Fromm (1900-1980), German-American psychologist
/Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist

G, H, I

Francis Galton (1822-1911), English statistican
Anthony Giddens (b. 1938), English sociologist
Corrado Gini (1884-1965), Italian statistician
Clifford Geertz
Arnold Gehlen
Theodor Geiger
Erving Goffman (1922-1982), Canadian interactionistic sociologist
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1931), Italian Marxist
Mark Granovetter
J�rgen Habermas (b. 1929), German social theorist
Maurice Halbwachs
Donna Haraway, American gender and technology theorist
David Harvey, British geographer
Georg F. Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher
George C. Homans
Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), German sociologist (Frankfurt School)
Floyd Hunter

J, K, L

Jane Jacobs
Ibn Khaldun, medieval Arab historian
Antonina Kłoskowska (1919-2001), Polish sociologist
Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), French psychoanalyst
Paul F. Lazarsfeld
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-Fran�ois Lyotard (1924-1998), French philosopher
Karin Knorr Cetina
Alfred L. Kroeber
Thomas S. Kuhn (1922-1996), American science theorist

M, N, O

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)
Douglas Massey
Humberto Maturana
Marcel Mauss French sociologist
Karl Marx (1818-1883), German political philosopher and social theorist
Robert McKenzie
George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) American philosopher and social psychologist
Margaret Mead (1901-1978), American cultural anthropologist
Robert K. Merton, American sociologist
Robert Michels, German political sociologist
C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) American sociologist
Oswald von Nell-Breuning (1890-1991), German Roman Catholic theologian, sociologist and social reformer
Otto Neurath (1882-1945), Austrian sociologist and political economist
William F. Ogburn
Stanisław Ossowski (1897-1963), Polish sociologist
Robert Owen

P, Q, R

Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923), Italian economist
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
George Ritzer (b. 1940), American sociologist

S, T, U

Henri de Saint-Simon

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913), Swiss linguist (structuralism)
Helmut Schelsky
Alfred Sch�tz (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
W. I. Thomas, American social psychologist
Alexis de Tocqueville
Ferdinand T�nnies (1855-1936) German sociologist

V, W, X, Y, Z

Francisco Varela (1946-2001), Chilean biologist and philosopher
Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929), American economist and sociologist
Immanuel Wallerstein
Beatrice Webb (1858-1943), British socialist and social theorist
Sidney Webb (1859-1947), British socialist and social theorist
Alfred Weber
Max Weber (1864-1920), German founder of sociology
William Julius Wilson
Louis Wirth
Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski (b. 1944), Polish sociologist
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), British social reformer
Florian Znaniecki (1882-1958), Polish and American sociologist
Slavoj Zizek (b. 1949), Slovenian sociologist and philosopher

External links

Timeline of Sociology

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