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

A

B

  • Robert Balch, US-American sociologist
  • Eileen Barker, British sociologist
  • Anne Bargès, French 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
  • Joel Baum, Canadian sociologist and management 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
  • John David Brewer (born 1951), British sociologist
  • Carl Brinkmann (1885-1954), German 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

    C

  • Michel Callon, French sociologist
  • Elias Canetti, Bulgaria-born novelist and outsider 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

    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
  • Alexander Deichsel (born 1935), German sociologist
  • Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995), French philosopher
  • Helen Dinerman (1920–1974), American public opinion researcher
  • Paul DiMaggio, US-born cultural sociologist
  • Georgi Dimitrov Dimitrov, Bulgarian sociologist
  • G. William Domhoff, US-American sociologist
  • Jacqueline Donkers (born 1980), Dutch 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

    E

  • 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

    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
  • 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

    G

  • Francis Galton (1822–1911), English statistican
  • Herbert Gans (born 1927), US sociologist
  • Harold Garfinkel (born 1917), US 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
  • Barry Glassner (born 1952), American sociologist
  • Max Gluckman (1911–1975), South African/English social anthropologist
  • John H. Goldthorpe (born 1935), British sociologist
  • Leo Goodman (born 1928), US social statistician
  • Erving Goffman (1922–1982), Canadian interactionistic sociologist
  • Mark Gottdiener, US 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 sociologist
  • Andrew M. Greeley, US sociologist, priest, writer
  • Liah Greenfeld (born ?), Russian-born US sociologist; foremost contemporary sociologist
  • Leonid Grinin (born 1958), Russian sociologist
  • Ludwig Gumplovicz (1838–1909), Polish-Austrian sociologist, one of the founders of European sociology
  • Dimitrie Gusti (1880–1955), Romanian sociologist, the creator of the sociological monographic method

    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

    I

  • 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

    J

  • Marie Jahoda (1907–2001), Austrian sociologist
  • Marie Jaisson, French sociologist
  • Jane Jacobs (1916–2006), US/Canadian writer and activist
  • Yong Suk Jang (born 1968), Korean sociologist
  • J. Craig Jenkins, US-American 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

    K

  • 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
  • Antonina Kłoskowska (1919–2001), Polish sociologist
  • Karin Knorr-Cetina (born 1944), German sociologist
  • René König (1906–1992), German sociologist
  • Andrey Korotayev (born 1961), Russian sociologist
  • Maksim Kovalevsky (1851 - 1916), Russian 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

    L

  • 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
  • Barry B. Levine (born 1941), American sociologist
  • 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

    M

  • Henry Maine (1822–1888), British jurist and legal historian
  • Carl R May (born 1961), British medical sociologist
  • 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
  • Manouchehr Mohseni (External Link)(born 1942),Iranian sociologist & professor
  • 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

    N

  • Oswald von Nell-Breuning (1890–1991), German Roman Catholic theologian, sociologist and social reformer
  • Otto Neurath (1882–1945), Austrian sociologist and political economist
  • Otto Newman (born Neumann, 1922), British Sociologist
  • Peter Neville (died 2002), British further education lecturer and sociologist
  • Robert Nisbet (1913–1996), US-American sociologist
  • Helga Nowotny, Austrian sociologist

    O

  • William F. Ogburn (1886–1959), US-American sociologist
  • Claus Offe (born 1940), German 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

    P

  • Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923), Italian economist and sociologist
  • Robert E. Park (1864–1944), US-American 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

    Q

  • Enrico Quarantelli, US-American sociologist

    R

  • 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
  • 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
  • Malena Rubino (born 1985), US-American sociologist
  • Walter Garrison Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford, British sociologist

    S

  • 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
  • Kurt C. Schlichting, American sociologist.
  • Paul Schnabel Dutch sociologist
  • Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950), Austrian economist
  • Alfred Schütz (1899–1959), Austrian philosopher and sociologist (phenomenology)
  • 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
  • Ian Svenonius, US-American cultural sociologist
  • Jan Szczepanski (1913–2004), Polish sociologist
  • Piotr Sztompka (born 1944), Polish sociologist

    T

  • 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
  • Valery Tishkov (born 1941), Russian ethnologist and 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

    U

  • John Urry, British sociologist

    V

  • 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
  • Richard R. Verdugo (born 1948), US-American sociologist
  • Nildo Viana (born 1965), Brazilian sociologist and philosopher

    W

  • 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
  • Edvard 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

    Y

  • Yu Xie, US-American sociologist and statistician

    Z

  • Benjamin Zablocki (born 1941), US-American soiologist and social psychologist
  • René Zavaleta Mercado, (1935–1984), Bolivian sociologist
  • 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
  • Tukufu Zuberi, U.S. American sociologist
  • Sharon Zukin, U.S-American sociologistFurther Information

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