List of sociologists

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

A, B, C

\n*Jane Addams (1860-1935), American social worker and reformer\n*Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), German cultural sociologist (Frankfurt School)\n*Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), German political theorist\n*Raymond Aron \n*Gregory Bateson (1904-1980), English/American cybernetican\n*Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929), French cultural theorist\n*Ulrich Beck, German sociologist \n*Daniel Bell\n*Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), German cultural sociologist\n*Peter L. Berger (b. 1929), Austro-American sociologist\n*Henri Bergson (1859-1941), French philosopher\n*Herbert Blumer\n*Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002), French sociologist\n*Ernest Burgess\n*Judith Butler (b. 1956), American gender theorist\n*Manuel Castells (b. 1942), Catalan sociologist and urban planner\n*James S. Coleman\n*Auguste Comte (1798-1857), French founder of sociology\n*Charles Cooley, American sociologist\n*Stefan Czarnowski (1879-1937), Polish sociologist

D, E, F

\n*Robert Dahl\n*Ralf Dahrendorf, German sociologist\n*W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963), African-American civil rights leader\n*Émile Durkheim (1858-1917), French founder of sociology\n*Nancy Denton\n*Norbert Elias (1897-1990), German sociologist\n*Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), German socialist philosopher\n*Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002), Austrian-American cybernetican \n*Michel Foucault (1926-1984), French sociologist\n*Charles Fourier (1772-1837), French proto-sociologist\n*Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian psycho-analyst\n*Hans Freyer, German sociologist\n*Erich Fromm (1900-1980), German-American psychologist\n*/Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist

G, H, I

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

J, K, L

\n*Jane Jacobs\n*Ibn Khaldun, medieval Arab historian\n*Antonina Kłoskowska (1919-2001), Polish sociologist \n*Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), French psychoanalyst \n*Paul F. Lazarsfeld, Austrian-American sociologist\n*Claude Levi-Strauss (b. 1908), French anthropologist \n*Seymour Martin Lipset\n*Thomas Luckmann (b. 1927), German sociologist\n*Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998), German sociologist (systems theory)\n*Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919), German socialist theoretician\n*Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998), French philosopher\n*Karin Knorr Cetina, German sociologist\n*Alfred L. Kroeber\n*Thomas S. Kuhn (1922-1996), American science theorist

M, N, O

\n*Henry Maine (1822-1888), British jurist and legal historian\n*Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942), Polish anthropologist\n*Thomas Malthus (1766-1834), English demographer\n*Karl Mannheim (1893-1947), German-speaking sociologist\n*Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), German-American sociologist (Frankfurt School)\n*Douglas Massey\n*Humberto Maturana\n*Marcel Mauss French sociologist\n*Karl Marx (1818-1883), German political philosopher and social theorist\n*Dale McConkey\n*Robert McKenzie\n*George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) American philosopher and social psychologist\n*Margaret Mead (1901-1978), American cultural anthropologist\n*Henri Mendras (1927-2003), French sociologist, chronicler of La fin des paysans\n*Robert K. Merton, American sociologist\n*Robert Michels, German political sociologist\n*C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) American sociologist\n*Oswald von Nell-Breuning (1890-1991), German Roman Catholic theologian, sociologist and social reformer\n*Otto Neurath (1882-1945), Austrian sociologist and political economist\n*William F. Ogburn\n*Stanisław Ossowski (1897-1963), Polish sociologist\n*Robert Owen

P, Q, R

\n*Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923), Italian economist and sociologist\n*Robert E. Park, American sociologist\n*Vance Packard (1914-1996), American proto-pop-sociologist\n*Talcott Parsons (1902-1979), American functionalist sociologist\n*Karl Pearson (1857-1936), English statistican\n*Robert Putnam\n*Aviad Raz\n*George Ritzer (b. 1940), American sociologist

S, T, U

\n*Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, French philosopher and social thinker\n*Saskia Sassen\n*Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913), Swiss linguist (structuralism)\n*Helmut Schelsky (1912-1984), German sociologist\n*Alfred Schütz (1899-1959), Austrian philosopher and sociologist (phenomenology)\n*Richard Sennett\n*Ali Shariati (1933-1977), Iranian sociologist\n*Charles E. Silberman, criminologist\n*Albion Woodbury Small (1854-1926), American sociologist, founder of Chicago University Dept. of Sociology\n*Georg Simmel (1858-1918), German sociologist\n*Adam Smith(1723-1790), Scottish economist and philosopher\n*Pitirim Sorokin (1889-1968), Russian sociologist\n*Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), English philosopher\n*Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), German philosopher\n*M N Srinivas ( ), Indian Sociologist\n*Anselm L. Strauss, American sociologist (sociology of medicine, qualitative methods)\n*Gerald Suttles\n*Jan Szczepański\n*W. I. Thomas, American social psychologist\n*Alexis de Tocqueville, French essayist and political analyst\n*Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936) German sociologist

V, W, X, Y, Z

\n*Francisco Varela (1946-2001), Chilean biologist and philosopher\n*Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929), American economist and sociologist\n*Immanuel Wallerstein\n*Beatrice Webb (1858-1943), British socialist and social theorist\n*Sidney Webb (1859-1947), British socialist and social theorist\n*Alfred Weber (1868-1958), German sociologist\n*Max Weber (1864-1920), German sociologist\n*Edward Westermarck (1862-1939), Finnish sociologist & philosopher\n*William Julius Wilson\n*Louis Wirth \n*Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski (b. 1944), Polish sociologist\n*Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), British social reformer\n*Florian Znaniecki (1882-1958), Polish and American sociologist\n*Slavoj Zizek (b. 1949), Slovenian sociologist and philosopher

External links

\n*Timeline of Sociology Sociologists