List of sociologists

This is a list of sociologists.

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 Jane Addams (1860–1935), social worker, sociologist,Deegan, M. J. (1988). Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School, 1892–1918. New Brunswick, NJ, USA: Transaction Books. public philosopher and reformer
 Theodor Adorno (1903–1969) member of the Frankfurt School and author of The Authoritarian Personality

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 Emily Greene Balch, professor of sociology and Nobel Peace laureate
 Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007), sociologist and cultural theorist
 Zygmunt Bauman
 Ulrich Beck (1944–2015), sociologist
 Gary Becker, economist
 Howard S. Becker (born 1928), sociologist
 Peter L. Berger
 Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002), sociologisthttps://snl.no/Pierre_Bourdieu. Store norske leksikon. Retrieved 2023-03-15
 Judith Butler (born 1956), gender theorist

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 Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former President of Brazil
 Robert Castel
 Julieta Castellanos
 Manuel Castells, author of the Information Age trilogy in which he writes, "Our societies are increasingly structured around the bipolar opposition of the Net and the Self";Castells, The Rise of the Network Society (1996) p. 3
 Nancy Chodorow sociologist, psychoanalyst, and gender theorist
 Patricia Hill Collins
 Auguste Comte (1798–1857), founder of sociology

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 Ralf Dahrendorf (1929–2009) wrote about social inequality in Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society.Grabb, Edward G. "Theories of Social Inequality." Ontario: Harcourt Brace & Company. 1997
 W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) wrote The Souls of Black Folk and Black Reconstruction in America
 Émile Durkheim (1858–1917) formally started the academic discipline of sociology. He was one of the main organizers of modern social science, along with both Karl Marx and Max Weber.Kim, Sung Ho (2007). "Max Weber". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (24 August 2007 entry) http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/weber/ (Retrieved 17 February 2010)

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 Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) worked on technology and society and wrote Anarchy and Christianity (1991) Ellul, Jacques. The Technological Society, trans. John Wilkinson (New York: Random House, 1964), 79.

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 Frantz Fanon Black Skin, White Masks is about the oppressed Black person who is seen be lesser and must live in the world by performing White-ness.
Pim Fortuyn (1948–2002), sociologist author and politicianhttps://snl.no/Pim_Fortuyn. Snl.no. Retrieved 2023-03-31
 John Bellamy Foster made the idea of "metabolic rift" about Marx and ecology.

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 Johan Galtung (d. 2024),https://www.nettavisen.no/johan-galtung/forsker/dodsfall/fredsforsker-johan-galtung-er-dod/s/5-95-1649677. Retrieved 2024-02-17 founder of peace studies
 Patrick Geddes
 Salvador Giner
 Todd Gitlin was president of Students for a Democratic Society in 1963-64.. He wrote The Whole World Is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left, The Sixties, The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America Is Wracked with Culture Wars, Letters to a Young Activist, and The Intellectuals and the Flag.
 Erving Goffman (1922–1982), interactionistic sociologist
 Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937), Italian Marxist and social theorist

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 Jürgen Habermas (born 1929), social theorist
 Stuart Hall (1932–2014), cultural theorist
 Eszter Hargittai, sociologist
 Marta Harnecker, sociologist
 Ágnes Heller, philosopher and sociologist
 Michael D. Higgins, sociologist and current Irish president
 Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), member of the Frankfurt School who worked on critical theory."Horkheimer, Max" Dictionary of the Social Sciences. Craig Calhoun, ed. Oxford University Press 2002. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. College of the Holy Cross. 14 October 2009 Oxford profile

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 Bruno Latour sociologist of science 

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 Bronisław Malinowski (1884–1942), social anthropologist
 Karl Mannheim (1893–1947), / sociologist
 Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), / sociologist (Frankfurt School)
 Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), English writer described as 'first female sociologist'
 Karl Marx (1818–1883), political philosopher, social theorist
 Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czech sociologist
 Humberto Maturana, Chilean biologist and sociologist of knowledge
 Marcel Mauss (1872–1950), sociologist
 Ralph Miliband, sociologist
 C. Wright Mills (1916–1962), sociologist
 Edgar Morin, sociologist
 Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927–2003), sociologist, diplomat and politician
 Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987) economist, sociologist, and Swedish politician

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 Gail Omvedt (1941–2021) human rights activist who studied caste in India and worked for better lives for dalits.

P

 Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923), Italian economist and sociologist
 Talcott Parsons (1902–1979), sociologist

Q

Aníbal Quijano

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 Max Scheler, philosopher and founder of the sociology of knowledge
 Ali Shariati, sociologist of religion 
 Dorothy E. Smith, sociologist and gender theorist
 Werner Sombart (1863–1941), economist and sociologist who made the term "late capitalism."

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 Alain Touraine (born 1925), sociologist

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 Immanuel Wallerstein (1930–2019) sociologist, economic historian and world-systems analyst. His best known works helped developed the world-systems approach."Wallerstein, Immanuel (1930- )." The AZ Guide to Modern Social and Political Theorists. Ed. Noel Parker and Stuart Sim. Hertfordshire: Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1997. 372-76. Print.
 Max Weber (1864–1920) political economist and sociologist who was one of the founders of the modern study of sociology and public administration.
 Erik Olin Wright (1947–2019) In 2012, Wright was elected President of the  Sociological Association.

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References

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