List of sociologists

This is a list of sociologists.

## A
* Jane Addams (1860–1935), social worker, sociologist, public philosopher and reformer
* Theodor Adorno (1903–1969) member of the Frankfurt School and author of *The Authoritarian Personality*

## B
* 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), sociologist
* Judith Butler (born 1956), gender theorist

## C
* 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";
* Nancy Chodorow sociologist, psychoanalyst, and gender theorist
* Patricia Hill Collins
* Auguste Comte (1798–1857), founder of sociology

## D
* Ralf Dahrendorf (1929–2009) wrote about social inequality in *Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society.*
* 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.

## E
* Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) worked on technology and society and wrote *Anarchy and Christianity* (1991) 

## F
* 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 politician
* John Bellamy Foster made the idea of "metabolic rift" about Marx and ecology.

## G
* Johan Galtung (d. 2024), 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

## H
* 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.

## I
## J
## K
## L
* Bruno Latour sociologist of science 

## M
* 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

## N
## O
* 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

## R
## S
* 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."

## T
* Alain Touraine (born 1925), sociologist

## U
## V
## W
* Immanuel Wallerstein (1930–2019) sociologist, economic historian and world-systems analyst. His best known works helped developed the world-systems approach.
* 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.

## Y
## Z
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## References