List of sociologists
This is a list of sociologists.
A
- Jane Addams (1860–1935), social worker, sociologist,[1] 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[2]
- Zygmunt Bauman
- Ulrich Beck (1944–2015), sociologist
- Gary Becker, economist
- Howard S. Becker (born 1928), sociologist
- Peter L. Berger
- Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002), sociologist[3]
- 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";[4]
- 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.[5]
- 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.[6][7]
E
- Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) worked on technology and society and wrote Anarchy and Christianity (1991) [8]
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.[9][10]
- Pim Fortuyn (1948–2002), sociologist author and politician[11]
- John Bellamy Foster made the idea of "metabolic rift" about Marx and ecology.[12][13]
G
- Johan Galtung, sociologist, mathematician, and founder of peace studies
- Patrick Geddes
- Salvador Giner
- Todd Gitlin was president of Students for a Democratic Society in 1963-64..[14] 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.[15]
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[16]
N
O
- Gail Omvedt (1941–2021) human rights activist who studied caste in India and worked for better lives for dalits.[17]
P
- Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923), Italian economist and sociologist
- Talcott Parsons (1902–1979), sociologist
Q
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.[18]
- 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.[19]
Y
Z
References
- ↑ Deegan, M. J. (1988). Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School, 1892–1918. New Brunswick, NJ, USA: Transaction Books.
- ↑ Poole, Steven (2007-03-07). "Jean Baudrillard" (in en-GB). The Guardian. . https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/mar/07/guardianobituaries.france. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
- ↑ https://snl.no/Pierre_Bourdieu. Store norske leksikon. Retrieved 2023-03-15
- ↑ Castells, The Rise of the Network Society (1996) p. 3
- ↑ Grabb, Edward G. "Theories of Social Inequality." Ontario: Harcourt Brace & Company. 1997
- ↑ Calhoun (2002), p. 107
- ↑ Kim, Sung Ho (2007). "Max Weber". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (24 August 2007 entry) http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/weber/ (Retrieved 17 February 2010)
- ↑ Ellul, Jacques. The Technological Society, trans. John Wilkinson (New York: Random House, 1964), 79.
- ↑ Gordon, Lewis R.. What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (in en) (1 January 2015)Fordham University Press. p. 26. ISBN 9780823266081.
- ↑ Gordon, Lewis. What Fanon Said (2015). New York: Fordham University Press.
- ↑ https://snl.no/Pim_Fortuyn. Snl.no. Retrieved 2023-03-31
- ↑ Foster, John Bellamy. The Vulnerable Planet (1999). New York: Monthly Review Press.
- ↑ Foster, John Bellamy. Marx's Theory of Metabolic Rift. American Journal of Sociology 105 (2) (1999). p. 366–405. doi:10.1086/210315.
- ↑ Gitlin, Todd. What Was the Protest Group Students for a Democratic Society? Five Questions Answered (May 4, 2017)Smithsonian Magazine.
- ↑ "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
- ↑ Stoltz, Gerhard. Gunnar Myrdal (in no). [{Great Norwegian Encyclopedia|Store norske leksikon]] (2023-01-23). Retrieved 2023-05-06.
- ↑ Dutt, Yashica. Long Live Comrade Gail (in en-US). Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ Sociological Association. Retrieved June 15, 2012.