List of sociologists
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This article provides a list of sociologists. It is intended to cover people who have made substantive contributions to fields such as social theory, social research methods and any sub-specialization of sociology. Scientists in other fields and philosophers are not included, unless at least some of their work is defined as being specifically sociological in nature.
Contents: Top · 0–9 A 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
[edit] A
- Andrew Abbott, American sociologist
- Jane Addams (1860–1935), American social worker and reformer
- Theodor Adorno (1903–1969), German philosopher and cultural sociologist
- Francesco Alberoni, Italian sociologist
- Jeffrey C. Alexander, American sociologist
- Louis Althusser (1918–1990), Algerian-French philosopher and sociologist
- Nancy Ammerman, American sociologist
- Arjun Appadurai, Indian sociologist
- Stanley Aronowitz, American sociologist
- Margaret Archer, British sociologist
- Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), German political theorist
- Raymond Aron (1905–1983), French philosopher and sociologist
- Giovanni Arrighi, Italian sociologist
- Johan Asplund (born 1937), Swedish sociologist
- Vilhelm Aubert (1922–1988), Norwegian sociologist
[edit] B
- Sergio Bagú, Argentinian sociologist
- Robert Balch, 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
- Roger Bastide, French sociologist
- Gregory Bateson (1904–1980), English/American cybernetican
- Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007), French cultural theorist
- Zygmunt Bauman (born 1925), Polish/British sociologist
- Peter Bearman (born 1956), American sociologist
- Ulrich Beck (born 1944), German sociologist
- Gary Becker, American economist
- Howard S. Becker (born 1928), American sociologist
- Richard F. Behrendt (1908–1973), German sociologist
- Daniel Bell (born 1919), American sociologist
- Robert N. Bellah, American sociologist
- Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), German cultural writer and sociologist
- Joseph Berger, American sociologist
- Peter L. Berger (born 1929), Austro-American sociologist
- Pierre L. van den Berghe, Belgian sociologist
- Henri Bergson (1859–1941), French philosopher
- Jessie Bernard, American feminist sociologist
- Eduard Bernstein, German politician and intellectual
- Andre Beteille, Indian sociologist
- Donald Black, American sociologist
- Peter Blau (1918–2002), American sociologist
- Kathleen M. Blee (born 1953), American sociologist
- David Bloor, British sociologist
- Herbert Blumer (1900–1987), American sociologist
- Luc Boltanski, French sociologist
- Scott Boorman (born 1949), American sociologist
- Charles Booth, British social researcher
- Thomas Bottomore (1920–1992), British sociologist
- Raymond Boudon, French sociologist
- Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002), French sociologist
- John David Brewer (born 1951), British sociologist
- Carl Brinkmann (1885-1954), German sociologist
- David G. Bromley, American sociologist
- Michael Burawoy, American sociologist
- Ernest Burgess (1886–1966), Canadian sociologist
- Tom R. Burns, European-American sociologist
- Ronald Burt, American sociologist
- Judith Butler (born 1956), American gender theorist
[edit] C
- Michel Callon, French sociologist
- Elias Canetti, Bulgaria-born novelist and outsider sociologist
- Georges Canguilhem, French intellectual
- Fernando Henrique Cardoso (born 1931), Brazilian sociologist, former President of Brazil
- Kathleen Carley American computational sociologist
- Manuel Castells (born 1942), Spanish sociologist and urban planner
- Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–1997), Greek philosopher and political theorist
- Michel de Certeau, French cultural sociologist
- Janet Chafetz, feminist sociologist
- Francis Stuart Chapin (1888–1974), American sociologist
- Louis Chauvel (born 1967), French sociologist
- Eli Chinoy, Mexican sociologist
- Nancy Chodorow (born 1944), American sociologist, psychoanalyst, and gender theorist
- Chua Beng Huat, Singaporean sociologist
- Aaron Cicourel, American sociologist
- Dieter Claessens (1921–1997), German sociologist,
- Lars Clausen (born 1935), German sociologist
- Richard Cloward (1926–2001), American sociologist
- Ronald L. Cohen, American social psychologist
- Stanley Cohen, British sociologist (criminology)
- James Samuel Coleman (1926–1995), American sociologist
- Patricia Hill Collins (born 1948), American sociologist
- Randall Collins, American sociologist
- Auguste Comte (1798–1857), French founder of sociology
- Dalton Conley, American sociologist
- R.W. Connell (born 1944), Australian sociologist
- Charles Cooley (1864–1929), American sociologist
- Lewis A. Coser (1913–2003), American sociologist
- Carl J. Couch (1925-1994), American sociologist
- Douglas E. Cowan, Canadian sociologist
- Maxine Leeds Craig, American sociologist
- Stefan Czarnowski (1879–1937), Polish sociologist
[edit] D
- Robert Dahl (born 1915), American political scientist
- Dankwart Danckwerts (born 1933), German sociologist
- Ralf Dahrendorf (1929-2009), German-British sociologist and politician
- Regis Debray, French mediologist
- Alexander Deichsel (born 1935), German sociologist
- Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995), French philosopher
- Jacques Derrida, French philosopher
- Helen Dinerman (1920–1974), American public opinion researcher
- Paul DiMaggio, American cultural sociologist
- Georgi Dimitrov Dimitrov, Bulgarian sociologist
- G. William Domhoff, American sociologist
- Jose Mauricio Domingues, Brazilian social theorist
- W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), American sociologist and civil rights leader
- Mitchell Duneier, American sociologist
- Troy Duster, American sociologist
- Émile Durkheim (1858–1917), French sociologist
[edit] E
- Gerald L. Eberlein (born 1930), German sociologist
- Norbert Elias (1897–1990), German sociologist
- Jon Elster, Norwegian sociologist
- Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), German socialist philosopher
- Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt (born 1923), Israeli sociologist
- Hugo O. Engelmann (1917-2002), US-American sociologist
- Ronald Enroth (born 1938), US-American sociologist
- Kai T. Erikson (born 1931), US-American sociologist
- Gosta Esping-Andersen, Danish sociologist
- Amitai Etzioni (born 1929), US-American sociologist
[edit] F
- Enzo Faletto, Chilean sociologist
- Frantz Fanon, Martinican intellectual and sociologist
- Rick Fantasia, American sociologist
- Thomas Fararo (born 1933), American mathematical sociologist
- Paul Fauconnet (1874–1938), French sociologist
- Joe Feagin, American sociologist
- Adam Ferguson, Scottish social philosopher
- Florestan Fernandes (1920–1995), Brazilian sociologist
- Myra Marx Ferree (born 1949), American sociologists
- Gary Alan Fine (born 1950), American sociologist
- Claude Fischer (born 1947), American author of the subcultural theory of urbanism
- Fei Xiaotong (1910–2005), Chinese sociologist and anthropologist
- Pim Fortuyn (1948-2002), Dutch sociologist author and politician
- Heinz von Foerster (1911–2002), Austrian/American cybernetican
- Daniel A. Foss (born 1940), American sociologist
- John Bellamy Foster, 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
- Celso Furtado, Brazilian economist
[edit] G
- Francis Galton (1822–1911), English statistician
- Johan Galtung, Norwegian sociologist
- Herbert Gans (born 1927), American sociologist
- Harold Garfinkel (born 1917), American sociologist
- Marcel Gauchet, French sociologist
- Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist
- Gino Germani, Argentinian sociologist
- Anthony Giddens (born 1938), English sociologist
- Todd Gitlin, American 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), Czech-British philosopher and social anthropologist
- Barney Glaser, American sociologist
- 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
- Erving Goffman (1922–1982), Canadian interactionistic sociologist
- Pablo González Casanova, Mexican sociologist
- Alvin Gouldner, American sociologist
- Ziya Gökalp, (1876 -1924), Turkish Sociologist, Writer, Poet and Political Activist
- Isacque Graeber (1905–1984), Sociologist and Jewish Historian
- Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937), Italian Marxist and social theorist
- Richard Grathoff (born 1934), German sociologist and phenomenologist
- Mark Granovetter, American sociologist
- Andrew M. Greeley, American sociologist, priest, writer
- Liah Greenfeld (born 1951), Russian/American sociologist
- Leonid Grinin (born 1958), Russian sociologist
- Ludwig Gumplovicz (1838–1909), Polish sociologist, one of the founders of European sociology
- Georges Gurvitch, Russian-French sociologist
- Dimitrie Gusti (1880–1955), Romanian sociologist, the creator of the sociological monographic method
[edit] H
- Jürgen Habermas (born 1929), German social theorist
- Jeffrey K. Hadden (1937–2003), American sociologist
- Maurice Halbwachs (1877–1945), French philosopher and sociologist
- Stuart Hall (born 1932), British cultural theorist
- Donna Haraway (born 1944), American gender and technology theorist
- Chandrakala A. Hate (1903–1990), Indian sociologist, social worker, and author
- Peter Hedström, Swedish sociologist
- Agnes Heller, Hungarian philosopher and sociologist
- Paul Hirst, British sociologist
- Thomas Hobbes, British philosopher
- Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, pioneer British sociologist
- Arlie Russell Hochschild, 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), American behavioural sociologist
- Axel Honneth (born 1949), German social theorist
- Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), German social theorist
- Everett Hughes, American sociologist
- Stephen J. Hunt, British sociologist
[edit] 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
- Harold Innis, Canadian sociologist who developed staples theory
[edit] J
- Marie Jahoda (1907–2001), Austrian sociologist
- Marie Jaisson, French sociologist
- Fredric Jameson, American philosopher and social theorist
- Yong Suk Jang (born 1968), Korean sociologist
- Hans Joas, German social theorist
- Rodrigo Jokisch (born 1946), German-Mexican sociologist and social theorist
- Lewis Wade Jones (1910–1979), African/American sociologist and educator
- Danny Jorgensen, American sociologist
- Paul Jorion, Belgian American sociologist and cognitive scientist
[edit] K
- Dirk Kaesler (born 1944), German sociologist
- Rand L. Kannenberg (born 1960), American clinical sociologist
- Alexandr Kapto, Russian and Ukrainian scientist, sociologist, and political scientist; a diplomat, journalist, politician, and statesman.
- Elihu Katz, American sociologist
- Karl Kautsky, Russian Marxist theorist
- Vytautas Kavolis, Lithuanian-American sociologist and literary critic
- Stephen A. Kent, Canadian sociologist
- Tai-Young Kim, Korean sociologist
- Baruch Kimmerling, Israeli 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
- Siegfried Kracauer, German sociologist
- Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French feminist sociologist
- Alfred L. Kroeber (1876–1960), American anthropologist
- Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), Russian anarchist thinker
- Thomas S. Kuhn (1922–1996), American science theorist
- Eugene M. Kulischer (1891-1956) Russian American sociologist
[edit] L
- William Labov (born 1927), American sociolinguist and dialectologist
- Jacques Lacan (1901–1981), French psychoanalyst
- Ernesto Laclau, Argentinian sociologist
- Bernard Lahire, French sociologist
- Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher
- Janja Lalich (born 1945), American sociologist
- David C. Lane (born 1956), American sociologist
- Ralph Larkin, American sociologist
- Scott Lash, American sociologist
- Bruno Latour (born 1947), French sociologist of science
- John Law (sociologist), British sociologist
- Paul F. Lazarsfeld (1901–1976), Austrian/American sociologist
- Gustave Le Bon (1841–1931), French social psychologist
- Frederic Le Play, early French sociologist
- Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991), French Marxist philosopher
- Charles Lemert (born 1937), American sociologist
- Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary and intellectual
- Gerhard Lenski, American evolutionary sociologist
- Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009), 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
- Kurt Lewin, German social psychologist
- Alfred R. Lindesmith (1905–1991), American sociologist of drug policy
- Gustavo Lins Ribeiro, Brazilian anthropologist
- Gilles Lipovetsky, French philosopher
- Seymour Martin Lipset (born 1922), American comparativist sociologist
- David Lockwood, British sociologist
- John Locke, English philosopher
- Thomas Luckmann (born 1927), German sociologist
- György Lukács, German philosopher
- Steven Lukes, British social theorist
- Niklas Luhmann (1927–1998), German sociologist (systems theory)
- George Lundberg (1895–1966), American sociologist (Scientific)
- Rosa Luxemburg (1870–1919), German socialist theoretician
- Robert Staughton Lynd (1892–1970), American sociologist
- Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998), French philosopher
[edit] M
- Henry Maine (1822–1888), British jurist and legal historian
- Carl R May (born 1961), British medical sociologist
- Robert Morrison MacIver (1882–1970), Scottish/US-American sociologist.
- Bronislaw Malinowski (1884–1942), Polish social anthropologist
- Thomas Malthus (1766–1834), English demographer
- Richard Machalek (born 1946), US-American sociologist and sociobiologist
- Michel Maffesoli, French sociologist
- Michael Mann (born 1942), British/US-American sociologist
- Karl Mannheim (1893–1947), Hungarian/German sociologist
- Peter K. Manning (born 1940), US-American sociologist
- Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), German/US-American sociologist (Frankfurt School)
- Wladyslaw Markiewicz (born 1920), Polish sociologist
- Alfred Marshall, English economist
- 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
- Marcel Mauss (1872–1950), French sociologist
- Robert McKenzie (1917–1981), Canadian Politics professor and psephologist
- Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980), Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar
- George Herbert Mead (1863–1931), American philosopher and social psychologist
- Margaret Mead (1901–1978), US-American cultural anthropologist
- Stephen Mennell (born 1944), English sociologist
- Robert K. Merton (1910–2003), US-American sociologist
- John W. Meyer, US-American sociologist
- Robert Michels (1876–1936), German political sociologist
- C. Wright Mills (1916–1962), US-American sociologist
- J. Clyde Mitchell (1918–1995), British social anthropologist
- Shinji Miyadai (born 1959), Japanese sociologist
- Abraham Moles (1920-1992), French sociologist, psychologist, and engineer
- Montesquieu, French philosopher
- James D. Montgomery, US-American economist and mathematical sociologist
- James Moody, US-American mathematical sociologist
- Barrington Moore, Jr., American political sociologist
- Edgar Morin, French sociologist
- Gaetano Mosca (1858-1941), Italian political and social scientist
- Serge Moscovici, French psychologist and major influence in the study of social representations and social movements
- Chantal Mouffe, Belgian post-Marxist theorist
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003), US-American sociologist, diplomat and politician
- Peter A. Munch (1908–1984), Norwegian/US-American sociologist
- Charles Murray (born 1943), US-American sociologist
[edit] N
- Antonio Negri, Italian political philosopher and critic of Luhmann
- 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), Austrian-British sociologist
- Peter Neville (died 2002), British further education lecturer and sociologist
- Robert Nisbet (1913–1996), American sociologist
- Helga Nowotny (born 1937), Austrian sociologist
[edit] O
- Norman H. Nie (born 1943), Inventor of SPSS
- William F. Ogburn (1886–1959), American sociologist
- Claus Offe (born 1940), German sociologist
- Lloyd Ohlin, American sociologist
- Gail Omvedt (born 1941), American/Indian sociologist
- Franz Oppenheimer (1864–1943), German sociologist and political economist
- José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher
- Stanislaw Ossowski (1897–1963), Polish sociologist
- William Outhwaite, British social theorist
- Robert Owen (1771–1858), Welsh social reformer
[edit] P
- Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923), Italian economist and sociologist
- Robert E. Park (1864–1944), American sociologist
- Talcott Parsons (1902–1979), American sociologist
- Karl Pearson (1857–1936), English statistician
- Jean Piaget (1896–1980), Swiss developmental psychologist
- Trevor Pinch, British sociologist
- Joel M. Podolny, American sociologist
- Karl Polanyi, Polish economist
- Karl Popper, Austrian philosopher
- John Porter (1921–1979), Canadian sociologist
- Nicos Poulantzas (1936–1979), Greek political sociologist
- Samuel H. Preston, American demographer and sociologist
- Ilya Prigogine, Belgian chemist, main contribution to sociology is dissipative structures theory
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865), French utopian socialist thinker
- Jade Puget (born 1973), American musician
- Robert Putnam (born 1941), American political scientist
- Gil Sung Park (born 1956), Korean sociologist
[edit] Q
- Enrico Quarantelli, American sociologist
- Richard Quinney (born 1934), American sociologist
[edit] R
- Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (1881–1955), British social anthropologist
- Charles C. Ragin, American sociologist
- Stephen Raudenbush, American sociologist and statistician
- Aviad Raz (born 1968), Israeli sociologist and anthropologist
- John Rex (born 1928), British sociologist
- Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher
- Sam Richards, American sociologist
- George Ritzer (born 1940), American sociologist
- Terje Rød-Larsen (born 1947), Norwegian diplomat and sociologist
- Paul Rosenfels (1909–1985), American psychologist and sociologist
- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888–1973), German social philosopher
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher
- W. G. Runciman, British sociologist
[edit] S
- Harvey Sacks (died 1975), American sociologist and ethnomethodologist
- Renaud Sainsaulieu (1936-2002), French sociologist concerned with the sociology of organizations
- Henri de Saint-Simon (1760–1825), French philosopher and social thinker
- Theotonio dos Santos, Brazilian sociologist and economist
- Giovanni Sartori, Italian political scientist
- Saskia Sassen (born 1949), American sociologist
- Peter Saunders, Australian sociologist
- Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913), Swiss linguist (structuralism)
- Max Scheler, German philosopher and founder of the sociology of knowledge
- Helmut Schelsky (1912–1984), German sociologist
- Kurt C. Schlichting, American sociologist.
- Paul Schnabel, Dutch sociologist
- Allan Schnaiberg (1939-2009), American environmental sociologist
- Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950), Austrian economist
- Alfred Schütz (1899–1959), Austrian philosopher and sociologist (phenomenology)
- Michael Schwartz (born 19--), American sociologist
- Amartya Sen, Indian economist influential in the sociology of development
- Richard Sennett (born 1943), American sociologist and public figure
- Steven Shapin, American sociologist
- Ali Shariati (1933–1977), Iranian sociologist and writer
- Anson Shupe, American sociologist
- Volkmar Sigusch, German sociologist and sexuologe
- Charles E. Silberman, American criminologist
- François Simiand, French sociologist
- Georg Simmel (1858–1918), German sociologist and philosopher
- Herbert Simon, American social scientist
- Leslie Sklair, British sociologist
- Albion Woodbury Small (1854–1926), American sociologist
- Neil Smelser, American sociologist
- Adam Smith (1723–1790), Scottish economist and philosopher
- Christian Smith (born 1960), American sociologist of religion
- Dorothy E. Smith (born 1926), British/American sociologist and gender theorist
- Werner Sombart (1863–1941), German economist and sociologist
- Georges Sorel, French philosopher
- Pitirim Sorokin (1889–1968), Russian sociologist
- Herbert Spencer (1820–1903), English philosopher
- Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), German philosopher
- M N Srinivas (1916–1999), Indian sociologist
- Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Mexican anthropologist and sociologist
- Arthur Stinchcombe, American sociologist
- Anselm L. Strauss (1916–1996), American sociologist
- William Graham Sumner (1840–1910), American advocate of Social Darwinism
- Eilert Sundt (1817–1875), Norwegian sociologist
- Edwin Sutherland (1893–1950), American criminologist
- Ian Svenonius, American cultural sociologist
- Richard Swedberg, Swedish sociologist
- Jan Szczepanski (1913–2004), Polish sociologist
- Piotr Sztompka (born 1944), Polish sociologist
[edit] T
- Gabriel Tarde (1843–1904), French sociologist and social psychologist
- Sidney Tarrow, American sociologist
- Ian Taylor (1944–2001), English sociologist and criminologist
- Laurie Taylor (born 1936), English sociologist and broadcaster
- W. I. Thomas (1863–1947), American social psychologist
- E. P. Thompson (1924-1993), British socialist historian
- John Thompson, British sociologist of culture and media
- Charles Tilly (1929-2008), American sociologist
- Edward Tiryakian, American sociologist[1][2]
- Valery Tishkov (born 1941), Russian ethnologist and sociologist
- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859), French essayist and political analyst
- Ferdinand Tönnies (1855–1936), German philosopher and founder of German sociology
- Alain Touraine (born 1925), French sociologist
- Peter Townsend, British sociologist of poverty
- Bryan S. Turner
- Jonathan H. Turner, American social theorist
- Victor Turner, British anthropologist
- France Winddance Twine (born 1960), American sociologist and ethnographer
- Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist
[edit] U
- John Urry, British sociologist
[edit] V
- Francisco Varela (1946–2001), Chilean biologist and philosopher
- Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), American sociologist and economist
- Calvin Veltman (born 1941), Canadian sociologist, demographer and sociolinguist
- Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, American sociologist
[edit] W
- Loic Wacquant, French sociologist
- Peter Wagner, German sociologist and social theorist
- Immanuel Wallerstein (born 1930), American sociologist and historian
- Lester Frank Ward (1841–1913), founder of American sociology
- Duncan Watts, 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), Canadian/American sociologist
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931), American sociologist, journalist, social worker
- John Westergaard (born 1927), British sociologist
- Edvard Westermarck (1862–1939), Finnish sociologist and philosopher
- Douglas R. White (born 1942), American mathematical sociologist and anthropologist.
- Harrison White, American sociologist
- William H. Whyte (1917–1999), American sociologist, journalist and peoplewatcher
- Michel Wieviorka (born 1946), French sociologist
- Raymond Williams (1921–1988), Welsh sociologist, novelist, and critic
- John B. Williamson (born 1943), American sociologist
- William Julius Wilson (born 1935), American sociologist
- Howard Winant, American sociologist
- Christopher Winship, American sociologist
- Louis Wirth (1897–1952), German/American sociologist
- Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski (born 1944), Polish sociologist
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), British social reformer
- Steve Woolgar, British sociologist
- Monroe Work (1866–1945), American sociologist
- Erik Olin Wright, American sociologist
[edit] X, Y
- Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist.
[edit] Z
- Benjamin Zablocki (born 1941), American sociologist and social psychologist
- René Zavaleta Mercado, (1935–1984), Bolivian sociologist
- Hugo Zemelman, Chilean sociologist
- Eviatar Zerubavel, American cognitive sociologist
- Jean Ziegler (born 1934), Swiss sociologist
- Slavoj Žižek (born 1949), Slovenian sociologist and philosopher
- Florian Znaniecki (1882–1958), Polish/American sociologist
- Irving Zola, American medical sociologist and disability rights activist
- Tukufu Zuberi, American sociologist
- Sharon Zukin, American sociologist
