List of sociologists

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

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  Vilfredo Pareto
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  Ferdinand Tönnies
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  Thorstein Veblen
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  Georg Simmel
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  Émile Durkheim
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  Max Weber

A

• Andrew Abbott, American sociologist
• Jane Addams (1860–1935), American social worker and reformer
• Theodor Adorno (1903–1969), German cultural sociologist
• Jeffrey C. Alexander, American sociologist
• Louis Althusser (1918–1990), Algerian-French philosopher and sociologist
• Nancy Ammerman, American sociologist
• Arjun Appadurai, Indian sociologist
• Margaret Archer, British sociologist
• Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), German political theorist
• Raymond Aron (1905–1983), French philosopher and sociologist
• Johan Asplund (born 1937), Swedish sociologist
• Vilhelm Aubert (1922–1988), Norwegian sociologist

B

• 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
• Gregory Bateson (1904–1980), English/American cybernetican
• Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007), French cultural theorist
• Joel Baum, Canadian sociologist and management theorist
• Zygmunt Bauman (born 1925), Polish/British sociologist
• Peter Bearman (born 1956), American sociologist
• Ulrich Beck (born 1944), German sociologist
• 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
• Henri Bergson (1859–1941), French philosopher
• Andre Beteille, Indian 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
• Phillip Bonacich, American mathematical sociologist
• Scott Boorman (born 1949), American sociologist
• Thomas Bottomore (1920–1992), British sociologist
• Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002), French sociologist
• Ronald Breiger, American 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
• Carter Butts, American sociologist

C

• Michel Callon, French sociologist
• Elias Canetti, Bulgaria-born novelist and outsider sociologist
• 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
• Francis Stuart Chapin (1888–1974), American sociologist
• Louis Chauvel (born 1967), French sociologist
• Nancy Chodorow (born 1944), American sociologist, psychoanalyst, and gender theorist
• Chua Beng Huat, Singaporean sociologist
• Dieter Claessens (1921–1997), German sociologist,
• Lars Clausen (born 1935), German sociologist
• Richard Cloward (1926–2001), American sociologist
• Philip N. Cohen, 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
• R.W. Connell (born 1944), Australian sociologist
• Auguste Comte (1798–1857), French founder of sociology
• 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
• Beverley Cuthbertson-Johnson, American clinical sociologist
• Stefan Czarnowski (1879–1937), Polish sociologist

D

• Robert Dahl (born 1915), American political scientist
• Dankwart Danckwerts (born 1933), German sociologist
• Ralf Dahrendorf (1929-2009), German-British sociologist and politician
• Alexander Deichsel (born 1935), German sociologist
• Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995), 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
• Jacqueline Donkers (born 1980), Dutch sociologist
• Patrick Doreian, Irish/American mathematical sociologist
• 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
• Mukul R. Dwivedi (born 1984), Indo/American cultural critic and sociologist

E

• Gerald L. Eberlein (born 1930), German sociologist
• Norbert Elias (1897–1990), German sociologist
• Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), German socialist philosopher
• Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt (born 1923), Isaraeli sociologist
• Hugo O. Engelmann (1917-2002), US-American sociologist
• Ronald Enroth (born 1938), US-American sociologist
• Kai T. Erikson (born 1931), US-American sociologist
• Moisés Espírito Santo (born 1934), Portuguese sociologist, ethnologist and ethnolinguist
• Hartmut Esser (born 1943), German sociologist
• Amitai Etzioni (born 1929), US-American sociologist

F

• Rick Fantasia, American sociologist
• Thomas Fararo (born 1933), American mathematical sociologist
• George Farkas, American sociologist
• Paul Fauconnet (1874–1938), French sociologist
• Katherine Faust, American sociologist and social network methodologist
• Scott Feld, American mathematical sociologist
• 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
• Jan Marie Fritz, American clinical sociologist

G

• Francis Galton (1822–1911), English statistician
• Herbert Gans (born 1927), American sociologist
• Harold Garfinkel (born 1917), American sociologist
• Anthony Giddens (born 1938), English 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
• 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
• Leo Goodman (born 1928), American social statistician
• Erving Goffman (1922–1982), Canadian interactionistic sociologist
• Mark Gottdiener, American sociologist
• 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
• Dimitrie Gusti (1880–1955), Romanian sociologist, the creator of the sociological monographic method

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
• Maureen Hallinan, American sociologist
• Donna Haraway (born 1944), American gender and technology theorist
• Chandrakala A. Hate (1903–1990), Indian sociologist, social worker, and author
• Michael Hechter, 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
• Matt L. Huffman, American sociologist
• Stephen J. Hunt, British sociologist
• Floyd Hunter (born 1912), American sociologist

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

J

• Marie Jahoda (1907–2001), Austrian sociologist
• Marie Jaisson, French sociologist
• Yong Suk Jang (born 1968), Korean sociologist
• J. Craig Jenkins, American sociologist
• Rodrigo Jokisch (born 1946), German-Mexican sociologist and social theorist
• Lewis Wade Jones (1910–1979), African/American sociologist and educator
• Danny Jorgensen, American sociologist

K

• Dirk Kaesler (born 1944), German sociologist
• Alexandr Kapto, Russian and Ukrainian scientist, sociologist, and political scientist; a diplomat, journalist, politician, and statesman.
• Elihu Katz, American sociologist
• Vytautas Kavolis, Lithuanian-American sociologist and literary critic
• Stephen A. Kent, Canadian sociologist
• Tai-Young Kim, Korean 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
• 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
• Krishan Kumar, Indian sociologist

L

• William Labov (born 1927), American sociolinguist and dialectologist
• Jacques Lacan (1901–1981), French psychoanalyst
• Ernesto Laclau, Argentinian sociologist
• 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
• Edward Laumann, American sociologist
• John Law (sociologist), British sociologist
• Paul F. Lazarsfeld (1901–1976), Austrian/American sociologist
• Gustave Le Bon (1841–1931), French social psychologist
• Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991), French Marxist philosopher
• Charles Lemert (born 1937), American sociologist
• Claude Lévi-Strauss (born 1908), 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
• Alfred R. Lindesmith (1905–1991), American sociologist of drug policy
• Seymour Martin Lipset (born 1922), American comparativist sociologist
• David Lockwood, British sociologist
• Thomas Luckmann (born 1927), German sociologist
• 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

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
• Michael Macy, US-American 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
• Charles E. Marske, US-American sociologist
• 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
• Alex Mattson (born 1964), US-American Sociologist
• Marcel Mauss (1872–1950), French sociologist
• Dale McConkey, US-American 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
• Henri Mendras (1927–2003), French sociologist, chronicler of La fin des paysans
• Stephen Mennell (born 1944), English sociologist
• Robert K. Merton (1910–2003), US-American sociologist
• Robert Michels (1876–1936), German political sociologist
• C. Wright Mills (1916–1962), US-American sociologist
• Sue Mirra, American sociologist and educator
• J. Clyde Mitchell (1918–1995), British social anthropologist
• Shinji Miyadai (born 1959), Japanese sociologist
• Brij Mohan (born 1939), Indian/US-American social scientist
• Manouchehr Mohseni [1](born 1942), Iranian sociologist and professor
• Abraham Moles (1920-1992), French sociologist, psychologist, and engineer
• James Moody, US-American mathematical sociologist
• James D. Montgomery, US-American economist and mathematical sociologist
• Gaetano Mosca (1858-1941), Italian political and social scientist
• 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

N

• 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

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
• Stanislaw Ossowski (1897–1963), Polish sociologist
• Robert Owen (1771–1858), Welsh social reformer

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
• John Porter (1921–1979), Canadian sociologist
• Nicos Poulantzas (1936–1979), Greek political sociologist
• Samuel H. Preston, American demographer and sociologist
• Jade Puget (born 1973), American musician
• Robert Putnam (born 1941), American political scientist
• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865), French socialist or anarchist philosopher
• Gil Sung Park (born 1956), Korean sociologist

Q

• Enrico Quarantelli, American sociologist
• Richard Quinney (born 1934), American sociologist

R

• Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (1881–1955), British social anthropologist
• Michael W. Raphael, Israeli-American sociologist and chess player
• Stephen Raudenbush, American sociologist and statistician
• Aviad Raz (born 1968), Israeli sociologist and anthropologist
• John Rex (born 1928), British sociologist
• George Ritzer (born 1940), American sociologist
• Terje Rød-Larsen (born 1947), Norwegian diplomat and sociologist
• Dale A. Rose (born 1972), American sociologist
• Paul Rosenfels (1909–1985), American psychologist and sociologist
• Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888–1973), German social philosopher
• Malena Rubino (born 1985), American sociologist
• Walter Garrison Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford, British sociologist

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
• Maged Salah Al-din, Egyptian sociologist
• Saskia Sassen (born 1949), American sociologist
• Peter Saunders, Australian sociologist
• Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913), Swiss linguist (structuralism)
• 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)
• 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
• Georg Simmel (1858–1918), German sociologist
• John Skvoretz, American mathematical 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
• Pitirim Sorokin (1889–1968), Russian sociologist
• Herbert Spencer (1820–1903), English philosopher
• Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), German philosopher
• Steven Spitzer, American sociologist
• M N Srinivas (1916–1999), Indian sociologist
• Arthur Stinchcombe, American sociologist
• Ross Stolzenberg, American sociologist
• John Storey, British 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
• Gerald Suttles, American urban sociologist
• Ian Svenonius, American cultural sociologist
• Jan Szczepanski (1913–2004), Polish sociologist
• Piotr Sztompka (born 1944), Polish sociologist

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
• Verta Taylor, American sociologist
• Julien Teitler, American sociologist
• W. I. Thomas (1863–1947), American social psychologist
• Charles Tilly (1929-2008), American sociologist
• 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
• France Winddance Twine (born 1960), American sociologist and ethnographer

U

• John Urry, British sociologist

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
• Richard R. Verdugo (born 1948), American sociologist
• Nildo Viana (born 1965), Brazilian sociologist and philosopher
• Satnam Virdee, Scottish/Indian sociologist

W

• Peter Wagner, German sociologist and social theorist
• Immanuel Wallerstein (born 1930), American sociologist and historian
• Lester Frank Ward (1841–1913), founder of American sociology
• R.Stephen Warner (born 1941), American sociology of religion
• Stanley Wasserman, American sociologist, psychologist, statistician
• Anita Waters (born 1953), American sociologist
• 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
• Leopold von Wiese (1876–1969), German Sociologist
• Raymond Williams (1921–1988), Welsh sociologist, novelist, and critic
• 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

Y

• Yu Xie, American sociologist and statistician

Z

• Benjamin Zablocki (born 1941), American sociologist and social psychologist
• René Zavaleta Mercado, (1935–1984), Bolivian sociologist
• Henry Zentner (died 1986), Canadian 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