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in one or more areas of sociology.

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* Peter Abell, British sociologist * Andrew Abbott, American sociologist * Margaret Abraham, Indian-American sociologist * Mark Abrams (1906–1994), British sociologist, political scientist and pollster * Janet Abu-Lughod (1928–2013), American sociologist * Jane Addams (1860–1935), American social worker, sociologist, public philosopher and reformer *

Theodor Adorno Theodor is a masculine given name. It is a German form of Theodore. It is also a variant of Teodor. List of people with the given name Theodor * Theodor Adorno, (1903–1969), German philosopher * Theodor Aman, Romanian painter * Theodor Blue ...

(1903–1969), German philosopher and cultural sociologist * Richard Alba (1942–2025), American sociologist * Francesco Alberoni, Italian sociologist * Martin Albrow, British sociologist * Jeffrey C. Alexander, American sociologist * David Altheide, American sociologist * Louis Althusser, French philosopher and sociologist * Edwin Amenta, American sociologist * Nancy Ammerman, American sociologist * Elijah Anderson, American sociologist * Eric Anderson, American-British sociologist * Kevin B. Anderson, American sociologist * Stanislav Andreski, Polish-British sociologist * Robert Cooley Angell, American sociologist * Aaron Antonovsky, Israeli sociologist * Arjun Appadurai, Indian sociologist * Andrew Arato, Hungarian-American sociologist * Margaret Archer, British sociologist * Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), German political theorist * Alcira Argumedo (1940–2021), Argentine sociologist * Aristoteles (384-322 BCE), Ancient Greek philosopher and sociologist * Signe Arnfred, Danish sociologist * Raymond Aron (1905–1983), French philosopher and sociologist * Stanley Aronowitz, American sociologist * Giovanni Arrighi, Italian sociologist * Johan Asplund (1937–2018), Swedish sociologist * Vilhelm Aubert (1922–1988), Norwegian sociologist * Francisco Ayala, Spanish sociologist and novelist

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* Élisabeth Badinter (born 1944), French philosopher and historian * Patrick Baert, British sociologist * Sergio Bagú, Argentinian sociologist * Kenneth D. Bailey, American sociologist * Georges Balandier, French sociologist * Emily Greene Balch, American professor of sociology and Nobel Peace laureate * Robert Balch, American sociologist * E. Digby Baltzell, American sociologist * Jack Barbalet, Australian sociologist * Teresita de Barbieri, Uruguayan-born Mexican feminist sociologist *

Eileen Barker Eileen Vartan Barker (born 21 April 1938, in Edinburgh, UK) is a professor in sociology, an emeritus member of the London School of Economics (LSE), and a consultant to that institution's Centre for the Study of Human Rights. She is the chairp ...

(born 1938), British sociologist and professor * Barry Barnes, British sociologist * Liberty Barnes, American sociologist *

Roland Barthes Roland Gérard Barthes (; ; 12 November 1915 – 25 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popu ...

(1915–1980), French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician * Robert Bartholomew (born 1958), American medical sociologist living in New Zealand * Roger Bartra, Mexican sociologist * Roger Bastide, French sociologist *

Georges Bataille Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille (; ; 10 September 1897 – 8 July 1962) was a French philosopher and intellectual working in philosophy, literature, sociology, anthropology, and history of art. His writing, which included essays, novels, ...

, French philosopher and sociologist * Gregory Bateson (1904–1980), English/American cybernetician * Jean Baubérot (born 1941), French historian and sociologist * Christian Baudelot, French sociologist *

Jean Baudrillard Jean Baudrillard (, ; ; – 6 March 2007) was a French sociology, sociologist and philosopher with an interest in cultural studies. He is best known for his analyses of media, contemporary culture, and technological communication, as well as hi ...

(1929–2007), French cultural theorist *

Zygmunt Bauman Zygmunt Bauman (; ; 19 November 1925 – 9 January 2017) was a Polish–British sociologist and philosopher. He was driven out of the Polish People's Republic during the 1968 Polish political crisis and forced to give up his Polish citizenship. ...

(1925–2017), Polish/British sociologist * Frank Bean, American sociologist * Peter Bearman (born 1956), American sociologist * Ulrich Beck (1944–2015), German sociologist * Gary Becker, American economist * Howard P. Becker, American sociologist * Howard S. Becker (1928–2023), American sociologist * Jens Beckert, German sociologist * Richard F. Behrendt (1908–1973), German sociologist * Daniel Bell (1919–2011), American sociologist * Wendell Bell, American sociologist * Robert N. Bellah, American sociologist * Walden Bello, Filipino sociologist * Edvard Beneš, Czechoslovak sociologist and politician * Reinhard Bendix, German-American sociologist *

Walter Benjamin Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin ( ; ; 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German-Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist. An eclectic thinker who combined elements of German idealism, Jewish mysticism, Western M ...

(1892–1940), German cultural writer and sociologist * Albert Benschop (1949–2018), Dutch sociologist * Joseph Berger, American sociologist * Peter L. Berger (1929–2017), Austro-American sociologist * Solveig Bergman (born 1955), Finnish sociologist active in gender studies * Pierre L. van den Berghe, Belgian sociologist * Henri Bergson (1859–1941), French philosopher *

Jessie Bernard Jessie Shirley Bernard (born Jessie Sarah Ravitch, 1903 – 1996) was an American sociologist and noted feminist scholar. She was a persistent forerunner of feminist thought in American sociology and her life's work is characterized as extraordi ...

, American feminist sociologist *

Eduard Bernstein Eduard Bernstein (; 6 January 1850 – 18 December 1932) was a German Marxist theorist and politician. A prominent member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), he has been both condemned and praised as a "Revisionism (Marxism), revisi ...

, German politician and intellectual * Jean-Michel Berthelot, French sociologist * Joel Best, America sociologist * Andre Beteille, Indian sociologist * Gurminder K. Bhambra, British sociologist * Krishna Bhattachan, Nepalese sociologist *

Robert Bierstedt Robert Bierstedt (1913–1998) was an American sociologist who wrote about sociological theory, culture, and constitutional law. He was from Burlington, Iowa, and graduated in philosophy from the University of Iowa in 1934. He received a master's ...

, American sociologist * Norman Birnbaum, American sociologist * Margunn Bjørnholt (born 1958), Norwegian sociologist and economist * Donald Black, American sociologist * Peter Blau (1918–2002), American sociologist * Kathleen M. Blee (born 1953), American sociologist * Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg (1929–2025), German sociologist, ethnologist, and sexologist * Danielle Bleitrach (born 1938), French sociologist and journalist * Fred L. Block, American sociologist * David Bloor, British sociologist * Herbert Blumer (1900–1987), American sociologist * Olivier Bobineau (born 1972), French sociologist * Sophie Body-Gendrot (1942–2018), French sociologist * Luc Boltanski, French sociologist * Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, American sociologist * Scott Boorman (born 1949), American sociologist * Charles Booth, British social researcher * Ernst Borinski (1901–1983), German sociologist * Atilio Borón, Argentinian sociologist * Thomas Bottomore (1920–1992), British sociologist * Raymond Boudon, French sociologist *

Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Bourdieu (, ; ; ; 1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influ ...

(1930–2002), French sociologist * Victor Branford (1863–1930), British sociologist * Ronald Breiger, American sociologist * John David Brewer (born 1951), British sociologist * Carl Brinkmann (1885–1954), German sociologist * David G. Bromley, American sociologist * Rogers Brubaker, American sociologist * Hauke Brunkhorst, German sociologist * José Joaquín Brunner, Chilean sociologist * Hans Henrik Reventlow Bruun, Danish sociologist * Lois Bryson, Australian sociologist * Walter F. Buckley, American sociologist * Michael Burawoy, American sociologist * Ernest Burgess (1886–1966), Canadian sociologist * Tom R. Burns, European-American sociologist * Ronald Burt, American sociologist *

Judith Butler Judith Pamela Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American feminist philosopher and gender studies scholar whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave feminism, queer theory, and literary theory. In ...

(born 1956), American gender theorist

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* Alain Caillé, French sociologist *

Roger Caillois Roger Caillois (; 3 March 1913 – 21 December 1978) was a French intellectual and prolific writer whose original work brought together literary criticism, sociology, poetry, ludology and philosophy by focusing on very diverse subjects such as ...

, French sociologist * Craig Calhoun, American sociologist * Michel Callon, French sociologist * Charles Camic, American sociologist *

Elias Canetti Elias Canetti (; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994; ; ) was a German-language writer, known as a Literary modernism, modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and nonfiction writer. Born in Ruse, Bulgaria, to a Sephardi Jews, Sephardic Jewish fam ...

, Bulgaria-born novelist and outsider sociologist *

Georges Canguilhem Georges Canguilhem (; ; 4 June 1904 – 11 September 1995) was a French philosopher and physician who specialized in epistemology and the philosophy of science (in particular, philosophy of biology, biology). Life and work Canguilhem entered t ...

, French intellectual * Fernando Henrique Cardoso (born 1931), Brazilian sociologist, former President of Brazil * Gabriel Careaga Medina, Mexican sociologist * Kathleen Carley, American computational sociologist * Antonio Caso, Mexican sociologist * Robert Castel, French sociologist * Julieta Castellanos (born 1952), Honduran sociologist * Manuel Castells (born 1942), Spanish sociologist and urban planner * Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–1997), Greek philosopher and political theorist * Santiago Castro-Gómez, Colombian philosopher and sociologist * Michel de Certeau, French cultural sociologist * Karen A. Cerulo, American sociologist * Francis Stuart Chapin (1888–1974), American sociologist * Christopher Chase-Dunn, American sociologist * Louis Chauvel (born 1967), French sociologist * Albert Chavannes, American sociologist * Andrew Cherlin, American sociologist * Nancy Chodorow (born 1944), American sociologist, psychoanalyst, and gender theorist * Nicholas A. Christakis, American sociologist * Ann-Dorte Christensen, Danish sociologist * Chua Beng Huat, Singaporean sociologist * Aaron Cicourel, American sociologist * Dieter Claessens (1921–1997), German sociologist * Adele Clarke (1945–2024), American sociologist * Simon Clarke, British sociologist * Lars Clausen (1935–2010), German sociologist * Marshall B. Clinard (1911–2010), American sociologist (criminology) * Clifford Clogg, American sociologist * Richard Cloward (1926–2001), American sociologist * Ansley J. Coale, American demographer and sociologist * Philip N. Cohen, American sociologist * Ronald L. Cohen, American social psychologist * Stanley Cohen, British sociologist (criminology) * James Samuel Coleman (1926–1995), American sociologist *

Harry Collins Harry Collins, FLSW (born 13 June 1943), is a British sociologist of science at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Wales. In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. In 2013, he was elected a Fellow of the Learne ...

, British sociologist * Patricia Hill Collins (born 1948), American sociologist * Randall Collins, American sociologist *

Auguste Comte Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (; ; 19 January 1798 – 5 September 1857) was a French philosopher, mathematician and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the ...

(1798–1857), French founder of sociology * Nicolas de Condorcet, French mathematician and early sociologist * Dalton Conley, American sociologist * R.W. Connell (born 1944), Australian sociologist * Paul Connerton, British sociologist * Karen Cook, American sociologist * Charles Cooley (1864–1929), American sociologist * Anna Julia Cooper, American sociologist * Lewis A. Coser (1913–2003), American sociologist * Carl J. Couch (1925–1994), American sociologist * Douglas E. Cowan, Canadian sociologist * Oliver Cox, Trinidadian-American sociologist * Maxine Leeds Craig, American sociologist * Rosemary Crompton, British sociologist * Colin Crouch, British sociologist * Michel Crozier, French sociologist * Agustin Cueva, Ecuadorian sociologist * Stefan Czarnowski (1879–1937), Polish sociologist

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* Robert Dahl (1915–2014), American political scientist * Ralf Dahrendorf (1929–2009), German-British sociologist and politician * Dankwart Danckwerts (1933–2012), German sociologist * Randy David, Filipino sociologist * Leonore Davidoff (1932–2014), American-British sociologist and historian * Kingsley Davis (1908–1997), American sociologist * Georges Davy (1883–1976), French sociologist * François de Singly, French sociologist * Régis Debray, French mediologist * Alexander Deichsel (born 1935), German sociologist * Christine Delphy (born 1941), French sociologist, feminist, and theorist *

Gilles Deleuze Gilles Louis René Deleuze (18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes o ...

(1925–1995), French philosopher * Donatella della Porta, Italian sociologist and political scientist * Christine Delphy, French sociologist * Bogdan Denitch (1929–2016), American sociologist * Norman K. Denzin, American sociologist * Régis Dericquebourg (born 1947), French sociologist of religions * Jacques Derrida (1930–2004), French philosopher * Matthew Desmond, American sociologist * Heinz Dieterich, German-Mexican sociologist * Bulent Diken, Danish sociologist * Wilhelm Dilthey (1833–1911), German historian, psychologist and sociologist * Helen Dinerman (1920–1974), American public opinion researcher * Gail Dines, British-American sociologist * Paul DiMaggio, American cultural sociologist * Georgi Dimitrov Dimitrov, Bulgarian sociologist * Thomas A. DiPrete, American sociologist * Stuart C. Dodd (1900–1975), American sociologist * G. William Domhoff, American sociologist * Orna Donath, Israeli sociologist * Pierpaolo Donati, Italian sociologist * Ronald P. Dore, British sociologist * Theotônio dos Santos, Brazilian sociologist * Mary Douglas (1921–2007), British anthropologist and sociologist of perception *

Tommy Douglas Thomas Clement Douglas (20 October 1904 – 24 February 1986) was a Scottish-born Canadian politician who served as the seventh premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961 and leader of the New Democratic Party from 1961 to 1971. A Bap ...

(1904–1986), Canadian politician * W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), American sociologist and civil rights leader * Denis Duclos, French sociologist * Otis Dudley Duncan (1921–2004), American sociologist * Mitchell Duneier, American sociologist * Eric Dunning (1936–2019), British sociologist *

Émile Durkheim David Émile Durkheim (; or ; 15 April 1858 – 15 November 1917) was a French Sociology, sociologist. Durkheim formally established the academic discipline of sociology and is commonly cited as one of the principal architects of modern soci ...

(1858–1917), French sociologist * Troy Duster, American sociologist * Maurice Duverger (1917–2014), French sociologist * Jean Duvignaud (1921–2007), French sociologist

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* Gerald L. Eberlein (1930–2010), German sociologist * Alain Ehrenberg, French sociologist * Eugen Ehrlich, German sociologist * Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt (1923–2010), Israeli sociologist * Riane Eisler (born 1931), cultural historian, systems scientist, educator, and attorney * Glen Elder, American sociologist *

Norbert Elias Norbert Elias (; 22 June 1897 – 1 August 1990) was a German-Jewish sociologist who later became a British citizen. He is especially famous for his theory of civilizing/decivilizing processes. Life and career Elias was born on 22 June 1 ...

(1897–1990), German sociologist * Jacques Ellul (1912-1994), French sociologist * Jon Elster, Norwegian sociologist * Mustafa Emirbayer, American sociologist * Hugo O. Engelmann (1917–2002), American sociologist *

Friedrich Engels Friedrich Engels ( ;"Engels"
''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''.Paula England, American sociologist * Ronald Enroth (born 1938), American sociologist * Kai T. Erikson (born 1931), American sociologist * Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo, Mexican sociologist * Gosta Esping-Andersen, Danish sociologist * Roger Establet, French sociologist * Amitai Etzioni (born 1929), American sociologist * Peter B. Evans, American sociologist

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* Orlando Fals Borda (1925–2008), Colombian sociologist * Frantz Fanon, Martinican intellectual and sociologist * Rick Fantasia, American sociologist * Thomas Fararo (1933–2020), American mathematical sociologist * Sara R. Farris, Italian sociologist of feminism and migration * Didier Fassin, French sociologist * Paul Fauconnet (1874–1938), French sociologist * Joe Feagin, American sociologist * Mike Featherstone, British sociologist * Fei Xiaotong (1910–2005), Chinese sociologist and anthropologist * Anuška Ferligoj, Slovenian mathematical sociologist * Florestan Fernandes (1920–1995), Brazilian sociologist * Myra Marx Ferree (born 1949), American sociologist * Enrico Ferri, Italian sociologist and criminologist * Mileva Filipović (1938-2020), Montenegrin sociologist and gender studies pioneer * Gary Alan Fine (born 1950), American sociologist * Claude Fischer (born 1948), American author of the subcultural theory of urbanism * George Fitzhugh (1806–1881), American social theorist * Crystal Marie Fleming (born 1981), American sociologist and author * Peter Flora, Austrian sociologist * Heinz von Foerster (1911–2002), Austrian/American cybernetician *

Pim Fortuyn Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn (; 19 February 1948 – 6 May 2002), was a Dutch politician, author, civil servant, businessman, sociologist and academic who founded the party Pim Fortuyn List (Lijst Pim Fortuyn or LPF) in ...

(1948–2002), Dutch sociologist author and politician * Daniel A. Foss (1940–2014), American sociologist *

John Bellamy Foster John Bellamy Foster (born August 19, 1953) is an American professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and editor of the ''Monthly Review''. He writes about political economy of capitalism and economic crisis, ecology and ecological crisis, ...

, American sociologist and journalist *

Michel Foucault Paul-Michel Foucault ( , ; ; 15 October 192625 June 1984) was a French History of ideas, historian of ideas and Philosophy, philosopher who was also an author, Literary criticism, literary critic, Activism, political activist, and teacher. Fo ...

(1926–1984), French philosopher * Alfred Jules Émile Fouillée, French philosopher and sociologist * Charles Fourier (1772–1837), French proto-sociologist * Renée Fox, American sociologist * Frances Fox Piven, American sociologist * Andre Gunder Frank (1929–2005), German economic historian and sociologist * Mary Frank Fox, American sociologist * Nancy Fraser, American social theorist * Hans Freyer (1887–1969), German sociologist and philosopher *

Gilberto Freyre Gilberto de Mello Freyre (March 15, 1900 – July 18, 1987) was a Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman born in Recife. Considered one of the most important sociologists of the 20th cen ...

(1900–1987), Brazilian sociologist * Erhard Friedberg, Austrian sociologist * Georges Friedmann, French sociologist * Steve Fuller, American sociologist * Frank Furstenberg, American sociologist * Celso Furtado (1920–2004), Brazilian economist

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* Luciano Gallino, Italian sociologist *

Francis Galton Sir Francis Galton (; 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911) was an English polymath and the originator of eugenics during the Victorian era; his ideas later became the basis of behavioural genetics. Galton produced over 340 papers and b ...

(1822–1911), English statistician * Johan Galtung, Norwegian sociologist, mathematician, and founder of peace studies * Diego Gambetta, Italian sociologist * Herbert J. Gans (1927–2025), American sociologist * Néstor García Canclini, Argentinian-Mexican sociologist * Brígida García Guzmán, Dominican-Mexican sociologist * Delphine Gardey (born 1967), French sociologist * Harold Garfinkel (1917–2011), American sociologist * David W Garland, British sociologist * Manuel Antonio Garretón, Chilean sociologist * Romeo B. Garrett, American sociologist * Marcel Gauchet, French sociologist * John Gaventa, American-British sociologist * Patrick Geddes, Scottish sociologist *

Clifford Geertz Clifford James Geertz (; August 23, 1926 – October 30, 2006) was an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology and who was considered "for three decades&n ...

, American anthropologist * Arnold Gehlen (1904–1976), German philosopher and sociologist * Theodor Geiger (1891–1952), German sociologist * Ernest Gellner (1925–1995), Czech-British philosopher and social anthropologist * Uta Gerhardt, German sociologist * Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1893–1983), Indian sociologist * Anthony Giddens (born 1938), English sociologist * Franklin Henry Giddings, American sociologist * Nigel Gilbert, British sociologist * Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American sociologist * Paul Gilroy, British sociologist * Salvador Giner, Spanish sociologist * Corrado Gini (1884–1965), Italian statistician * Morris Ginsberg, British sociologist * Herbert Gintis, American behavioral scientist * Henry Giroux, American sociologist of education * Todd Gitlin, American sociologist * Barney Glaser, American sociologist * David Glass (1911–1978), British sociologist * Barry Glassner (born 1952), American sociologist * Nathan Glazer, American sociologist * Max Gluckman (1911–1975), South African/English social anthropologist * Erving Goffman (1922–1982), Canadian interactionistic sociologist * Steven J. Gold (born 1955), American sociologist *

Lucien Goldmann Lucien Goldmann (; 20 July 1913 – 8 October 1970) was a French philosopher and sociologist of Jewish-Romanian origin. A professor at the EHESS in Paris, he was a Marxist theorist. His wife was sociologist Annie Goldmann. Biography Goldmann w ...

, Romanian/French sociologist * Jack Goldstone, American sociologist * John H. Goldthorpe (born 1935), British sociologist * Yasunosuke Gonda, Japanese sociologist * Pablo González Casanova, Mexican sociologist * Jeff Goodwin, American 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 Antonio Francesco Gramsci ( , ; ; 22 January 1891 – 27 April 1937) was an Italian Marxist philosophy, Marxist philosopher, Linguistics, linguist, journalist, writer, and politician. He wrote on philosophy, Political philosophy, political the ...

(1891–1937), Italian Marxist and social theorist * Mark Granovetter, American sociologist * Richard Grathoff (1934–2013), German sociologist and phenomenologist * Andrew M. Greeley, American sociologist, priest, writer * Liah Greenfeld (born 1954), Russian/American sociologist * Leonid Grinin (born 1958), Russian sociologist * Wendy Griswold, American sociologist * Ramón Grosfoguel, Puerto Rican sociologist * Jaber F. Gubrium , American sociologist * Ludwig Gumplowicz (1838–1909), Polish sociologist, one of the founders of European sociology * Dipankar Gupta (born 1949), Indian sociologist * Georges Gurvitch, Russian/French sociologist * Dimitrie Gusti (1880–1955), Romanian sociologist, the creator of the sociological monographic method

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Jürgen Habermas Jürgen Habermas ( , ; ; born 18 June 1929) is a German philosopher and social theorist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. His work addresses communicative rationality and the public sphere. Associated with the Frankfurt S ...

(born 1929), German social theorist * Jeffrey K. Hadden (1937–2003), American sociologist * Maurice Halbwachs (1877–1945), French philosopher and sociologist * Drew Halfmann (born 1967), American sociologist * Bente Halkier, Danish sociologist * John A. Hall (born 1949), British/Canadian sociologist * Stuart Hall (1932–2014), British cultural theorist * Jean Halley, American sociologist * Donna Haraway (born 1944), American gender and technology theorist * Eszter Hargittai, Hungarian sociologist * Marta Harnecker, Chilean sociologist * Valérie Harvey, Canadian writer and sociologist * Chandrakala A. Hate (1903–1990), Indian sociologist, social worker, and author * James Hawdon, American sociologist and professor * Darnell Hawkins (born 1946), American sociologist, criminologist, and emeritus professor * Amos Hawley, American sociologist * Peter Hedström, Swedish sociologist * Samuel Heilman, American sociologist * Peter Heintz, Swiss sociologist * Wilhelm Heitmeyer, German sociologist * Dirk Helbing, Swiss sociologist * Horst Helle, German sociologist * Ágnes Heller, Hungarian philosopher and sociologist * Celia Stopnicka Heller (1922–2011), American sociologist * Will Herberg (1901–1977), American sociologist *

John Heritage John Heritage (born July 10, 1946) is professor emeritus of Sociology at University of California at Los Angeles. He is one of the key figures in the approach known as conversation analysis. He came to prominence in 1984 with the publication of ...

, American sociologist * Robert Hertz, French sociologist * Danièle Hervieu-Léger, French sociologist * Michael D. Higgins, Irish sociologist and current Irish president * Reuben Hill, American sociologist * Ulf Himmelstrand, Swedish sociologist * Travis Hirschi, American sociologist * Paul Hirst, British sociologist *

Thomas Hobbes Thomas Hobbes ( ; 5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher, best known for his 1651 book ''Leviathan (Hobbes book), Leviathan'', in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. He is considered t ...

(1588–1679), British philosopher * Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, pioneer British sociologist * Arlie Russell Hochschild, American sociologist * Richard Hoggart (1918–2014), British sociologist * John Holloway, Irish sociologist * Susanne Holmström, Danish sociologist * Robert J. Holton, British sociologist * George C. Homans (1910–1989), American behavioral sociologist * Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, American sociologist * Axel Honneth (born 1949), German social theorist * Ida R. Hoos (1912–2007), American sociologist * Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), German social theorist * Irving Louis Horowitz, American sociologist * Eugenio María de Hostos, Puerto Rican sociologist * François Houtart, Belgian sociologist * Philip N. Howard, Canadian-American sociologist * Spomenka Hribar (born 1941), Slovenian sociologist, philosopher politician, and public intellectual * Joan Huber, American sociologist * Everett Hughes, American sociologist * Stephen J. Hunt, British sociologist * James Davison Hunter, American sociologist * Herbert Hyman, American sociologist

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* Octavio Ianni (1926–2004), Brazilian sociologist *

Ibn Khaldun Ibn Khaldun (27 May 1332 – 17 March 1406, 732–808 Hijri year, AH) was an Arabs, Arab Islamic scholar, historian, philosopher and sociologist. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest social scientists of the Middle Ages, and cons ...

(1332/ah732–1406/ah808), North African historian, forerunner of modern historiography, sociology, and economics * Kancha Ilaiah (born 1952), Indian political scientist and social activist * Eva Illouz, Moroccan sociologist * Jose Ingenieros, Argentinian sociologist * Harold Innis, Canadian sociologist who developed staples theory * John Keith Irwin (1929–2010), American sociologist known for his expertise on the American prison system * Larry Isaac, American sociologist

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* Jacquelyne Jackson (1932–2004), American sociologist and educator * Stevi Jackson (born 1951), British sociologist *

Jane Jacobs Jane Isabel Jacobs (''née'' Butzner; 4 May 1916 – 25 April 2006) was an American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics. Her book ''The Death and Life of Great American Ci ...

, American theorist with wide influence on urban sociology * Janet L. Jacobs (born 1948), American sociologist * Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Danish sociologist * Eliezer Jaffe, Israeli-American sociologist * Marie Jahoda (1907–2001), Austrian-British sociologist and social psychologist * Marie Jaisson, French sociologist * Ayesha Jalal, Pakistani-American historian, sociologist, and professor *

Fredric Jameson Fredric Ruff Jameson (April 14, 1934 – September 22, 2024) was an American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist. He was best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends, particularly his analysis of postmode ...

, American philosopher and social theorist * Morris Janowitz, American sociologist * James M. Jasper (born 1957), American sociologist * Guillermina Jasso, American sociologist *

Gail Jefferson Gail Jefferson (22 April 1938 – 21 February 2008) was an American sociologist with an emphasis in sociolinguistics. She was, along with Harvey Sacks and Emanuel Schegloff, one of the founders of the area of research known as conversation anal ...

(1938–2008), American sociologist and conversation analyst * Yasmin Jiwani, feminist academic and activist * Hans Joas, German social theorist * Carole Joffe, American sociologist * Benton Johnson (born 1928), American sociologist * Guy Benton Johnson (1901–1991), American sociologist * Miriam M. Johnson (1928–2007), American sociologist * Rodrigo Jokisch (born 1946), German-Mexican sociologist and social theorist * Frank Lancaster Jones (born 1937), Australian sociologist * Lewis Wade Jones (1910–1979), African/American sociologist and educator * Danny Jorgensen, American sociologist * Paul Jorion, Belgian American sociologist and cognitive scientist * Mark Juergensmeyer, American sociologist

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* Dirk Kaesler (born 1944), German sociologist *

Boris Kagarlitsky } Boris Yulyevich Kagarlitsky (; born 29 August 1958) is a Russian Marxism, Marxist Political philosophy, theoretician and sociology, sociologist who has been a Dissident, political dissident in the Soviet Union and the Russia, Russian Federation. ...

, Russian sociologist * Irawati Karve, Indian anthropologist and sociologist * Alexandr Kapto, Russian and Ukrainian scientist, sociologist, and political scientist; a diplomat, journalist, politician, and statesman * Elihu Katz, American sociologist * Nitasha Kaul, Indian Kashmiri sociologist, writer, and poet * Karl Kautsky, Czech Marxist theorist * Vytautas Kavolis, Lithuanian-American sociologist and literary critic * Frances Kellor (1873–1952), American sociologist, social reformer, and investigator *

Stephen A. Kent Stephen A. Kent is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. He researches new religious movements (NRMs), and has published research on several such groups including the The Family International, Child ...

, Canadian sociologist * Lane Kenworthy, American sociologist * Sherin Khankan, Danish sociologist * Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938–2009), Moroccan literary critic, novelist, philosopher, playwright, poet, and sociologist * Aquila Berlas Kiani (1921–2012), Indian sociologist and educator * Benjamin Kidd, British sociologist * Baruch Kimmerling, Israeli sociologist * Susan Myra Kingsbury (1870–1949), American sociologist * Julieta Kirkwood (1936–1985), Chilean sociologist, political scientist, and feminist activist * Evelyn M. Kitagawa (1920–2007), American sociologist, demographer, and educator * John Kitsuse, Japanese-American sociologist * Gabriele Klein (born 1957), sociologist, dance theorist, and educator * Bernardo Kliksberg, Argentinian sociologist * Eric Klinenberg, American sociologist * Karin Knorr Cetina (born 1944), Austrian sociologist * Antonina Kłoskowska (1919–2001), Polish sociologist * Karin Knorr Cetina (born 1944), Austrian sociologist * Katsuya Kodama (born 1959), Japanese sociologist and peace researcher * Martin Kohli, Swiss sociologist * Mirra Komarovsky (1905–1999), Russian-American sociologist * René König (1906–1992), German sociologist *

Andrey Korotayev Andrey Vitalievich Korotayev (; born 17 February 1961) is a Russian anthropology, anthropologist, economic history, economic historian, comparative politics, comparative political scientist, demography, demographer and sociology, sociologist ...

(born 1961), Russian sociologist * Reinhart Koselleck (1923–2006), German historian and social theorist * 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 Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (9 December 1842 – 8 February 1921) was a Russian anarchist and geographer known as a proponent of anarchist communism. Born into an aristocratic land-owning family, Kropotkin attended the Page Corps and later s ...

(1842–1921), Russian anarchist thinker * Thomas S. Kuhn (1922–1996), American science theorist * Eugene M. Kulischer (1891–1956), Russian/American sociologist * Charles Kurzman, American sociologist * Martin Kusch, Austrian philosopher and sociologist

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* William Labov (born 1927), American sociolinguist and dialectologist *

Jacques Lacan Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (, ; ; 13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Described as "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Sigmund Freud, Freud", Lacan gave The Seminars of Jacques Lacan, year ...

(1901–1981), French psychoanalyst * Richard Lachmann, American sociologist, specialist in comparative historical sociology * Ernesto Laclau, Argentinian sociologist * Joyce Ladner, American sociologist and activist * Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher * Janja Lalich (born 1945), American sociologist * Michele Lamont, American sociologist * Diane Lamoureux (born 1954), Canadian sociologist, professor, and writer * Edgardo Lander, Venezuelan sociologist * David C. Lane (born 1956), American sociologist * Silvia Lara Povedano, Costa Rican politician and sociologist * Annette Lareau, American sociologist * Ralph Larkin, American sociologist * Scott Lash, American sociologist * Harold Lasswell, American political sociologist * Bruno Latour (born 1947), French sociologist of science * Pat Lauderdale, American sociologist * Peter Lavrovich Lavrov, Russian sociologist * John Law, British sociologist * Paul F. Lazarsfeld (1901–1976), Austrian/American sociologist * Gustave Le Bon (1841–1931), French social psychologist * Frederic Le Play, early French sociologist * Anna Leander, Danish sociologist * Emil Lederer, German sociologist * Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991), French

Marxist Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis. It uses a dialectical and materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to analyse class relations, social conflic ...

philosopher * Enrique Leff, Mexican sociologist * Charles Lemert (born 1937), American sociologist *

Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov ( 187021 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He was the first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until Death and state funeral of ...

, Russian revolutionary and intellectual * Gerhard Lenski, American evolutionary sociologist * Magdalena León de Leal (born 1939), Colombian sociologist * Wolf Lepenies, German sociologist * Yuri Levada, Russian sociologist * John Levi Martin, American sociologist *

Claude Lévi-Strauss Claude Lévi-Strauss ( ; ; 28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a Belgian-born French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. He held the chair o ...

(1908–2009), French anthropologist * Jack Levin (born 1941), American sociologist/criminologist * Barry B. Levine (1941–2020), American sociologist * Peggy Levitt, American sociologist * Ruth Levitas, British sociologist * Daniel Levy, German-American sociologist * Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857–1939), French philosopher, sociologist, and ethnographer *

Kurt Lewin Kurt Lewin ( ; ; 9 September 1890 – 12 February 1947) was a German-American psychologist, known as one of the modern pioneers of social psychology, social, industrial and organizational psychology, organizational, and applied psychology in the ...

, German social psychologist * Loet Leydesdorff, Dutch sociologist * Li Yinhe (born 1952), Chinese sociologist, sexologist, and activist * Stanley Lieberson, American sociologist * Nan Lin, American sociologist * Alfred R. Lindesmith (1905–1991), American sociologist of drug policy * Frederick B. Lindstrom (1915–1998), American sociologist of the arts * Juan José Linz, Spanish sociologist * Gilles Lipovetsky, French philosopher * Seymour Martin Lipset (1922–2006), American comparativist sociologist * Allen Liska, American sociologist * Daniel Little, American philosopher and sociologist * Émile Littré, French philosopher and sociologist, disciple of Comte * Omar Lizardo, American sociologist *

John Locke John Locke (; 29 August 1632 (Old Style and New Style dates, O.S.) – 28 October 1704 (Old Style and New Style dates, O.S.)) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of the Enlightenment thi ...

, English philosopher * David Lockwood, British sociologist * Joseph Lopreato, American sociologist * Martina Löw, German sociologist * Leo Löwenthal, German sociologist * Michael Löwy, Brazilian-French sociologist * Nathalie Luca (born 1966), French sociologist * Thomas Luckmann (1927–2016), German sociologist * Anthony Ludovici (1882–1971), British conservative sociologist and philosopher *

Niklas Luhmann Niklas Luhmann (; ; December 8, 1927 – November 11, 1998) was a German sociologist, philosopher of social science, and systems theorist. Niklas Luhmann is one of the most influential German sociologists of the 20th century. His thinking was ...

(1927–1998), German sociologist (systems theory) *

György Lukács György Lukács (born Bernát György Löwinger; ; ; 13 April 1885 – 4 June 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, literary critic, and Aesthetics, aesthetician. He was one of the founders of Western Marxism, an inter ...

, Hungarian philosopher * Steven Lukes, British social theorist * George Lundberg (1895–1966), American sociologist (scientific) * Rosa Luxemburg (1870–1919), German socialist theoretician * Robert Staughton Lynd (1892–1970), American sociologist * David Lyon, British sociologist * Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998), French philosopher

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* Amin Maalouf, Lebanese author with a degree in sociology * Richard Machalek (born 1946), American sociologist and sociobiologist * Robert Morrison MacIver (1882–1970), Scottish/American sociologist * Donald A. MacKenzie, British sociologist * Annie Marion MacLean (1869–1934), Canadian-American applied sociologist * Michel Maffesoli, French sociologist * Henry Maine (1822–1888), British jurist and legal historian * Sinisa Malesevic (born 1969), Irish political and historical sociologist * Bronisław Malinowski (1884–1942), Polish social anthropologist * Thomas Malthus (1766–1834), English demographer *

Roberto Mangabeira Unger Roberto Mangabeira Unger (; ; born 24 March 1947) is a Brazilian philosopher and politician. His work is in the tradition of Western philosophy and classical social theory, and is developed across fields in legal theory, philosophy and religion, ...

, Brazilian social theorist * Michael Mann (born 1942), British/American sociologist * Karl Mannheim (1893–1947), Hungarian/German sociologist * Peter K. Manning (born 1940), American sociologist * José María Maravall, Spanish sociologist * Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), German/American sociologist (Frankfurt School) * Ruy Mauro Marini, Brazilian sociologist * Władysław Markiewicz (1920–2017), Polish sociologist * Catherine Marry, French sociologist * Dennis Marsden, British sociologist * Alfred Marshall, English economist * Thomas Humphrey Marshall, British sociologist * Everett Dean Martin, American sociologist * Jean Martin, Australian sociologist * John Levi Martin, American sociologist * Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), English writer described as 'first female sociologist' * Alberto Martinelli, Italian sociologist * Vladimir Martynenko (born 1957), Russian sociologist, economist, political scientist * Margaret Maruani (born 1954), Tunisian-French sociologist * Gary T. Marx, American sociologist *

Karl Marx Karl Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, political theorist, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He is best-known for the 1848 pamphlet '' The Communist Manifesto'' (written with Friedrich Engels) ...

(1818–1883), German political philosopher, social theorist * Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czech sociologist * Douglas Massey, American sociologist * Brian Massumi, Canadian social theorist * Humberto Maturana, Chilean biologist and sociologist of knowledge * Marcel Mauss (1872–1950), French sociologist * Carl R May (born 1961), British medical sociologist * Claire Maxwell (born 1975), German-Australian sociologist * Renate Mayntz, German sociologist * Doug McAdam, American sociologist * Fayette Avery McKenzie (1872–1957), American sociologist * Robert McKenzie (1917–1981), Canadian Politics professor and psephologist *

Marshall McLuhan Herbert Marshall McLuhan (, ; July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media studies, media theory. Raised in Winnipeg, McLuhan studied at the University of Manitoba a ...

(1911–1980), Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar *

George Herbert Mead George Herbert Mead (February 27, 1863 – April 26, 1931) was an American philosopher, Sociology, sociologist, and psychologist, primarily affiliated with the University of Chicago. He was one of the key figures in the development of pragmatis ...

(1863–1931), American philosopher and social psychologist * Margaret Mead (1901–1978), American cultural anthropologist * Cecilia Menjívar, Salvadoran-American sociologist * Stephen Mennell (born 1944), English sociologist * Fatema Mernissi (1940–2015), Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist * Robert K. Merton (1910–2003), American sociologist * Michael Messner (born 1952), American pro-feminist sociologist * John W. Meyer, American sociologist * Robert Michels (1876–1936), Italian-German political sociologist * Maria Mies, German sociologist * Ralph Miliband, British sociologist * C. Wright Mills (1916–1962), American sociologist * Andrew Milner (born 1950), British-Australian sociologist of literature * Ann Mische, American sociologist * Munesuke Mita, Japanese sociologist * J. Clyde Mitchell (1918–1995), British social anthropologist * Shinji Miyadai (born 1959), Japanese sociologist * Tariq Modood, British sociologist * Abraham Moles (1920–1992), French sociologist, psychologist, and engineer * Andres Molina Enriquez, Mexican sociologist * Montesquieu, French philosopher * James D. Montgomery, American economist and mathematical sociologist * Barrington Moore, Jr., American political sociologist * Wilbert E. Moore, American sociologist * Jacob L. Moreno, Romanian-American psychosociologist, founder of sociometry * Edgar Morin, French sociologist * Aldon Morris, American 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 Daniel Patrick Moynihan (; March 16, 1927 – March 26, 2003) was an American politician, diplomat and social scientist. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he represented New York (state), New York in the ...

(1927–2003), American sociologist, diplomat and politician * Radhakamal Mukerjee, Indian sociologist * Lewis Mumford, American sociologist * Peter A. Munch (1908–1984), Norwegian/American sociologist * Richard Münch, German sociologist * Charles Murray (born 1943), American sociologist * Alva Myrdal, Swedish sociologist * Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987), Swedish economist, sociologist, and politician

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* Ashis Nandy, Indian sociologist * Vicenç Navarro, Spanish sociologist * Victor Nee, American sociologist * 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 1922–2015), Austrian-British sociologist * Norman H. Nie (1943–2015), Inventor of SPSS * Robert Nisbet (1913–1996), American sociologist * Helga Nowotny (born 1937), Austrian sociologist

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* Ann Oakley, British sociologist * Claus Offe (born 1940), German sociologist * William F. Ogburn (1886–1959), American sociologist * Lloyd Ohlin (1918–2008), American sociologist * Orlandina de Oliveira, Brazilian-Mexican sociologist * Michael Omi, American sociologist * Gail Omvedt (1941–2021), American/Indian sociologist * T. K. Oommen, Indian sociologist * Franz Oppenheimer (1864–1943), German sociologist and political economist * José Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955), Spanish philosopher * Stanislaw Ossowski (1897–1963), Polish sociologist * Dag Østerberg, Norwegian sociologist * Moisey Ostrogorsky (1853–1921), Russian sociologist

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Vilfredo Pareto Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto (; ; born Wilfried Fritz Pareto; 15 July 1848 – 19 August 1923) was an Italian polymath, whose areas of interest included sociology, civil engineering, economics, political science, and philosophy. He made severa ...

(1848–1923), Italian economist and sociologist * Robert E. Park (1864–1944), American sociologist * Frank Parkin, British sociologist *

Talcott Parsons Talcott Parsons (December 13, 1902 – May 8, 1979) was an American sociologist of the classical tradition, best known for his social action theory and structural functionalism. Parsons is considered one of the most influential figures in soci ...

(1902–1979), American sociologist * C.J. Pascoe, American sociologist * Jean-Claude Passeron, French sociologist * Bindeshwar Pathak (born 1943), Indian sociologist * Orlando Patterson, Jamaican-American sociologist *

Karl Pearson Karl Pearson (; born Carl Pearson; 27 March 1857 – 27 April 1936) was an English biostatistician and mathematician. He has been credited with establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics. He founded the world's first university ...

(1857–1936), English statistician * Willie Pearson Jr, American sociologist * Jacqueline Peschard (1965), Mexican sociologist * James Petras, American sociologist *

Jean Piaget Jean William Fritz Piaget (, ; ; 9 August 1896 – 16 September 1980) was a Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development. Piaget's theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called genetic epistemology. ...

(1896–1980), Swiss developmental psychologist * Andrew Pickering, British sociologist *

Trevor Pinch Trevor J. Pinch (1 January 1952 – 16 December 2021) was a British sociologist, part-time musician and chair of the science and technology studies department at Cornell University. In 2018, he won the J.D. Bernal Prize from the Society for ...

, British sociologist * Alessandro Pizzorno, Italian sociologist * Michael Plekon, American sociologist * Helmuth Plessner, German sociologist * Geoffrey Pleyers, Belgian sociologist * Joel M. Podolny, American sociologist * Karl Polanyi, Hungarian economist * Friedrich Pollock, German social scientist * Heinrich Popitz, German sociologist *

Karl Popper Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known for his rejection of the ...

, Austrian philosopher * Juan Carlos Portantiero, Argentinian sociologist * John Porter (1921–1979), Canadian sociologist * Alejandro Portes, Cuban-American sociologist * Adam Possamai, Belgian-born sociologist * Dudley L. Poston Jr., American sociologist * Nicos Poulantzas (1936–1979), Greek political sociologist * Émile Poulat, French historian and sociologist * Walter W. Powell, American sociologist * Ricardo Pozas Arciniega, Mexican sociologist and anthropologist * Suzana Prates (1940-1988), Brazilian feminist sociologist and academic * Anette Prehn, Danish sociologist * Harriet B. Presser (died 2012), American sociologist and demographer * 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 * Adam Przeworski, Polish political sociologist * Jade Puget (born 1973), American musician * Robert Putnam (born 1941), American political scientist

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* Sigrid Quack, German sociologist * Enrico Quarantelli (1924–2017), American sociologist *

Adolphe Quetelet Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet FRSF or FRSE (; 22 February 1796 – 17 February 1874) was a Belgian- French astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist who founded and directed the Brussels Observatory and was influential ...

(1796–1874), French statistician and sociologist * Anibal Quijano (1930–2017), Peruvian sociologist * Richard Quinney (born 1934), American sociologist

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* Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (1881–1955), British social anthropologist * Charles C. Ragin, American sociologist * Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austrian sociologist * Stephen Raudenbush, American sociologist and statistician * Aviad Raz (born 1968), Israeli sociologist and anthropologist * Mark Regnerus, American sociologist * Juliette Rennes (born 1976), French sociologist * Sal Restivo, American sociologist * John Rex (1925–2011), British sociologist * James Mahmud Rice (born 1972), Australian sociologist * Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher * Cecilia L. Ridgeway, American sociologist * David Riesman, American sociologist * George Ritzer (born 1940), American sociologist * Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Bolivian sociologist * Roland Robertson, British sociologist * William I. Robinson, American sociologist * Guy Rocher, Canadian sociologist * Terje Rød-Larsen (born 1947), Norwegian diplomat and sociologist * Jesús M. de Miguel Rodríguez (born 1947), Spanish sociologist * Stein Rokkan, Norwegian sociologist * Hartmut Rosa, German sociologist * Arnold Marshall Rose, American sociologist * Gillian Rose, British sociologist * Nikolas Rose, British sociologist * Paul Rosenfels (1909–1985), American psychologist and sociologist * Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888–1973), German social philosopher *

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Jacques Rousseau (, ; ; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Republic of Geneva, Genevan philosopher (''philosophes, philosophe''), writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment through ...

, Swiss philosopher * Peter H. Rossi, American sociologist * Guenther Roth, German-American sociologist * Rubén G. Rumbaut, Cuban-American sociologist * W. G. Runciman, British sociologist * Arne Runeberg (1912–1979), Finnish sociologist, anthropologist and linguist

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Harvey Sacks Harvey Sacks (July 19, 1935 – November 14, 1975) was an American sociologist influenced by the ethnomethodology tradition. He pioneered extremely detailed studies of the way people use language in everyday life. Despite his early death in a ...

(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 * Patricia Salas O'Brien (born 1958), Peruvian sociologist and Minister of Education * Robert J. Sampson, American sociologist * Pierre Sansot, French sociologist * Abdelmalek Sayad, Egyptian-French sociologist * Andrew Sayer, British sociologist * Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Portuguese sociologist * Giovanni Sartori (1924–2017), Italian political scientist * Saskia Sassen (born 1949), American sociologist * Peter Saunders, Australian sociologist * Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913), Swiss linguist (structuralism) * Albert Schäffle, German sociologist * Thomas J. Scheff, American sociologist * Emanuel Schegloff, American sociologist * Max Scheler, German philosopher and founder of the sociology of knowledge * Helmut Schelsky (1912–1984), German sociologist * Juraj Schenk (born 1948), Slovak sociologist * Herbert Schiller, American sociologist * Kurt C. Schlichting, American sociologist * Wolfgang Schluchter, German sociologist * Sylvia Schmelkes, Mexican sociologist * Paul Schnabel, Dutch sociologist * Allan Schnaiberg (1939–2009), American environmental sociologist * Juliet Schor, American sociologist * Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950), Austrian economist * Alfred Schütz (1899–1959), Austrian philosopher and sociologist (phenomenology) * Michael Schwartz (sociologist), Michael Schwartz (born 1942), American sociologist * John Scott (sociologist), John Scott (born 1949), British sociologist * Sue Scott (sociologist), Sue Scott, British sociologist * Jean Séguy, French sociologist of religions (1925–2007) * Steven Seidman, American sociologist * Pınar Selek, Turkish sociologist * Philip Selznick, American sociologist * Amartya Sen, Indian economist influential in the sociology of development * Richard Sennett (born 1943), American sociologist and public figure * Perla Serfaty (born 1944), Moroccan-born French and Canadian academic, sociologist, psychosociologist, writer * William H. Sewell, American sociologist * Steven Shapin, American sociologist * Jeremy J. Shapiro, American sociologist * Ali Shariati (1933–1977), Iranian sociologist and writer * Tamotsu Shibutani, Japanese-American sociologist * Bahija Ahmed Shihab (1932–2012), Iraqi sociologist and professor * Edward Shils, American sociologist * Anson Shupe, American sociologist * Volkmar Sigusch, German sociologist and sexuologe * Charles E. Silberman, American criminologist * Beverly J. Silver, American sociologist * François Simiand, French sociologist * Georg Simmel (1858–1918), German sociologist and philosopher * Herbert A. Simon, American social scientist * Theda Skocpol (born 1947), American sociologist and political scientist * Beverley Skeggs, British feminist sociologist * Albion Woodbury Small (1854–1926), American sociologist * Neil Smelser, American sociologist * Adam Smith (1723–1790), Scottish economist and philosopher * Christian Smith (sociologist), Christian Smith (born 1960), American sociologist of religion * Dorothy E. Smith (born 1926), British/American sociologist and gender theorist * Stephen C. Smith (sociologist), Stephen C. Smith (born 1968), American sociologist and 21st century trend researcher * Tom Snijders, Dutch mathematical sociologist * David A. Snow (born 1942), American sociologist * Werner Sombart (1863–1941), German economist and sociologist * Georges Sorel, French philosopher * Aage B. Sørensen, Danish-American sociologist * Bernardo Sorj (born 1948), Brazilian sociologist * Pitirim Sorokin (1889–1968), Russian sociologist * Herbert Spencer (1820–1903), English philosopher * Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), German philosopher * Lynette Spillman, American sociologist * Hasso Spode, German sociologist and historian * M N Srinivas (1916–1999), Indian sociologist * Susan Star, American sociologist * Carl Nicolai Starcke, Danish sociologist * David C. Stark, American sociologist * Rodney Stark, American sociologist * Paul Starr, American sociologist * Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Mexican anthropologist and sociologist * George Steinmetz (academic), George Steinmetz, American sociologist * Ana María Díaz Stevens, Puerto Rican-American sociologist * Samuel A. Stouffer, American sociologist * Anselm L. Strauss (1916–1996), American sociologist * Wolfgang Streeck, German sociologist * Sheldon Stryker, American sociologist * Lucy Suchman, American sociologist * Mark Suchman, American sociologist * Thomas Sugrue, American historian and sociologist * William Graham Sumner (1840–1910), American sociologist * Eilert Sundt (1817–1875), Norwegian sociologist * Edwin Sutherland (1893–1950), American criminologist * Maristella Svampa, Argentinian sociologist * Ian Svenonius, American cultural sociologist * Richard Swedberg, Swedish sociologist * Ann Swidler, American sociologist * Jan Szczepanski (sociologist), Jan Szczepanski (1913–2004), Polish sociologist * Iván Szelényi, Hungarian-American sociologist * Piotr Sztompka (born 1944), Polish sociologist

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* Hippolyte Taine (1828–1893), French positivist historian and critic * Yasuma Takada (1883–1972), Japanese sociologist * Salim Tamari, Palestinian historical sociologist * Lisa Taraki, Palestinian sociologist * Alexander Tarasov, Russian sociologist * Gabriel Tarde (1843–1904), French sociologist and social psychologist * Sidney Tarrow, American sociologist * R. H. Tawney (1880–1962), English ethical socialist * Dorceta Taylor, American environmental sociologist * Ian Taylor (Sociologist), Ian Taylor (1944–2001), English sociologist and criminologist * Laurie Taylor (sociologist), Laurie Taylor (born 1936), English sociologist and broadcaster * Göran Therborn, Swedish-British sociologist * W. I. Thomas (1863–1947), American social psychologist * E. P. Thompson (1924–1993), British socialist historian * John Thompson (sociologist), John Thompson (1979–2021), British sociologist of culture and media * Sarah Thornton (born 1965), Canadian sociologist, writer, and ethnographer * Ole Thyssen, Danish sociologist * Marta Tienda, American sociologist * Charles Tilly (1929–2008), American sociologist * Nicholas Timasheff (1886–1970), Russian 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 (1925–2023), French sociologist * Peter Townsend (sociologist), Peter Townsend (1928–2009), British sociologist * Judith Treas, American sociologist * Renato Treves (1907–1992), Italian sociologist * Ernst Troeltsch (1865–1923), German sociologist and philosopher * Zeynep Tufekci, Turkish-American sociologist * Raimo Tuomela (1940–2020), Finnish philosopher and social theorist * Sherry Turkle, American sociologist * Bryan S. Turner (sociologist), Bryan S. Turner, British sociologist * Jonathan H. Turner, American social theorist * Stephen Park Turner, American sociologist * France Winddance Twine (born 1960), American sociologist and ethnographer

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* John Urry (sociologist), John Urry (1946–2016), British sociologist

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* Mariana Valverde, Canadian sociologist * Francisco Varela (1946–2001), Chilean biologist and philosopher * Aninhalli Vasavi (born 1958), Indian sociologist * Diane Vaughan, American sociologist * Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), American sociologist and economist * Ruut Veenhoven, Dutch sociologist * Calvin Veltman (born 1941), Canadian sociologist, demographer and sociolinguist * Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, American sociologist * Eliseo Verón, Argentinian sociologist * Alfred Vierkandt (1867–1953), German sociologist * Marika Vila (born 1949), Spanish comics artist and writer; feminist sociologist * George Edgar Vincent (1864–1941), American sociologist * Paul Virilio (1932–2018), French philosopher and social theorist * Shiv Visvanathan, Indian sociologist and social scientist

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* Loïc Wacquant, French sociologist * Peter Wagner (social theorist), Peter Wagner, German sociologist and social theorist * Judy Wajcman, British sociologist * Sylvia Walby, British sociologist * Immanuel Wallerstein (1930–2019), American sociologist and historian * Margit Warburg, Danish sociologist * Lester Frank Ward (1841–1913), founder of American sociology * Vron Ware, British educator and journalist * Mary C. Waters, American sociologist * Duncan Watts, American mathematical sociologist and network theorist * Emile Waxweiler (1867–1916), Belgian sociologist * Beatrice Webb (1858–1943), British socialist and social theorist * Sidney Webb (1859–1947), British socialist and social theorist * Alfred Weber (1868–1958), German sociologist * Marianne Weber (1870–1954), German sociologist * Max Weber (1864–1920), German sociologist * Frank Webster (sociologist), Frank Webster (born 1950), British sociologist * Margaret Weir, sociologist and political scientist * Barry Wellman (born 1942), Canadian/American sociologist * Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931), American sociologist, journalist, social worker * John Westergaard (1931–2003), British sociologist * Edvard Westermarck (1862–1939), Finnish sociologist and philosopher * Nathan Whetten (1900–1984), American sociologist and academic administrator * Douglas R. White (1942–2021), American mathematical sociologist and anthropologist * Harrison White, American sociologist * William Foote Whyte (1914–2000), American sociologist * William H. Whyte (1917–1999), American sociologist, journalist and peoplewatcher * Saskia Wieringa (born in 1950), Dutch sociologist and professor * Leopold von Wiese (1876–1969), German sociologist * Michel Wieviorka (born 1946), French sociologist * Jean-Paul Willaime (born 1947), French sociologist of religions * Sidney M. Willhelm (1934–2018), American sociologist, author * Raymond Williams (1921–1988), British sociologist, novelist, and critic * Paul Willis (born 1945), British sociologist and social scientist * Helmut Willke, German 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 (1944–2015), Polish sociologist * José Woldenberg, Mexican sociologist * Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), British social reformer * Steve Woolgar, British sociologist * Monroe Work (1866–1945), American sociologist * Erik Olin Wright (1947–2019), American sociologist * Robert Wuthnow, American sociologist

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* Lewis Yablonsky (1924–2014), American sociologist * Kazuo Yamaguchi, Japanese sociologist, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago * Masahiro Yamada (sociologist), Masahiro Yamada, Japanese sociologist * Hajar Yazdiha, American sociologist * John Milton Yinger (1916–2011), American sociologist, president of the American Sociological Association 1976–1977 * Paul Yonnet (1948–2011), French sociologist * Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington, Michael Young (1915–2002), British sociologist and Labour Party (UK), Labour politician * Wayland Young, 2nd Baron Kennet, Wayland Young (1923–2009), British historian, social thinker and Labour Party (UK), Labour politician

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* Benjamin Zablocki (1941–2020), American sociologist and social psychologist * Mayer Zald (1931–2012), American sociologist * Tatyana Zaslavskaya (1927–2013), Russian sociologist * René Zavaleta Mercado (1935–1984), Bolivian sociologist * Hans Zeisel, Austrian-American sociologist * Viviana Zelizer,Argentinian Sociologist * Eviatar Zerubavel, American cognitive sociologist * Jean Ziegler (born 1934), Swiss sociologist * Carle C. Zimmerman, American sociologist * Florian Znaniecki (1882–1958), Polish/American sociologist * Irving Zola (1935–1994), American medical sociologist and disability rights activist * Tukufu Zuberi, American sociologist * Harriet Zuckerman, American sociologist, specializes in science * Sharon Zukin, American sociologist * Phil Zuckerman, American sociologist

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