sociologist

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

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  • Andrew Abbott, US-American sociologist
  • Nancy Ammerman, US-American sociologist
  • Jane Addams (1860–1935), US-American social worker and reformer
  • Theodor Adorno (1903–1969), German cultural sociologist (Frankfurt School)
  • Jeffrey C. Alexander, American sociologist
  • Karl Alexander, US-American sociologist
  • Louis Althusser (1918–1990), Algerian-French philosopher and 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
  • Sarah Allred, US American sociologist
  • Vilhelm Aubert (1922–1988), Norwegian sociologist
  • Ameli Saied Reza, Iranian communication studies and Globalization theorist, sociologist

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E

  • Umberto Eco, Italian sociologist and novelist
  • Norbert Elias (1897–1990), German sociologist
  • Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), German socialist philosopher
  • Ronald Enroth (born 1938), US-American sociologist
  • Kai T. Erikson (born 1931), US-American sociologist
  • Hartmut Esser (born 1943), German sociologist
  • Amitai Etzioni (born 1929), US-American sociologist

F

  • Rick Fantasia, US-American sociologist
  • Thomas Fararo (born 1933), US-American mathematical sociologist
  • George Farkas, US-American sociologist
  • Paul Fauconnet (1874–1938), French sociologist
  • Katherine Faust, US-American sociologist and social network methodologist
  • Scott Feld, US-American mathematical sociologist
  • Florestan Fernandes (1920–1995), Brazilian sociologist
  • Myra Marx Ferree (born 1949), US-American sociologists
  • Mike Featherstone, British sociologist
  • Gary Alan Fine (born 1950), US-American sociologist
  • Claude Fischer (born 1947), US-American author of the subcultural theory of urbanism
  • Fei Xiaotong (1910–2005), Chinese sociologist and anthropologist
  • Heinz von Foerster (1911–2002), Austrian-American cybernetican
  • John Bellamy Foster, US-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
  • Erich Fromm (1900–1980), German-American social psychologist and psychoanalyst

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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

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Karl MacIver 1980-present, British Sociologist

M

  • Henry Maine (1822–1888), British jurist and legal historian
  • Robert Morrison MacIver (1882–1970), Scottish-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-American sociologist
  • Karl Mannheim (1893–1947), German sociologist
  • Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), German-American sociologist (Frankfurt School)
  • Wladyslaw Markiewicz (born 1920), Polish 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-born Politics professor and psephologist
  • Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980), Canadian educator, philosopher and scholar
  • George Herbert Mead (1863–1931), US-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-American social scientist
  • James Moody, US-American mathematical sociologist
  • James D. Montgomery, US-American economist and mathematical sociologist
  • Peter A. Munch (1908–1984), Norwegian/US-American sociologist
  • Charles Murray (born 1943), US-American sociologist

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  • Oswald von Nell-Breuning (1890–1991), German Roman Catholic theologian, sociologist and social reformer
  • Otto Neurath (1882–1945), Austrian sociologist and political economist
  • Peter Neville (died 2002), British further education lecturer and sociologist
  • Robert Nisbet (1913–1996), US-American sociologist
  • Helga Nowotny, Austrian sociologist

O

  • Anne Oakley (born 1984), British sociologist
  • William F. Ogburn (1886–1959), US-American sociologist
  • Claus Offe (born 1940), German sociologist
  • Richard Ofshe (born 1941), US-American sociologist
  • Lloyd Ohlin, US-American sociologist
  • Franz Oppenheimer (1864–1943), German sociologist and political economist
  • Stanislaw Ossowski (1897–1963), Polish sociologist
  • Robert Owen (1771–1858), Welsh social reformer

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Q

  • Enrico Quarantelli, US-American sociologist

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V

  • Francisco Varela (1946–2001), Chilean biologist and philosopher
  • Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), US-American economist and sociologist
  • Calvin Veltman (born 1941), Canadian sociologist, demographer and sociolinguist
  • Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, US-American sociologist
  • Nildo Viana (born 1965), Brazilian sociologist and philosopher
  • Richard R. Verdugo (born 1948), US-American sociologist

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Y

  • Kazuo Yamaguchi
  • Yu Xie, US-American sociologist and statistician
  • Yogender Singh, Indian sociologist

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Sociology (from Latin: socitus, "companion"; and the suffix -ology, "the study of", from Greek λόγος, lógos, "knowledge") is the systematic and scientific study of society and societal behavior.
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Nancy Tatom Ammerman is a professor of sociology of religion, now at Boston University, who wrote a controversial report about the Branch Davidians and Waco.

In 1984, Ammerman joined the faculty of Emory University.
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Laura Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was a founder of the U.S. Settlement House Movement and the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno (September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969) was a German sociologist, philosopher, pianist, musicologist, and composer. He was a member of the Frankfurt School along with Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Jürgen Habermas, and others.
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Frankfurt School is a school of neo-Marxist critical theory, social research, and philosophy. The grouping emerged at the Institute for Social Research (Institut für Sozialforschung
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Louis Pierre Althusser (Pronunciation: altuˡseʁ) (October 16, 1918 – October 22, 1990) was a Marxist philosopher. He was born in Algeria and studied at the prestigious École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy.
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Arjun Appadurai is a contemporary social-cultural anthropologist focusing on modernity and globalization.

Appadurai was born in Bombay, India in 1949 and educated in the United States. He was formerly a professor at the University of Chicago where he received his MA and PhD.
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Margaret Archer is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK, since 1973. She is one of the most influential theorists in the critical realist tradition. At the 12th World Congress of Sociology, she was elected as the first woman President of the International
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Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906 – December 4, 1975) was a German Jewish political theorist. She has often been described as a philosopher, although she always refused that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular".
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Raymond-Claude-Ferdinand Aron (March 14, 1905 — October 17, 1983) was a French philosopher, sociologist and political scientist, well known to the broad public for his skeptical analyses of the post-war vogue in France for ideologies that took their inspiration from the
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For the ice hockey player, see Johan Asplund (ice hockey).


Johan Asplund (born 1937) is a Swedish sociologist interested in social interaction and ethnomethodology, who appears cited in the works of Mats Alvesson (on reflexive methodology and
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Vilhelm Aubert (7 June 1922 − 1988) was an influential Norwegian sociologist. He was a joint founder of the Institute for Social Research (ISF, or Institutt for samfunnsforsking) in Oslo, along with Arne Næss, Eirik Rinde, and Stein Rokkan in 1950.
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Earl Robert Babbie (b. January 8, 1938) is an American sociologist who holds the position of Campbell Professor Emeritus in Behavioral Sciences at Chapman University. He is best known for his popular book The Practice of Social Research
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Robert William Balch
Born 1945
United States
Residence Montana, United States
Nationality American
Field cults, new religious movements, sociology
Institutions University of Montana
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Eileen Vartan Barker (born 21 April 1938 in Edinburgh, UK[1]), OBE, FBA 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.
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S. Barry Barnes is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Exeter. Barnes worked at the 'Science Studies Unit' at the University of Edinburgh with David Bloor in the 1980s and early 1990s, where they developed the strong programme in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge.
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Roland Barthes (November 12, 1915 – March 25, 1980) (pronounced [ʀɔlɑ̃ baʀt]) was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiologist.
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Gregory Bateson
Birth: 9 May 1904
Grantchester, England
Death: 4 July 1980
San Francisco, CA
School/tradition: Anthropology
Main interests: anthropology, social sciences, linguistics, cybernetics, Systems theory
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Jean Baudrillard (July 29, 1929 – March 6, 2007) (IPA pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ bo.dʀi.jaʀ][1]) was a French cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer.
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Zygmunt Bauman (born 19 November 1925 in Poznań) is a Polish sociologist who, since 1971, has resided in England after being driven there by an anti-Semitic purge organized by the Communist Party of Poland.
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Peter Shawn Bearman, an American Sociologist, is Jonathan Cole Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University and Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP). He received his Ph.
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Dr. Ulrich Beck (born May 15, 1944) is a German sociologist who holds a professorship at Munich University and at the London School of Economics.

Life

Beck was born in the Pomeranian town of Stolp, Greater German Empire (now Słupsk in Poland) in 1944.
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Howard Saul Becker was born in Chicago, Illinois on April 18 1928. As an undergraduate and later a graduate student at the University of Chicago, he worked as a professional jazz pianist. His professor, Everett C.
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Richard Fritz Behrendt(* 6. February 1908 in Gleiwitz, Silesia (after 1945 Gliwice, Poland), † 4. August 1973 in Berlin) was a German sociologist.
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Daniel Bell (born 10 May 1919 in New York) is a sociologist and a professor emeritus at Harvard University. He is also a director of Suntory Foundation and a scholar in residence of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Robert Neelly Bellah, born February 23, 1927, in Altus, Oklahoma, United States, is an American sociologist, now the Elliott Professor of Sociology, Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.

Academic career

He received a B.A.
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Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (July 15, 1892 – September 27, 1940) was a German Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was also greatly inspired by the Marxism of Bertolt
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Joseph Berger is an American theoretical sociologist and a Professor Emeritus. After earning his doctoral degree in sociology at Harvard University in the 1950s, he established a theoretical and experimental research program at Stanford University.
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Peter Ludwig Berger (born March 17, 1929) is an American sociologist and Lutheran theologian well known for his work The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (New York, 1966), which he co-authored with Thomas Luckmann.
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Henri-Louis Bergson (IPA: [bɛʁkˈsɔn]; October 18, 1859–January 4, 1941) was a major French philosopher, influential in the first half of the 20th century.
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