This is a list of sociologists. It is intended
to cover those who have made substantive contributions
to social theory and research, including any
sociological subfield. Scientists in other
fields and philosophers are not included,
unless at least some of their work is defined
as being specifically sociological in nature.
== A ==
Peter Abell, British 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 (1903–1969), German philosopher
and cultural sociologist
Richard Alba, American sociologist
Francesco Alberoni, Italian sociologist
Martin Albrow, British sociologist
Jeffrey C. Alexander, American sociologist
Edwin Amenta, American sociologist
Nancy Ammerman, American sociologist
Eric Anderson, American-British sociologist
Elijah Anderson, American sociologist
Stanislav Andreski, Polish-British 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 (born 1940), Argentine sociologist
Raymond Aron (1905–1983), French philosopher
and sociologist
Stanley Aronowitz, American sociologist
Giovanni Arrighi, Italian sociologist
Johan Asplund (born 1937), Swedish sociologist
Vilhelm Aubert (1922–1988), Norwegian sociologist
Francisco Ayala, Spanish sociologist and novelist
== B ==
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
Eileen Barker (born 1938), British sociologist
and professor
Barry Barnes, British sociologist
Liberty Barnes, American sociologist
Roland Barthes (1915–1980), French literary
critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher,
and semiotician
Robert Bartholomew (sociologist) (born 1958),
American medical sociologist living in New
Zealand
Roger Bastide, French sociologist
Gregory Bateson (1904–1980), English/American
cybernetican
Jean Baubérot (born 1941), French historian
and sociologist
Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007), French cultural
theorist
Zygmunt Bauman (born 1925), Polish/British
sociologist
Frank Bean, American sociologist
Peter Bearman (born 1956), American sociologist
Henning Bech, Danish sociologist
Ulrich Beck (born 1944), German sociologist
Gary Becker, American economist
Howard P. Becker, American sociologist
Howard S. Becker (born 1928), American sociologist
Jens Beckert, German sociologist
Richard F. Behrendt (1908–1973), German
sociologist
Daniel Bell (born 1919), American sociologist
Robert N. Bellah, American sociologist
Walden Bello, Filipino sociologist
Reinhard Bendix, German-American sociologist
Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), German cultural
writer and sociologist
Albert Benschop (born 1949), Dutch sociologist
Joseph Berger, American sociologist
Peter L. Berger (born 1929), Austro-American
sociologist
Pierre L. van den Berghe, Belgian sociologist
Henri Bergson (1859–1941), French philosopher
Jessie Bernard, American feminist sociologist
Eduard Bernstein, German politician and intellectual
Jean-Michel Berthelot, French sociologist
Andre Beteille, Indian sociologist
Krishna Bhattachan, Nepalese sociologist
Robert Bierstedt, American sociologist
Norman Birnbaum, American sociologist
Margunn Bjørnholt Margunn Bjørnholt (born
1958), Norwegian sociologist and economist
Donald Black, American sociologist
Raymarc Blancaflor, Japanese professor of
sociology
Peter Blau (1918–2002), American sociologist
Kathleen M. Blee (born 1953), American sociologist
Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg (born in 1929),
German sociologist, ethnologist, and sexologist
Danielle Bleitrach (born in 1938), French
sociologist and journalist
David Bloor, British sociologist
Herbert Blumer (1900–1987), American sociologist
Olivier Bobineau (born 1972), French sociologist
Luc Boltanski, French sociologist
Scott Boorman (born 1949), American sociologist
Charles Booth, British social researcher
Ernst Borinski (1901–1983), German sociologist
Thomas Bottomore (1920–1992), British sociologist
Raymond Boudon, French sociologist
Pierre Bourdieu (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
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 (born 1956), American gender
theorist
== C ==
Roger Caillois, French sociologist
Craig Calhoun, American sociologist
Michel Callon, French sociologist
Elias Canetti, Bulgaria-born novelist and
outsider sociologist
Georges Canguilhem, French intellectual
Fernando Henrique Cardoso (born 1931), Brazilian
sociologist, former President of Brazil
Kathleen Carley, American computational sociologist
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
Michel de Certeau, French cultural sociologist
Francis Stuart Chapin (1888–1974), American
sociologist
Christopher Chase-Dunn, American sociologist
Louis Chauvel (born 1967), French sociologist
Nancy Chodorow (born 1944), American sociologist,
psychoanalyst, and gender theorist
Nicholas A. Christakis, American sociologist
Chua Beng Huat, Singaporean sociologist
Aaron Cicourel, American sociologist
Dieter Claessens (1921–1997), German sociologist,
Lars Clausen (born 1935), German sociologist
Clifford Clogg, American 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
Harry Collins, British sociologist
Patricia Hill Collins (born 1948), American
sociologist
Randall Collins, American sociologist
Auguste Comte (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
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
Maxine Leeds Craig, American sociologist
Colin Crouch, British sociologist
Michel Crozier, French sociologist
Agustin Cueva, Ecuadorian sociologist
Stefan Czarnowski (1879–1937), Polish sociologist
== D ==
Ana-Maria Dan (born 1984), Romanian sociologist
Robert Dahl (born 1915), American political
scientist
Ralf Dahrendorf (1929–2009), German-British
sociologist and politician
Dankwart Danckwerts (born 1933), German sociologist
Randy David, Filipino sociologist
Leonore Davidoff (1932–2014), American-British
sociologist and historian
Kingsley Davis, American sociologist
Georges Davy, 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 (1925–1995), French philosopher
Donatella della Porta, Italian sociologist
and political scientist
Christine Delphy, French sociologist
Bogdan Denitch, American sociologist
Régis Dericquebourg (born 1947), French sociologist
of religions
Jacques Derrida, French philosopher
Heinz Dieterich, German-Mexican sociologist
Wilhelm Dilthey, German historian, psychologist
and sociologist
Helen Dinerman (1920–1974), American public
opinion researcher
Paul DiMaggio, American cultural sociologist
Georgi Dimitrov Dimitrov, Bulgarian sociologist
Stuart C. Dodd, American sociologist
G. William Domhoff, American sociologist
Jayson Deguia, Famous Arab Bumbay
Mary Douglas, British anthropologist and sociologist
of perception
Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), American sociologist
and civil rights leader
Denis Duclos, French sociologist
Otis Dudley Duncan, American sociologist
Mitchell Duneier, American sociologist
Eric Dunning, British sociologist
Émile Durkheim (1858–1917), French sociologist
Troy Duster, American sociologist
Maurice Duverger, French sociologist
Jean Duvignaud, French sociologist
== E ==
Gerald L. Eberlein (born 1930), 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
Norbert Elias (1897–1990), German sociologist
Jon Elster, Norwegian sociologist
Mustafa Emirbayer, American sociologist
Hugo O. Engelmann (1917–2002), American
sociologist
Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), German socialist
philosopher
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
Amitai Etzioni (born 1929), American sociologist
Peter B. Evans, American sociologist
== F ==
Jayson Francisco, Italian sociologist
Orlando Fals Borda, Colombian sociologist
Frantz Fanon, Martinican intellectual and
sociologist
Rick Fantasia, American sociologist
Thomas Fararo (born 1933), American mathematical
sociologist
Harvey A. Farberman (born 1939), American
sociologist
Paul Fauconnet (1874–1938), French sociologist
Gary Faulkner (born 1940), American sociologist
Joe Feagin, American 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
Gary Alan Fine (born 1950), American sociologist
Claude Fischer (born 1947), 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
cybernetican
Pim Fortuyn (1948–2002), Dutch sociologist
author and politician
Daniel A. Foss (born 1940), American sociologist
John Bellamy Foster, American sociologist
and journalist
Michel Foucault (1926–1984), French philosopher
Alfred Jules Émile Fouillée, French philosopher
and sociologist
Charles Fourier (1772–1837), French proto-sociologist
Renée Fox, American sociologist
Andre Gunder Frank (1929–2005), German economic
historian and sociologist
Nancy Fraser, American social theorist
Hans Freyer (1887–1969), German sociologist
and philosopher
Gilberto Freyre (1900–1987), Brazilian sociologist
Georges Friedmann, French sociologist
Steve Fuller, American sociologist
Celso Furtado, Brazilian economist
== G ==
Mico Gonzales, Filipino astronaut, sciologist,
vndor, and founder of nawawalang piso [BANNED]
Luciano Gallino, Italian sociologist
Rowell Domasig, Filipino sociologist
Francis Galton (1822–1911), English statistician
Johan Galtung, Norwegian sociologist, mathematician,
and founder of peace studies
Diego Gambetta, Italian sociologist
Herbert Gans (born 1927), American sociologist
Harold Garfinkel (born 1917), American sociologist
David W Garland, British sociologist
Marcel Gauchet, French sociologist
John Gaventa, American-British sociologist
Patrick Geddes, Scottish sociologist
Clifford Geertz, 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
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, Romanian/French sociologist
Jack Goldstone, American sociologist
John H. Goldthorpe (born 1935), British sociologist
Yasunosuke Gonda, Japanese 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 (1891–1937), Italian Marxist
and social theorist
Mark Granovetter, American sociologist
Richard Grathoff (born 1934), German sociologist
and phenomenologist
Andrew M. Greeley, American sociologist, priest,
writer
Liah Greenfeld (born 1951), Russian/American
sociologist
Leonid Grinin (born 1958), Russian sociologist
Ludwig Gumplowicz (1838–1909), Polish sociologist,
one of the founders of European sociology
Dipankar Gupta (born 1944), Indian sociologist
Georges Gurvitch, Russian/French sociologist
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
Drew Halfmann (born 1967), American sociologist
John A. Hall (born 1949), British/Canadian
sociologist
Stuart Hall (born 1932), British cultural
theorist
Donna Haraway (born 1944), American gender
and technology theorist
Eszter Hargittai, Hungarian sociologist
Marta Harnecker, Chilean sociologist
David Harvey, British social theorist
Chandrakala A. Hate (1903–1990), Indian
sociologist, social worker, and author
Peter Hedström, Swedish sociologist
Samuel Heilman, American sociologist
Wilhelm Heitmeyer, German sociologist
Dirk Helbing, Swiss sociologist
Horst Helle, German sociologist
Ágnes Heller, Hungarian philosopher and sociologist
Celia Stopnicka Heller, American sociologist
Will Herberg (1901–1977), American sociologist
John Heritage, American sociologist
Robert Hertz, French sociologist
Danièle Hervieu-Léger, French sociologist
Michael D. Higgins, Irish sociologist and
current Irish president
Paul Hirst, British sociologist
Thomas Hobbes, British philosopher
Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, pioneer British
sociologist
Arlie Russell Hochschild, American sociologist
Richard Hoggart (born 1918), British sociologist
John Holloway, Irish sociologist
Robert J. Holton, British sociologist
George C. Homans (1910–1989), American behavioral
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
Philip N. Howard, Canadian American sociologist
Spomenka Hribar (born in 1941), Slovenian
sociologist, philosopher politician, and public
intellectual
Everett Hughes, American sociologist
Stephen J. Hunt, British 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
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
== J ==
Eliezer Jaffe, Israeli-American sociologist
Jacquelyne Jackson (1932–2004), American
sociologist and educator
Stevi Jackson (born 1951), British sociologist
Janet L. Jacobs (born 1948), 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, American philosopher and
social theorist
Morris Janowitz, American sociologist
James M. Jasper (born 1957), American sociologist
Gail Jefferson (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
Lewis Wade Jones (1910–1979), African/American
sociologist and educator
Danny Jorgensen, American sociologist
Paul Jorion, Belgian American sociologist
and cognitive scientist
Isaac Joseph, French sociologist
== K ==
Dirk Kaesler (born 1944), German sociologist
Boris Kagarlitsky, Russian 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, Russian Marxist theorist
Vytautas Kavolis, Lithuanian-American sociologist
and literary critic
Frances Kellor (1873–1952), American sociologist,
social reformer, and investigator
Stephen A. Kent, Canadian sociologist
Lane Kenworthy, American sociologist
Aquila Berlas Kiani (1921–2012), Indian
sociologist and educator
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
Mirra Komarovsky (1905–1999), Russian-American
sociologist
René König (1906–1992), German sociologist
Andrey Korotayev (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 (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
== L ==
William Labov (born 1927), American sociolinguist
and dialectologist
Jacques Lacan (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
David C. Lane (born 1956), American sociologist
Ralph Larkin, American sociologist
Scott Lash, American sociologist
Harold Lasswell, American political sociologist
Bruno Latour (born 1947), French sociologist
of science
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
Emil Lederer, German sociologist
Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991), French Marxist
philosopher
Charles Lemert (born 1937), American sociologist
Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary and
intellectual
Gerhard Lenski, American evolutionary sociologist
Yuri Levada, Russian sociologist
John Levi Martin, American sociologist
Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009), French
anthropologist
Jack Levin (born 1941), American sociologist/criminologist
Barry B. Levine (born 1941), American sociologist
Ruth Levitas, British sociologist
Daniel Levy, German-American sociologist
Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857–1939), French philosopher,
sociologist, and ethnographer
Kurt Lewin, German social psychologist
Loet Leydesdorff, Dutch sociologist
Li Yinhe (born 1952), Chinese sociologist,
sexologist, and activist
Nan Lin, American sociologist
Alfred R. Lindesmith (1905–1991), American
sociologist of drug policy
Frederick B. Lindstrom (1915–1998), American
sociologist of the arts
Gilles Lipovetsky, French philosopher
Seymour Martin Lipset (born 1922), American
comparativist sociologist
Émile Littré, French philosopher and sociologist,
disciple of Comte
Omar Lizardo, American sociologist
John Locke, English philosopher
Carl Joshua Lachica, Indian Astronaut 2K17
David Lockwood, British sociologist
Joseph Lopreato, American sociologist
Leo Löwenthal, German sociologist
Michael Löwy, Brazilian-French sociologist
Nathalie Luca (born 1966), French sociologist
Thomas Luckmann (born 1927), German sociologist
Anthony Ludovici (born 1882), British conservative
sociologist and philosopher
Niklas Luhmann (1927–1998), German sociologist
(systems theory)
György Lukács, 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
Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998), French
philosopher
== M ==
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, 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)
Władysław Markiewicz (born 1920), Polish
sociologist
Dennis Marsden, British sociologist
Alfred Marshall, English economist
Thomas Humphrey Marshall, British sociologist
Everett Dean Martin, American sociologist
John Levi Martin, American sociologist
Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), English writer
described as 'first female sociologist'
Vladimir Martynenko (born 1957), Russian sociologist,
economist, political scientist
Gary T. Marx, American sociologist
Karl Marx (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
Doug McAdam, American sociologist
Fayette Avery McKenzie (1872–1957), 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), American cultural
anthropologist
Stephen Mennell (born 1944), English 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), German political
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
Edgar Morin, French sociologist
Gaetano Mosca (1858–1941), Italian political
and social scientist
Serge Moscovici, French psychologist and major
influence in the study of social representations
and social movements
Chantal Mouffe, Belgian post-Marxist theorist
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927–2003), American
sociologist, diplomat and politician
Radhakamal Mukerjee, Indian sociologist
Peter A. Munch (1908–1984), Norwegian/American
sociologist
Charles Murray (born 1943), American sociologist
Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987), Swedish economist,
sociologist, and politician
== N ==
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
Peter Neville (died 2002), British further
education lecturer and sociologist
Otto Newman ( born Neumann 1922), Austrian-British
sociologist
Norman H. Nie (born 1943), Inventor of SPSS
Robert Nisbet (1913–1996), American sociologist
Helga Nowotny (born 1937), Austrian sociologist
== O ==
Claus Offe (born 1940), German sociologist
William F. Ogburn (1886–1959), American
sociologist
Lloyd Ohlin, American sociologist
Michael Omi, American sociologist
Gail Omvedt (born 1941), American/Indian sociologist
T. K. Oommen, Indian sociologist
Franz Oppenheimer (1864–1943), German sociologist
and political economist
José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher
Stanislaw Ossowski (1897–1963), Polish sociologist
Moisey Ostrogorsky, Russian sociologist
== P ==
Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923), Italian economist
and sociologist
Robert E. Park (1864–1944), American sociologist
Talcott Parsons (1902–1979), American sociologist
C.J. Pascoe, American sociologist
Jean-Claude Passeron, French sociologist
Orlando Patterson, American sociologist
Karl Pearson (1857–1936), English statistician
James Petras, American sociologist
Jean Piaget (1896–1980), Swiss developmental
psychologist
Andrew Pickering, British sociologist
Trevor Pinch, British sociologist
Michael Plekon, American sociologist
Helmuth Plessner, German sociologist
Joel M. Podolny, American sociologist
Karl Polanyi, Hungarian economist
Friedrich Pollock, German social scientist
Karl Popper, Austrian philosopher
John Porter (1921–1979), Canadian sociologist
Alejandro Portes, Cuban-American sociologist
Adam Possamai, Belgian Born 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
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
== 
Q ==
Sigrid Quack, German sociologist
Enrico Quarantelli, American sociologist
Adolphe Quetelet, French statistician and
sociologist
Anibal Quijano, Peruvian sociologist
Richard Quinney (born 1934), American sociologist
== R ==
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
Sal Restivo, American sociologist
John Rex (born 1928), British sociologist
Sam Richards, American sociologist
Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher
David Riesman, American sociologist
George Ritzer (born 1940), American sociologist
Roland Robertson, British sociologist
William I. Robinson, American sociologist
Terje Rød-Larsen (born 1947), Norwegian diplomat
and sociologist
Jesús M. de Miguel Rodríguez (born 1947),
Spanish 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, Swiss philosopher
Rubén G. Rumbaut, Cuban-American sociologist
W. G. Runciman, British sociologist
Arne Runeberg (1912–1979), Finnish sociologist,
anthropologist and linguist
== 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
Robert J. Sampson, American sociologist
Pierre Sansot, French 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
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 (born 1942), American sociologist
John Scott (born 1949), British sociologist
Dr Mariam Seedat-Khan, (Clinical Sociologist)
South African 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
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
Edward Shils, American sociologist
Anson Shupe, American sociologist
Volkmar Sigusch, German sociologist and sexuologe
Charles E. Silberman, American criminologist
François Simiand, French sociologist
Georg Simmel (1858–1918), German sociologist
and philosopher
Herbert A. Simon, American social scientist
Theda Skocpol (born 1947), American sociologist
and political scientist
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
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
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
Liz Stanley (born 1947), British sociologist
Susan Star, American sociologist
David C. Stark, American sociologist
Paul Starr, American sociologist
Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Mexican anthropologist
and sociologist
Samuel A. Stouffer, American sociologist
Anselm L. Strauss (1916–1996), 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
Ian Svenonius, American cultural sociologist
Richard Swedberg, Swedish sociologist
Ann Swidler, American sociologist
Jan Szczepanski (1913–2004), Polish sociologist
Iván Szelényi, Hungarian-American sociologist
Piotr Sztompka (born 1944), Polish sociologist
== T ==
Hippolyte Taine (1828–1893), French positivist
historian and critic
Yasuma Takada, 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, English ethical socialist
Dorceta Taylor, American environmental sociologist
Ian Taylor (1944–2001), English sociologist
and criminologist
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, British sociologist of culture
and media
Sarah Thornton (born 1965), Canadian sociologist,
writer, and ethnographer
Charles Tilly (1929–2008), American sociologist
Nicholas Timasheff, 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 (born 1925), French sociologist
Peter Townsend, British sociologist of poverty
Judith Treas, American sociologist
Renato Treves, Italian sociologist
Ernst Troeltsch, German sociologist and philosopher
Raimo Tuomela, Finnish philosopher and social
theorist
Sherry Turkle, American sociologist
Bryan S. Turner, British sociologist
Jonathan H. Turner, American social theorist
Victor Turner, British anthropologist
France Winddance Twine (born 1960), American
sociologist and ethnographer
Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist
== U ==
John Urry, British sociologist
== V ==
Mariana Valverde, Canadian sociologist
Francisco Varela (1946–2001), Chilean biologist
and philosopher
Aninhalli Vasavi (born 1958), Indian 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
Alfred Vierkandt, German sociologist
George Edgar Vincent, American sociologist
Paul Virilio, French philosopher and social
theorist
Shiv Visvanathan, Indian sociologist and social
scientist
== W ==
Loic Wacquant, French sociologist
Peter Wagner, German sociologist and social
theorist
Sylvia Walby, British sociologist
Immanuel Wallerstein (born 1930), American
sociologist and historian
Alan Warde (born 1949), British sociologist
Lester Frank Ward (1841–1913), founder of
American sociology
Vron Ware, British educator and journalist
Duncan Watts, American mathematical sociologist
and network theorist
Emile Waxweiler, 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, German sociologist
Max Weber (1864–1920), German 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 (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 Foote Whyte, American sociologist
William H. Whyte (1917–1999), American sociologist,
journalist and peoplewatcher
Saskia Wieringa (born in 1950), Dutch sociologist
and professor
Leopold von Wiese, German sociologist
Michel Wieviorka (born 1946), French sociologist
Jean-Paul Willaime (born 1947), French sociologist
of religions
Raymond Williams (1921–1988), Welsh sociologist,
novelist, and critic
John B. Williamson (born 1943), American sociologist
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 (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
Robert Wuthnow, American sociologist
== 
Y ==
Kazuo Yamaguchi, Japanese sociologist, Department
of Sociology, University of Chicago 1946–
Masahiro Yamada, Japanese sociologist
John Milton Yinger, American sociologist,
president of the American Sociological Association
1976–1977
Michael Young, British sociologist and Labour
politician
== Z ==
Benjamin Zablocki (born 1941), American sociologist
and social psychologist
Mayer Zald, American sociologist
Tatyana Zaslavskaya, Russian sociologist
René Zavaleta Mercado (1935–1984), Bolivian
sociologist
Viviana Zelizer, American sociologist
Eviatar Zerubavel, American cognitive sociologist
Jean Ziegler (born 1934), Swiss sociologist
Florian Znaniecki (1882–1958), Polish/American
sociologist
Irving Zola, American medical sociologist
and disability rights activist
Tukufu Zuberi, American sociologist
Harriet Zuckerman, American sociologist, specializes
in science
Sharon Zukin, American sociologist
