List of sociologists

This list of sociologists includes people who have made notable contributions to sociological theory or to research in one or more areas of sociology.

A

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 (1903–1969), German philosopher and cultural sociologist
Richard Alba, 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

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
Jack Barbalet, Australian sociologist
Teresita de Barbieri, Uruguayan-born Mexican feminist 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 (born 1958), American medical sociologist living in New Zealand
Roger Bartra, Mexican sociologist
Roger Bastide, French sociologist
Georges Bataille, 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 (1929–2007), French cultural theorist
Zygmunt Bauman (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 (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, American feminist sociologist
Eduard Bernstein, German politician and intellectual
Jean-Michel Berthelot, French sociologist
Andre Beteille, Indian sociologist
Gurminder K. Bhambra, British sociologist
Krishna Bhattachan, Nepalese sociologist
Robert Bierstedt, 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 (born 1929), 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 (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
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

Alain Caillé, French sociologist
Roger Caillois, French sociologist
Craig Calhoun, American sociologist
Michel Callon, French sociologist
Charles Camic, American sociologist
Elias Canetti, Bulgaria-born novelist and outsider sociologist
Georges Canguilhem, 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
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, 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
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

D

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

E

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 (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 (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
Roger Establet, French sociologist
Amitai Etzioni (born 1929), American sociologist
Peter B. Evans, American sociologist

F

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

G

Luciano Gallino, Italian 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
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
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
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, 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 (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

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
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
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, 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 (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

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^[1]
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

J

Jacquelyne Jackson (1932–2004), American sociologist and educator
Stevi Jackson (born 1951), British sociologist
Jane Jacobs, 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, American philosopher and social theorist
Morris Janowitz, American sociologist
James M. Jasper (born 1957), American sociologist
Guillermina Jasso, 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
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

K

Dirk Kaesler (born 1944), German sociologist
Boris Kagarlitsky, 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, 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 (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
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 philosopher
Enrique Leff, Mexican sociologist
Charles Lemert (born 1937), American sociologist
Vladimir Lenin, 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 (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, 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, 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 (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
David Lyon, British 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)
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 (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 (1911–1980), Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar
George Herbert Mead (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
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 (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

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
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

O

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

P

Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923), Italian economist and sociologist
Robert E. Park (1864–1944), American sociologist
Frank Parkin, British sociologist
Talcott Parsons (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 (1857–1936), English statistician
Willie Pearson Jr, American sociologist
Jacqueline Peschard (1965), Mexican sociologist
James Petras, American sociologist
Jean Piaget (1896–1980), Swiss developmental psychologist
Andrew Pickering, British sociologist
Trevor Pinch, 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, 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

Q

Sigrid Quack, German sociologist
Enrico Quarantelli (1924–2017), American sociologist
Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874), French statistician and sociologist
Anibal Quijano (1930–2017), 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
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, 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

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
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 (born 1942), American sociologist
John Scott (born 1949), British sociologist
Sue Scott, British sociologist
Leonard Seabrooke, Australian 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
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
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, 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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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, British sociologist
Jonathan H. Turner, American social theorist
Stephen Park Turner, American sociologist
France Winddance Twine (born 1960), American sociologist and ethnographer

U

John Urry (1946–2016), British sociologist

V

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

W

Loïc Wacquant, French sociologist
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 (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

Y

Lewis Yablonsky (1924–2014), American sociologist
Kazuo Yamaguchi, Japanese sociologist, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
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 (1915–2002), British sociologist and Labour politician
Wayland Young (1923–2009), British historian, social thinker and Labour politician

Z

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

References

^ González, Horácio (2000). Historia crítica de la sociología argentina: Los raros, los clásicos, los científicos, los discrepantes. ISBN 978-950-581-738-2.

[1] González, Horácio (2000). Historia crítica de la sociología argentina: Los raros, los clásicos, los científicos, los discrepantes. ISBN 978-950-581-738-2.

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