List of sociologists
This article provides a list of noted sociologists and major contributors to sociology (even if they did not primarily work as sociologists):
A
- 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 (b. 1937), Swedish sociologist
- Sarah Allred, US American sociologist
- Vilhelm Aubert (1922-1988), Norwegian sociologist
- Ameli Saied Reza, Iranian communication studies and Globalization theorist, sociologist
B
- Earl Babbie, US-American sociologist
- Robert Balch, US-American sociologist
- Eileen Barker, British sociologist
- Barry Barnes, British sociologist
- Roland Barthes (1915-1980), French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician
- Gregory Bateson (1904-1980), English/American cybernetican
- Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007), French cultural theorist
- Zygmunt Bauman (b. 1925), Polish/British sociologist
- Peter Bearman (b. 1956), US-American sociologist
- Ulrich Beck (b. 1944), German sociologist
- Howard S. Becker (b. 1928), US-American sociologist
- Richard F. Behrendt (1908-1973), German sociologist
- Daniel Bell (b. 1919), US-American sociologist
- Robert N. Bellah, US-American sociologist
- Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), German cultural writer and sociologist
- Joseph Berger, US-American sociologist
- Peter L. Berger (b. 1929), Austro-American sociologist
- Henri Bergson (1859-1941), French philosopher
- Andre Beteille, Indian sociologist
- Peter Blau (1918-2002), US-American sociologist
- Kathleen M. Blee (b. 1953), US-American sociologist
- David Bloor, British sociologist
- Herbert Blumer (1900-1987), US-American sociologist
- Luc Boltanski, French Sociologist
- Phillip Bonacich, US-American mathematical sociologist
- Scott Boorman (b. 1949) US-American sociologist
- Thomas Bottomore (1920-1992), British sociologist
- Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002), French sociologist
- Ronald Breiger, US-American Sociologist
- David G. Bromley, US-American sociologist
- Michael Burawoy, US-American sociologist
- Ernest Burgess (1886-1966), Canadian sociologist
- Ronald Burt, US-American sociologist
- Judith Butler (b. 1956), US-American gender theorist
- Carter Butts, US-American sociologist
C
- Michel Callon, French sociologist
- Fernando Henrique Cardoso (b. 1931), Brazilian sociologist, former President of Brazil
- Kathleen Carley US-American computational sociologist
- Manuel Castells (b. 1942), Spanish sociologist and urban planner
- Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997), Greek philosopher and political theorist
- Francis Stuart Chapin (1888-1974), US-American sociologist
- Louis Chauvel (b. 1967), French sociologist
- Nancy Chodorow (b. 1944), US-American sociologist, psychoanalyst and gender theorist
- Dieter Claessens (1921-1997), German sociologist,
- Lars Clausen (b. 1935), German Sociologist
- Richard Cloward(1926-2001), US-American sociologist
- Ronald L. Cohen, US-American social psychologist
- Stanley Cohen, British sociologist (criminology)
- James S. Coleman (1926-1995), US-American sociologist
- Patricia Hill Collins (b. 1948), US-American sociologist
- Randall Collins, US-American sociologist
- R.W. Connell, (b. 1944) Australian sociologist
- Auguste Comte (1798-1857), French founder of sociology
- Charles Cooley (1864-1929), US-American sociologist
- Lewis A. Coser (1913-2003), US-American sociologist
- Douglas E. Cowan, Canadian sociologist
- Maxine Leeds Craig, US-American sociologist
- Stefan Czarnowski (1879-1937), Polish sociologist
D
- Hamid Dabashi, American-Iranian cultural critic and intellectual historian
- Robert Dahl (b. 1915), US-American political scientist
- Dankwart Danckwerts (b. 1933), German sociologist
- Ralf Dahrendorf (b.1929), German-British sociologist and politician
- Mathieu Deflem (b.1962), sociologist
- Gilles Deleuze (1925 - 1995), French philosopher
- Nancy Denton, US-American sociologist and demographer
- Georgi Dimitrov Dimitrov, Bulgarian sociologist
- G. William Domhoff, US-American sociologist
- Patrick Doreian, Irish-American mathematical sociologist
- W.E.B. DuBois (1868-1963), African-American sociologist and civil rights leader
- Mitchell Duneier, US-American sociologist
- Troy Duster, US-American sociologist
- Émile Durkheim (1858-1917), French sociologist
- Mukul R. Dwivedi (b. 1984), Indo-American cultural critic and sociologist
E
- Umberto Eco, Italian sociologist and novelist
- Norbert Elias (1897-1990), German sociologist
- Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), German socialist philosopher
- Ronald Enroth (b. 1938), US-American sociologist
- Kai T. Erikson (b. 1931), US-American sociologist
- Hartmut Esser (b. 1943), German sociologist
- Amitai Etzioni (b. 1929), US-American sociologist
F
- Rick Fantasia, US-American sociologist
- Thomas Fararo (b. 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, (b. 1949), US-American sociologists
- Mike Featherstone, British sociologist
- Gary Alan Fine (b. 1950), US-American sociologist
- Claude Fischer (b. 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
G
- Francis Galton (1822-1911), English statistican
- Herbert Gans (b. 1927), American sociologist
- Harold Garfinkel (b. 1917), US-American sociologist
- Felix Guattari (1930-1992), French institutional psychotherapist, founder of schizoanalysis and ecosophy
- Anthony Giddens (b. 1938), English sociologist
- Corrado Gini (1884-1965), Italian statistician
- Arnold Gehlen (1904-1976), German philosopher and sociologist
- Theodor Geiger (1891-1952), German sociologist
- Ernest Gellner(1925-1995), philosopher and social anthropologist
- David Glass, (1911-1978), British sociologist
- Max Gluckman (1911-1975), South African/English social anthropologist
- John H. Goldthorpe (b. 1935), British sociologist
- Leo Goodman (b.1928), US-American social statistician
- Erving Goffman (1922-1982), Canadian interactionistic sociologist
- Mark Gottdiener, U.S-American sociologist
- Isacque Graeber (1905-1984), Sociologist and Jewish Historian
- Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), Italian Marxist
- Richard Grathoff (1934- ), German sociologist and phenomenologist
- Mark Granovetter, US-American sociologist
- Andrew M. Greeley, US-American sociologist, priest, writer
- Ludwig Gumplovicz (1838-1909), Polish-Austrian sociologist, one of the founders of European sociology
H
- Jürgen Habermas (b. 1929), German social theorist
- Jeffrey K. Hadden (1937-2003), US-American sociologist
- Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945), French philosopher and sociologist
- Stuart Hall (b. 1932), British cultural theorist
- Maureen Hallinan, US-American sociologist
- Donna Haraway (b. 1944), US-American gender and technology theorist
- David Harvey (b. 1935), British geographer
- Chandrakala A. Hate (1903-1990), Indian sociologist, social worker, and author
- Michael Hechter, US-American sociologist
- Richard Hoggart (b. 1918), British sociologist
- George C. Homans (1910-1989), US-American behavioural sociologist
- Axel Honneth (b. 1949), German social theorist
- Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), German social philosopher
- Patrick Hunout, Belgian sociologist
- Stephen J. Hunt, British sociologist
- Floyd Hunter (b. 1912), US-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, (b. 1952), Indian political scientist and social activist
J
- Marie Jahoda (1907-2001), Austrian sociologist
- Jane Jacobs (1916-2006), US/Canadian writer and activist
- Yong Suk Jang (b. 1968), Korean sociologist
- Rodrigo Jokisch, (b. 1946), German-Mexican sociologist and social theorist
- Lewis Wade Jones (1910 - 1979), African-American sociologist and educator
- Danny Jorgensen, US-American sociologist
K
- Dirk Kaesler (b. 1944), German sociologist
- Rand Kannenberg (b. 1960), American clinical sociologist
- Alexandr Kapto, Russian and Ukrainian scientist, sociologist and political scientist; a diplomat, journalist, politician and statesman.
- Elihu Katz, US-American sociologist
- Vytautas Kavolis, Lithuanian-American sociologist and literary critic
- Stephen A. Kent, Canadian sociologist
- Tai-Young Kim, Korean sociologist
- Karin Knorr-Cetina (b. 1944), German sociologist
- René König (1906-1992), German sociologist
- Alfred L. Kroeber (1876–1960,) US-American anthropologist
- Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921), Russian anarchist thinker
- Thomas S. Kuhn (1922-1996), US-American science theorist
- Krishan Kumar, Indian sociologist
- Antonina Kłoskowska (1919-2001), Polish sociologist
L
- William Labov (b.1927), American sociolinguist and dialectologist
- Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), French psychoanalyst
- Ernesto Laclau, Argentinian sociologist
- Janja Lalich (b. 1945$), US-American sociologist
- David C. Lane (b. 1956), US-American sociologist
- Scott Lash, US-American sociologist
- Bruno Latour (1947- ) French sociologist of science
- Edward Laumann, US-American sociologist
- John Law (sociologist), British sociologist
- Paul F. Lazarsfeld (1901-1976), Austrian-American sociologist
- Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931) ,French social psychologist
- Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991), French Marxist philosopher
- Charles Lemert (b. 1937) US-American sociologist
- Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908), French anthropologist
- Jack Levin (b. 1941) American sociologist/criminologist
- Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857-1939) French philosopher, sociologist and ethnographer
- Alfred R. Lindesmith (1905-1991), US-American sociologist of drug policy
- Seymour Martin Lipset (b. 1922), US-American comparativist sociologist
- David Lockwood, British sociologist
- Thomas Luckmann (b. 1927), German sociologist
- Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998), German sociologist (systems theory)
- Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919), German socialist theoretician
- Robert Staughton Lynd (1892-1970) American sociologist
- Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998), French philosopher
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 (b. 1946), US-American sociologist and sociobiologist
- Michael Macy, US-American sociologist
- Michael Mann (b. 1942), British-American sociologist
- Karl Mannheim (1893-1947), German sociologist
- Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), German-American sociologist (Frankfurt School)
- Wladyslaw Markiewicz (b. 1920) Polish sociologist
- Harriet Martineau (1802-1876), English writer described as 'first female sociologist'
- Vladimir Martynenko (b. 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, (b. 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 (b. 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 (b. 1959), Japanese sociologist
- Brij Mohan (b. 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 (b. 1943), US-American sociologist
N
- Oswald von Nell-Breuning (1890-1991), German Roman Catholic theologian, sociologist and social reformer
- Otto Neurath (1882-1945), Austrian sociologist and political economist
- Peter Neville (d. 2002), British further education lecturer and sociologist
- Robert Nisbet (1913-1996), US-American sociologist
- Helga Nowotny, Austrian sociologist
O
- Anne Oakley (b.1984), British sociologist
- William F. Ogburn (1886-1959), US-American sociologist
- Claus Offe (b. 1940), German sociologist
- Richard Ofshe (b. 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
P
- Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923), Italian economist and sociologist
- Robert E. Park (1864-1944), US-American sociologist
- Ray Pahl, British sociologist
- Talcott Parsons (1902-1979), US-American sociologist
- Karl Pearson (1857-1936), English statistician
- Jean Piaget (1896 – 1980), Swiss developmental psychologist
- Trevor Pinch, British sociologist
- Joel M. Podolny, US-American sociologist and Dean of the Yale School of Management
- John Porter (1921-1979), Canadian sociologist
- Nicos Poulantzas (1936-1979), Greek political sociologist
- Samuel H. Preston, US-American demographer and sociologist
- Jade Puget (b. 1973), American musician
- Robert Putnam (b. 1941), US-American political scientist
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865), French socialist or anarchist philosopher
- Gil Sung Park (b. 1956), Korean sociologist
Q
- Enrico Quarantelli, US-American sociologist
R
- Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (1881–1955), British social anthropologist
- Stephen Raudenbush, US-American sociologist and statistician
- Aviad Raz (b. 1968), Israeli sociologist and anthropologist
- John Rex (b. 1928), British sociologist
- Jürgen Ritsert , German sociologist
- George Ritzer (b. 1940), US-American sociologist
- Terje Rød-Larsen (b. 1947), Norwegian diplomat and sociologist
- Dale A. Rose (b. 1972, US-American sociologist
- Paul Rosenfels (1909-1985), American psychologist and sociologist
- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888-1973), German social philosopher
- Walter Garrison Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford, British sociologist
S
- Harvey Sacks (d. 1975), US-American sociologist and ethnomethodologist
- Moisés Espírito Santo (b. 1934), Portuguese sociologist, ethnologist and ethnolinguist
- Henri de Saint-Simon (1760 - 1825), French philosopher and social thinker
- Saskia Sassen, (b. 1949), US-American sociologist
- Peter Saunders, Australian sociologist
- Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913), Swiss linguist (structuralism)
- Helmut Schelsky (1912-1984), German sociologist
- Paul Schnabel Dutch sociologist
- Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950), Austrian economist
- Alfred Schütz (1899-1959), Austrian philosopher and sociologist (phenomenology)
- Leo Semashko (b. 1941), Russian sociologist, tetrasociology founder, social philosopher and public fugure
- Richard Sennett (b. 1943), US-American sociologist and public figure
- Steven Shapin, US-American sociologist
- Ali Shariati (1933-1977), Iranian sociologist and writer
- Anson Shupe, US-American sociologist
- Volkmar Sigusch, German sociologist and sexuologe
- Charles E. Silberman, US-American criminologist
- Georg Simmel (1858-1918), German sociologist
- John Skvoretz, US-American mathematical sociologist
- Albion Woodbury Small (1854-1926), US-American sociologist
- Neil Smelser, US-American sociologist
- Adam Smith(1723-1790), Scottish economist and philosopher
- Christian Smith (b. 1960), US-American sociologist of religion
- Dorothy E. Smith (b. 1926), British-American sociologist and gender theorist
- Werner Sombart (1863-1941), German economist and sociologist
- Pitirim Sorokin (1889-1968), Russian sociologist
- Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), English philosopher
- Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), German philosopher
- Steven Spitzer, US-American sociologist
- M N Srinivas (1916-1999), Indian sociologist
- Arthur Stinchcombe, US-American sociologist
- Ross Stolzenberg, US-American sociologist
- John Storey, British sociologist
- Anselm L. Strauss (1916-1996), US-American sociologist (sociology of medicine, qualitative methods)
- William Graham Sumner (1840-1910), US-American advocate of Social Darwinism
- Eilert Sundt (1817-1875), Norwegian sociologist
- Edwin Sutherland (1893-1950), US-American criminologist
- Gerald Suttles, US-American urban sociologist
- Jan Szczepański (1913-2004), Polish sociologist
- Piotr Sztompka (b. 1944), Polish sociologist
- Rahmatollah Sedigh Sarvestani, Iranian sociologist and criminologist
T
- Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904), French sociologist and social psychologist
- Sidney Tarrow, US-American sociologist
- Ian Taylor (1944-2001) English sociologist and criminologist
- Laurie Taylor (b. 1936), English sociologist and broadcaster
- Verta Taylor, US-American sociologist
- Julien Teitler, US-American sociologist
- W. I. Thomas (1863-1947), US-American social psychologist
- Charles Tilly (b. 1929), US-American sociologist
- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), French essayist and political analyst
- Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936), German sociologist
- Alain Touraine (b. 1925), French sociologist
- France Winddance Twine (b. 1960), US-American sociologist and ethnographer
U
- John Urry, British sociologist
V
- Francisco Varela (1946-2001), Chilean biologist and philosopher
- Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929), US-American economist and sociologist
- Calvin Veltman (b.1941), Canadian sociologist, demographer and sociolinguist
- Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, US-American sociologist
- Nildo Viana (b. 1965), Brazilian sociologist and philosopher
- Richard R. Verdugo (b. 1948), US-American sociologist
W
- Peter Wagner, German sociologist and social theorist
- Immanuel Wallerstein (b. 1930), US-American sociologist and historian
- Lester Frank Ward (1841-1913), founder of US-American sociology
- Stanley Wasserman, US-American sociologist, psychologist, statistician
- Anita Waters (b. 1953), US-American sociologist
- Duncan Watts, US-American mathematical sociologist and network theorist
- Beatrice Webb (1858-1943), British socialist and social theorist
- Sidney Webb (1859-1947), British socialist and social theorist
- Alfred Weber (1868-1958), German sociologist
- Max Weber (1864-1920), German sociologist
- Barry Wellman (b. 1942), US-Canadian-American sociologist (dual citizenship)
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931), US-American sociologist,journalist, social worker
- John Westergaard (b. 1927), British sociologist
- Edward Westermarck (1862-1939), Finnish sociologist and philosopher
- Douglas R. White (b. 1942), US-American Mathematical Sociologist and Anthropologist.
- Harrison White, US-American Sociologist
- William H. Whyte (1917-1999), US-American sociologist, journalist and peoplewatcher
- Leopold von Wiese (1876-1969), German Sociologist
- Raymond Williams (1921-1988), Welsh sociologist, novelist and critic
- William Julius Wilson (b. 1935), US-American sociologist
- Howard Winant, US.American sociologist
- Christopher Winship, US-American sociologist
- Louis Wirth (1897-1952), German/US-American sociologist
- Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski (b. 1944), Polish sociologist
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), British social reformer
- Steve Woolgar, British sociologist
- Monroe Work (1866-1945), US-American sociologist
- Erik Olin Wright, US-American sociologist
Y
- Kazuo Yamaguchi
- Yu Xie, US-American sociologist and statistician
- Yogender Singh, Indian sociologist
Z
- Benjamin Zablocki (b. 1941), US-American soiologist and social psychologist
- Henry Zentner (d. 1986), Canadian sociologist
- Eviatar Zerubavel, US-American Cognitive Sociologist
- Jean Ziegler (b. 1934), Swiss sociologist
- Slavoj Zizek (b. 1949), Slovenian sociologist and philosopher
- Florian Znaniecki (1882-1958), Polish-American sociologist
- Irving Zola, US-American medical sociologist and disability rights activist
- Sharon Zukin, U.S-American sociologist