Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index This is a list of noted sociologists and major contributors to sociology, (even if they are not sociologists): A, B, C - D, E, F - G, H, I - J, K, L - M, N, O - P, Q, R - S, T, U - V, W, X, Y, Z A, B, C Jane Addams (1860-1935), American social worker and reformer Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), German cultural sociologist (Frankfurt School) Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), German political theorist Raymond Aron Gregory Bateson (1904-1980), American(?) cybernetican Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929), French cultural theorist Ulrich Beck, German sociologist Daniel Bell Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), German cultural sociologist Peter L. Berger (b. 1929), Austro-American sociologist Henri Bergson (1859-1941), French philosopher Herbert Blumer Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002), French sociologist Ernest Burgess Judith Butler (b. 1956), American gender theorist Manuel Castells (b. 1942), Catalan-American sociologist and urban planner James S. Coleman Auguste Comte (1798-1857), French proto-sociologist Charles Cooley Stefan Czarnowski (1879-1937), Polish sociologist D, E, F Robert Dahl Ralf Dahrendorf W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963), African-American civil rights leader Emile Durkheim (1858-1917), French founder of sociology Nancy Denton Norbert Elias (1897-1990), German sociologist Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), German socialist philosopher Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002), Austrian-American cybernetican Michel Foucault (1926-1984), French sociologist Charles Fourier (1772-1837), French proto-sociologist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian psycho-analyst Hans Freyer Erich Fromm (1900-1980), German-American psychologist /Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist G, H, I Francis Galton (1822-1911), English statistican Anthony Giddens (b. 1938), English sociologist Corrado Gini (1884-1965), Italian statistician Clifford Geertz Arnold Gehlen Theodor Geiger Erving Goffman (1922-1982), Canadian interactionistic sociologist Antonio Gramsci (1891-1931), Italian Marxist Mark Granovetter Jürgen Habermas (b. 1929), German social theorist Maurice Halbwachs Donna Haraway, American gender and technology theorist David Harvey, British geographer Georg F. Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher George C. Homans Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), German sociologist (Frankfurt School) Floyd Hunter J, K, L Jane Jacobs Antonina Kłoskowska (1919-2001), Polish sociologist Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), French psychoanalyst. Paul F. Lazarsfeld Claude Levi-Strauss (b. 1908), French anthropologist Seymour Martin Lipset Thomas Luckmann (b. 1927), German sociologist Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998), German sociologist (systems theory) Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919), German socialist theoretician Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998), French philosopher Karin Knorr Cetina Alfred L. Kroeber Thomas S. Kuhn (1922-1996), American science theorist M, N, O Henry Maine (1822-1888), British jurist and legal historian Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942), Polish anthropologist Thomas Malthus (1766-1834), English demographer Karl Mannheim (1893-1947), German-speaking sociologist Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), German-American sociologist (Frankfurt School) Douglas Massey Humberto Maturana Marcel Mauss Karl Marx (1818-1883), German political philosopher and social theorist Robert McKenzie George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) American philosopher and social psychologist Margaret Mead (1901-1978), American cultural anthropologist Robert K. Merton, American sociologist Robert Michels, German political sociologist C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) American sociologist Oswald von Nell-Breuning (1890-1991), German Roman Catholic theologian, sociologist and social reformer Otto Neurath (1882-1945), Austrian sociologist and political economist William F. Ogburn Stanisław Ossowski (1897-1963), Polish sociologist Robert Owen P, Q, R Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923), Italian economist Robert E. Park, American sociologist Vance Packard (1914-1996), American proto-pop-sociologist Talcott Parsons (1902-1979), American functionalist sociologist Karl Pearson (1857-1936), English statistican Robert Putnam George Ritzer (b. 1940), American sociologist S, T, U Henri de Saint-Simon Saskia Sassen Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913), Swiss linguist (structuralism) Helmut Schelsky Alfred Schütz (1899-1959), Austrian philosopher and sociologist (phenomenology) Richard Sennett Ali Shariati (1933-1977), Iranian sociologist Charles E. Silberman, criminologist Albion Woodbury Small (1854-1926), American sociologist, founder of Chicago University Dept. of Sociology Georg Simmel (1858-1918), German sociologist Adam Smith(1723-1790), Scottish economist and philosopher Pitrim Sorokin (1889-1968), Russian sociologist Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), English philosopher Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), German philosopher Anselm L. Strauss, American sociologist (sociology of medicine, qualitative methods) Gerald Suttles Jan Szczepański W. I. Thomas, American social psychologist Alexis de Tocqueville Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936) German sociologist V, W, X, Y, Z Francisco Varela (1946-2001), Chilean biologist and philosopher Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929), American economist and sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein Beatrice Webb (1858-1943), British socialist and social theorist Sidney Webb (1859-1947), British socialist and social theorist Alfred Weber Max Weber (1864-1920), German founder of sociology William Julius Wilson Louis Wirth Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), British social reformer Florian Znaniecki (1882-1958), Polish and American sociologist Slavoj Zizek (b. 1949), Slovenian sociologist and philosopher External links Timeline of Sociology This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.