Sociologists
500 people
Medieval 2
Enlightenment 20
Adam Ferguson
Scottish philosopher and historian; (1723-1816)
Adolphe Quetelet
Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist (1796-1874)
Auguste Comte
French philosopher, mathematician and sociologist (1798–1857)
Charles Fourier
French utopian socialist and philosopher (1772–1837)
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon
French early socialist theorist (1760-1825)
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès
French priest and statesman (1748-1836)
François de La Rochefoucauld, 7th Duke of La Rochefoucauld
Duke of France (1747–1827)
Giambattista Vico
Italian philosopher, rhetorician, historian and jurist
Gian Domenico Romagnosi
Italian philosopher, economist and jurist (1761-1835)
Henry Charles Carey
American economist and publisher
Henry Home, Lord Kames
Scottish philosopher, judge and agricultural improver (1696–1782)
James Harrington
English political theorist of classical republicanism
Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat de Condorcet
French philosopher, mathematician, and political scientist (1743–1794)
Montesquieu
French philosopher (1689–1755)
Philippe Buchez
French historian, sociologist, and politician (1796-1865)
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours
French writer, economist, and government official (1739–1817)
Robert Owen
Welsh textile manufacturer and social reformer (1771–1858)
Thomas Robert Malthus
British political economist (1766–1834)
William Petty
English scientist, philosopher, statistician and economist (1623-1688)
İbrahim Müteferrika
Ottoman polymath
19th Century 192
Abe Isoo
Japanese politician
Adolphe Ferrière
Swiss educator; one of the founders of the movement of the progressive education (1879–1960)
Ahmet Cevdet Pasha
Ottoman statesman (1822-1895)
Albert Jay Nock
American journalist (1870-1945)
Albion Woodbury Small
American sociologist (1854-1926)
Alexander Bogdanov
Russian physician, philosopher and revolutionary (1873–1928)
Alexander Chayanov
Soviet scholar (1888–1937)
Alexander Rüstow
German academic (1885–1963)
Alexandra Kollontai
Soviet diplomat (1872-1952)
Alexandros Papanastasiou
Greek politician (1876-1936)
Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol
Romanian historian (1847–1920)
Alexis Carrel
French surgeon and biologist
Alexis de Tocqueville
French political thinker and historian, minister of Foreign Affairs (1805-1859)
Alfonsina Storni
Argentine writer and poet
Alfred Binet
French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test (1857–1911)
Alfred Kinsey
American sexologist (1894–1956)
Alfred L. Kroeber
American anthropologist (1876–1960)
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
British anthropologist (1881–1955)
Alfred Sauvy
demographer, anthropologist and historian of the French economy (1898–1990)
Alfred Schütz
American sociologist (1899–1959)
Alfred Sohn-Rethel
Marxist economist and philosopher (1899-1990)
Alfred Weber
German geographer and economist (1868–1958)
Anna J. Cooper
African-American author, educator, speaker and scholar (1858–1964)
Antonio Gramsci
Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937)
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Arnold Hauser
Hungarian art historian (1892-1978)
Arthur Ruppin
Zionist activist (1876-1943)
B. R. Ambedkar
Indian polymath, philosopher, and social reformer (1891–1956)
Bautista Saavedra
President of Bolivia (1870-1939)
Beatrice Webb
English sociologist, economist, socialist, and social reformer (1858–1943)
Benedict Friedlaender
German writer and sexuologist (1866–1908)
Benjamin Tucker
American journalist and anarchist (1854-1939)
Bronisław Malinowski
Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and the USA (1884–1942)
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Carl Grünberg
Austrian economist, economic historian and sociologist (1861-1940)
Chang Ping-lin
Chinese linguist (1868-1936)
Charles Booth
British social researcher and philanthropist (1840-1916)
Charles Cooley
American sociologist (1864–1929)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860–1935)
Christopher Dawson
British historian (1889–1970)
Constantin Pecqueur
French academic and politician (1801-1887)
Corrado Gini
Italian statistician (1884–1965)
Dietrich von Hildebrand
German Catholic philosopher and theologian (1889–1977)
Doris Stevens
American suffragist
Edvard Beneš
Czechoslovak politician (1884-1948)
Edvard Westermarck
Finnish academic (1862–1939)
Edward Abramowski
Polish philosopher, libertarian socialist, anarchist, psychologist and ethician (1868-1918)
Edward Burnett Tylor
English anthropologist (1832–1917)
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Edwin Sutherland
American criminologist (1883–1950)
Elsie Clews Parsons
American anthropologist (1875-1941)
Elton Mayo
Australian psychologist and sociologist
Emily Greene Balch
American economist and writer
Enrico Ferri
criminologist (1856-1929)
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Erich Rothacker
German philosopher (1888–1965)
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Ernest Burgess
American sociologist (1886–1966)
Ernst Troeltsch
German philosopher and theologian (1865-1923)
Euclides da Cunha
Brazilian writer (1866–1909)
Eugen Dühring
German antisemitic philosopher and economist (1833-1921)
Eugen Ehrlich
Austrian lawyer (1862–1922)
Ferdinand Tönnies
German sociologist, economist and philosopher (1855–1936)
Filippo Turati
Italian politician and journalist (1857-1932)
Florence Nightingale
English social reformer, statistician, and founder of modern nursing (1820–1910)
Florian Znaniecki
Polish sociologist (1882–1958)
Frances Perkins
Workers-rights advocate and United States Secretary of Labor 1933–1945
Francis Galton
British eugenist, polymath, and behavioural geneticist (1822–1911)
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Frank Knight
American economist (1885-1972)
Franklin Henry Giddings
American economist (1855–1931)
Franz Oppenheimer
German-Jewish physician, sociologist and political economist (1864-1943)
Friedrich Albert Lange
German philosopher and sociologist (1828-1875)
Friedrich Engels
German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)
Friedrich Pollock
German social scientist (1894–1970)
Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster
German academic, philosopher, editor and pacifist (1869-1966)
Gabriel Tarde
French sociologist (1843–1904)
Gaetano Mosca
Italian political scientist and journalist (1858–1941)
Georg Jellinek
German philosopher (1851-1911)
Georg Lukács
Hungarian marxist philosopher and literary critic (1885–1971)
Georg Simmel
German sociologist, philosopher, and critic (1858–1918)
George Herbert Mead
American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist
Georges Gurvitch
French sociologist (1894-1965)
Georges Sorel
French philosopher and sociologist
Georges Vacher de Lapouge
French anthropologist (1854–1936)
Georgi Plekhanov
Russian philosopher (1856–1918)
Guglielmo Ferrero
Italian historian and writer (1871-1942)
Gunnar Myrdal
Swedish economist (1898–1987)
Gustave Le Bon
French psychologist (1841-1931)
H. G. Wells
English writer (1866–1946)
Harold Innis
Canadian professor of political economy (1894–1952)
Harriet Martineau
English writer and sociologist (1802–1876)
Helmuth Plessner
German philosopher and sociologist (1892–1985)
Henri Bergson
French philosopher (1859–1941)
Henri Hubert
French sociologist (1872–1927)
Henry James Sumner Maine
British jurist and historian (1822–1888)
Henry Thomas Buckle
English historian (1821–1862)
Herbert Marcuse
German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist (1898–1979)
Herbert Spencer
English philosopher and political theorist (1820–1903)
Ida B. Wells
American journalist and civil rights activist (1862–1931)
Ion Ghica
Romanian politician (1816–1897)
Jacob Riis
American photographer, journalist and activist (1849–1914)
Jakob Jud
Swiss linguist (1882-1952)
Jane Addams
American feminist social activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, philosopher,...
Janez Evangelist Krek
Slovenian politician (1865–1917)
Jenny von Westphalen
German theatre critic and political activist (1814–1881)
Joachim Wach
German sociologist (1898-1955)
Joaquim Pedro de Oliveira Martins
47th Minister for Treasury Affairs (1845-1894)
Johann Jakob Bachofen
Swiss jurist and philologist (1815–1887)
John Dewey
American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer (1859–1952)
John R. Commons
American economist and historian (1862–1945)
John Ruskin
English writer and art critic (1819–1900)
José Carlos Mariátegui
Peruvian writer and academic (1894–1930)
José Ortega y Gasset
Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist (1883–1955)
Julio Enrique Moreno
Acting President of Ecuador (1940)
Karl August Wittfogel
German-American academic (1896–1988)
Karl Mannheim
Hungarian-German philosopher and sociologist (1893-1947)
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
Karl Polanyi
Hungarian economist, philosopher and historian
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Kenneth Burke
American philosopher and literary critic (1897–1993)
Konstantin Leontiev
Russian philosopher (1831-1891)
Leon Petrażycki
Polish lawyer, philosopher, sociologist of law, ethicist and logician
Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse
British sociologist (1864-1929)
Leopold von Wiese
German sociologist and economist (1876-1969)
Lester Frank Ward
American sociologist and paleontologist (1841-1913)
Lewis H. Morgan
American anthropologist (1818–1881)
Lewis Hine
American sociologist and photographer (1874–1940)
Lewis Mumford
American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology and literary critic (1895-1990)
Lorenz von Stein
German legal scholar (1815-1890)
Louis Wirth
German American sociologist (1897-1952)
Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
French philosopher (1857-1939)
Ludwig Gumplowicz
Polish sociologist (1838–1909)
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Ludwik Fleck
Polish physician (1896–1961)
Luigi Sturzo
Italian Catholic priest and politician (1871-1959)
Luis Alberto Riart
President of Paraguay (1880-1953)
Léon Metchnikoff
Russian scientist, journalist and anarchist (1838–1888)
Maksim Kovalevsky
Ukrainian sociologist (1851-1916)
Marcel Granet
French sociologist (1884-1940)
Marcel Mauss
French sociologist and anthropologist (1872-1950)
Marcus Garvey
Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur (1887-1940)
Maria Ossowska
Polish academic (1896–1974)
Marianne Weber
German women's rights activist and legal historian (1870-1954)
Mary Parker Follett
American academic (1868-1933)
Maurice Halbwachs
French sociologist (1877-1945), died in Buchenwald concentration camp
Max Adler
Austrian sociologist (1873-1937)
Max Horkheimer
German philosopher and sociologist (1895–1973)
Max Nordau
Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic (1849–1923)
Max Scheler
German philosopher (1874-1928)
Max Weber
German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864–1920)
Nikolay Danilevsky
Russian academic (1822-1885)
Nikolay Mikhaylovsky
Russian publicist, literary critic, sociologist (1842-1904)
Norbert Elias
German sociologist (1897–1990)
Olive Schreiner
South African author and pacifist (1855-1920)
Oswald Spengler
German historian and philosopher (1880-1936)
Othmar Spann
Austrian philosopher (1878-1950)
Otto Neurath
Austrian economist, philosopher and sociologist (1882–1945)
Pandita Ramabai
Indian feminist historian and social reformer (1858–1922)
Patrick Geddes
British biologist, botanist and town planner (1854-1932)
Philip Henry Wicksteed
English economist (1844–1927)
Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play
French engineer, sociologist and economist (1806-1882)
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
French politician, philosopher, anarchist and socialist (1809-1865)
Pitirim Sorokin
Russian sociologist (1889-1968)
Prince Sabahaddin
Ottoman noble (1877–1948)
Pyotr Lavrov
Russian academic (1823–1900)
Ralph Linton
American anthropologist (1893–1953)
Robert Ezra Park
American sociologist (1864–1944)
Robert Hertz
French sociologist (1881–1915)
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Robert Lowie
American anthropologist (1883–1957)
Robert Michels
German sociologist (1876–1936)
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Robert Ranulph Marett
British ethnologist (1866–1943)
Rudolf Holsti
Finnish politician, journalist and diplomat (1881–1945)
Sidney Sonnino
Italian politician (1847–1922)
Sidney Webb
English socialist economist, 1859–1947 (1859–1947)
Siegfried Kracauer
German writer, journalist, sociologist, cultural critic, and film theorist (1889-1966)
Slobodan Jovanović
Serbian jurist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and literary critic
Spiru Haret
Romanian mathematician, astronomer and politician (1851–1912)
Stepan Shahumyan
Armenian Bolshevik revolutionary (1878–1918)
Thomas Humphrey Marshall
British sociologist (1893-1981)
Thorstein Veblen
American economist and sociologist (1857–1929)
Timofey Granovsky
Russian historian (1813-1855)
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Czechoslovak politician, statesman, sociologist and philosopher; first Czechoslovak...
Vilfredo Pareto
Italian economist and sociologist (1848-1923)
W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)
Walter Bagehot
British journalist, businessman, and essayist (1826-1877)
Walter Benjamin
German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940)
Werner Sombart
German economist, sociologist, historian (1863-1941)
Wilhelm Dilthey
German historian, psychologist, sociologist, student of hermeneutics, and philosopher...
Wilhelm Lexis
German statistician and economist (1837–1914)
Wilhelm Ostwald
Baltic German chemist (1853–1932)
William Graham Sumner
American sociologist (1840–1910)
William Isaac Thomas
American sociologist (1863-1947)
Yan Fu
Chinese translator (1854–1921)
Yevgeni Preobrazhensky
Russian economist and politician (1886–1937)
Zaki al-Arsuzi
Syrian philosopher (1899–1968)
Ziya Gökalp
Turkish sociologist and writer (1876–1924)
Ángel Ganivet
Spanish writer (1865–1898)
Émile Durkheim
French sociologist (1858–1917)
Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye
Belgian economist (1822–1892)
Modern 286
Abdallah Laroui
Moroccan historian and writer
Akbar Ganji
Iranian journalist
Alain Touraine
French sociologist (1925–2023)
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Albert Razin
Russian ethnographer and Udmurt language activist
Alberto Undiano Mallenco
Spanish football referee
Aleš Debeljak
Slovenian poet, essayist, critic (1961-2016)
Alfred Schmidt
German philosopher and social scientist (1931-2012)
Ali Shariati
Iranian writer, scholar of Islam, and political activist(1933-1977)
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Alice Miller
Swiss psychologist (1923-2010)
Alice Wong
American disability activist (1974–2025)
Alvin Toffler
American writer, futurist and businessman
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Alvin Ward Gouldner
professor of sociology (1920-1980)
Amartya Sen
Indian economist and philosopher (1933-)
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Amitai Etzioni
German-Israeli immigrant to the United States, sociologist and political theorist of...
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Andre Gunder Frank
German-American economic historian and sociologist who promoted dependency theory...
Andrey Korotayev
Russian anthropologist, economic historian, comparative political scientist, and sociologist
André Gorz
Austrian born French philosopher and journalist (1923-2007)
Anita Sarkeesian
American blogger (born 1983)
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Ann Oakley
British writer and academic
Anna Hazare
Indian activist (born 1937)
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Anselm Strauss
American sociologist (1916-1996)
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Anthony D. Smith
British academic (1939-2016)
Antonio Candido
Brazilian writer, professor, sociologist and literary critic (1918–2017)
Antonio Escohotado
Spanish essayist and university professor
Arjun Appadurai
social-cultural anthropologist (born 1949)
Arlie Russell Hochschild
American sociologist (1940-)
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Arnold Gehlen
German academic (1904-1976)
Ashis Nandy
Indian academic
Aušra Augustinavičiūtė
Lithuanian academic (1927–2005)
Axel Honneth
German philosopher
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Axelle Kabou
author and journalist living in France
Ayesha Jalal
Pakistani historian
Barbara Engelking
Polish psychologist and sociologist
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Barrington Moore, Jr.
American historian and sociologist
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Basil Bernstein
British sociologist (1924–2000)
Bassam Tibi
Syrian-German social and political scientist and university lecturer
Betty Friedan
American feminist writer and activist (1921–2006)
Bindeshwar Pathak
Indian sociologist
Boris Parygin
Russian academic (1930–2012)
Bruno Latour
French sociologist and philosopher (1947–2022)
Buchi Emecheta
Nigerian writer (1944–2017)
C. Wright Mills
American sociologist (1916–1962)
Carol Queen
American author, editor, sociologist and sexologist
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Indian feminism and women's studies professor
Charles Murray
American political scientist (born 1943)
Charles Taylor
Canadian philosopher (born 1931)
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Charles Tilly
American sociologist (1929–2008)
Chizuko Ueno
Japanese sociologist
Chris Harman
British journalist and political activist (1942-2009)
Christian Metz
French film critic (1931–1993)
Christine Delphy
French sociologist
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Christopher Lasch
American historian (1932-1994)
Clifford Geertz
American anthropologist
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Clyde Kluckhohn
American anthropologist (1905–1960)
Daniel Bell
American sociologist (1919–2011)
Daniel Goldhagen
American author and academic (born 1959)
Daniel J. Boorstin
American historian (1914–2004)
Danilo Dolci
Italian author, sociologist, social activist (1924-1997)
Dariusz Jemielniak
Polish professor of management, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees member
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David Held
British political scientist and sociologist (1951–2019)
David McClelland
American psychologist (1917–1998)
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David Riesman
American sociologist and educator (1909–2002)
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Dell Hymes
American anthropologist and linguist (1927–2009)
Didier Eribon
French author and philosopher (born 1953)
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Indian historian
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Donald T. Campbell
American social scientist (1916–1996)
Donna Haraway
American philosopher, scholar in the field of science and technology studies
Dorothy E. Smith
Canadian anthropologist
Duncan J. Watts
Australian physicist and sociologist
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Dwight Macdonald
American writer, editor, film critic, social critic, philosopher and political radical...
Edgar Morin
French philosopher and sociologist (1921–2026)
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Edward Shils
American sociologist
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Edward T. Hall
American anthropologist (1914–2009)
Elaine Showalter
American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues
Elihu Katz
American and Israeli sociologist (1926–2021)
Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann
German political scientist (1916–2010)
Eric Hoffer
American philosopher
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Eric Voegelin
American philosopher (1901–1985)
Erich Fromm
German sociologist and psychoanalyst (1900–1980)
Erik Olin Wright
American sociologist (1947-2019)
Ernest Gellner
Czech anthropologist, philosopher and sociologist
Ernesto Laclau
Argentine philosopher and political theorist (1935-2014)
Erving Goffman
Canadian-American sociologist (1922–1982)
Esther Vilar
Argentine writer
Eva Illouz
Israeli sociologist and university professor
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Everett Rogers
American academic
Fatema Mernissi
1940-2015, Moroccan sociologist, writer and feminist
Francesco Alberoni
Italian journalist and professor of sociology (1929–2023)
Francisco Ayala
Spanish novelist
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Franco Moretti
Italian literary historian and theorist
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Franz Leopold Neumann
German political activist (1900–1954)
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Frederick Irving Herzberg
American psychologist (1923-2000)
Frédéric Lordon
French economist
Gabriele Kuby
German writer
Gail Dines
anti-pornography campaigner
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Geert Hofstede
Dutch psychologist (1928-2020)
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Gene Sharp
American political scientist (1928-2018)
George C. Homans
American sociologist (1910-1989)
George Gallup
American statistician (1901–1984)
George Gerbner
American writer, freelancer and sociologist (1919–2005)
George Ritzer
American sociologist
Georges Balandier
French anthropologist and ethnologist (1920–2016)
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Georges Friedmann
French sociologist (1902-1977)
Gilbert Durand
French academic (1921–2012)
Gilles Lipovetsky
French philosopher, writer and sociologist
Giovanni Arrighi
Italian economist and sociologist (1937-2009)
Giovanni Sartori
Italian journalist and political scientist (1924-2017)
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904–1980)
György Konrád
Hungarian novelist (1933–2019)
Göran Therborn
Swedish sociologist, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge
Gøsta Esping-Andersen
Danish sociologist (born 1947)
Hannah Arendt
German-American political theorist and philosopher (1906–1975)
Hans Albert
German philosopher (1921–2023)
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Hans Lenk
German rower (1935–2024)
Harold Garfinkel
American sociologist (1917-2011)
Harold Lasswell
American political scientist (1902-1978)
Harrison White
American sociologist (1930–2024)
Hartmut Rosa
German sociologist, philosoph and political scientist
Henri Tajfel
British social psychologist and university teacher of Polish-Jewish origin
Henry Mintzberg Storch
Canadian business theorist (born 1939)
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Herbert Blumer
American sociologist, player of American football (1900–1987)
Howard Rheingold
American journalist (born 1947)
Howard S. Becker
American sociologist (1928–2023)
Ignacio Ramonet
Spanish writer
Immanuel Wallerstein
American sociologist and economic historian (1930–2019)
Inija Trinkūnienė
Lithuanian Romuva priest & psychologist (1951-)
Iryna Bekeshkina
Ukrainian sociologist, Director of Ilko Kucheriv «Democratic Initiatives» foundation...
Isaac Deutscher
Polish Marxist historian and Trotskyist communist (1907-1967)
Isaiah Berlin
Russo-British-Latvian Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian...
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István Mészáros
(1930–2017) Hungarian philosopher
Itamar Even-Zohar
Israeli sociologist and linguist
Ivan Illich
Austrian philosopher and theologian (1926–2002)
Jack Goody
British anthropologist (1919-2015)
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Jacob Taubes
sociologist of religion, philosopher, and scholar of Judaism (1923-1987)
Jacques Ellul
French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarchist
James Burnham
American philosopher (1905–1987)
James Cooke Brown
sociologist and science fiction author (1921–2000)
James G. March
American sociologist (1928–2018)
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James Redfield
American author, lecturer, screenwriter and film producer
James Samuel Coleman
American sociologist (1926–1995)
Jan Harold Brunvand
American folklorist
Jan T. Gross
American historian and sociologist
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Jan-Carl Raspe
German left-wing militant (1944–1977)
Jane Jacobs
American–Canadian journalist, author, and activist (1916–2006)
Jean Baudrillard
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist (1929–2007)
Jean-François Lyotard
French philosopher (1924–1998)
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Jeffrey C. Alexander
American sociologist
Jeremy Rifkin
American economist
Jerzy Kosiński
Polish-American novelist
Joanna Bator
Polish journalist (born 1968)
Johan Galtung
Norwegian sociologist and peace scholar
John Bellamy Foster
Sociology professor and Marxist writer
John Urry
British sociologist (1946-2016)
Jon Elster
Norwegian philosopher and political theorist
Josef Pieper
German philosopher (1904-1997)
Joshua Fishman
American linguist (1926–2015)
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Juan José Linz
Spanish sociologist and political scientist (1926–2013)
Judith Butler
American feminist gender studies philosopher (born 1956)
Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
Jürgen Habermas
German sociologist and philosopher (1929–2026)
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Kaossara Sani
Togolese women human rights defender, climate justice activist
Karel Kosik
Czech philosopher, literary theorist and university educator (1926–2003)
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Karl Deutsch
Czech political scientist (1912–1992)
Karl Popper
Austrian-British philosopher of science and social and política e falsificationism and...
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Kathleen Barry
American sociologist
Larry J. Diamond
American political scientist and sociologist
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Leo Löwenthal
German sociologist (1900–1993)
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Lewis A. Coser
American sociologist
Louis Dumont
French anthropologist (1911-1998)
Loïc Wacquant
French sociologist
Lucien Goldmann
Romanian-French philosopher
Malcolm Gladwell
Canadian journalist and science writer
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Mallika Sengupta
Bengali poet
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Mancur Olson
American economist (1932–1998)
Manuel Castells
Spanish sociologist
Margaret Archer
British sociologist (1943–2023)
Marie Jahoda
British Austrian-born psychologist
Mario Bunge
Argentine-Canadian philosopher (1919-2020)
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Mark S. Granovetter
American sociologist
Marshall McLuhan
Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar (1911–1980)
Marta Harnecker
Chilean academic
Marvin Harris
American anthropologist (1927-2001)
Maxime Rodinson
French historian, sociologist and orientalist (1915–2004)
Michael Burawoy
sociological Marxist and author
Michael Kimmel
American sociologist
Michel Bampély
French poet, singer
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Michel Callon
French sociologist
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Michel Crozier
French sociologist (1922–2013)
Michel Maffesoli
French sociologist (1944-)
Michel Wieviorka
French sociologist
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Michel de Certeau
French Jesuit and scholar (1925–1986)
Mike Davis
American writer, urban theorist, political activist, and historian from Southern...
Miquel-Lluís Muntané
Spanish sociologist and writer
Nancy Fraser
American philosopher
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Nancy J. Chodorow
American feminist sociologist and psychoanalyst
Naomi Klein
Canadian author and activist (born 1970)
Nathan Glazer
American sociologist (1923–2019)
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Neera Desai
professor, researcher, academician, political activist and social worker
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Neil Postman
American writer and academic (1931-2003)
Niklas Luhmann
German sociologist, administration expert, and social systems theorist (1927-1998)
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Nikos Poulantzas
Greek-French philosopher
Nils Christie
Norwegian sociologist and criminologist (1928–2015)
Nitasha Kaul
Indian economist and writer
Oskar Negt
German philosopher (1934–2024)
Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Nigerian academic
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Partha Chatterjee
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