This is a list of sociologists.
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Jane Addams (1860–1935), social worker, sociologist, public philosopher and reformer Theodor Adorno (1903–1969) member of the Frankfurt School and author of The Authoritarian Personality
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Emily Greene Balch, professor of sociology and Nobel Peace laureate
Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007), sociologist and cultural theorist
Zygmunt Bauman
Ulrich Beck (1944–2015), sociologist
Gary Becker, economist
Howard S. Becker (born 1928), sociologist
Peter L. Berger
Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002), sociologist
Judith Butler (born 1956), gender theorist
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Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former President of Brazil
Robert Castel
Julieta Castellanos
Manuel Castells, author of the Information Age trilogy in which he writes, "Our societies are increasingly structured around the bipolar opposition of the Net and the Self"; Nancy Chodorow sociologist, psychoanalyst, and gender theorist Patricia Hill Collins Auguste Comte (1798–1857), founder of sociology
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Ralf Dahrendorf (1929–2009) wrote about social inequality in Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) wrote The Souls of Black Folk and Black Reconstruction in America Émile Durkheim (1858–1917) formally started the academic discipline of sociology. He was one of the main organizers of modern social science, along with both Karl Marx and Max Weber.
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Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) worked on technology and society and wrote Anarchy and Christianity (1991)
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Frantz Fanon Black Skin, White Masks is about the oppressed Black person who is seen be lesser and must live in the world by performing White-ness. Pim Fortuyn (1948–2002), sociologist author and politician John Bellamy Foster made the idea of "metabolic rift" about Marx and ecology.
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Johan Galtung, sociologist, mathematician, and founder of peace studies
Patrick Geddes
Salvador Giner
Todd Gitlin was president of Students for a Democratic Society in 1963-64.. He wrote The Whole World Is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left, The Sixties, The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America Is Wracked with Culture Wars, Letters to a Young Activist, and The Intellectuals and the Flag. Erving Goffman (1922–1982), interactionistic sociologist Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937), Italian Marxist and social theorist
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Jürgen Habermas (born 1929), social theorist
Stuart Hall (1932–2014), cultural theorist
Eszter Hargittai, sociologist
Marta Harnecker, sociologist
Ágnes Heller, philosopher and sociologist
Michael D. Higgins, sociologist and current Irish president
Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), member of the Frankfurt School who worked on critical theory.
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Bruno Latour sociologist of science
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Bronisław Malinowski (1884–1942), social anthropologist
Karl Mannheim (1893–1947), / sociologist
Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), / sociologist (Frankfurt School) Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), English writer described as 'first female sociologist' Karl Marx (1818–1883), political philosopher, social theorist Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czech sociologist Humberto Maturana, Chilean biologist and sociologist of knowledge Marcel Mauss (1872–1950), sociologist Ralph Miliband, sociologist C. Wright Mills (1916–1962), sociologist Edgar Morin, sociologist Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927–2003), sociologist, diplomat and politician Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987) economist, sociologist, and Swedish politician
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Gail Omvedt (1941–2021) human rights activist who studied caste in India and worked for better lives for dalits.
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Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923), Italian economist and sociologist
Talcott Parsons (1902–1979), sociologist
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Aníbal Quijano
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Max Scheler, philosopher and founder of the sociology of knowledge
Ali Shariati, sociologist of religion
Dorothy E. Smith, sociologist and gender theorist
Werner Sombart (1863–1941), economist and sociologist who made the term "late capitalism."