List of sociologists

This is a list of sociologists.

• Jane Addams (1860–1935), social worker, sociologist,^[1] public philosopher and reformer
• Theodor Adorno (1903–1969) member of the Frankfurt School and author of The Authoritarian Personality

• Emily Greene Balch, professor of sociology and Nobel Peace laureate
• Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007), sociologist and cultural theorist^[2]
• Zygmunt Bauman
• Ulrich Beck (1944–2015), sociologist
• Gary Becker, economist
• Howard S. Becker (born 1928), sociologist
• Peter L. Berger
• Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002), sociologist^[3]
• Judith Butler (born 1956), gender theorist

• 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";^[4]
• Nancy Chodorow sociologist, psychoanalyst, and gender theorist
• Patricia Hill Collins
• Auguste Comte (1798–1857), founder of sociology

• Ralf Dahrendorf (1929–2009) wrote about social inequality in Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society.^[5]
• 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.^[6][7]

• Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) worked on technology and society and wrote Anarchy and Christianity (1991) ^[8]

• 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.^[9][10]
• Pim Fortuyn (1948–2002), sociologist author and politician^[11]
• John Bellamy Foster made the idea of "metabolic rift" about Marx and ecology.^[12][13]

• Johan Galtung (d. 2024),^[14] founder of peace studies
• Patrick Geddes
• Salvador Giner
• Todd Gitlin was president of Students for a Democratic Society in 1963-64..^[15] 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

• 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.^[16]

• Bruno Latour sociologist of science

• 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^[17]

• Gail Omvedt (1941–2021) human rights activist who studied caste in India and worked for better lives for dalits.^[18]

• Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923), Italian economist and sociologist
• Talcott Parsons (1902–1979), sociologist

• Aníbal Quijano

• 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."

• Alain Touraine (born 1925), sociologist

• Immanuel Wallerstein (1930–2019) sociologist, economic historian and world-systems analyst. His best known works helped developed the world-systems approach.^[19]
• Max Weber (1864–1920) political economist and sociologist who was one of the founders of the modern study of sociology and public administration.
• Erik Olin Wright (1947–2019) In 2012, Wright was elected President of the Sociological Association.^[20]