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This article provides a list of noted sociologists and major contributors to sociology (even if they did not primarily work as sociologists):
Contents: Top - 0–9 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
- 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 (born 1937), Swedish sociologist
- Vilhelm Aubert (1922–1988), Norwegian sociologist
B
- 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
- Joel Baum, Canadian sociologist and management theorist
- Zygmunt Bauman (born 1925), Polish/British sociologist
- Peter Bearman (born 1956), US-American sociologist
- Ulrich Beck (born 1944), German sociologist
- Howard S. Becker (born 1928), US-American sociologist
- Richard F. Behrendt (1908–1973), German sociologist
- Daniel Bell (born 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 (born 1929), Austro-American sociologist
- Henri Bergson (1859–1941), French philosopher
- Andre Beteille, Indian sociologist
- Peter Blau (1918–2002), US-American sociologist
- Kathleen M. Blee (born 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 (born 1949), US-American sociologist
- Thomas Bottomore (1920–1992), British sociologist
- Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002), French sociologist
- Ronald Breiger, US-American Sociologist
- John David Brewer (born 1951), British 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 (born 1956), US-American gender theorist
- Carter Butts, US-American sociologist
C
- Michel Callon, French sociologist
- Elias Canetti, Bulgaria-born novelist and outsider sociologist
- Fernando Henrique Cardoso (born 1931), Brazilian sociologist, former President of Brazil
- Kathleen Carley US-American computational sociologist
- Manuel Castells (born 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 (born 1967), French sociologist
- Nancy Chodorow (born 1944), US-American sociologist, psychoanalyst and gender theorist
- Dieter Claessens (1921–1997), German sociologist,
- Lars Clausen (born 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 (born 1948), US-American sociologist
- Randall Collins, US-American sociologist
- R.W. Connell (born 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
- Bob Dole, American-Iranian cultural critic and intellectual historian
- Robert Dahl (born 1915), US-American political scientist
- Dankwart Danckwerts (born 1933), German sociologist
- Ralf Dahrendorf (born 1929), German-British sociologist and politician
- Alexander Deichsel (born 1935), German sociologist
- Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995), French philosopher
- Helen Dinerman (1920–1974), American public opinion researcher
- Georgi Dimitrov Dimitrov, Bulgarian sociologist
- G. William Domhoff, US-American sociologist
- Jacqueline Donkers (born 1980), Dutch 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 (born 1984), Indo-American cultural critic and sociologist
E
F
- Rick Fantasia, US-American sociologist
- Thomas Fararo (born 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 (born 1949), US-American sociologists
- Gary Alan Fine (born 1950), US-American sociologist
- Claude Fischer (born 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
- Daniel A. Foss (born 1940), US-American sociologist
- 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
G
- Francis Galton (1822–1911), English statistican
- Herbert Gans (born 1927), US sociologist
- Harold Garfinkel (born 1917), US sociologist
- Felix Guattari (1930–1992), French institutional psychotherapist, founder of schizoanalysis and ecosophy
- Anthony Giddens (born 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 (born 1935), British sociologist
- Leo Goodman (born 1928), US social statistician
- Erving Goffman (1922–1982), Canadian interactionistic sociologist
- Mark Gottdiener, US sociologist
- Isacque Graeber (1905–1984), Sociologist and Jewish Historian
- Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937), Italian Marxist
- Richard Grathoff (born 1934), German sociologist and phenomenologist
- Mark Granovetter, US sociologist
- Andrew M. Greeley, US sociologist, priest, writer
- Liah Greenfeld (born ?), Russian-born US sociologist; foremost contemporary sociologist
- Leonid Grinin (born 1958), Russian sociologist
- Ludwig Gumplovicz (1838–1909), Polish-Austrian sociologist, one of the founders of European sociology
H
- Jürgen Habermas (born 1929), German social theorist
- Jeffrey K. Hadden (1937–2003), US-American sociologist
- Maurice Halbwachs (1877–1945), French philosopher and sociologist
- Stuart Hall (born 1932), British cultural theorist
- Maureen Hallinan, US-American sociologist
- Donna Haraway (born 1944), US-American gender and technology theorist
- David Harvey (born 1935), British geographer
- Chandrakala A. Hate (1903–1990), Indian sociologist, social worker, and author
- Michael Hechter, US-American sociologist
- Richard Hoggart (born 1918), British sociologist and founding member of the Birmingham University Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
- George C. Homans (1910–1989), US-American behavioural sociologist
- Axel Honneth (born 1949), German social theorist
- Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), German social philosopher
- Patrick Hunout, Belgian sociologist
- Stephen J. Hunt, British sociologist
- Floyd Hunter (born 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 (born 1952), Indian political scientist and social activist
J
K
- Dirk Kaesler (born 1944), German sociologist
- Rand Kannenberg (born 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
- Antonina Kłoskowska (1919–2001), Polish sociologist
- Karin Knorr-Cetina (born 1944), German sociologist
- René König (1906–1992), German sociologist
- Andrey Korotayev (born 1961), Russian sociologist
- Maksim Kovalevsky (1851 - 1916), Russian 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
L
- William Labov (born 1927), American sociolinguist and dialectologist
- Jacques Lacan (1901–1981), French psychoanalyst
- Ernesto Laclau, Argentinian sociologist
- Janja Lalich (born 1945), US-American sociologist
- David C. Lane (born 1956), US-American sociologist
- Ralph Larkin US-American sociologist
- Scott Lash, US-American sociologist
- Bruno Latour (born 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 (born 1937), US-American sociologist
- Claude Lévi-Strauss (born 1908), French anthropologist
- Jack Levin (born 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 (born 1922), US-American comparativist sociologist
- David Lockwood, British sociologist
- Thomas Luckmann (born 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
M
- Henry Maine (1822–1888), British jurist and legal historian
- Carl R May (born 1961), British medical sociologist
- Robert Morrison MacIver (1882–1970), Scottish-American sociologist.
- Bronislaw Malinowski (1884–1942), Polish social anthropologist
- Thomas Malthus (1766–1834), English demographer
- Richard Machalek (born 1946), US-American sociologist and sociobiologist
- Michael Macy, US-American sociologist
- Michael Mann (born 1942), British-American sociologist
- Karl Mannheim (1893–1947), German sociologist
- Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), German-American sociologist (Frankfurt School)
- Wladyslaw Markiewicz (born 1920), Polish sociologist
- Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), English writer described as 'first female sociologist'
- Vladimir Martynenko (born 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 (born 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 (born 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 (born 1959), Japanese sociologist
- Brij Mohan (born 1939), Indian-American social scientist
- Manouchehr Mohseni [1](born 1942),Iranian sociologist & professor
- 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 (born 1943), US-American sociologist
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P
- Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923), Italian economist and sociologist
- Robert E. Park (1864–1944), US-American 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 (born 1973), American musician
- Robert Putnam (born 1941), US-American political scientist
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865), French socialist or anarchist philosopher
- Gil Sung Park (born 1956), Korean sociologist
Q
R
- Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (1881–1955), British social anthropologist
- Stephen Raudenbush, US-American sociologist and statistician
- Aviad Raz (born 1968), Israeli sociologist and anthropologist
- John Rex (born 1928), British sociologist
- George Ritzer (born 1940), US-American sociologist
- Terje Rød-Larsen (born 1947), Norwegian diplomat and sociologist
- Dale A. Rose (born 1972), US-American sociologist
- Paul Rosenfels (1909–1985), American psychologist and sociologist
- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888–1973), German social philosopher
- Malena Rubino (born 1985), US-American sociologist
- Walter Garrison Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford, British sociologist
S
- Harvey Sacks (died 1975), US-American sociologist and ethnomethodologist
- Moisés Espírito Santo (born 1934), Portuguese sociologist, ethnologist and ethnolinguist
- Henri de Saint-Simon (1760–1825), French philosopher and social thinker
- Saskia Sassen (born 1949), US-American sociologist
- Peter Saunders, Australian sociologist
- Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913), Swiss linguist (structuralism)
- Helmut Schelsky (1912–1984), German sociologist
- Kurt C. Schlichting, American sociologist.
- Paul Schnabel Dutch sociologist
- Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950), Austrian economist
- Alfred Schütz (1899–1959), Austrian philosopher and sociologist (phenomenology)
- Richard Sennett (born 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 (born 1960), US-American sociologist of religion
- Dorothy E. Smith (born 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 Szczepanski (1913–2004), Polish sociologist
- Piotr Sztompka (born 1944), Polish sociologist
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 (born 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 (born 1929), US-American sociologist
- Valery Tishkov (born 1941), Russian ethnologist and sociologist
- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859), French essayist and political analyst
- Ferdinand Tönnies (1855–1936), German sociologist
- Alain Touraine (born 1925), French sociologist
- France Winddance Twine (born 1960), US-American sociologist and ethnographer
U
V
W
- Peter Wagner, German sociologist and social theorist
- Immanuel Wallerstein (born 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 (born 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
- Frank Webster (born 1950), British sociologist
- Barry Wellman (born 1942), US-Canadian-American sociologist (dual citizenship)
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931), US-American sociologist,journalist, social worker
- John Westergaard (born 1927), British sociologist
- Edward Westermarck (1862–1939), Finnish sociologist and philosopher
- Douglas R. White (born 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 (born 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 (born 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
- Yu Xie, US-American sociologist and statistician
Z
- Benjamin Zablocki (born 1941), US-American soiologist and social psychologist
- René Zavaleta Mercado, (1935–1984), Bolivian sociologist
- Henry Zentner (died 1986), Canadian sociologist
- Eviatar Zerubavel, US-American Cognitive Sociologist
- Jean Ziegler (born 1934), Swiss sociologist
- Slavoj Zizek (born 1949), Slovenian sociologist and philosopher
- Florian Znaniecki (1882–1958), Polish-American sociologist
- Irving Zola, US-American medical sociologist and disability rights activist
- Tukufu Zuberi, U.S. American sociologist
- Sharon Zukin, U.S-American sociologist
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