List of sociologists
This list of sociologists includes people who have made notable contributions to sociological theory or to research in one or more areas of sociology. == A == Peter Abell, British sociologist Andrew Abbott, American sociologist Rabab Abdulhadi (born 1955), Palestinian-American scholar, activist, educator, editor, academic director, and sociologist Margaret Abraham, Indian-American sociologist Mark Abrams (1906–1994), British sociologist, political scientist and pollster Janet Abu-Lughod (1928–2013), American sociologist Jane Addams (1860–1935), American social worker, sociologist, public philosopher and reformer Theodor Adorno (1903–1969), German philosopher and cultural sociologist Richard Alba (1942–2025), American sociologist Francesco Alberoni, Italian sociologist Martin Albrow, British sociologist Jeffrey C. Alexander, American sociologist David Altheide, American sociologist Louis Althusser, French philosopher and sociologist Edwin Amenta, American sociologist Nancy Ammerman, American sociologist Elijah Anderson, American sociologist Eric Anderson, American-British sociologist Kevin B. Anderson, American sociologist Stanislav Andreski, Polish-British sociologist Robert Cooley Angell, American sociologist Aaron Antonovsky, Israeli sociologist Arjun Appadurai, Indian sociologist Andrew Arato, Hungarian-American sociologist Margaret Archer, British sociologist Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), German political theorist Alcira Argumedo (1940–2021), Argentine sociologist Aristoteles (384–322 BC), Ancient Greek philosopher and sociologist Signe Arnfred, Danish sociologist Raymond Aron (1905–1983), French philosopher and sociologist Stanley Aronowitz, American sociologist Giovanni Arrighi, Italian sociologist Johan Asplund (1937–2018), Swedish sociologist Vilhelm Aubert (1922–1988), Norwegian sociologist Francisco Ayala, Spanish sociologist and novelist == B == Élisabeth Badinter (born 1944), French philosopher and historian Patrick Baert, British sociologist Sergio Bagú, Argentinian sociologist Kenneth D. Bailey, American sociologist Georges Balandier, French sociologist Emily Greene Balch, American professor of sociology and Nobel Peace laureate Robert Balch, American sociologist Étienne Balibar, French philosopher and sociologist E. Digby Baltzell, American sociologist Jack Barbalet, Australian sociologist Teresita de Barbieri, Uruguayan-born Mexican feminist sociologist Eileen Barker (born 1938), British sociologist and professor Barry Barnes, British sociologist Liberty Barnes, American sociologist Roland Barthes (1915–1980), French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician Robert Bartholomew (born 1958), American medical sociologist living in New Zealand Roger Bartra, Mexican sociologist Roger Bastide, French sociologist Georges Bataille, French philosopher and sociologist Gregory Bateson (1904–1980), English/American cybernetician Jean Baubérot (born 1941), French historian and sociologist Christian Baudelot, French sociologist Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007), French cultural theorist Zygmunt Bauman (1925–2017), Polish/British sociologist Frank Bean, American sociologist Peter Bearman (born 1956), American sociologist Ulrich Beck (1944–2015), German sociologist Gary Becker, American economist Howard P. Becker, American sociologist Howard S. Becker (1928–2023), American sociologist Jens Beckert, German sociologist Richard F. Behrendt (1908–1973), German sociologist Daniel Bell (1919–2011), American sociologist Wendell Bell, American sociologist Robert N. Bellah, American sociologist Walden Bello, Filipino sociologist Edvard Beneš, Czechoslovak sociologist and politician Reinhard Bendix, German-American sociologist Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), German cultural writer and sociologist Albert Benschop (1949–2018), Dutch sociologist Joseph Berger, American sociologist Peter L. Berger (1929–2017), Austro-American sociologist Solveig Bergman (born 1955), Finnish sociologist active in gender studies Pierre L. van den Berghe, Belgian sociologist Henri Bergson (1859–1941), French philosopher Jessie Bernard, American feminist sociologist Basil Bernstein, British sociologist Eduard Bernstein, German politician and intellectual Jean-Michel Berthelot, French sociologist Joel Best, America sociologist Andre Beteille, Indian sociologist Gurminder K. Bhambra, British sociologist Krishna Bhattachan, Nepalese sociologist Robert Bierstedt, American sociologist Norman Birnbaum, American sociologist Margunn Bjørnholt (born 1958), Norwegian sociologist and economist Donald Black, American sociologist Blanc de Saint-Bonnet (1815–1880), French philosopher Peter Blau (1918–2002), American sociologist Kathleen M. Blee (born 1953), American sociologist Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg (1929–2025), German sociologist, ethnologist, and sexologist Danielle Bleitrach (born 1938), French sociologist and journalist Fred L. Block, American sociologist David Bloor, British sociologist Herbert Blumer (1900–1987), American sociologist Olivier Bobineau (born 1972), French sociologist Sophie Body-Gendrot (1942–2018), French sociologist Donald Bogue, American demographer and sociologist Manuela Bojadžijev (born 1971), German academic and sociologist Luc Boltanski, French sociologist Louis de Bonald, French philosopher and politician Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, American sociologist Scott Boorman (born 1949), American sociologist Charles Booth, British social researcher Ernst Borinski (1901–1983), German sociologist Atilio Borón, Argentinian sociologist Thomas Bottomore (1920–1992), British sociologist Raymond Boudon, French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002), French sociologist Victor Branford (1863–1930), British sociologist Ronald Breiger, American sociologist John David Brewer (born 1951), British sociologist Carl Brinkmann (1885–1954), German sociologist David G. Bromley, American sociologist Rogers Brubaker, American sociologist Hauke Brunkhorst, German sociologist José Joaquín Brunner, Chilean sociologist Hans Henrik Reventlow Bruun, Danish sociologist Lois Bryson, Australian sociologist Walter F. Buckley, American sociologist Michael Burawoy, American sociologist Ernest Burgess (1886–1966), Canadian sociologist Tom R. Burns, European-American sociologist Ronald Burt, American sociologist Judith Butler (born 1956), American gender theorist == C == Werner J. Cahnman, German-American sociologist Alain Caillé, French sociologist Roger Caillois, French sociologist Craig Calhoun, American sociologist Michel Callon, French sociologist Charles Camic, American sociologist Colin Campbell, British sociologist Elias Canetti, Bulgaria-born novelist and outsider sociologist Georges Canguilhem, French intellectual Fernando Henrique Cardoso (born 1931), Brazilian sociologist, former President of Brazil Gabriel Careaga Medina, Mexican sociologist Kathleen Carley, American computational sociologist José Casanova (born 1951), Spanish/American sociologist of religion Antonio Caso, Mexican sociologist Robert Castel, French sociologist Julieta Castellanos (born 1952), Honduran sociologist Manuel Castells (born 1942), Spanish sociologist and urban planner Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–1997), Greek philosopher and political theorist Santiago Castro-Gómez, Colombian philosopher and sociologist Michel de Certeau, French cultural sociologist Karen A. Cerulo, American sociologist Francis Stuart Chapin (1888–1974), American sociologist Christopher Chase-Dunn, American sociologist Louis Chauvel (born 1967), French sociologist Albert Chavannes, American sociologist Andrew Cherlin, American sociologist Nancy Chodorow (born 1944), American sociologist, psychoanalyst, and gender theorist Nicholas A. Christakis, American sociologist Ann-Dorte Christensen, Danish sociologist Chua Beng Huat, Singaporean sociologist Aaron Cicourel, American sociologist Dieter Claessens (1921–1997), German sociologist Adele Clarke (1945–2024), American sociologist Simon Clarke, British sociologist Lars Clausen (1935–2010), German sociologist Marshall B. Clinard (1911–2010), American sociologist (criminology) Clifford Clogg, American sociologist Richard Cloward (1926–2001), American sociologist Ansley J. Coale, American demographer and sociologist Philip N. Cohen, American sociologist Ronald L. Cohen, American social psychologist Stanley Cohen, British sociologist (criminology) James Samuel Coleman (1926–1995), American sociologist Harry Collins, British sociologist Patricia Hill Collins (born 1948), American sociologist Randall Collins, American sociologist Auguste Comte (1798–1857), French founder of sociology Nicolas de Condorcet, French mathematician and early sociologist Dalton Conley, American sociologist R.W. Connell (born 1944), Australian sociologist Paul Connerton, British sociologist Karen Cook, American sociologist Charles Cooley (1864–1929), American sociologist Anna Julia Cooper, American sociologist Lewis A. Coser (1913–2003), American sociologist Carl J. Couch (1925–1994), American sociologist Douglas E. Cowan, Canadian sociologist Oliver Cox, Trinidadian-American sociologist Maxine Leeds Craig, American sociologist Rosemary Crompton, British sociologist Colin Crouch, British sociologist Michel Crozier, French sociologist Agustin Cueva, Ecuadorian sociologist Stefan Czarnowski (1879–1937), Polish sociologist == D == Robert Dahl (1915–2014), American political scientist Ralf Dahrendorf (1929–2009), German-British sociologist and politician Dankwart Danckwerts (1933–2012), German sociologist Randy David, Filipino sociologist Leonore Davidoff (1932–2014), American-British sociologist and historian Kingsley Davis (1908–1997), American sociologist Georges Davy (1883–1976), French sociologist Christopher Dawson (1889–1970), British sociologist and Catholic historian François de Singly, French sociologist Régis Debray, French mediologist Alexander Deichsel (born 1935), German sociologist Christine Delphy (born 1941), French sociologist, feminist, and theorist Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995), French philosopher Donatella della Porta, Italian sociologist and political scientist Christine Delphy, French sociologist Bogdan Denitch (1929–2016), American sociologist Norman K. Denzin, American sociologist Régis Dericquebourg (born 1947), French sociologist of religions Jacques Derrida (1930–2004), French philosopher Matthew Desmond, American sociologist Heinz Dieterich, German-Mexican sociologist Bulent Diken, Danish sociologist Wilhelm Dilthey (1833–1911), German historian, psychologist and sociologist Helen Dinerman (1920–1974), American public opinion researcher Gail Dines, British-American sociologist Paul DiMaggio, American cultural sociologist Georgi Dimitrov Dimitrov, Bulgarian sociologist Thomas A. DiPrete, American sociologist Stuart C. Dodd (1900–1975), American sociologist G. William Domhoff, American sociologist Orna Donath, Israeli sociologist Pierpaolo Donati, Italian sociologist Ronald P. Dore, British sociologist Theotônio dos Santos, Brazilian sociologist Mary Douglas (1921–2007), British anthropologist and sociologist of perception Tommy Douglas (1904–1986), Canadian politician W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), American sociologist and civil rights leader Denis Duclos, French sociologist Otis Dudley Duncan (1921–2004), American sociologist Mitchell Duneier, American sociologist Eric Dunning (1936–2019), British sociologist Émile Durkheim (1858–1917), French sociologist Troy Duster, American sociologist Maurice Duverger (1917–2014), French sociologist Jean Duvignaud (1921–2007), French sociologist == E == Gerald L. Eberlein (1930–2010), German sociologist Alain Ehrenberg, French sociologist Eugen Ehrlich, German sociologist Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt (1923–2010), Israeli sociologist Riane Eisler (born 1931), cultural historian, systems scientist, educator, and attorney Glen Elder, American sociologist Norbert Elias (1897–1990), German sociologist Jacques Ellul (1912–1994), French sociologist Jon Elster, Norwegian sociologist Mustafa Emirbayer, American sociologist Hugo O. Engelmann (1917–2002), American sociologist Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), German socialist philosopher Paula England, American sociologist Ronald Enroth (1938–2023), American sociologist Kai T. Erikson (1931–2025), American sociologist Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo, Mexican sociologist Gosta Esping-Andersen, Danish sociologist Roger Establet, French sociologist Amitai Etzioni (1929–2023), American sociologist Peter B. Evans, American sociologist == F == Orlando Fals Borda (1925–2008), Colombian sociologist Frantz Fanon, Martinican intellectual and sociologist Rick Fantasia, American sociologist Thomas Fararo (1933–2020), American mathematical sociologist Sara R. Farris, Italian sociologist of feminism and migration Didier Fassin, French sociologist Paul Fauconnet (1874–1938), French sociologist Joe Feagin, American sociologist Mike Featherstone, British sociologist Fei Xiaotong (1910–2005), Chinese sociologist and anthropologist Anuška Ferligoj, Slovenian mathematical sociologist Florestan Fernandes (1920–1995), Brazilian sociologist Myra Marx Ferree (born 1949), American sociologist Enrico Ferri, Italian sociologist and criminologist Mileva Filipović (1938–2020), Montenegrin sociologist and gender studies pioneer Gary Alan Fine (born 1950), American sociologist Claude Fischer (born 1948), American author of the subcultural theory of urbanism George Fitzhugh (1806–1881), American social theorist Crystal Marie Fleming (born 1981), American sociologist and author Peter Flora, Austrian sociologist Heinz von Foerster (1911–2002), Austrian/American cybernetician Pim Fortuyn (1948–2002), Dutch sociologist author and politician Daniel A. Foss (1940–2014), American sociologist John Bellamy Foster, American sociologist and journalist Michel Foucault (1926–1984), French philosopher Alfred Jules Émile Fouillée, French philosopher and sociologist Charles Fourier (1772–1837), French proto-sociologist Renée Fox, American sociologist Frances Fox Piven, American sociologist Andre Gunder Frank (1929–2005), German economic historian and sociologist Mary Frank Fox, American sociologist Nancy Fraser, American social theorist Hans Freyer (1887–1969), German sociologist and philosopher Gilberto Freyre (1900–1987), Brazilian sociologist Erhard Friedberg, Austrian sociologist Samuel R. Friedman, American sociologist and epidemiologist Georges Friedmann, French sociologist Steve Fuller, American sociologist Frank Furstenberg, American sociologist Celso Furtado (1920–2004), Brazilian economist == G == Luciano Gallino, Italian sociologist Francis Galton (1822–1911), English statistician Johan Galtung, Norwegian sociologist, mathematician, and founder of peace studies Diego Gambetta, Italian sociologist Herbert J. Gans (1927–2025), American sociologist Néstor García Canclini, Argentinian-Mexican sociologist Brígida García Guzmán, Dominican-Mexican sociologist Delphine Gardey (born 1967), French sociologist Harold Garfinkel (1917–2011), American sociologist David W Garland, British sociologist Manuel Antonio Garretón, Chilean sociologist Romeo B. Garrett, American sociologist Marcel Gauchet, French sociologist John Gaventa, American-British sociologist Patrick Geddes, Scottish sociologist Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist Arnold Gehlen (1904–1976), German philosopher and sociologist Theodor Geiger (1891–1952), German sociologist Ernest Gellner (1925–1995), Czech-British philosopher and social anthropologist Uta Gerhardt, German sociologist Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1893–1983), Indian sociologist Anthony Giddens (born 1938), English sociologist Franklin Henry Giddings, American sociologist Ayelet Giladi (born 1964), Israeli educational sociologist Nigel Gilbert, British sociologist Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American sociologist Paul Gilroy, British sociologist Salvador Giner, Spanish sociologist Corrado Gini (1884–1965), Italian statistician Morris Ginsberg, British sociologist Herbert Gintis, American behavioral scientist Henry Giroux, American sociologist of education Todd Gitlin, American sociologist Barney Glaser, American sociologist David Glass (1911–1978), British sociologist Barry Glassner (born 1952), American sociologist Nathan Glazer, American sociologist Max Gluckman (1911–1975), South African/English social anthropologist Erving Goffman (1922–1982), Canadian interactionistic sociologist Steven J. Gold (born 1955), American sociologist Lucien Goldmann, Romanian/French sociologist Jack Goldstone, American sociologist John H. Goldthorpe (born 1935), British sociologist Yasunosuke Gonda, Japanese sociologist Pablo González Casanova, Mexican sociologist Jeff Goodwin, American sociologist Roger V. Gould, American sociologist Alvin Gouldner, American sociologist Ziya Gökalp (1876–1924), Turkish sociologist, writer, poet and political activist Isacque Graeber (1905–1984), sociologist and Jewish historian Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937), Italian Marxist and social theorist Mark Granovetter, American sociologist Richard Grathoff (1934–2013), German sociologist and phenomenologist Andrew M. Greeley, American sociologist, priest, writer Andrew Greeley, an American Catholic priest, sociologist, journalist and novelist.