List of sociologists
This is a list of predominantly male sociologists. It is intended to cover those who have made substantive contributions to social theory and research, including any sociological subfield. Scientists in other fields and philosophers are not included, unless at least some of their work is defined as being specifically sociological in nature.
- Ibn Khaldoun
- W.E.B. Du Bois
A
- Peter Abell, British 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, American sociologist
- Francesco Alberoni, Italian sociologist
- Martin Albrow, British sociologist
- Jeffrey C. Alexander, American sociologist
- Edwin Amenta, American sociologist
- Nancy Ammerman, American sociologist
- Eric Anderson, American-British sociologist
- Elijah Anderson, American sociologist
- Stanislav Andreski, Polish-British 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 (born 1940), Argentine sociologist
- Raymond Aron (1905–1983), French philosopher and sociologist
- Stanley Aronowitz, American sociologist
- Giovanni Arrighi, Italian sociologist
- Johan Asplund (born 1937), 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
- E. Digby Baltzell, American 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 Bastide, French sociologist
- Gregory Bateson (1904–1980), English/American cybernetician
- Jean Baubérot (born 1941), French historian and sociologist
- Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007), French cultural theorist
- Zygmunt Bauman (born 1925), Polish/British sociologist
- Frank Bean, American sociologist
- Peter Bearman (born 1956), American sociologist
- Ulrich Beck (born 1944), German sociologist
- Gary Becker, American economist
- Howard P. Becker, American sociologist
- Howard S. Becker (born 1928), American sociologist
- Jens Beckert, German sociologist
- Richard F. Behrendt (1908–1973), German sociologist
- Daniel Bell (born 1919), American sociologist
- Robert N. Bellah, American sociologist
- Walden Bello, Filipino sociologist
- Reinhard Bendix, German-American sociologist
- Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), German cultural writer and sociologist
- Albert Benschop (born 1949), Dutch sociologist
- Joseph Berger, American sociologist
- Peter L. Berger (born 1929), Austro-American sociologist
- Pierre L. van den Berghe, Belgian sociologist
- Henri Bergson (1859–1941), French philosopher
- Jessie Bernard, American feminist sociologist
- Eduard Bernstein, German politician and intellectual
- Jean-Michel Berthelot, French sociologist
- Andre Beteille, Indian 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
- Peter Blau (1918–2002), American sociologist
- Kathleen M. Blee (born 1953), American sociologist
- Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg (born in 1929), German sociologist, ethnologist, and sexologist
- Danielle Bleitrach (born in 1938), French sociologist and journalist
- David Bloor, British sociologist
- Herbert Blumer (1900–1987), American sociologist
- Olivier Bobineau (born 1972), French sociologist
- Luc Boltanski, French sociologist
- Scott Boorman (born 1949), American sociologist
- Charles Booth, British social researcher
- Ernst Borinski (1901–1983), German 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
- 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
- Laila Bushra, Pakistani Sociologist
C
- Roger Caillois, French sociologist
- Craig Calhoun, American sociologist
- Michel Callon, French sociologist
- Elias Canetti, Bulgaria-born novelist and outsider sociologist
- Georges Canguilhem, French intellectual
- Fernando Henrique Cardoso (born 1931), Brazilian sociologist, former President of Brazil
- Kathleen Carley, American computational sociologist
- 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
- Michel de Certeau, French cultural sociologist
- Francis Stuart Chapin (1888–1974), American sociologist
- Christopher Chase-Dunn, American sociologist
- Louis Chauvel (born 1967), French sociologist
- Nancy Chodorow (born 1944), American sociologist, psychoanalyst, and gender theorist
- Nicholas A. Christakis, American sociologist
- Chua Beng Huat, Singaporean sociologist
- Aaron Cicourel, American sociologist
- Dieter Claessens (1921–1997), German sociologist,
- Lars Clausen (born 1935), German sociologist
- Clifford Clogg, American sociologist
- Richard Cloward (1926–2001), American 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
- 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
- Maxine Leeds Craig, American sociologist
- Colin Crouch, British sociologist
- Michel Crozier, French sociologist
- Agustin Cueva, Ecuadorian sociologist
- Stefan Czarnowski (1879–1937), Polish sociologist
D
- Robert Dahl (born 1915), American political scientist
- Ralf Dahrendorf (1929–2009), German-British sociologist and politician
- Dankwart Danckwerts (born 1933), German sociologist
- Randy David, Filipino sociologist
- Leonore Davidoff (1932–2014), American-British sociologist and historian
- Kingsley Davis, American sociologist
- Georges Davy, French sociologist
- 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, American sociologist
- Régis Dericquebourg (born 1947), French sociologist of religions
- Jacques Derrida, French philosopher
- Heinz Dieterich, German-Mexican sociologist
- Wilhelm Dilthey, German historian, psychologist and sociologist
- Helen Dinerman (1920–1974), American public opinion researcher
- Paul DiMaggio, American cultural sociologist
- Georgi Dimitrov Dimitrov, Bulgarian sociologist
- Stuart C. Dodd, American sociologist
- G. William Domhoff, American sociologist
- Mary Douglas, British anthropologist and sociologist of perception
- Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician
- W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), American sociologist and civil rights leader
- Denis Duclos, French sociologist
- Otis Dudley Duncan, American sociologist
- Mitchell Duneier, American sociologist
- Eric Dunning, British sociologist
- Émile Durkheim (1858–1917), French sociologist
- Troy Duster, American sociologist
- Maurice Duverger, French sociologist
- Jean Duvignaud, French sociologist
E
- Gerald L. Eberlein (born 1930), 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
- Norbert Elias (1897–1990), German 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 (born 1938), American sociologist
- Kai T. Erikson (born 1931), American sociologist
- Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo, Mexican sociologist
- Gosta Esping-Andersen, Danish sociologist
- Amitai Etzioni (born 1929), American sociologist
- Peter B. Evans, American sociologist
F
- Orlando Fals Borda, Colombian sociologist
- Frantz Fanon, Martinican intellectual and sociologist
- Rick Fantasia, American sociologist
- Thomas Fararo (born 1933), American mathematical sociologist
- Paul Fauconnet (1874–1938), French sociologist
- Joe Feagin, American 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
- Gary Alan Fine (born 1950), American sociologist
- Claude Fischer (born 1947), 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 (born 1940), 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
- Andre Gunder Frank (1929–2005), German economic historian and sociologist
- Nancy Fraser, American social theorist
- Hans Freyer (1887–1969), German sociologist and philosopher
- Gilberto Freyre (1900–1987), Brazilian sociologist
- Georges Friedmann, French sociologist
- Steve Fuller, American sociologist
- Celso Furtado, 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 Gans (born 1927), American sociologist
- Harold Garfinkel (born 1917), American sociologist
- David W Garland, British 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
- Anthony Giddens (born 1938), English sociologist
- Franklin Henry Giddings, American 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
- Jeff Goodwin, 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 (born 1934), German sociologist and phenomenologist
- Andrew M. Greeley, American sociologist, priest, writer
- Liah Greenfeld (born 1951), Russian/American sociologist
- Leonid Grinin (born 1958), Russian sociologist
- Ludwig Gumplowicz (1838–1909), Polish sociologist, one of the founders of European sociology
- Dipankar Gupta (born 1944), Indian sociologist
- Georges Gurvitch, Russian/French sociologist
- Dimitrie Gusti (1880–1955), Romanian sociologist, the creator of the sociological monographic method
H
- Jürgen Habermas (born 1929), German social theorist
- Jeffrey K. Hadden (1937–2003), American sociologist
- Maurice Halbwachs (1877–1945), French philosopher and sociologist
- Drew Halfmann (born 1967), American sociologist
- John A. Hall (born 1949), British/Canadian sociologist
- Stuart Hall (born 1932), British cultural theorist
- Donna Haraway (born 1944), American gender and technology theorist
- Eszter Hargittai, Hungarian sociologist
- Marta Harnecker, Chilean sociologist
- David Harvey, British social theorist
- Chandrakala A. Hate (1903–1990), Indian sociologist, social worker, and author
- Peter Hedström, Swedish sociologist
- Samuel Heilman, American sociologist
- Wilhelm Heitmeyer, German sociologist
- Dirk Helbing, Swiss sociologist
- Horst Helle, German sociologist
- Ágnes Heller, Hungarian philosopher and sociologist
- Celia Stopnicka Heller, American sociologist
- Will Herberg (1901–1977), American sociologist
- John Heritage, American sociologist
- Robert Hertz, French sociologist
- Danièle Hervieu-Léger, French sociologist
- Michael D. Higgins, Irish sociologist and current Irish president
- Paul Hirst, British sociologist
- Thomas Hobbes, British philosopher
- Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, pioneer British sociologist
- Arlie Russell Hochschild, American sociologist
- Richard Hoggart (born 1918), British sociologist
- John Holloway, Irish sociologist
- Robert J. Holton, British sociologist
- George C. Homans (1910–1989), American behavioral sociologist
- Axel Honneth (born 1949), German social theorist
- Ida R. Hoos (1912–2007), American sociologist
- Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), German social theorist
- Irving Louis Horowitz, American sociologist
- Eugenio María de Hostos, Puerto Rican sociologist
- Philip N. Howard, Canadian American sociologist
- Spomenka Hribar (born in 1941), Slovenian sociologist, philosopher politician, and public intellectual
- Everett Hughes, American sociologist
- Stephen J. Hunt, British 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
- Eva Illouz, Moroccan sociologist
- Jose Ingenieros, Argentinian sociologist[1]
- Harold Innis, Canadian sociologist who developed staples theory
- John Keith Irwin (1929–2010), American sociologist known for his expertise on the American prison system
J
- Eliezer Jaffe, Israeli-American sociologist
- Jacquelyne Jackson (1932–2004), American sociologist and educator
- Stevi Jackson (born 1951), British sociologist
- Janet L. Jacobs (born 1948), American sociologist
- Marie Jahoda (1907–2001), Austrian-British sociologist and social psychologist
- Marie Jaisson, French sociologist
- Ayesha Jalal, Pakistani-American historian, sociologist, and professor
- Fredric Jameson, American philosopher and social theorist
- Morris Janowitz, American sociologist
- James M. Jasper (born 1957), American sociologist
- Gail Jefferson (1938–2008), American sociologist and conversation analyst
- Yasmin Jiwani, feminist academic and activist
- Hans Joas, German social theorist
- Carole Joffe, American sociologist
- Benton Johnson (born 1928), American sociologist
- Guy Benton Johnson (1901–1991), American sociologist
- Miriam M. Johnson (1928–2007), American sociologist
- Rodrigo Jokisch (born 1946), German-Mexican sociologist and social theorist
- Frank Lancaster Jones (born 1937), Australian sociologist
- Lewis Wade Jones (1910–1979), African/American sociologist and educator
- Danny Jorgensen, American sociologist
- Paul Jorion, Belgian American sociologist and cognitive scientist
K
- Dirk Kaesler (born 1944), German sociologist
- Boris Kagarlitsky, Russian sociologist
- Alexandr Kapto, Russian and Ukrainian scientist, sociologist, and political scientist; a diplomat, journalist, politician, and statesman
- Elihu Katz, American sociologist
- Nitasha Kaul, Indian Kashmiri sociologist, writer, and poet
- Karl Kautsky, Russian Marxist theorist
- Vytautas Kavolis, Lithuanian-American sociologist and literary critic
- Frances Kellor (1873–1952), American sociologist, social reformer, and investigator
- Stephen A. Kent, Canadian sociologist
- Lane Kenworthy, American sociologist
- Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938–2009), Moroccan literary critic, novelist, philosopher, playwright, poet, and sociologist
- Aquila Berlas Kiani (1921–2012), Indian sociologist and educator
- Baruch Kimmerling, Israeli sociologist
- Susan Myra Kingsbury (1870–1949), American sociologist
- Julieta Kirkwood (1936–1985), Chilean sociologist, political scientist, and feminist activist
- Evelyn M. Kitagawa (1920–2007), American sociologist, demographer, and educator
- John Kitsuse, Japanese-American sociologist
- Gabriele Klein (born 1957), sociologist, dance theorist, and educator
- Bernardo Kliksberg, Argentinian sociologist
- Eric Klinenberg, American sociologist
- Karin Knorr Cetina (born 1944), Austrian sociologist
- Antonina Kłoskowska (1919–2001), Polish sociologist
- Karin Knorr Cetina (born 1944), Austrian sociologist
- Katsuya Kodama (born 1959), Japanese sociologist and peace researcher
- Mirra Komarovsky (1905–1999), Russian-American sociologist
- René König (1906–1992), German sociologist
- Andrey Korotayev (born 1961), Russian sociologist
- Reinhart Koselleck (1923–2006), German historian and social theorist
- Maksim Kovalevsky (1851–1916), Russian sociologist
- Siegfried Kracauer, German sociologist
- Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French feminist sociologist
- Alfred L. Kroeber (1876–1960), American anthropologist
- Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), Russian anarchist thinker
- Thomas S. Kuhn (1922–1996), American science theorist
- Eugene M. Kulischer (1891–1956), Russian/American sociologist
- Charles Kurzman, American sociologist
- Martin Kusch, Austrian philosopher and sociologist
L
- William Labov (born 1927), American sociolinguist and dialectologist
- Jacques Lacan (1901–1981), French psychoanalyst
- Richard Lachmann, American sociologist, specialist in comparative historical sociology
- Ernesto Laclau, Argentinian sociologist
- Joyce Ladner, American sociologist and activist
- Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher
- Janja Lalich (born 1945), American sociologist
- Michele Lamont, American sociologist
- Diane Lamoureux (born 1954), Canadian sociologist, professor, and writer
- David C. Lane (born 1956), American sociologist
- Ralph Larkin, American sociologist
- Scott Lash, American sociologist
- Harold Lasswell, American political sociologist
- Bruno Latour (born 1947), French sociologist of science
- Peter Lavrovich Lavrov, Russian sociologist
- John Law, British sociologist
- Paul F. Lazarsfeld (1901–1976), Austrian/American sociologist
- Gustave Le Bon (1841–1931), French social psychologist
- Frederic Le Play, early French sociologist
- Emil Lederer, German sociologist
- Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991), French Marxist philosopher
- Charles Lemert (born 1937), American sociologist
- Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary and intellectual
- Gerhard Lenski, American evolutionary sociologist
- Yuri Levada, Russian sociologist
- John Levi Martin, American sociologist
- Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009), French anthropologist
- Jack Levin (born 1941), American sociologist/criminologist
- Barry B. Levine (born 1941), American sociologist
- Ruth Levitas, British sociologist
- Daniel Levy, German-American sociologist
- Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857–1939), French philosopher, sociologist, and ethnographer
- Kurt Lewin, German social psychologist
- Loet Leydesdorff, Dutch sociologist
- Li Yinhe (born 1952), Chinese sociologist, sexologist, and activist
- Nan Lin, American sociologist
- Alfred R. Lindesmith (1905–1991), American sociologist of drug policy
- Frederick B. Lindstrom (1915–1998), American sociologist of the arts
- Gilles Lipovetsky, French philosopher
- Seymour Martin Lipset (born 1922), American comparativist sociologist
- Émile Littré, French philosopher and sociologist, disciple of Comte
- Omar Lizardo, American sociologist
- John Locke, English philosopher
- David Lockwood, British sociologist
- Joseph Lopreato, American sociologist
- Leo Löwenthal, German sociologist
- Michael Löwy, Brazilian-French sociologist
- Nathalie Luca (born 1966), French sociologist
- Thomas Luckmann (born 1927), German sociologist
- Anthony Ludovici (born 1882), British conservative sociologist and philosopher
- Niklas Luhmann (1927–1998), German sociologist (systems theory)
- György Lukács, Hungarian philosopher
- Steven Lukes, British social theorist
- George Lundberg (1895–1966), American sociologist (scientific)
- Rosa Luxemburg (1870–1919), German socialist theoretician
- Robert Staughton Lynd (1892–1970), American sociologist
- Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998), French philosopher
M
- Amin Maalouf, Lebanese author with a degree in sociology
- Richard Machalek (born 1946), American sociologist and sociobiologist
- Robert Morrison MacIver (1882–1970), Scottish/American sociologist
- Donald A. MacKenzie, British sociologist
- Annie Marion MacLean (1869–1934), Canadian-American applied sociologist
- Michel Maffesoli, French sociologist
- Henry Maine (1822–1888), British jurist and legal historian
- Sinisa Malesevic (born 1969), Irish political and historical sociologist
- Bronisław Malinowski (1884–1942), Polish social anthropologist
- Thomas Malthus (1766–1834), English demographer
- Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Brazilian social theorist
- Michael Mann (born 1942), British/American sociologist
- Karl Mannheim (1893–1947), Hungarian/German sociologist
- Peter K. Manning (born 1940), American sociologist
- José María Maravall, Spanish sociologist
- Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), German/American sociologist (Frankfurt School)
- Władysław Markiewicz (born 1920), Polish sociologist
- Dennis Marsden, British sociologist
- Alfred Marshall, English economist
- Thomas Humphrey Marshall, British sociologist
- Everett Dean Martin, American sociologist
- Jean Martin, Australian sociologist
- John Levi Martin, American sociologist
- Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), English writer described as 'first female sociologist'
- Vladimir Martynenko (born 1957), Russian sociologist, economist, political scientist
- Gary T. Marx, American sociologist
- Karl Marx (1818–1883), German political philosopher, social theorist
- Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czech sociologist
- Douglas Massey, American sociologist
- Brian Massumi, Canadian social theorist
- Humberto Maturana, Chilean biologist and sociologist of knowledge
- Marcel Mauss (1872–1950), French sociologist
- Carl R May (born 1961), British medical sociologist
- Doug McAdam, American sociologist
- Fayette Avery McKenzie (1872–1957), American sociologist
- Robert McKenzie (1917–1981), Canadian Politics professor and psephologist
- Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980), Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar
- George Herbert Mead (1863–1931), American philosopher and social psychologist
- Margaret Mead (1901–1978), American cultural anthropologist
- Stephen Mennell (born 1944), English sociologist
- Fatema Mernissi (1940–2015), Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist
- Robert K. Merton (1910–2003), American sociologist
- Michael Messner (born 1952), American pro-feminist sociologist
- John W. Meyer, American sociologist
- Robert Michels (1876–1936), German political sociologist
- Ralph Miliband, British sociologist
- C. Wright Mills (1916–1962), American sociologist
- Andrew Milner (born 1950), British-Australian sociologist of literature
- Ann Mische, American sociologist
- Munesuke Mita, Japanese sociologist
- J. Clyde Mitchell (1918–1995), British social anthropologist
- Shinji Miyadai (born 1959), Japanese sociologist
- Tariq Modood, British sociologist
- Abraham Moles (1920–1992), French sociologist, psychologist, and engineer
- Andres Molina Enriquez, Mexican sociologist
- Montesquieu, French philosopher
- James D. Montgomery, American economist and mathematical sociologist
- Barrington Moore, Jr., American political sociologist
- Edgar Morin, French sociologist
- Gaetano Mosca (1858–1941), Italian political and social scientist
- Serge Moscovici, French psychologist and major influence in the study of social representations and social movements
- Chantal Mouffe, Belgian post-Marxist theorist
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927–2003), American sociologist, diplomat and politician
- Radhakamal Mukerjee, Indian sociologist
- Peter A. Munch (1908–1984), Norwegian/American sociologist
- Charles Murray (born 1943), American sociologist
- Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987), Swedish economist, sociologist, and politician
- Saud Muhammad, Pakistani Sociologist, sociologist, and activist[2]
N
- Ashis Nandy, Indian sociologist
- Vicenç Navarro, Spanish sociologist
- Victor Nee, American sociologist
- Antonio Negri, Italian political philosopher and critic of Luhmann
- Oswald von Nell-Breuning (1890–1991), German Roman Catholic theologian, sociologist and social reformer
- Otto Neurath (1882–1945), Austrian sociologist and political economist
- Otto Newman ( born Neumann 1922), Austrian-British sociologist
- Norman H. Nie (born 1943), Inventor of SPSS
- Robert Nisbet (1913–1996), American sociologist
- Helga Nowotny (born 1937), Austrian sociologist
O
- Claus Offe (born 1940), German sociologist
- William F. Ogburn (1886–1959), American sociologist
- Lloyd Ohlin, American sociologist
- Michael Omi, American sociologist
- Gail Omvedt (born 1941), American/Indian sociologist
- T. K. Oommen, Indian sociologist
- Franz Oppenheimer (1864–1943), German sociologist and political economist
- José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher
- Stanislaw Ossowski (1897–1963), Polish sociologist
- Moisey Ostrogorsky, Russian sociologist
P
- Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923), Italian economist and sociologist
- Robert E. Park (1864–1944), American sociologist
- Talcott Parsons (1902–1979), American sociologist
- C.J. Pascoe, American sociologist
- Jean-Claude Passeron, French sociologist
- Orlando Patterson, American sociologist
- Karl Pearson (1857–1936), English statistician
- Willie Pearson Jr, American sociologist
- Jacqueline Peschard (1965), Mexican sociologist
- James Petras, American sociologist
- Jean Piaget (1896–1980), Swiss developmental psychologist
- Andrew Pickering, British sociologist
- Trevor Pinch, British sociologist
- Michael Plekon, American sociologist
- Helmuth Plessner, German sociologist
- Joel M. Podolny, American sociologist
- Karl Polanyi, Hungarian economist
- Friedrich Pollock, German social scientist
- Karl Popper, Austrian philosopher
- John Porter (1921–1979), Canadian sociologist
- Alejandro Portes, Cuban-American sociologist
- Adam Possamai, Belgian Born Sociologist
- Nicos Poulantzas (1936–1979), Greek political sociologist
- Émile Poulat, French historian and sociologist
- Walter W. Powell, American sociologist
- Ricardo Pozas Arciniega, Mexican sociologist and anthropologist
- Harriet B. Presser (died 2012), American sociologist and demographer
- Samuel H. Preston, American demographer and sociologist
- Ilya Prigogine, Belgian chemist, main contribution to sociology is dissipative structures theory
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865), French utopian socialist thinker
- Adam Przeworski, Polish political sociologist
- Jade Puget (born 1973), American musician
- Robert Putnam (born 1941), American political scientist
Q
- Sigrid Quack, German sociologist
- Enrico Quarantelli, American sociologist
- Adolphe Quetelet, French statistician and sociologist
- Anibal Quijano, Peruvian sociologist
- Richard Quinney (born 1934), American sociologist
R
- Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (1881–1955), British social anthropologist
- Charles C. Ragin, American sociologist
- Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austrian sociologist
- Stephen Raudenbush, American sociologist and statistician
- Aviad Raz (born 1968), Israeli sociologist and anthropologist
- Sal Restivo, American sociologist
- John Rex (born 1928), British sociologist
- James Mahmud Rice (born 1972), Australian sociologist
- Sam Richards, American sociologist
- Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher
- David Riesman, American sociologist
- George Ritzer (born 1940), American sociologist
- Roland Robertson, British sociologist
- William I. Robinson, American sociologist
- Terje Rød-Larsen (born 1947), Norwegian diplomat and sociologist
- Jesús M. de Miguel Rodríguez (born 1947), Spanish sociologist
- Arnold Marshall Rose, American sociologist
- Gillian Rose, British sociologist
- Nikolas Rose, British sociologist
- Paul Rosenfels (1909–1985), American psychologist and sociologist
- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888–1973), German social philosopher
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher
- Rubén G. Rumbaut, Cuban-American sociologist
- W. G. Runciman, British sociologist
- Arne Runeberg (1912–1979), Finnish sociologist, anthropologist and linguist
S
- Harvey Sacks (died 1975), American sociologist and ethnomethodologist
- Renaud Sainsaulieu (1936–2002), French sociologist concerned with the sociology of organizations
- Henri de Saint-Simon (1760–1825), French philosopher and social thinker
- Robert J. Sampson, American sociologist
- Pierre Sansot, French sociologist
- Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Portuguese sociologist
- Giovanni Sartori (1924–2017), Italian political scientist
- Saskia Sassen (born 1949), American sociologist
- Peter Saunders, Australian sociologist
- Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913), Swiss linguist (structuralism)
- Albert Schäffle, German sociologist
- Thomas J. Scheff, American sociologist
- Emanuel Schegloff, American sociologist
- Max Scheler, German philosopher and founder of the sociology of knowledge
- Helmut Schelsky (1912–1984), German sociologist
- Juraj Schenk (born 1948), Slovak sociologist
- Herbert Schiller, American sociologist
- Kurt C. Schlichting, American sociologist
- Wolfgang Schluchter, German sociologist
- Paul Schnabel, Dutch sociologist
- Allan Schnaiberg (1939–2009), American environmental sociologist
- Juliet Schor, American sociologist
- Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950), Austrian economist
- Alfred Schütz (1899–1959), Austrian philosopher and sociologist (phenomenology)
- Michael Schwartz (born 1942), American sociologist
- John Scott (born 1949), British sociologist
- Jean Séguy, French sociologist of religions (1925–2007)
- Steven Seidman, American sociologist
- Pınar Selek, Turkish sociologist
- Philip Selznick, American sociologist
- Amartya Sen, Indian economist influential in the sociology of development
- Richard Sennett (born 1943), American sociologist and public figure
- William H. Sewell, American sociologist
- Steven Shapin, American sociologist
- Jeremy J. Shapiro, American sociologist
- Ali Shariati (1933–1977), Iranian sociologist and writer
- Tamotsu Shibutani, Japanese-American sociologist
- Edward Shils, American sociologist
- Anson Shupe, American sociologist
- Volkmar Sigusch, German sociologist and sexuologe
- Charles E. Silberman, American criminologist
- François Simiand, French sociologist
- Georg Simmel (1858–1918), German sociologist and philosopher
- Herbert A. Simon, American social scientist
- Theda Skocpol (born 1947), American sociologist and political scientist
- Albion Woodbury Small (1854–1926), American sociologist
- Neil Smelser, American sociologist
- Adam Smith (1723–1790), Scottish economist and philosopher
- Christian Smith (born 1960), American sociologist of religion
- Dorothy E. Smith (born 1926), British/American sociologist and gender theorist
- Stephen C. Smith (born 1968), American sociologist and 21st century trend researcher
- Tom Snijders, Dutch mathematical sociologist
- David A. Snow (born 1942), American sociologist
- Werner Sombart (1863–1941), German economist and sociologist
- Georges Sorel, French philosopher
- Bernardo Sorj (born 1948), Brazilian sociologist
- Pitirim Sorokin (1889–1968), Russian sociologist
- Herbert Spencer (1820–1903), English philosopher
- Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), German philosopher
- Lynette Spillman, American sociologist
- Hasso Spode, German sociologist and historian
- M N Srinivas (1916–1999), Indian sociologist
- Susan Star, American sociologist
- David C. Stark, American sociologist
- Paul Starr, American sociologist
- Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Mexican anthropologist and sociologist
- George Steinmetz, American sociologist
- Samuel A. Stouffer, American sociologist
- Anselm L. Strauss (1916–1996), American sociologist
- Lucy Suchman, American sociologist
- Mark Suchman, American sociologist
- Thomas Sugrue, American historian and sociologist
- William Graham Sumner (1840–1910), American sociologist
- Eilert Sundt (1817–1875), Norwegian sociologist
- Edwin Sutherland (1893–1950), American criminologist
- Ian Svenonius, American cultural sociologist
- Richard Swedberg, Swedish sociologist
- Ann Swidler, American sociologist
- Jan Szczepanski (1913–2004), Polish sociologist
- Iván Szelényi, Hungarian-American sociologist
- Piotr Sztompka (born 1944), Polish sociologist
T
- Hippolyte Taine (1828–1893), French positivist historian and critic
- Yasuma Takada, Japanese sociologist
- Salim Tamari, Palestinian historical sociologist
- Lisa Taraki, Palestinian sociologist
- Alexander Tarasov, Russian sociologist
- Gabriel Tarde (1843–1904), French sociologist and social psychologist
- Sidney Tarrow, American sociologist
- R. H. Tawney, English ethical socialist
- Dorceta Taylor, American environmental sociologist
- Ian Taylor (1944–2001), English sociologist and criminologist
- Laurie Taylor (born 1936), English sociologist and broadcaster
- Göran Therborn, Swedish-British sociologist
- W. I. Thomas (1863–1947), American social psychologist
- E. P. Thompson (1924–1993), British socialist historian
- John Thompson, British sociologist of culture and media
- Sarah Thornton (born 1965), Canadian sociologist, writer, and ethnographer
- Charles Tilly (1929–2008), American sociologist
- Nicholas Timasheff, Russian sociologist
- Valery Tishkov (born 1941), Russian ethnologist and sociologist
- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859), French essayist and political analyst
- Ferdinand Tönnies (1855–1936), German philosopher and founder of German sociology
- Alain Touraine (born 1925), French sociologist
- Peter Townsend, British sociologist of poverty
- Judith Treas, American sociologist
- Renato Treves, Italian sociologist
- Ernst Troeltsch, German sociologist and philosopher
- Raimo Tuomela, Finnish philosopher and social theorist
- Sherry Turkle, American sociologist
- Bryan S. Turner, British sociologist
- Jonathan H. Turner, American social theorist
- Victor Turner, British anthropologist
- France Winddance Twine (born 1960), American sociologist and ethnographer
- Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist
U
- John Urry, British sociologist
V
- Mariana Valverde, Canadian sociologist
- Francisco Varela (1946–2001), Chilean biologist and philosopher
- Aninhalli Vasavi (born 1958), Indian sociologist
- Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), American sociologist and economist
- Ruut Veenhoven, Dutch sociologist
- Calvin Veltman (born 1941), Canadian sociologist, demographer and sociolinguist
- Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, American sociologist
- Alfred Vierkandt, German sociologist
- George Edgar Vincent, American sociologist
- Paul Virilio, French philosopher and social theorist
- Shiv Visvanathan, Indian sociologist and social scientist
W
- Loïc Wacquant, French sociologist
- Peter Wagner, German sociologist and social theorist
- Sylvia Walby, British sociologist
- Immanuel Wallerstein (born 1930), American sociologist and historian
- Lester Frank Ward (1841–1913), founder of American sociology
- Vron Ware, British educator and journalist
- Duncan Watts, American mathematical sociologist and network theorist
- Emile Waxweiler, Belgian sociologist
- Beatrice Webb (1858–1943), British socialist and social theorist
- Sidney Webb (1859–1947), British socialist and social theorist
- Alfred Weber (1868–1958), German sociologist
- Marianne Weber, German sociologist
- Max Weber (1864–1920), German sociologist
- Frank Webster (born 1950), British sociologist
- Margaret Weir, sociologist and political scientist
- Barry Wellman (born 1942), Canadian/American sociologist
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931), American sociologist, journalist, social worker
- John Westergaard (born 1927), British sociologist
- Edvard Westermarck (1862–1939), Finnish sociologist and philosopher
- Douglas R. White (born 1942), American mathematical sociologist and anthropologist
- Harrison White, American sociologist
- William Foote Whyte, American sociologist
- William H. Whyte (1917–1999), American sociologist, journalist and peoplewatcher
- Saskia Wieringa (born in 1950), Dutch sociologist and professor
- Leopold von Wiese, German sociologist
- Michel Wieviorka (born 1946), French sociologist
- Jean-Paul Willaime (born 1947), French sociologist of religions
- Raymond Williams (1921–1988), British sociologist, novelist, and critic
- Paul Willis (born 1945) British Sociologist and Social Scientist
- Helmut Willke, German sociologist
- William Julius Wilson (born 1935), American sociologist
- Howard Winant, American sociologist
- Christopher Winship, American sociologist
- Louis Wirth (1897–1952), German/American sociologist
- Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski (born 1944), Polish sociologist
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), British social reformer
- Steve Woolgar, British sociologist
- Monroe Work (1866–1945), American sociologist
- Erik Olin Wright, American sociologist
- Robert Wuthnow, American sociologist
Y
- Kazuo Yamaguchi, Japanese sociologist, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago 1946–
- Masahiro Yamada, Japanese sociologist
- John Milton Yinger, American sociologist, president of the American Sociological Association 1976–1977
- Michael Young, British sociologist and Labour politician
Z
- Benjamin Zablocki (born 1941), American sociologist and social psychologist
- Mayer Zald, American sociologist
- Tatyana Zaslavskaya, Russian sociologist
- René Zavaleta Mercado (1935–1984), Bolivian sociologist
- Viviana Zelizer, American sociologist
- Eviatar Zerubavel, American cognitive sociologist
- Jean Ziegler (born 1934), Swiss sociologist
- Florian Znaniecki (1882–1958), Polish/American sociologist
- Irving Zola, American medical sociologist and disability rights activist
- Tukufu Zuberi, American sociologist
- Harriet Zuckerman, American sociologist, specializes in science
- Sharon Zukin, American sociologist
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References
- González, Horácio (2000). Historia crítica de la sociología argentina: Los raros, los clásicos, los científicos, los discrepantes. ISBN 978-950-581-738-2.
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