List of sociologists
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This article provides a list of 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. Also included are certain politicians and other notable individuals who gained a university degree in the subject.
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A
- Andrew Abbott, American sociologist
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- Peter Abell, British sociologist
- Barbara Adam, British sociologist
- Jane Addams (1860–1935), American social worker 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
- Louis Althusser (1918–1990), Algerian-French philosopher and sociologist
- Nancy Ammerman, American sociologist
- Arjun Appadurai, Indian sociologist
- Stanley Aronowitz, American sociologist
- Margaret Archer, British sociologist
- Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), German political theorist
- Raymond Aron (1905–1983), French philosopher and sociologist
- Giovanni Arrighi, Italian sociologist
- Johan Asplund (born 1937), Swedish sociologist
- Vilhelm Aubert (1922–1988), Norwegian sociologist
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B
- Sergio Bagú, Argentinian sociologist
- Kenneth D. Bailey, American sociologist
- Robert Balch, American sociologist
- E. Digby Baltzell, American sociologist
- Eileen Barker, British sociologist
- Anne Bargès, French sociologist
- Barry Barnes, British sociologist
- Roland Barthes (1915–1980), French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician
- Roger Bastide, French sociologist
- Gregory Bateson (1904–1980), English/American cybernetican
- Jean Baubérot (born 1941), French historian and sociologist
- Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007), French cultural theorist
- Zygmunt Bauman (born 1925), Polish/British sociologist
- Peter Bearman (born 1956), American sociologist
- Ulrich Beck (born 1944), German sociologist
- Gary Becker, American economist
- Howard S. Becker (born 1928), American sociologist
- Richard F. Behrendt (1908–1973), German sociologist
- Daniel Bell (born 1919), American sociologist
- Robert N. Bellah, American sociologist
- Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), German cultural writer and 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
- Donald Black, American sociologist
- Hubert M. Blalock, American sociologist
- Peter Blau (1918–2002), American sociologist
- Kathleen M. Blee (born 1953), American sociologist
- David Bloor, British sociologist
- Hans-Peter Blossfeld, German sociologist
- Herbert Blumer (1900–1987), American sociologist
- Luc Boltanski, French sociologist
- Scott Boorman (born 1949), American sociologist
- Charles Booth, British social researcher
- Thomas Bottomore (1920–1992), British sociologist
- Raymond Boudon, French sociologist
- Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002), French sociologist
- John David Brewer (born 1951), British sociologist
- Carl Brinkmann (1885-1954), German sociologist
- David G. Bromley, American sociologist
- Rogers Brubaker, American 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
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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
- Manuel Castells (born 1942), Spanish sociologist and urban planner
- Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–1997), Greek philosopher and political theorist
- Daniel Cefai, French sociologist
- Michel de Certeau, French cultural sociologist
- Janet Saltzman Chafetz, feminist sociologist
- Francis Stuart Chapin (1888–1974), American sociologist
- Christopher Chase-Dunn, American sociologist
- Louis Chauvel (born 1967), French sociologist
- Mohamed Cherkaoui, Moroccan/French sociologist
- Eli Chinoy, Mexican 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
- Richard Cloward (1926–2001), 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.<ref>http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture10a.html</ref>
- Dalton Conley, American sociologist
- R.W. Connell (born 1944), Australian sociologist
- Paul Connerton, British sociologist
- Charles Cooley (1864–1929), 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
- Michel Crozier, French sociologist
- Agustin Cueva, Ecuadorian sociologist
- Stefan Czarnowski (1879–1937), Polish sociologist
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D
- Robert Dahl (born 1915), American political scientist
- Dankwart Danckwerts (born 1933), German sociologist
- Ralf Dahrendorf (1929-2009), German-British sociologist and politician
- Kingsley Davis, American sociologist
- Manuel De Landa, Mexican social theorist
- François de Singly, French sociologist
- Régis Debray, French mediologist
- Alexander Deichsel (born 1935), German sociologist
- Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995), French philosopher
- Bogdan Denitch, American sociologist
- Jacques Derrida, French philosopher
- Heinz Dieterich, German-Mexican 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
- Jose Mauricio Domingues, Brazilian social theorist
- 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
- François Dubet, French sociologist
- Otis Dudley Duncan, American sociologist
- Mitchell Duneier, American sociologist
- Émile Durkheim (1858–1917), French sociologist
- Troy Duster, American sociologist
- Maurice Duverger, French sociologist
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E
- Gerald L. Eberlein (born 1930), German sociologist
- Klaus Eder, German sociologist
- Glen H. Elder, Jr., American sociologist
- Norbert Elias (1897–1990), German sociologist
- Jon Elster, Norwegian sociologist
- Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), German socialist philosopher
- Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt (born 1923), Israeli sociologist
- Mustafa Emirbayer, American sociologist
- Hugo O. Engelmann (1917-2002), US-American sociologist
- Paula England, US-American sociologist
- Ronald Enroth (born 1938), US-American sociologist
- Kai T. Erikson (born 1931), US-American sociologist
- Hartmut Esser, German sociologist
- Gosta Esping-Andersen, Danish sociologist
- Amitai Etzioni (born 1929), US-American sociologist
- Peter B. Evans, US-American sociologist
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F
- Enzo Faletto, Chilean 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
- David Featherman, American sociologist
- Fei Xiaotong (1910–2005), Chinese sociologist and anthropologist
- Adam Ferguson, Scottish social philosopher
- 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
- Heinz von Foerster (1911–2002), Austrian/American cybernetican
- Pim Fortuyn (1948-2002), Dutch sociologist author and politician
- Daniel A. Foss (born 1940), American sociologist
- Robert Fossaert, French 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
- David D. Franks, American neurosociologist
- Nancy Fraser, American social theorist
- Michel Freitag, Swiss-Canadian sociologist
- Hans Freyer (1887–1969), German sociologist and philosopher
- Gilberto Freyre (1900–1987), Brazilian sociologist
- Georges Friedmann, French sociologist
- Stephan Fuchs, German sociologist
- Steve Fuller, American sociologist
- Celso Furtado, Brazilian economist
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G
- Gacia, Jionesa, Filipino sociologist
- 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
- Marcel Gauchet, French 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
- Gary Gereffi, American sociologist
- Gino Germani, Argentinian sociologist
- Hans Heinrich Gerth, German-American sociologist
- Anthony Giddens (born 1938), English sociologist
- Franklin Henry Giddings, American sociologist
- Nigel Gilbert, British sociologist
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American sociologist
- Paul Gilroy, British sociologist
- Morris Ginsberg, British sociologist
- Corrado Gini (1884–1965), Italian statistician
- Herbert Gintis, American behavioral scientist
- Claude Giraud, French sociologist
- Todd Gitlin, American sociologist
- Barney Glaser, American sociologist
- David Glass (1911–1978), British sociologist
- Barry Glassner (born 1952), American sociologist
- Max Gluckman (1911–1975), South African/English social anthropologist
- Erving Goffman (1922–1982), Canadian interactionistic sociologist
- Lucien Goldmann, Romanian/French sociologist
- Jack Goldstone, American sociologist
- John H. Goldthorpe (born 1935), British sociologist
- Pablo González Casanova, Mexican 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
- Richard Grathoff (born 1934), German sociologist and phenomenologist
- Mark Granovetter, American sociologist
- Andrew M. Greeley, American sociologist, priest, writer
- Liah Greenfeld (born 1951), Russian/American sociologist
- Leonid Grinin (born 1958), Russian sociologist
- Ludwig Gumplovicz (1838–1909), Polish sociologist, one of the founders of European sociology
- Georges Gurvitch, Russian-French sociologist
- Dimitrie Gusti (1880–1955), Romanian sociologist, the creator of the sociological monographic method
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H
- Jürgen Habermas (born 1929), German social theorist
- Jeffrey K. Hadden (1937–2003), American sociologist
- Maurice Halbwachs (1877–1945), French philosopher and sociologist
- Stuart Hall (born 1932), British cultural theorist
- Donna Haraway (born 1944), American gender and technology theorist
- Russell Hardin, American social theorist
- Eszter Hargittai, Hungarian sociologist
- Marta Harnecker, Chilean sociologist
- Chandrakala A. Hate (1903–1990), Indian sociologist, social worker, and author
- Peter Hedström, Swedish sociologist
- John Heritage, American sociologist
- Jordan Hieser American sociologist, author of "Conor Dirks, the social phenom"
- Samuel Heilman, American sociologist
- Dirk Helbing, Swiss sociologist
- Agnes Heller, Hungarian philosopher and sociologist
- 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 and founding member of the Birmingham University Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
- John Holloway, Irish sociologist
- Robert J. Holton, British sociologist
- George C. Homans (1910–1989), American behavioural sociologist
- Axel Honneth (born 1949), German social theorist
- Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), German social theorist
- Eugenio María de Hostos, Puerto Rican sociologist
- Everett Hughes, American sociologist
- Stephen J. Hunt, British sociologist
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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
- Alex Inkeles, American sociologist
- Harold Innis, Canadian sociologist who developed staples theory
- John Keith Irwin (1929-2010), American sociologist known for his expertise on the American prison system
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J
- Eliezer Jaffe, Israeli-American sociologist
- Marie Jahoda (1907–2001), Austrian sociologist
- Marie Jaisson, French sociologist
- Fredric Jameson, American philosopher and social theorist
- Morris Janowitz, American sociologist
- Hans Joas, German social theorist
- 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
- Lewis Wade Jones (1910–1979), African/American sociologist and educator
- Danny Jorgensen, American sociologist
- Paul Jorion, Belgian American sociologist and cognitive scientist
- Danny Jorgensen, American sociologist
- Isaac Joseph, French sociologist
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K
- Dirk Kaesler (born 1944), German sociologist
- Boris Kagarlitsky, Russian sociologist
- Rand L. Kannenberg (born 1960), American clinical sociologist
- Alexandr Kapto, Russian and Ukrainian scientist, sociologist, and political scientist; a diplomat, journalist, politician, and statesman.
- Elihu Katz, American sociologist
- Karl Kautsky, Russian Marxist theorist
- Vytautas Kavolis, Lithuanian-American sociologist and literary critic
- Stephen A. Kent, Canadian sociologist
- Baruch Kimmerling, Israeli sociologist
- Martin Luther King, American civil rights activist, held Bachelor of Arts in sociology
- Antonina Kłoskowska (1919–2001), Polish sociologist
- Karin Knorr-Cetina (born 1944), Austrian sociologist
- René König (1906–1992), German sociologist
- Andrey Korotayev (born 1961), Russian sociologist
- 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
- Maciej P. Krzystek (born 1972), Polish independent critical sociologist
- Thomas S. Kuhn (1922–1996), American science theorist
- Eugene M. Kulischer (1891-1956) Russian American sociologist
- Martin Kusch, Austrian philosopher and sociologist
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L
- William Labov (born 1927), American sociolinguist and dialectologist
- Jacques Lacan (1901–1981), French psychoanalyst
- Ernesto Laclau, Argentinian sociologist
- Bernard Lahire, French sociologist
- Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher
- Janja Lalich (born 1945), American sociologist
- Michele Lamont, American sociologist
- David C. Lane (born 1956), American sociologist
- Georges Lapassade, French sociologist and socioanalyst
- Ralph Larkin, American sociologist
- Scott Lash, American sociologist
- Bruno Latour (born 1947), French sociologist of science
- Peter Lavrovich Lavrov, Russian sociologist
- John Law (sociologist), 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
- Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857–1939), French philosopher, sociologist, and ethnographer
- Kurt Lewin, German social psychologist
- Loet Leydesdorff, Dutch sociologist
- Nan Lin, American sociologist
- Alfred R. Lindesmith (1905–1991), American sociologist of drug policy
- Gustavo Lins Ribeiro, Brazilian anthropologist
- Gilles Lipovetsky, French philosopher
- Seymour Martin Lipset (born 1922), American comparativist sociologist
- Allen Liska, American sociologist
- Émile Littré, French philosopher and sociologist, disciple of Comte
- David Lockwood, British sociologist
- John Locke, English philosopher
- Joseph Lopreato, American sociologist
- Thomas Luckmann (born 1927), German sociologist
- György Lukács, German philosopher
- Steven Lukes, British social theorist
- Niklas Luhmann (1927–1998), German sociologist (systems theory)
- 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
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M
- Henry Maine (1822–1888), British jurist and legal historian
- Carl R May (born 1961), British medical sociologist
- Robert Morrison MacIver (1882–1970), Scottish/US-American sociologist
- Donald A. MacKenzie, British sociologist
- Bronisław Malinowski (1884–1942), Polish social anthropologist
- Thomas Malthus (1766–1834), English demographer
- Richard Machalek (born 1946), US-American sociologist and sociobiologist
- Michel Maffesoli, French sociologist
- Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Brazilian social theorist
- Michael Mann (born 1942), British/US-American sociologist
- Karl Mannheim (1893–1947), Hungarian/German sociologist
- Peter K. Manning (born 1940), US-American sociologist
- Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), German/US-American sociologist (Frankfurt School)
- Wladyslaw Markiewicz (born 1920), Polish sociologist
- Dennis Marsden, British sociologist
- Alfred Marshall, English economist
- John Levi Martin, US-American 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
- Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czech sociologist
- Douglas Massey, US-American sociologist
- Humberto Maturana, Chilean biologist and sociologist of knowledge
- Marcel Mauss (1872–1950), French sociologist
- Doug McAdam, American sociologist
- Mary McIntosh, US-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), US-American cultural anthropologist
- José Medina Echevarría, Spanish sociologist
- Lucio Mendieta y Núñez, Mexican sociologist
- Stephen Mennell (born 1944), English sociologist
- Robert K. Merton (1910–2003), US-American sociologist
- John W. Meyer, US-American sociologist
- Robert Michels (1876–1936), German political sociologist
- Ralph Miliband, British sociologist
- C. Wright Mills (1916–1962), US-American 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, US-American economist and mathematical sociologist
- James Moody, US-American 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
- Nicos Mouzelis, Greek-British sociologist
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003), US-American sociologist, diplomat and politician
- Radhakamal Mukerjee, Indian sociologist
- Peter A. Munch (1908–1984), Norwegian/US-American sociologist
- Charles Murray (born 1943), US-American sociologist
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N
- 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
- Peter Neville (died 2002), British further education lecturer and sociologist
- Norman H. Nie (born 1943), Inventor of SPSS
- Robert Nisbet (1913–1996), American sociologist
- Helga Nowotny (born 1937), Austrian sociologist
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O
- Michelle Obama (born 1964), First Lady of the United States, majored in sociology at Princeton University
- 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
- Franz Oppenheimer (1864–1943), German sociologist and political economist
- José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher
- Stanislaw Ossowski (1897–1963), Polish sociologist
- Moisey Ostrogorsky, Belarusian sociologist
- William Outhwaite, British social theorist
- Robert Owen (1771–1858), Welsh social reformer
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P
- Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923), Italian economist and sociologist
- Gil Sung Park (born 1956), Korean sociologist
- Robert E. Park (1864–1944), American sociologist
- Talcott Parsons (1902–1979), American sociologist
- Orlando Patterson, American sociologist
- Karl Pearson (1857–1936), English statistician
- James Petras, American sociologist
- Jean Piaget (1896–1980), Swiss developmental psychologist
- Andrew Pickering, British sociologist
- Trevor Pinch, British sociologist
- Joel M. Podolny, American sociologist
- Karl Polanyi, Polish economist
- Friedrich Pollock, German social scientist
- Karl Popper, Austrian philosopher
- John Porter (1921–1979), Canadian sociologist
- Alejandro Portes, Cuban-American sociologist
- Nicos Poulantzas (1936–1979), Greek political sociologist
- Émile Poulat, French historian and sociologist
- Ricardo Pozas Arciniega, Mexican sociologist and anthropologist
- 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
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Q
- Enrico Quarantelli, American sociologist
- Louis Quéré, French sociologist
- Adolphe Quetelet, French statistician and sociologist
- Richard Quinney (born 1934), American sociologist
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R
- Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (1881–1955), British social anthropologist
- Ronald Reagan, 40th American president, held Bachelor of Arts in sociology
- Charles C. Ragin, American 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
- Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher
- Sam Richards, American sociologist
- George Ritzer (born 1940), American sociologist
- Roland Robertson, British sociologist
- Terje Rød-Larsen (born 1947), Norwegian diplomat and 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
- W. G. Runciman, British sociologist
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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
- Theotonio dos Santos, Brazilian sociologist and economist
- Giovanni Sartori, Italian political scientist
- Saskia Sassen (born 1949), American sociologist
- Peter Saunders, Australian sociologist
- Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913), Swiss linguist (structuralism)
- Joachim J. Savelsberg, German sociologist<ref>http://www.cas.sc.edu/socy/faculty/deflem/zSocGlobalbook.html</ref>
- 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
- Kurt C. Schlichting, American sociologist.
- Paul Schnabel, Dutch sociologist
- Allan Schnaiberg (1939-2009), American environmental sociologist
- Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950), Austrian economist
- Alfred Schütz (1899–1959), Austrian philosopher and sociologist (phenomenology)
- Michael Schwartz (born 19--), American sociologist
- Martin Segalen, French sociologist
- Jean Séguy, French sociologist of religions (1925-2007)
- Steven Seidman, American 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 Simon, American social scientist
- Leslie Sklair, British sociologist
- 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
- Tom Snijders, Dutch mathematical sociologist
- Werner Sombart (1863–1941), German economist and sociologist
- Georges Sorel, French philosopher
- Pitirim Sorokin (1889–1968), Russian sociologist
- Herbert Spencer (1820–1903), English philosopher
- Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), German philosopher
- 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
- Arthur Stinchcombe, American sociologist
- Samuel A. Stouffer, American sociologist
- Anselm L. Strauss (1916–1996), American sociologist
- Lucy 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
- Jan Szczepanski (1913–2004), Polish sociologist
- Piotr Sztompka (born 1944), Polish sociologist
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T
- Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893), French positivist historian and critic
- Gabriel Tarde (1843–1904), French sociologist and social psychologist
- Alexander Tarasov, Russian sociologist
- Sidney Tarrow, American sociologist
- Ian Taylor (1944–2001), English sociologist and criminologist
- Laurie Taylor (born 1936), English sociologist and broadcaster
- Friedrich Tenbruck, German sociologist
- 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
- Charles Tilly (1929-2008), American sociologist
- Nicholas Timasheff, Russian sociologist
- Edward Tiryakian, American sociologist<ref>http://www.hirr.hartsem.edu/ency/Tiryakian.htm</ref><ref>http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Sociology/faculty/durkhm</ref>
- 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
- Renato Treves, Italian sociologist
- Raimo Tuomela, Finnish philosopher and social theorist
- 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
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U
- Lars Udehn, Swedish sociologist
- John Urry, British sociologist
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V
- Francisco Varela (1946–2001), Chilean biologist and philosopher
- Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), American sociologist and economist
- Ruut Veenhoven, Dutch sociologist<ref>http://www.cas.sc.edu/socy/faculty/deflem/zSocGlobalbook.html</ref>
- Calvin Veltman (born 1941), Canadian sociologist, demographer and sociolinguist
- Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, American sociologist
- George Edgar Vincent, American sociologist
- Paul Virilio, French philosopher and social theorist
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W
- Loic Wacquant, French sociologist
- Peter Wagner, German sociologist and social theorist
- Immanuel Wallerstein (born 1930), American sociologist and historian
- Lester Frank Ward (1841–1913), founder of American sociology
- Duncan Watts, 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), 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
- Michel Wieviorka (born 1946), French sociologist
- Norbert Wiley, American sociologist
- Raymond Williams (1921–1988), Welsh sociologist, novelist, and critic
- John B. Williamson (born 1943), American 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
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X
- Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist.
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Y
- John Milton Yinger, American sociologist who was president of the American Sociological Association 1976-1977.
- Michael Young, British Sociologist and Labour politician who coined the term "meritocracy".
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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
- Hugo Zemelman, Chilean sociologist
- Eviatar Zerubavel, American cognitive sociologist
- Jean Ziegler (born 1934), Swiss sociologist
- Slavoj Žižek (born 1949), Slovenian sociologist and philosopher
- Florian Znaniecki (1882–1958), Polish/American sociologist
- Irving Zola, American medical sociologist and disability rights activist
- Tukufu Zuberi, American sociologist
- Sharon Zukin, American sociologist
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