Sociologist
Discover a comprehensive list of renowned sociologists who have shaped our understanding of society. From Auguste Comte to Zygmunt Bauman, explore their groundbreaking theories and contributions to the field of sociology.

Emile Durkheim
France
FranceFrench thinker, one of the founders of sociology as an independent science, founder of professional sociology.

Harry Braverman
USA
USAAmerican socialist, economist and writer.

Elton Mayo
Great Britain
Great BritainAustralian psychologist, sociologist and organization theorist

Georg Gellap
USA
USAAmerican statistician who developed a method for conducting public opinion polls

Herbert Marcuse
Germany
GermanyGerman and American philosopher and sociologist

Stuart Hall
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish sociologist

Ales Debeljak
Slovenia
SloveniaSlovenian poet, translator, essayist, sociologist.

Herbert Blumer
USA
USAAmerican sociologist and social psychologist. Editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Sociology (1940–1952).

Eileen Barker
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish scientist, sociologist

Manuel Castells
USA
USAAmerican sociologist of Spanish descent

Norbert Elias
Germany
GermanyGerman sociologist

Jack Goldstone
USA
USAAmerican sociologist

Vsevolod Vilchek
Russia
RussiaJournalist and sociologist

Karl Marlo
Germany
GermanyGerman scientist, chemist and socialist

Claude Levi-Strauss
France
FranceFrench ethnographer, sociologist and cultural scientist

Vahakn Dadrian
USA
USAAmerican professor of sociology

Talcott Parsons
USA
USAAmerican sociologist

Jean Duvignaud
France
FranceFrench sociologist and anthropologist, playwright, journalist.

Massimo Introvigne
Italy
ItalyItalian sociologist of religion and lawyer

William Graham Sumner
USA
USAAmerican scientist

Walden Bello
Philippines
PhilippinesFilipino scholar, sociologist and political scientist

Raicu Ionescu-Rion
Romania
RomaniaRomanian socialist scholar, literary critic and publicist

Matgorzata Kidawa-Blonska
Poland
PolandPolish sociologist, film producer, political activist

Elena Ogorelysheva
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian public figure, Master of Sociology

Rudi Dutschke
Germany
GermanyGerman Marxist sociologist and politician

Margaret Archer
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish sociologist

Marju Lauristin
Estonia
EstoniaEstonian sociologist, intellectual and politician

Corrado Gini
Italy
ItalyItalian statistician, sociologist, demographer and economist

Linda Gottfredson
USA
USAAmerican sociologist, professor of educational psychology

Harriet Martineau
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish social theorist and writer

Piotr Glinski
Poland
PolandPolish sociologist and politician

Hector Bejar
Peru
PeruPeruvian sociologist and revolutionary

Murray Bookchin
USA
USAAmerican libertarian socialist, political and social philosopher, publicist

Saskia Sassen
USA
USAAmerican sociologist and economist

Gini Scott
USA
USAAmerican writer, songwriter, game developer and general consultant.

Yves Gingras
Canada
CanadaHistorian, sociologist of science from French-speaking Canada

Leopold Wiese
Germany
GermanyGerman sociologist

Anthony Giddens
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish sociologist

Everett Hughes
USA
USAAmerican sociologist

Erving Goffman
USA
USAAmerican sociologist of Canadian descent

Antonina Klokovska
Full member of the Pan-Russian Academy of Sciences, professor of sociology

Marcus Buckingham
Great Britain
Great BritainSociologist, consultant and business coach

Michael Lowy
Brazil
BrazilFrench-Brazilian sociologist and Marxist philosopher.

Nyklas Luman
Germany
GermanyGerman sociologist.

David G. Bromley
USA
USAAmerican religious scholar and sociologist, professor of sociology

Claude-Henry Comte De Saint-Simon
France
FranceCount, sociologist, French thinker, utopian socialist

Klara Hallik
Estonia
EstoniaSoviet and Estonian sociologist, political scientist

Johan Galtung
Norway
NorwayNorwegian sociologist

Jeffrey C Alexander
USA
USAAmerican sociologist

Alexander Tihonov
Ukraine
UkraineDoctor of Sociological Sciences, Professor