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.

Stewart Clegg
Australia
AustraliaAustralian sociologist

William Graham Sumner
USA
USAAmerican scientist

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

Herbert Marcuse
Germany
GermanyGerman and American philosopher and sociologist

Harriet Martineau
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish social theorist and writer

Erving Goffman
USA
USAAmerican sociologist of Canadian descent

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

Luiza Helena De Bairros
Brazil
BrazilBrazilian administrator and sociologist

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

Bogdan Kistyakovskiy
Ukraine
UkraineJurist, philosopher and sociologist of neo-Kantian orientation

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

Alexander Tihonov
Ukraine
UkraineDoctor of Sociological Sciences, Professor

Klara Hallik
Estonia
EstoniaSoviet and Estonian sociologist, political scientist

William Ogborn
USA
USAAmerican sociologist.

Helen Lynd
USA
USAAmerican sociologist and social philosopher

Vsevolod Vilchek
Russia
RussiaJournalist and sociologist

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

Pierre Bourdieu
France
FranceFrench sociologist and philosopher

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

Manuel Castells
USA
USAAmerican sociologist of Spanish descent

William Du Bois
USA
USAAmerican social activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian and writer.

Marju Lauristin
Estonia
EstoniaEstonian sociologist, intellectual and politician

Rene Konig
Germany
GermanyGerman sociologist, scientific organizer, essayist, translator.

Anthony Giddens
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish sociologist

Catherine Shipe East
USA
USAAmerican feminist, sociologist and researcher.

Vahakn Dadrian
USA
USAAmerican professor of sociology

Robert Lynd
USA
USAAmerican sociologist

Rudi Dutschke
Germany
GermanyGerman Marxist sociologist and politician

Norbert Elias
Germany
GermanyGerman sociologist

Talcott Parsons
USA
USAAmerican sociologist

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

Jeffrey C Alexander
USA
USAAmerican sociologist

Hector Bejar
Peru
PeruPeruvian sociologist and revolutionary

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

Corrado Gini
Italy
ItalyItalian statistician, sociologist, demographer and economist

Elena Ogorelysheva
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian public figure, Master of Sociology

Barbara Wootton
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish sociologist, economist and criminologist

Karl Marlo
Germany
GermanyGerman scientist, chemist and socialist

Charlotte Gilman
USA
USAAmerican sociologist, writer and teacher

Nikolay Myslivets
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian sociologist

Alexander Kapto
Ukraine
UkraineRussian and Ukrainian scientist, sociologist and political scientist, diplomat, journalist.

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

Johan Galtung
Norway
NorwayNorwegian sociologist

Stuart Hall
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish sociologist

Michael Lowy
Brazil
BrazilFrench-Brazilian sociologist and Marxist philosopher.

Richard Hoggart
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish sociologist of literature and culture

Georges Vacher de Lapouge
France
FranceFrench sociologist

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

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

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