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.

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

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

Marju Lauristin
Estonia
EstoniaEstonian sociologist, intellectual and politician

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

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

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

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

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

Piotr Glinski
Poland
PolandPolish sociologist and politician

Leopold Wiese
Germany
GermanyGerman sociologist

Manuel Castells
USA
USAAmerican sociologist of Spanish descent

Anthony Giddens
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish sociologist

Rudi Dutschke
Germany
GermanyGerman Marxist sociologist and politician

Everett Hughes
USA
USAAmerican sociologist

Erving Goffman
USA
USAAmerican sociologist of Canadian descent

Norbert Elias
Germany
GermanyGerman sociologist

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

William Graham Sumner
USA
USAAmerican scientist

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

Talcott Parsons
USA
USAAmerican sociologist

Marcus Buckingham
Great Britain
Great BritainSociologist, consultant and business coach

Harry Braverman
USA
USAAmerican socialist, economist and writer.

Michael Lowy
Brazil
BrazilFrench-Brazilian sociologist and Marxist philosopher.

Nyklas Luman
Germany
GermanyGerman sociologist.

Corrado Gini
Italy
ItalyItalian statistician, sociologist, demographer and economist

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

Eileen Barker
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish scientist, sociologist

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

Klara Hallik
Estonia
EstoniaSoviet and Estonian sociologist, political scientist

Vsevolod Vilchek
Russia
RussiaJournalist and sociologist

Margaret Archer
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish sociologist

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

Johan Galtung
Norway
NorwayNorwegian sociologist

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

Elena Ogorelysheva
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian public figure, Master of Sociology

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

Karl Marlo
Germany
GermanyGerman scientist, chemist and socialist

Jeffrey C Alexander
USA
USAAmerican sociologist

Alexander Tihonov
Ukraine
UkraineDoctor of Sociological Sciences, Professor

Vahakn Dadrian
USA
USAAmerican professor of sociology

Linda Gottfredson
USA
USAAmerican sociologist, professor of educational psychology

Catherine Shipe East
USA
USAAmerican feminist, sociologist and researcher.

Mark Regnerus
USA
USAAmerican sociologist

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

Richard Hoggart
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish sociologist of literature and culture

Patricia Walsh
Argentina
ArgentinaArgentine social psychologist and political activist

Nikolay Myslivets
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian sociologist

Tryon Edwards
USA
USATheologian