List of sociologists

This list of sociologists includes people who have made notable contributions to sociological theory or to research in one or more areas of sociology.

A

Peter Abell (born 1939), British sociologist Andrew Abbott (born 1948), American sociologist Rabab Abdulhadi (born 1955), Palestinian-American scholar, activist, educator, editor, academic director, and sociologist Margaret Abraham, Indian-American 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 (1942–2025), American sociologist Francesco Alberoni (1929–2023), Italian sociologist Martin Albrow (born 1937), British sociologist Jeffrey C. Alexander (born 1947), American sociologist David Altheide (born 1945), American sociologist Louis Althusser (1918–1990), French philosopher and sociologist Edwin Amenta, American sociologist Nancy Ammerman (born 1950), American sociologist Elijah Anderson, American sociologist Eric Anderson (born 1968), American-British sociologist Kevin B. Anderson (born 1948), American sociologist Stanislav Andreski (1919–2007), Polish-British sociologist Robert Cooley Angell (1899–1984), American sociologist Aaron Antonovsky (1923–1994), Israeli sociologist Arjun Appadurai (born 1949), Indian sociologist Andrew Arato (born 1944), Hungarian-American sociologist Margaret Archer (1943–2023), British sociologist Jason Arday (1985–2026), British sociologist Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), German political theorist Alcira Argumedo (1940–2021), Argentine sociologist Aristoteles (384–322 BC), Ancient Greek philosopher and sociologist Signe Arnfred (born 1944), Danish sociologist Raymond Aron (1905–1983), French philosopher and sociologist Stanley Aronowitz, American sociologist Giovanni Arrighi (1937–2009), Italian sociologist Johan Asplund (1937–2018), Swedish sociologist Vilhelm Aubert (1922–1988), Norwegian sociologist Francisco Ayala (1906–2009), Spanish sociologist and novelist

B

Élisabeth Badinter (born 1944), French philosopher and historian Patrick Baert (born 1961), British sociologist Sergio Bagú (1911–2002), Argentinian sociologist Kenneth D. Bailey (born 1943), American sociologist Georges Balandier (1920–2016), French sociologist Emily Greene Balch (1867–1961), American professor of sociology and Nobel Peace laureate Robert Balch, American sociologist Étienne Balibar (born 1942), French philosopher and sociologist E. Digby Baltzell (1915–1996), American sociologist Jack Barbalet, Australian sociologist Teresita de Barbieri (1937–2018), Uruguayan-born Mexican feminist sociologist Eileen Barker (born 1938), British sociologist and professor Barry Barnes (born 1943), 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 Bartra, Mexican sociologist Roger Bastide (1898–1974), French sociologist Georges Bataille (1897–1962), French philosopher and sociologist Gregory Bateson (1904–1980), English/American cybernetician Jean Baubérot (born 1941), French historian and sociologist Christian Baudelot (born 1938), French sociologist Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007), French cultural theorist Zygmunt Bauman (1925–2017), Polish/British sociologist Frank Bean (born 1942), American sociologist Peter Bearman (born 1956), American sociologist Ulrich Beck (1944–2015), German sociologist Gary Becker (1930–2014), American economist Howard P. Becker (1899–1960), American sociologist Howard S. Becker (1928–2023), American sociologist Jens Beckert (born 1967), German sociologist Richard F. Behrendt (1908–1973), German sociologist Daniel Bell (1919–2011), American sociologist Wendell Bell (1924–2019), American sociologist Robert N. Bellah (1927–2013), American sociologist Walden Bello (born 1945), Filipino sociologist Edvard Beneš (1884–1948), Czechoslovak sociologist and politician Reinhard Bendix (1916–1991), German-American sociologist Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), German cultural writer and sociologist Albert Benschop (1949–2018), Dutch sociologist Joseph Berger (1924–2023), American sociologist Peter L. Berger (1929–2017), Austro-American sociologist Solveig Bergman (born 1955), Finnish sociologist active in gender studies Pierre L. van den Berghe, Belgian sociologist Henri Bergson (1859–1941), French philosopher Jessie Bernard (1903–1996), American feminist sociologist Basil Bernstein (1924–2000), British sociologist Eduard Bernstein (1850–1932), German politician and intellectual Jean-Michel Berthelot (1945–2006), French sociologist Joel Best, America sociologist Andre Beteille (1934–2026), Indian sociologist Gurminder K. Bhambra, British sociologist Krishna Bhattachan, Nepalese sociologist Robert Bierstedt (1913–1998), American sociologist Norman Birnbaum (1926–2019), American sociologist Margunn Bjørnholt (born 1958), Norwegian sociologist and economist Donald Black (1941–2024), American sociologist Blanc de Saint-Bonnet (1815–1880), French philosopher Peter Blau (1918–2002), American sociologist Kathleen M. Blee (born 1953), American sociologist Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg (1929–2025), German sociologist, ethnologist, and sexologist Danielle Bleitrach (born 1938), French sociologist and journalist Fred L. Block (born 1947), American sociologist David Bloor (born 1942), British sociologist Herbert Blumer (1900–1987), American sociologist Olivier Bobineau (born 1972), French sociologist Sophie Body-Gendrot (1942–2018), French sociologist Donald Bogue (1918–2014), American demographer and sociologist Manuela Bojadžijev (born 1971), German academic and sociologist Luc Boltanski (born 1940), French sociologist Louis de Bonald, French philosopher and politician Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (born 1962), American sociologist Scott Boorman (born 1949), American sociologist Charles Booth (1840–1916), British social researcher Ernst Borinski (1901–1983), German sociologist Atilio Borón, Argentinian sociologist Thomas Bottomore (1920–1992), British sociologist Raymond Boudon (1934–2013), 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 (born 1945), German sociologist José Joaquín Brunner (born 1944), Chilean sociologist Hans Henrik Reventlow Bruun (born 1943), Danish sociologist Lois Bryson (1937–2024), Australian sociologist Walter F. Buckley (1921–2006), American sociologist Michael Burawoy (1947–2025), American sociologist Ernest Burgess (1886–1966), Canadian sociologist Tom R. Burns (1937–2025), European-American sociologist Ronald Burt (born 1949), American sociologist Judith Butler (born 1956), American gender theorist

C

Werner J. Cahnman (1902–1980), German-American sociologist Alain Caillé (born 1944), French sociologist Roger Caillois (1913–1978), French sociologist Craig Calhoun (born 1952), American sociologist Michel Callon (1945–2025), French sociologist Charles Camic (born 1951), American sociologist Colin Campbell (born 1940), British sociologist Elias Canetti (1905–1994), Bulgaria-born novelist and outsider sociologist Georges Canguilhem (1904–1995), French intellectual Fernando Henrique Cardoso (born 1931), Brazilian sociologist, former President of Brazil Gabriel Careaga Medina (1941–2004), Mexican sociologist Kathleen Carley, American computational sociologist José Casanova (born 1951), Spanish/American sociologist of religion Antonio Caso (1883–1946), Mexican sociologist Robert Castel (1933–2013), 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 Santiago Castro-Gómez (born 1958), Colombian philosopher and sociologist Michel de Certeau (1925–1986), French cultural sociologist Karen A. Cerulo (born 1957), American sociologist Francis Stuart Chapin (1888–1974), American sociologist Kathy Charmaz (1939–2020), American sociologist Christopher Chase-Dunn (born 1944), American sociologist Louis Chauvel (born 1967), French sociologist Albert Chavannes (1836–1903), American sociologist Andrew Cherlin (born 1948), American sociologist Nancy Chodorow (born 1944), American sociologist, psychoanalyst, and gender theorist Nicholas A. Christakis (born 1962), American sociologist Ann-Dorte Christensen, Danish sociologist Chua Beng Huat, Singaporean sociologist Aaron Cicourel (1928–2023), American sociologist Dieter Claessens (1921–1997), German sociologist Adele Clarke (1945–2024), American sociologist Simon Clarke (1946–2022), British sociologist Lars Clausen (1935–2010), German sociologist Marshall B. Clinard (1911–2010), American sociologist (criminology) Clifford Clogg (1949–1995), American sociologist Richard Cloward (1926–2001), American sociologist Ansley J. Coale (1917–2002), American demographer and sociologist Philip N. Cohen, American sociologist Ronald L. Cohen (1945–2020), American social psychologist Stanley Cohen (1942–2013), British sociologist (criminology) James Samuel Coleman (1926–1995), American sociologist Harry Collins (born 1943), British sociologist Patricia Hill Collins (born 1948), American sociologist Randall Collins (born 141), American sociologist Auguste Comte (1798–1857), French founder of sociology Nicolas de Condorcet, French mathematician and early sociologist Dalton Conley (born 1969), American sociologist R. W. Connell (born 1944), Australian sociologist Paul Connerton (1940–2019), British sociologist Karen Cook (born 1946), American sociologist Charles Cooley (1864–1929), American sociologist Anna Julia Cooper (1858–1964), American sociologist Lewis A. Coser (1913–2003), American sociologist Carl J. Couch (1925–1994), American sociologist Douglas E. Cowan (born 1958), Canadian sociologist Oliver Cox (1901–1974), Trinidadian-American sociologist Maxine Leeds Craig, American sociologist Rosemary Crompton (1942–2011), British sociologist Colin Crouch (born 1944), British sociologist Michel Crozier (1922–2013), French sociologist Agustin Cueva (1937–1992), Ecuadorian sociologist Stefan Czarnowski (1879–1937), Polish sociologist

D

Robert Dahl (1915–2014), American political scientist Ralf Dahrendorf (1929–2009), German-British sociologist and politician Dankwart Danckwerts (1933–2012), German sociologist Randy David (born 1946), Filipino sociologist Leonore Davidoff (1932–2014), American-British sociologist and historian Kingsley Davis (1908–1997), American sociologist Georges Davy (1883–1976), French sociologist Christopher Dawson (1889–1970), British sociologist and Catholic historian François de Singly (born 1948), French sociologist Régis Debray (born 1940), 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 (born 1956), Italian sociologist and political scientist Christine Delphy (born 1941), French sociologist Bogdan Denitch (1929–2016), American sociologist Norman K. Denzin (1941–2023), American sociologist Régis Dericquebourg (born 1947), French sociologist of religions Jacques Derrida (1930–2004), French philosopher Matthew Desmond, American sociologist