This is a list of noted sociologists and major contributors to sociology, (even if they are not sociologists):
A, B, C - D, E, F - G, H, I - J, K, L - M, N, O - P, Q, R - S, T, U - V, W, X, Y, Z
A, B, C Jane Addams (1860-1935), American social worker and reformer Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), German cultural sociologist (Frankfurt School) Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), German political theorist Raymond Aron Gregory Bateson (1904-1980), American(?) cybernetican Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929), French cultural theorist Ulrich Beck, German sociologist Daniel Bell Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), German cultural sociologist Peter L. Berger (b. 1929), Austro-American sociologist Henri Bergson (1859-1941), French philosopher Herbert Blumer Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002), French sociologist Ernest Burgess Judith Butler (b. 1956), American gender theorist Manuel Castells (b. 1942), Catalan-American sociologist and urban planner James S. Coleman Auguste Comte (1798-1857), French proto-sociologist Charles Cooley Stefan Czarnowski (1879-1937), Polish sociologist D, E, F Robert Dahl Ralf Dahrendorf W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963), African-American civil rights leader Emile Durkheim (1858-1917), French founder of sociology Nancy Denton Norbert Elias (1897-1990), German sociologist Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), German socialist philosopher Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002), Austrian-American cybernetican Michel Foucault (1926-1984), French sociologist Charles Fourier (1772-1837), French proto-sociologist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian psycho-analyst Hans Freyer Erich Fromm (1900-1980), German-American psychologist /Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist G, H, I Francis Galton (1822-1911), English statistican Anthony Giddens (b. 1938), English sociologist Corrado Gini (1884-1965), Italian statistician Clifford Geertz Arnold Gehlen Theodor Geiger Erving Goffman (1922-1982), Canadian interactionistic sociologist Antonio Gramsci (1891-1931), Italian Marxist Mark Granovetter Jürgen Habermas (b. 1929), German social theorist Maurice Halbwachs Donna Haraway, American gender and technology theorist David Harvey, British geographer Georg F. Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher George C. Homans Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), German sociologist (Frankfurt School) Floyd Hunter J, K, L Jane Jacobs Antonina Kłoskowska (1919-2001), Polish sociologist Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), French psychoanalyst. Paul F. Lazarsfeld Claude Levi-Strauss (b. 1908), French anthropologist Seymour Martin Lipset Thomas Luckmann (b. 1927), German sociologist Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998), German sociologist (systems theory) Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919), German socialist theoretician Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998), French philosopher Karin Knorr Cetina Alfred L. Kroeber Thomas S. Kuhn (1922-1996), American science theorist M, N, O Henry Maine (1822-1888), British jurist and legal historian Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942), Polish anthropologist Thomas Malthus (1766-1834), English demographer Karl Mannheim (1893-1947), German-speaking sociologist Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), German-American sociologist (Frankfurt School) Douglas Massey Humberto Maturana Marcel Mauss Karl Marx (1818-1883), German political philosopher and social theorist Robert McKenzie George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) American philosopher and social psychologist Margaret Mead (1901-1978), American cultural anthropologist Robert K. Merton, American sociologist Robert Michels, German political sociologist C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) American sociologist Oswald von Nell-Breuning (1890-1991), German Roman Catholic theologian, sociologist and social reformer Otto Neurath (1882-1945), Austrian sociologist and political economist William F. Ogburn Stanisław Ossowski (1897-1963), Polish sociologist Robert Owen P, Q, R Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923), Italian economist Robert E. Park, American sociologist Vance Packard (1914-1996), American proto-pop-sociologist Talcott Parsons (1902-1979), American functionalist sociologist Karl Pearson (1857-1936), English statistican Robert Putnam George Ritzer (b. 1940), American sociologist S, T, U Henri de Saint-Simon Saskia Sassen Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913), Swiss linguist (structuralism) Helmut Schelsky Alfred Schütz (1899-1959), Austrian philosopher and sociologist (phenomenology) Richard Sennett Ali Shariati (1933-1977), Iranian sociologist Charles E. Silberman, criminologist Albion Woodbury Small (1854-1926), American sociologist, founder of Chicago University Dept. of Sociology Georg Simmel (1858-1918), German sociologist Adam Smith(1723-1790), Scottish economist and philosopher Pitrim Sorokin (1889-1968), Russian sociologist Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), English philosopher Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), German philosopher Anselm L. Strauss, American sociologist (sociology of medicine, qualitative methods) Gerald Suttles Jan Szczepański W. I. Thomas, American social psychologist Alexis de Tocqueville Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936) German sociologist V, W, X, Y, Z Francisco Varela (1946-2001), Chilean biologist and philosopher Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929), American economist and sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein Beatrice Webb (1858-1943), British socialist and social theorist Sidney Webb (1859-1947), British socialist and social theorist Alfred Weber Max Weber (1864-1920), German founder of sociology William Julius Wilson Louis Wirth Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), British social reformer Florian Znaniecki (1882-1958), Polish and American sociologist Slavoj Zizek (b. 1949), Slovenian sociologist and philosopher External links Timeline of Sociology