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A
- Andrew Abbott American sociologist at the University of Chicago
- Jane Addams (1860-1935), American social worker and reformer
- Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), German cultural sociologist (Frankfurt School)
- Jeffrey C. Alexander, American sociologist
- Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), German political theorist
- Raymond Aron (1905 - 1983) French philosopher and sociologist
- Johan Asplund (b. 1937) Swedish sociologist
B
- Gregory Bateson (1904-1980), English/American cybernetican
- Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929), French cultural theorist
- Zygmunt Bauman (b. 1925), British sociologist
- Ulrich Beck (1944-), German sociologist
- Daniel Bell (born 1919) sociologist and professor emeritus at Harvard University.
- Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), German cultural sociologist
- Peter L. Berger (b. 1929), Austro-American sociologist
- Henri Bergson (1859-1941), French philosopher
- Herbert Blumer (1900 - 1997), American sociologist
- Scott Boorman American sociologist, Professor of sociology at Yale University
- Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002), French sociologist
- Ronald Breiger American Sociologist
- Ernest Burgess (1886-1966), Canadian-born sociologist
- Judith Butler (b. 1956), American gender theorist
- Carter Butts American mathematical sociologist
C
- Manuel Castells (b. 1942), Spanish sociologist and urban planner
- Kathleen Carley American computational sociologist at Carnegie Mellon University
- Nancy Chodorow (b. 1944), American sociologist and gender theorist
- Richard Cloward, American sociologist
- Ronald L. Cohen, American social psychologist
- James S. Coleman (1926-1995), American sociologist
- Auguste Comte (1798-1857), French founder of sociology
- Charles Cooley (1864-1929), American sociologist
- Stefan Czarnowski (1879-1937), Polish sociologist
D
- Hamid Dabashi, American-Iranian cultural critic and intellectual historian
- Robert Dahl (b.1915), American political scientist
- Ralf Dahrendorf (b.1929), German-British sociologist, philosopher and politician
- Mathieu Deflem, sociologist
- Gilles Deleuze (1925 - 1995), French philosopher
- Nancy Denton, American sociologist and demographer
- Georgi Dimitrov Dimitrov, Bulgarian sociologist
- G. William Domhoff, American sociologist
- W.E.B. DuBois (1868-1963), African-American civil rights leader
- Émile Durkheim (1858-1917), French sociologist
E
- Norbert Elias (1897-1990), German sociologist
- Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), German socialist philosopher
- Amitai Etzioni (1929 -), American sociologist
F
- Rick Fantasia, American sociologist
- Paul Fauconnet (1874-1938) French sociologist
- Fei Xiaotong (b.1910) Chinese sociologist and anthropologist
- 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 (1887 - 1969) German sociologist and philosopher
- Erich Fromm (1900-1980), German-American psychologist
G
- Francis Galton (1822-1911), English statistican
- Harold Garfinkel (b.1917) Professor Emeritus in sociology at Harvard University
- Felix Guattari (1930 - 1992) French institutional psychotherapist, founder of schizoanalysis and ecosophy
- Anthony Giddens (b. 1938), English sociologist
- Corrado Gini (1884-1965), Italian statistician
- Arnold Gehlen (1904 - 1976) German philosopher and sociologist
- Theodor Geiger (1891-1952) German-Danish sociologist
- Ernest Gellner(1925 - 1995) philosopher and social anthropologist
- Max Gluckman (1911-1975) South African/English social anthropologist
- John H. Goldthorpe (b. 1935) British sociologist
- Leo Goodman (b.1928), American social statistician
- Erving Goffman (1922-1982), Canadian interactionistic sociologist
- Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), Italian Marxist
- Richard Grathoff (1934- ), German sociologist and phenomenologist
- Mark Granovetter, American sociologist
- Andrew M. Greeley, American sociologist, priest, author
- Ludwig Gumplovicz (1838-1909) Polish-Austrian sociologist, one of the founders of European sociology
H
- Jürgen Habermas (b. 1929), German social theorist
- Maurice Halbwachs (1877 - 1945) French philosopher and sociologist
- Stuart Hall (b.1932) British cultural theorist
- Donna Haraway (b. 1944) American gender and technology theorist
- David Harvey (b.1935) British geographer
- Georg F. Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher
- Richard Hoggart (b. 1918), British sociologist (Birmingham School, culture studies)
- George C. Homans (1910-1989) American behavioural sociologist
- Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), German social philosopher (Frankfurt School)
- Floyd Hunter (b.1912), American sociologist
I
- Ibn Khaldun (1332/ah732 - 1406/ah808), North African historian, forerunner of modern historiography, sociology and economics
- Octavio Ianni (1926 - ), Brazilian sociologist
J
- Jane Jacobs (b.1916), US/Canadian writer and activist
- Lewis Wade Jones (1910 - 1979), African-American sociologist and educator
K
- Stephen A. Kent Canadian sociologist
- Karin Knorr Cetina (b.1944) Austrian-American sociologist
- Alfred L. Kroeber (1876–1960) American anthropologist
- Thomas S. Kuhn (1922-1996), American science theorist
- Antonina Kłoskowska (1919-2001), Polish sociologist
L
- William Labov (b.1927) American sociolinguist and dialectologist
- Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), French psychoanalyst
- Bruno Latour (1947- ) French sociologist of science
- Paul F. Lazarsfeld (1901-1976) Austrian-American sociologist
- Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931) French social psychologist and sociologist
- Henri Lefebvre (1901 - 1991), French Marxist philosopher
- Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908), French anthropologist
- Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857-1939) French philosopher, sociologist and ethnographer
- Seymour Martin Lipset (b. 1922), American comparativist sociologist
- Thomas Luckmann (b. 1927), German sociologist
- Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998), German sociologist (systems theory)
- Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919), German socialist theoretician
- Robert Staughton Lynd (1892 - 1970) American sociologist
- Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998), French philosopher
M
- Henry Maine (1822-1888), British jurist and legal historian
- Robert Morrison MacIver (1882-1970) Scottish-American sociologist.
- Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942), Polish anthropologist
- Thomas Malthus (1766-1834), English demographer
- Richard Machalek (b. 1946) American sociologist and sociobiologist
- Michael Mann (b. 1942) British-American sociologist
- Karl Mannheim (1893-1947), German-speaking sociologist
- Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), German-American sociologist (Frankfurt School)
- Wladyslaw Markiewicz (b. 1920) Polish sociologist
- Karl Marx (1818-1883), German political philosopher and social theorist
- Douglas Massey, American sociologist
- Humberto Maturana(b. 1928), Chilean biologist and philosopher
- John Levi Martin American sociologist
- Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) French sociologist
- Dale McConkey, American sociologist
- Robert McKenzie(1917-1981), Canadian-born Politics professor and psephologist.
- George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) American philosopher and social psychologist
- Margaret Mead (1901-1978), American cultural anthropologist
- Henri Mendras (1927-2003), French sociologist, chronicler of La fin des paysans
- Robert K. Merton (1910-2003) American sociologist
- Robert Michels (1876-1936) German political sociologist
- C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) American sociologist
- J. Clyde Mitchell (1918-1995) British Social Anthropologist
- James D. Montgomery American economist and mathematical sociologist
N
- Oswald von Nell-Breuning (1890-1991), German Roman Catholic theologian, sociologist and social reformer
- Otto Neurath (1882-1945), Austrian sociologist and political economist
- Peter Neville (d. 2002) British further education lecturer and sociologist
O
- William F. Ogburn (1886 - 1959), American sociologist
- Claus Offe (1940-), German sociologist
- Lloyd Ohlin, American sociologist
- Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943) German sociologist and political economist
- Stanislaw Ossowski (1897-1963), Polish sociologist
- Robert Owen (1771 - 1858), Welsh social reformer
P
- Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923), Italian economist and sociologist
- Robert E. Park (1864 - 1944), American sociologist
- Vance Packard (1914-1996), American proto-pop-sociologist
- Talcott Parsons (1902-1979), American functionalist sociologist
- Karl Pearson (1857-1936), English statistician
- Jean Piaget (1896 – 1980) Swiss developmental psychologist
- Samuel H. Preston Professor of Demography, University of Pennsylvania
- Robert Putnam (b. 1941) American political scientist
Q
R
- Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (1881–1955) British social anthropologist
- Aviad Raz (b. 1968) Israeli sociologist and anthropologist
- George Ritzer (b. 1940), American sociologist
- Terje Rød-Larsen (b. 1947) Norwegian diplomat and sociologist
- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888-1973) German-born social philosopher
- Walter Garrison Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford British sociologist
S
- Harvey Sacks (d. 1975) American sociologist in the ethnomethodology tradition
- Henri Saint-Simon (1760 - 1825) French philosopher and social thinker
- Saskia Sassen, (b. 1949) American sociologist
- Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913), Swiss linguist (structuralism)
- Helmut Schelsky (1912-1984), German sociologist
- Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883 – 1950), economist
- Alfred Schütz (1899-1959), Austrian philosopher and sociologist (phenomenology)
- Richard Sennett (b. 1943) American sociologist and public figure
- Ali Shariati (1933-1977), Iranian sociologist
- Charles E. Silberman, American 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
- Dorothy E. Smith (b. 1926), British-American sociologist and gender theorist
- Werner Sombart (1863-1941), German economist and sociologist
- Pitirim Sorokin (1889-1968), Russian sociologist
- Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), English philosopher
- Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), German philosopher
- Steven Spitzer, American sociologist
- M N Srinivas (1916 - 1999), Indian sociologist
- Anselm L. Strauss (1916 - 1996) American sociologist (sociology of medicine, qualitative methods)
- William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) American advocate of Social Darwinism
- Eilert Sundt (1817-1875), Norwegian sociologist
- Gerald Suttles, American social constructionist
- Jan Szczepański (1913-2004), Polish sociologist
T
- Gabriel Tarde (1843 - 1904), French sociologist and social psychologist
- W. I. Thomas (1863 - 1947), American social psychologist
- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 - 1859), French essayist and political analyst
- Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936), German sociologist
U
V
- Francisco Varela (1946-2001), Chilean biologist and philosopher
- Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929), American economist and sociologist
- Nildo Viana (b.1965) Brazilian sociologist and philosopher
W
- Immanuel Wallerstein (b. 1930), American sociologist and historian
- Stanley Wasserman Professor of Sociology, Psychology, and Statistics at Indiana University.
- Duncan Watts American mathematical sociologist and network theorist
- Peter Wagner, German sociologist and social theorist
- Lester Frank Ward (1841-1913) important founder of American sociology
- Beatrice Webb (1858-1943), British socialist and social theorist
- Sidney Webb (1859-1947), British socialist and social theorist
- Alfred Weber (1868-1958), German sociologist
- Max Weber (1864-1920), German sociologist
- Edward Westermarck (1862-1939), Finnish sociologist and philosopher
- Harrison White American Sociologist
- William H. Whyte (b.1917) American sociologist, journalist and peoplewatcher
- William Julius Wilson (b.1935) American sociologist
- Christopher Winship American sociologist
- Louis Wirth (1897 - 1952), German-American sociologist
- Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski (b. 1944), Polish sociologist
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), British social reformer
Y
- Yu Xie Professor of sociology and statistics at the University of Michigan
Z
- Benjamin Zablocki (1941-) Professor for sociology of religion and social psychology at Rutgers
- Jean Ziegler (1934-) professor of sociology at the University of Geneva and the Sorbonne, Paris.
- Slavoj Zizek (b. 1949), Slovenian sociologist and philosopher
- Florian Znaniecki (1882-1958), Polish and American sociologist
- Irving Zola, medical sociologist and disability rights activist
- Eviatar Zerubavel, Cognitive Sociologist, Professor of Sociology at Rutgers