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, British sociologist
- Andrew Abbott, American sociologist
- Margaret Abraham, Indian-American sociologist
- Mark Abrams, British sociologist, political scientist and pollster
- Janet Abu-Lughod, American sociologist
- Jane Addams, American social worker, sociologist, public philosopher and reformer
- Theodor Adorno, German philosopher and cultural sociologist
- Richard Alba, American sociologist
- Francesco Alberoni, Italian sociologist
- Martin Albrow, British sociologist
- Jeffrey C. Alexander, American sociologist
- David Altheide, American sociologist
- Louis Althusser, French philosopher and sociologist
- Edwin Amenta, American sociologist
- Nancy Ammerman, American sociologist
- Elijah Anderson, American sociologist
- Eric Anderson, American-British sociologist
- Kevin B. Anderson, American sociologist
- Stanislav Andreski, Polish-British sociologist
- Robert Cooley Angell, American sociologist
- Aaron Antonovsky, Israeli sociologist
- Arjun Appadurai, Indian sociologist
- Andrew Arato, Hungarian-American sociologist
- Margaret Archer, British sociologist
- Hannah Arendt, German political theorist
- Alcira Argumedo, Argentine sociologist
- Aristoteles, Ancient Greek philosopher and sociologist
- Signe Arnfred, Danish sociologist
- Raymond Aron, French philosopher and sociologist
- Stanley Aronowitz, American sociologist
- Giovanni Arrighi, Italian sociologist
- Johan Asplund, Swedish sociologist
- Vilhelm Aubert, Norwegian sociologist
- Francisco Ayala, Spanish sociologist and novelist
B
- Élisabeth Badinter, French philosopher and historian
- Patrick Baert, British sociologist
- Sergio Bagú, Argentinian sociologist
- Kenneth D. Bailey, American sociologist
- Georges Balandier, French sociologist
- Emily Greene Balch, American professor of sociology and Nobel Peace laureate
- Robert Balch, American sociologist
- Étienne Balibar, French philosopher and sociologist
- E. Digby Baltzell, American sociologist
- Jack Barbalet, Australian sociologist
- Teresita de Barbieri, Uruguayan-born Mexican feminist sociologist
- Eileen Barker, British sociologist and professor
- Barry Barnes, British sociologist
- Liberty Barnes, American sociologist
- Roland Barthes, French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician
- Robert Bartholomew, American medical sociologist living in New Zealand
- Roger Bartra, Mexican sociologist
- Roger Bastide, French sociologist
- Georges Bataille, French philosopher and sociologist
- Gregory Bateson, English/American cybernetician
- Jean Baubérot, French historian and sociologist
- Christian Baudelot, French sociologist
- Jean Baudrillard, French cultural theorist
- Zygmunt Bauman, Polish/British sociologist
- Frank Bean, American sociologist
- Peter Bearman, American sociologist
- Ulrich Beck, German sociologist
- Gary Becker, American economist
- Howard P. Becker, American sociologist
- Howard S. Becker, American sociologist
- Jens Beckert, German sociologist
- Richard F. Behrendt, German sociologist
- Daniel Bell, American sociologist
- Wendell Bell, American sociologist
- Robert N. Bellah, American sociologist
- Walden Bello, Filipino sociologist
- Edvard Beneš, Czechoslovak sociologist and politician
- Reinhard Bendix, German-American sociologist
- Walter Benjamin, German cultural writer and sociologist
- Albert Benschop, Dutch sociologist
- Joseph Berger, American sociologist
- Peter L. Berger, Austro-American sociologist
- Solveig Bergman, Finnish sociologist active in gender studies
- Pierre L. van den Berghe, Belgian sociologist
- Henri Bergson, French philosopher
- Jessie Bernard, American feminist sociologist
- Basil Bernstein, British sociologist
- Eduard Bernstein, German politician and intellectual
- Jean-Michel Berthelot, French sociologist
- Joel Best, America sociologist
- Andre Beteille, Indian sociologist
- Gurminder K. Bhambra, British sociologist
- Krishna Bhattachan, Nepalese sociologist
- Robert Bierstedt, American sociologist
- Norman Birnbaum, American sociologist
- Margunn Bjørnholt, Norwegian sociologist and economist
- Donald Black, American sociologist
- Peter Blau, American sociologist
- Kathleen M. Blee, American sociologist
- Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg, German sociologist, ethnologist, and sexologist
- Danielle Bleitrach, French sociologist and journalist
- Fred L. Block, American sociologist
- David Bloor, British sociologist
- Herbert Blumer, American sociologist
- Olivier Bobineau, French sociologist
- Sophie Body-Gendrot, French sociologist
- Donald Bogue, American demographer and sociologist
- Luc Boltanski, French sociologist
- Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, American sociologist
- Scott Boorman, American sociologist
- Charles Booth, British social researcher
- Ernst Borinski, German sociologist
- Atilio Borón, Argentinian sociologist
- Thomas Bottomore, British sociologist
- Raymond Boudon, French sociologist
- Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist
- Victor Branford, British sociologist
- Ronald Breiger, American sociologist
- John David Brewer, British sociologist
- Carl Brinkmann, German sociologist
- David G. Bromley, American sociologist
- Rogers Brubaker, American sociologist
- Hauke Brunkhorst, German sociologist
- José Joaquín Brunner, Chilean sociologist
- Hans Henrik Reventlow Bruun, Danish sociologist
- Lois Bryson, Australian sociologist
- Walter F. Buckley, American sociologist
- Michael Burawoy, American sociologist
- Ernest Burgess, Canadian sociologist
- Tom R. Burns, European-American sociologist
- Ronald Burt, American sociologist
- Judith Butler, American gender theorist
C
- Werner J. Cahnman, German-American sociologist
- Alain Caillé, French sociologist
- Roger Caillois, French sociologist
- Craig Calhoun, American sociologist
- Michel Callon, French sociologist
- Charles Camic, American sociologist
- Colin Campbell, British sociologist
- Elias Canetti, Bulgaria-born novelist and outsider sociologist
- Georges Canguilhem, French intellectual
- Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Brazilian sociologist, former President of Brazil
- Gabriel Careaga Medina, Mexican sociologist
- Kathleen Carley, American computational sociologist
- Antonio Caso, Mexican sociologist
- Robert Castel, French sociologist
- Julieta Castellanos, Honduran sociologist
- Manuel Castells, Spanish sociologist and urban planner
- Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek philosopher and political theorist
- Santiago Castro-Gómez, Colombian philosopher and sociologist
- Michel de Certeau, French cultural sociologist
- Karen A. Cerulo, American sociologist
- Francis Stuart Chapin, American sociologist
- Christopher Chase-Dunn, American sociologist
- Louis Chauvel, French sociologist
- Albert Chavannes, American sociologist
- Andrew Cherlin, American sociologist
- Nancy Chodorow, American sociologist, psychoanalyst, and gender theorist
- Nicholas A. Christakis, American sociologist
- Ann-Dorte Christensen, Danish sociologist
- Chua Beng Huat, Singaporean sociologist
- Aaron Cicourel, American sociologist
- Dieter Claessens, German sociologist
- Adele Clarke, American sociologist
- Simon Clarke, British sociologist
- Lars Clausen, German sociologist
- Marshall B. Clinard, American sociologist
- Clifford Clogg, American sociologist
- Richard Cloward, American sociologist
- Ansley J. Coale, American demographer and sociologist
- Philip N. Cohen, American sociologist
- Ronald L. Cohen, American social psychologist
- Stanley Cohen, British sociologist
- James Samuel Coleman, American sociologist
- Harry Collins, British sociologist
- Patricia Hill Collins, American sociologist
- Randall Collins, American sociologist
- Auguste Comte, French founder of sociology
- Nicolas de Condorcet, French mathematician and early sociologist
- Dalton Conley, American sociologist
- R.W. Connell, Australian sociologist
- Paul Connerton, British sociologist
- Karen Cook, American sociologist
- Charles Cooley, American sociologist
- Anna Julia Cooper, American sociologist
- Lewis A. Coser, American sociologist
- Carl J. Couch, American sociologist
- Douglas E. Cowan, Canadian sociologist
- Oliver Cox, Trinidadian-American sociologist
- Maxine Leeds Craig, American sociologist
- Rosemary Crompton, British sociologist
- Colin Crouch, British sociologist
- Michel Crozier, French sociologist
- Agustin Cueva, Ecuadorian sociologist
- Stefan Czarnowski, Polish sociologist
D
- Robert Dahl, American political scientist
- Ralf Dahrendorf, German-British sociologist and politician
- Dankwart Danckwerts, German sociologist
- Randy David, Filipino sociologist
- Leonore Davidoff, American-British sociologist and historian
- Kingsley Davis, American sociologist
- Georges Davy, French sociologist
- François de Singly, French sociologist
- Régis Debray, French mediologist
- Alexander Deichsel, German sociologist
- Christine Delphy, French sociologist, feminist, and theorist
- Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher
- Donatella della Porta, Italian sociologist and political scientist
- Christine Delphy, French sociologist
- Bogdan Denitch, American sociologist
- Norman K. Denzin, American sociologist
- Régis Dericquebourg, French sociologist of religions
- Jacques Derrida, French philosopher
- Matthew Desmond, American sociologist
- Heinz Dieterich, German-Mexican sociologist
- Bulent Diken, Danish sociologist
- Wilhelm Dilthey, German historian, psychologist and sociologist
- Helen Dinerman, American public opinion researcher
- Gail Dines, British-American sociologist
- Paul DiMaggio, American cultural sociologist
- Georgi Dimitrov Dimitrov, Bulgarian sociologist
- Thomas A. DiPrete, American sociologist
- Stuart C. Dodd, American sociologist
- G. William Domhoff, American sociologist
- Orna Donath, Israeli sociologist
- Pierpaolo Donati, Italian sociologist
- Ronald P. Dore, British sociologist
- Theotônio dos Santos, Brazilian sociologist
- Mary Douglas, British anthropologist and sociologist of perception
- Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician
- W. E. B. Du Bois, American sociologist and civil rights leader
- Denis Duclos, French sociologist
- Otis Dudley Duncan, American sociologist
- Mitchell Duneier, American sociologist
- Eric Dunning, British sociologist
- Émile Durkheim, French sociologist
- Troy Duster, American sociologist
- Maurice Duverger, French sociologist
- Jean Duvignaud, French sociologist
E
- Gerald L. Eberlein, German sociologist
- Alain Ehrenberg, French sociologist
- Eugen Ehrlich, German sociologist
- Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt, Israeli sociologist
- Riane Eisler, cultural historian, systems scientist, educator, and attorney
- Glen Elder, American sociologist
- Norbert Elias, German sociologist
- Jacques Ellul, French sociologist
- Jon Elster, Norwegian sociologist
- Mustafa Emirbayer, American sociologist
- Hugo O. Engelmann, American sociologist
- Friedrich Engels, German socialist philosopher
- Paula England, American sociologist
- Ronald Enroth, American sociologist
- Kai T. Erikson, American sociologist
- Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo, Mexican sociologist
- Gosta Esping-Andersen, Danish sociologist
- Roger Establet, French sociologist
- Amitai Etzioni, American sociologist
- Peter B. Evans, American sociologist
F
- Orlando Fals Borda, Colombian sociologist
- Frantz Fanon, Martinican intellectual and sociologist
- Rick Fantasia, American sociologist
- Thomas Fararo, American mathematical sociologist
- Sara R. Farris, Italian sociologist of feminism and migration
- Didier Fassin, French sociologist
- Paul Fauconnet, French sociologist
- Joe Feagin, American sociologist
- Mike Featherstone, British sociologist
- Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist and anthropologist
- Anuška Ferligoj, Slovenian mathematical sociologist
- Florestan Fernandes, Brazilian sociologist
- Myra Marx Ferree, American sociologist
- Enrico Ferri, Italian sociologist and criminologist
- Mileva Filipović, Montenegrin sociologist and gender studies pioneer
- Gary Alan Fine, American sociologist
- Claude Fischer, American author of the subcultural theory of urbanism
- George Fitzhugh, American social theorist
- Crystal Marie Fleming, American sociologist and author
- Peter Flora, Austrian sociologist
- Heinz von Foerster, Austrian/American cybernetician
- Pim Fortuyn, Dutch sociologist author and politician
- Daniel A. Foss, American sociologist
- John Bellamy Foster, American sociologist and journalist
- Michel Foucault, French philosopher
- Alfred Jules Émile Fouillée, French philosopher and sociologist
- Charles Fourier, French proto-sociologist
- Renée Fox, American sociologist
- Frances Fox Piven, American sociologist
- Andre Gunder Frank, German economic historian and sociologist
- Mary Frank Fox, American sociologist
- Nancy Fraser, American social theorist
- Hans Freyer, German sociologist and philosopher
- Gilberto Freyre, Brazilian sociologist
- Erhard Friedberg, Austrian sociologist
- Georges Friedmann, French sociologist
- Steve Fuller, American sociologist
- Frank Furstenberg, American sociologist
- Celso Furtado, Brazilian economist
G
- Luciano Gallino, Italian sociologist
- Francis Galton, English statistician
- Johan Galtung, Norwegian sociologist, mathematician, and founder of peace studies
- Diego Gambetta, Italian sociologist
- Herbert J. Gans, American sociologist
- Néstor García Canclini, Argentinian-Mexican sociologist
- Brígida García Guzmán, Dominican-Mexican sociologist
- Delphine Gardey, French sociologist
- Harold Garfinkel, American sociologist
- David W Garland, British sociologist
- Manuel Antonio Garretón, Chilean sociologist
- Romeo B. Garrett, American sociologist
- Marcel Gauchet, French sociologist
- John Gaventa, American-British sociologist
- Patrick Geddes, Scottish sociologist
- Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist
- Arnold Gehlen, German philosopher and sociologist
- Theodor Geiger, German sociologist
- Ernest Gellner, Czech-British philosopher and social anthropologist
- Uta Gerhardt, German sociologist
- Govind Sadashiv Ghurye, Indian sociologist
- Anthony Giddens, English sociologist
- Franklin Henry Giddings, American sociologist
- Ayelet Giladi, Israeli educational sociologist
- Nigel Gilbert, British sociologist
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American sociologist
- Paul Gilroy, British sociologist
- Salvador Giner, Spanish sociologist
- Corrado Gini, Italian statistician
- Morris Ginsberg, British sociologist
- Herbert Gintis, American behavioral scientist
- Henry Giroux, American sociologist of education
- Todd Gitlin, American sociologist
- Barney Glaser, American sociologist
- David Glass, British sociologist
- Barry Glassner, American sociologist
- Nathan Glazer, American sociologist
- Max Gluckman, South African/English social anthropologist
- Erving Goffman, Canadian interactionistic sociologist
- Steven J. Gold, American sociologist
- Lucien Goldmann, Romanian/French sociologist
- Jack Goldstone, American sociologist
- John H. Goldthorpe, British sociologist
- Yasunosuke Gonda, Japanese sociologist
- Pablo González Casanova, Mexican sociologist
- Jeff Goodwin, American sociologist
- Roger V. Gould, American sociologist
- Alvin Gouldner, American sociologist
- Ziya Gökalp, Turkish sociologist, writer, poet and political activist
- Isacque Graeber, sociologist and Jewish historian
- Antonio Gramsci, Italian Marxist and social theorist
- Mark Granovetter, American sociologist
- Richard Grathoff, German sociologist and phenomenologist
- Andrew M. Greeley, American sociologist, priest, writer
- Liah Greenfeld, Russian/American sociologist
- Leonid Grinin, Russian sociologist
- Wendy Griswold, American sociologist
- Ramón Grosfoguel, Puerto Rican sociologist
- Jaber F. Gubrium , American sociologist
- Ludwig Gumplowicz, Polish sociologist, one of the founders of European sociology
- Dipankar Gupta, Indian sociologist
- Georges Gurvitch, Russian/French sociologist
- Dimitrie Gusti, Romanian sociologist, the creator of the sociological monographic method
H
- Jürgen Habermas, German social theorist
- Jeffrey K. Hadden, American sociologist
- Maurice Halbwachs, French philosopher and sociologist
- Drew Halfmann, American sociologist
- Bente Halkier, Danish sociologist
- John A. Hall, British/Canadian sociologist
- Stuart Hall, British cultural theorist
- Jean Halley, American sociologist
- Donna Haraway, American gender and technology theorist
- Eszter Hargittai, Hungarian sociologist
- Marta Harnecker, Chilean sociologist
- Valérie Harvey, Canadian writer and sociologist
- Chandrakala A. Hate, Indian sociologist, social worker, and author
- James Hawdon, American sociologist and professor
- Darnell Hawkins, American sociologist, criminologist, and emeritus professor
- Amos Hawley, American sociologist
- Peter Hedström, Swedish sociologist
- Samuel Heilman, American sociologist
- Peter Heintz, Swiss sociologist
- Wilhelm Heitmeyer, German sociologist
- Dirk Helbing, Swiss sociologist
- Horst Helle, German sociologist
- Ágnes Heller, Hungarian philosopher and sociologist
- Celia Stopnicka Heller, American sociologist
- Will Herberg, American sociologist
- John Heritage, American sociologist
- Robert Hertz, French sociologist
- Danièle Hervieu-Léger, French sociologist
- Michael D. Higgins, Irish sociologist and former Irish president
- Reuben Hill, American sociologist
- Ulf Himmelstrand, Swedish sociologist
- Travis Hirschi, American sociologist
- Paul Hirst, British sociologist
- Thomas Hobbes, British philosopher
- Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, pioneer British sociologist
- Arlie Russell Hochschild, American sociologist
- Richard Hoggart, British sociologist
- John Holloway, Irish sociologist
- Susanne Holmström, Danish sociologist
- Robert J. Holton, British sociologist
- George C. Homans, American behavioral sociologist
- Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, American sociologist
- Axel Honneth, German social theorist
- Ida R. Hoos, American sociologist
- Max Horkheimer, German social theorist
- Irving Louis Horowitz, American sociologist
- Eugenio María de Hostos, Puerto Rican sociologist
- François Houtart, Belgian sociologist
- Philip N. Howard, Canadian-American sociologist
- Spomenka Hribar, Slovenian sociologist, philosopher politician, and public intellectual
- Joan Huber, American sociologist
- Everett Hughes, American sociologist
- Stephen J. Hunt, British sociologist
- James Davison Hunter, American sociologist
- Herbert Hyman, American sociologist
I
- Octavio Ianni, Brazilian sociologist
- Ibn Khaldun, North African historian, forerunner of modern historiography, sociology, and economics
- Kancha Ilaiah, Indian political scientist and social activist
- Eva Illouz, Moroccan sociologist
- Jose Ingenieros, Argentinian sociologist
- Harold Innis, Canadian sociologist who developed staples theory
- John Keith Irwin, American sociologist known for his expertise on the American prison system
- Larry Isaac, American sociologist
J
- Jacquelyne Jackson, American sociologist and educator
- Stevi Jackson, British sociologist
- Jane Jacobs, American theorist with wide influence on urban sociology
- Janet L. Jacobs, American sociologist
- Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Danish sociologist
- Eliezer Jaffe, Israeli-American sociologist
- Marie Jahoda, Austrian-British sociologist and social psychologist
- Marie Jaisson, French sociologist
- Ayesha Jalal, Pakistani-American historian, sociologist, and professor
- Fredric Jameson, American philosopher and social theorist
- Morris Janowitz, American sociologist
- James M. Jasper, American sociologist
- Guillermina Jasso, American sociologist
- Gail Jefferson, American sociologist and conversation analyst
- Yasmin Jiwani, feminist academic and activist
- Hans Joas, German social theorist
- Carole Joffe, American sociologist
- Benton Johnson, American sociologist
- Guy Benton Johnson, American sociologist
- Miriam M. Johnson, American sociologist
- Rodrigo Jokisch, German-Mexican sociologist and social theorist
- Frank Lancaster Jones, Australian sociologist
- Lewis Wade Jones, African/American sociologist and educator
- Danny Jorgensen, American sociologist
- Paul Jorion, Belgian American sociologist and cognitive scientist
- Mark Juergensmeyer, American sociologist
K
- Dirk Kaesler, German sociologist
- Boris Kagarlitsky, Russian sociologist
- Irawati Karve, Indian anthropologist and sociologist
- Alexandr Kapto, Russian and Ukrainian scientist, sociologist, and political scientist; a diplomat, journalist, politician, and statesman
- Elihu Katz, American sociologist
- Nitasha Kaul, Indian Kashmiri sociologist, writer, and poet
- Karl Kautsky, Czech Marxist theorist
- Vytautas Kavolis, Lithuanian-American sociologist and literary critic
- Frances Kellor, American sociologist, social reformer, and investigator
- Stephen A. Kent, Canadian sociologist
- Lane Kenworthy, American sociologist
- Sherin Khankan, Danish sociologist
- Abdelkebir Khatibi, Moroccan literary critic, novelist, philosopher, playwright, poet, and sociologist
- Aquila Berlas Kiani, Indian sociologist and educator
- Benjamin Kidd, British sociologist
- Baruch Kimmerling, Israeli sociologist
- Susan Myra Kingsbury, American sociologist
- Julieta Kirkwood, Chilean sociologist, political scientist, and feminist activist
- Evelyn M. Kitagawa, American sociologist, demographer, and educator
- John Kitsuse, Japanese-American sociologist
- Gabriele Klein, sociologist, dance theorist, and educator
- Bernardo Kliksberg, Argentinian sociologist
- Eric Klinenberg, American sociologist
- Karin Knorr Cetina, Austrian sociologist
- Antonina Kłoskowska, Polish sociologist
- Karin Knorr Cetina, Austrian sociologist
- Katsuya Kodama, Japanese sociologist and peace researcher
- Martin Kohli, Swiss sociologist
- Mirra Komarovsky, Russian-American sociologist
- René König, German sociologist
- Andrey Korotayev, Russian sociologist
- Reinhart Koselleck, German historian and social theorist
- Maksim Kovalevsky, Russian sociologist
- Siegfried Kracauer, German sociologist
- Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French feminist sociologist
- Alfred L. Kroeber, American anthropologist
- Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist thinker
- Thomas S. Kuhn, American science theorist
- Eugene M. Kulischer, Russian/American sociologist
- Charles Kurzman, American sociologist
- Martin Kusch, Austrian philosopher and sociologist
L
- William Labov, American sociolinguist and dialectologist
- Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst
- Richard Lachmann, American sociologist, specialist in comparative historical sociology
- Ernesto Laclau, Argentinian sociologist
- Joyce Ladner, American sociologist and activist
- Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher
- Janja Lalich, American sociologist
- Michele Lamont, American sociologist
- Diane Lamoureux, Canadian sociologist, professor, and writer
- Edgardo Lander, Venezuelan sociologist
- David C. Lane, American sociologist
- Silvia Lara Povedano, Costa Rican politician and sociologist
- Annette Lareau, American sociologist
- Ralph Larkin, American sociologist
- Scott Lash, American sociologist
- Harold Lasswell, American political sociologist
- Bruno Latour, French sociologist of science
- Pat Lauderdale, American sociologist
- Peter Lavrovich Lavrov, Russian sociologist
- John Law, British sociologist
- Paul F. Lazarsfeld, Austrian/American sociologist
- Gustave Le Bon, French social psychologist
- Frederic Le Play, early French sociologist
- Anna Leander, Danish sociologist
- Emil Lederer, German sociologist
- Henri Lefebvre, French Marxist philosopher
- Enrique Leff, Mexican sociologist
- Charles Lemert, American sociologist
- Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary and intellectual
- Gerhard Lenski, American evolutionary sociologist
- Magdalena León de Leal, Colombian sociologist
- Wolf Lepenies, German sociologist
- Yuri Levada, Russian sociologist
- John Levi Martin, American sociologist
- Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist
- Jack Levin, American sociologist/criminologist
- Barry B. Levine, American sociologist
- Peggy Levitt, American sociologist
- Ruth Levitas, British sociologist
- Daniel Levy, German-American sociologist
- Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, French philosopher, sociologist, and ethnographer
- Kurt Lewin, German social psychologist
- Loet Leydesdorff, Dutch sociologist
- Li Yinhe, Chinese sociologist, sexologist, and activist
- Stanley Lieberson, American sociologist
- Nan Lin, American sociologist
- Alfred R. Lindesmith, American sociologist of drug policy
- Frederick B. Lindstrom, American sociologist of the arts
- Juan José Linz, Spanish sociologist
- Gilles Lipovetsky, French philosopher
- Seymour Martin Lipset, American comparativist sociologist
- Allen Liska, American sociologist
- Daniel Little, American philosopher and sociologist
- Émile Littré, French philosopher and sociologist, disciple of Comte
- Omar Lizardo, American sociologist
- John Locke, English philosopher
- David Lockwood, British sociologist
- Joseph Lopreato, American sociologist
- Martina Löw, German sociologist
- Leo Löwenthal, German sociologist
- Michael Löwy, Brazilian-French sociologist
- Nathalie Luca, French sociologist
- Thomas Luckmann, German sociologist
- Anthony Ludovici, British conservative sociologist and philosopher
- Niklas Luhmann, German sociologist
- György Lukács, Hungarian philosopher
- Steven Lukes, British social theorist
- George Lundberg, American sociologist
- Rosa Luxemburg, German socialist theoretician
- Robert Staughton Lynd, American sociologist
- David Lyon, British sociologist
- Jean-François Lyotard, French philosopher
M
- Amin Maalouf, Lebanese author with a degree in sociology
- Richard Machalek, American sociologist and sociobiologist
- Robert Morrison MacIver, Scottish/American sociologist
- Donald A. MacKenzie, British sociologist
- Annie Marion MacLean, Canadian-American applied sociologist
- Michel Maffesoli, French sociologist
- Henry Maine, British jurist and legal historian
- Sinisa Malesevic, Irish political and historical sociologist
- Bronisław Malinowski, Polish social anthropologist
- Thomas Malthus, English demographer
- Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Brazilian social theorist
- Michael Mann, British/American sociologist
- Karl Mannheim, Hungarian/German sociologist
- Peter K. Manning, American sociologist
- José María Maravall, Spanish sociologist
- Herbert Marcuse, German/American sociologist
- Ruy Mauro Marini, Brazilian sociologist
- Władysław Markiewicz, Polish sociologist
- Catherine Marry, French sociologist
- Dennis Marsden, British sociologist
- Alfred Marshall, English economist
- Thomas Humphrey Marshall, British sociologist
- Everett Dean Martin, American sociologist
- Jean Martin, Australian sociologist
- John Levi Martin, American sociologist
- Harriet Martineau, English writer described as 'first female sociologist'
- Alberto Martinelli, Italian sociologist
- Vladimir Martynenko, Russian sociologist, economist, political scientist
- Margaret Maruani, Tunisian-French sociologist
- Gary T. Marx, American sociologist
- Karl Marx, German political philosopher, social theorist
- Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czech sociologist
- Douglas Massey, American sociologist
- Brian Massumi, Canadian social theorist
- Humberto Maturana, Chilean biologist and sociologist of knowledge
- Marcel Mauss, French sociologist
- Carl R May, British medical sociologist
- Claire Maxwell, German-Australian sociologist
- Renate Mayntz, German sociologist
- Doug McAdam, American sociologist
- Fayette Avery McKenzie, American sociologist
- Robert McKenzie, Canadian Politics professor and psephologist
- Marshall McLuhan, Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar
- George Herbert Mead, American philosopher and social psychologist
- Margaret Mead, American cultural anthropologist
- Cecilia Menjívar, Salvadoran-American sociologist
- Stephen Mennell, English sociologist
- Fatema Mernissi, Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist
- Robert K. Merton, American sociologist
- Michael Messner, American pro-feminist sociologist
- John W. Meyer, American sociologist
- Robert Michels, Italian-German political sociologist
- Maria Mies, German sociologist
- Ralph Miliband, British sociologist
- C. Wright Mills, American sociologist
- Andrew Milner, British-Australian sociologist of literature
- Ann Mische, American sociologist
- Munesuke Mita, Japanese sociologist
- J. Clyde Mitchell, British social anthropologist
- Shinji Miyadai, Japanese sociologist
- Tariq Modood, British sociologist
- Abraham Moles, French sociologist, psychologist, and engineer
- Andres Molina Enriquez, Mexican sociologist
- Montesquieu, French philosopher
- James D. Montgomery, American economist and mathematical sociologist
- Barrington Moore, Jr., American political sociologist
- Wilbert E. Moore, American sociologist
- Jacob L. Moreno, Romanian-American psychosociologist, founder of sociometry
- Edgar Morin, French sociologist
- Aldon Morris, American sociologist
- Gaetano Mosca, Italian political and social scientist
- Serge Moscovici, French psychologist and major influence in the study of social representations and social movements
- Chantal Mouffe, Belgian post-Marxist theorist
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan, American sociologist, diplomat and politician
- Radhakamal Mukerjee, Indian sociologist
- Lewis Mumford, American sociologist
- Peter A. Munch, Norwegian/American sociologist
- Richard Münch, German sociologist
- Charles Murray, American sociologist
- Alva Myrdal, Swedish sociologist
- Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist, sociologist, and politician
N
- Ashis Nandy, Indian sociologist
- Vicenç Navarro, Spanish sociologist
- Victor Nee, American sociologist
- Antonio Negri, Italian political philosopher and critic of Luhmann
- Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German Roman Catholic theologian, sociologist and social reformer
- Otto Neurath, Austrian sociologist and political economist
- Otto Newman, Austrian-British sociologist
- Norman H. Nie, Inventor of SPSS
- Robert Nisbet, American sociologist
- Helga Nowotny, Austrian sociologist
O
- Ann Oakley, British sociologist
- Claus Offe, German political sociologist
- William F. Ogburn, American sociologist
- Lloyd Ohlin, American sociologist
- Orlandina de Oliveira, Brazilian-Mexican sociologist
- Michael Omi, American sociologist
- Gail Omvedt, American/Indian sociologist
- T. K. Oommen, Indian sociologist
- Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist and political economist
- José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher
- Stanislaw Ossowski, Polish sociologist
- Dag Østerberg, Norwegian sociologist
- Moisey Ostrogorsky, Russian sociologist
P
- Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist and sociologist
- Robert E. Park, American sociologist
- Frank Parkin, British sociologist
- Talcott Parsons, American sociologist
- C.J. Pascoe, American sociologist
- Jean-Claude Passeron, French sociologist
- Bindeshwar Pathak, Indian sociologist
- Orlando Patterson, Jamaican-American sociologist
- Karl Pearson, English statistician
- Willie Pearson Jr, American sociologist
- Jacqueline Peschard, Mexican sociologist
- James Petras, American sociologist
- Jean Piaget, Swiss developmental psychologist
- Andrew Pickering, British sociologist
- Trevor Pinch, British sociologist
- Alessandro Pizzorno, Italian sociologist
- Michael Plekon, American sociologist
- Helmuth Plessner, German sociologist
- Geoffrey Pleyers, Belgian sociologist
- Joel M. Podolny, American sociologist
- Karl Polanyi, Hungarian economist
- Friedrich Pollock, German social scientist
- Heinrich Popitz, German sociologist
- Karl Popper, Austrian philosopher
- Juan Carlos Portantiero, Argentinian sociologist
- John Porter, Canadian sociologist
- Alejandro Portes, Cuban-American sociologist
- Adam Possamai, Belgian-born sociologist
- Dudley L. Poston Jr., American sociologist
- Nicos Poulantzas, Greek political sociologist
- Émile Poulat, French historian and sociologist
- Walter W. Powell, American sociologist
- Ricardo Pozas Arciniega, Mexican sociologist and anthropologist
- Suzana Prates, Brazilian feminist sociologist and academic
- Anette Prehn, Danish sociologist
- Harriet B. Presser, American sociologist and demographer
- Samuel H. Preston, American demographer and sociologist
- Ilya Prigogine, Belgian chemist, main contribution to sociology is dissipative structures theory
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French utopian socialist thinker
- Adam Przeworski, Polish political sociologist
- Jade Puget, American musician
- Robert Putnam, American political scientist
Q
- Sigrid Quack, German sociologist
- Enrico Quarantelli, American sociologist
- Adolphe Quetelet, French statistician and sociologist
- Anibal Quijano, Peruvian sociologist
- Richard Quinney, American sociologist
R
- Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown, British social anthropologist
- Charles C. Ragin, American sociologist
- Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austrian sociologist
- Stephen Raudenbush, American sociologist and statistician
- Aviad Raz, Israeli sociologist and anthropologist
- Mark Regnerus, American sociologist
- Juliette Rennes, French sociologist
- Sal Restivo, American sociologist
- John Rex, British sociologist
- James Mahmud Rice, Australian sociologist
- Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher
- Cecilia L. Ridgeway, American sociologist
- David Riesman, American sociologist
- George Ritzer, American sociologist
- Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Bolivian sociologist
- Roland Robertson, British sociologist
- William I. Robinson, American sociologist
- Guy Rocher, Canadian sociologist
- Terje Rød-Larsen, Norwegian diplomat and sociologist
- Jesús M. de Miguel Rodríguez, Spanish sociologist
- Stein Rokkan, Norwegian sociologist
- Hartmut Rosa, German sociologist
- Arnold Marshall Rose, American sociologist
- Gillian Rose, British sociologist
- Nikolas Rose, British sociologist
- Paul Rosenfels, American psychologist and sociologist
- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, German social philosopher
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher
- Peter H. Rossi, American sociologist
- Guenther Roth, German-American sociologist
- Rubén G. Rumbaut, Cuban-American sociologist
- W. G. Runciman, British sociologist
- Arne Runeberg, Finnish sociologist, anthropologist and linguist
S
- Harvey Sacks, American sociologist and ethnomethodologist
- Renaud Sainsaulieu, French sociologist concerned with the sociology of organizations
- Henri de Saint-Simon, French philosopher and social thinker
- Patricia Salas O'Brien, Peruvian sociologist and Minister of Education
- Robert J. Sampson, American sociologist
- Pierre Sansot, French sociologist
- Abdelmalek Sayad, Egyptian-French sociologist
- Andrew Sayer, British sociologist
- Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Portuguese sociologist
- Giovanni Sartori, Italian political scientist
- Saskia Sassen, American sociologist
- Peter Saunders, Australian sociologist
- Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist
- Albert Schäffle, German sociologist
- Thomas J. Scheff, American sociologist
- Emanuel Schegloff, American sociologist
- Max Scheler, German philosopher and founder of the sociology of knowledge
- Helmut Schelsky, German sociologist
- Juraj Schenk, Slovak sociologist
- Herbert Schiller, American sociologist
- Kurt C. Schlichting, American sociologist
- Wolfgang Schluchter, German sociologist
- Sylvia Schmelkes, Mexican sociologist
- Paul Schnabel, Dutch sociologist
- Allan Schnaiberg, American environmental sociologist
- Juliet Schor, American sociologist
- Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Austrian economist
- Alfred Schütz, Austrian philosopher and sociologist
- Michael Schwartz, American sociologist
- John Scott, British sociologist
- Sue Scott, British sociologist
- Jean Séguy, French sociologist of religions
- Steven Seidman, American sociologist
- Pınar Selek, Turkish sociologist
- Philip Selznick, American sociologist
- Amartya Sen, Indian economist influential in the sociology of development
- Richard Sennett, American sociologist and public figure
- Perla Serfaty, Moroccan-born French and Canadian academic, sociologist, psychosociologist, writer
- William H. Sewell, American sociologist
- Steven Shapin, American sociologist
- Jeremy J. Shapiro, American sociologist
- Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist and writer
- Tamotsu Shibutani, Japanese-American sociologist
- Bahija Ahmed Shihab, Iraqi sociologist and professor
- Edward Shils, American sociologist
- Anson Shupe, American sociologist
- Volkmar Sigusch, German sociologist and sexuologe
- Charles E. Silberman, American criminologist
- Beverly J. Silver, American sociologist
- François Simiand, French sociologist
- Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher
- Herbert A. Simon, American social scientist
- Theda Skocpol, American sociologist and political scientist
- Beverley Skeggs, British feminist sociologist
- Albion Woodbury Small, American sociologist
- Neil Smelser, American sociologist
- Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher
- Christian Smith, American sociologist of religion
- Dorothy E. Smith, British/American sociologist and gender theorist
- Stephen C. Smith, American sociologist and 21st century trend researcher
- Tom Snijders, Dutch mathematical sociologist
- David A. Snow, American sociologist
- Werner Sombart, German economist and sociologist
- Georges Sorel, French philosopher
- Aage B. Sørensen, Danish-American sociologist
- Bernardo Sorj, Brazilian sociologist
- Pitirim Sorokin, Russian sociologist
- Herbert Spencer, English philosopher
- Oswald Spengler, German philosopher
- Lynette Spillman, American sociologist
- Hasso Spode, German sociologist and historian
- M N Srinivas, Indian sociologist
- Susan Star, American sociologist
- Carl Nicolai Starcke, Danish sociologist
- David C. Stark, American sociologist
- Rodney Stark, American sociologist
- Paul Starr, American sociologist
- Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Mexican anthropologist and sociologist
- George Steinmetz, American sociologist
- Ana María Díaz Stevens, Puerto Rican-American sociologist
- Samuel A. Stouffer, American sociologist
- Anselm L. Strauss, American sociologist
- Wolfgang Streeck, German sociologist
- Sheldon Stryker, American sociologist
- Lucy Suchman, American sociologist
- Mark Suchman, American sociologist
- Thomas Sugrue, American historian and sociologist
- William Graham Sumner, American sociologist
- Eilert Sundt, Norwegian sociologist
- Edwin Sutherland, American criminologist
- Maristella Svampa, Argentinian sociologist
- Ian Svenonius, American cultural sociologist
- Richard Swedberg, Swedish sociologist
- Ann Swidler, American sociologist
- Jan Szczepanski, Polish sociologist
- Iván Szelényi, Hungarian-American sociologist
- Piotr Sztompka, Polish sociologist
T
- Hippolyte Taine, French positivist historian and critic
- Yasuma Takada, Japanese sociologist
- Salim Tamari, Palestinian historical sociologist
- Lisa Taraki, Palestinian sociologist
- Alexander Tarasov, Russian sociologist
- Gabriel Tarde, French sociologist and social psychologist
- Sidney Tarrow, American sociologist
- R. H. Tawney, English ethical socialist
- Dorceta Taylor, American environmental sociologist
- Ian Taylor, English sociologist and criminologist
- Laurie Taylor, English sociologist and broadcaster
- Göran Therborn, Swedish-British sociologist
- W. I. Thomas, American social psychologist
- E. P. Thompson, British socialist historian
- John Thompson, British sociologist of culture and media
- Sarah Thornton, Canadian sociologist, writer, and ethnographer
- Ole Thyssen, Danish sociologist
- Marta Tienda, American sociologist
- Charles Tilly, American sociologist
- Nicholas Timasheff, Russian sociologist
- Valery Tishkov, Russian ethnologist and sociologist
- Alexis de Tocqueville, French essayist and political analyst
- Ferdinand Tönnies, German philosopher and founder of German sociology
- Alain Touraine, French sociologist
- Peter Townsend, British sociologist
- Judith Treas, American sociologist
- Renato Treves, Italian sociologist
- Ernst Troeltsch, German sociologist and philosopher
- Zeynep Tufekci, Turkish-American sociologist
- Raimo Tuomela, Finnish philosopher and social theorist
- Sherry Turkle, American sociologist
- Bryan S. Turner, British sociologist
- Jonathan H. Turner, American social theorist
- Stephen Park Turner, American sociologist
- France Winddance Twine, American sociologist and ethnographer
U
- John Urry, British sociologist
V
- Mariana Valverde, Canadian sociologist
- Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist and philosopher
- Aninhalli Vasavi, Indian sociologist
- Diane Vaughan, American sociologist
- Thorstein Veblen, American sociologist and economist
- Ruut Veenhoven, Dutch sociologist
- Calvin Veltman, Canadian sociologist, demographer and sociolinguist
- Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, American sociologist
- Eliseo Verón, Argentinian sociologist
- Alfred Vierkandt, German sociologist
- Marika Vila, Spanish comics artist and writer; feminist sociologist
- George Edgar Vincent, American sociologist
- Paul Virilio, French philosopher and social theorist
- Shiv Visvanathan, Indian sociologist and social scientist
W
- Loïc Wacquant, French sociologist
- Peter Wagner, German sociologist and social theorist
- Judy Wajcman, British sociologist
- Sylvia Walby, British sociologist
- Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist and historian
- Margit Warburg, Danish sociologist
- Lester Frank Ward, founder of American sociology
- Vron Ware, British educator and journalist
- Mary C. Waters, American sociologist
- Duncan Watts, American mathematical sociologist and network theorist
- Emile Waxweiler, Belgian sociologist
- Beatrice Webb, British socialist and social theorist
- Sidney Webb, British socialist and social theorist
- Alfred Weber, German sociologist
- Marianne Weber, German sociologist
- Max Weber, German sociologist
- Frank Webster, British sociologist
- Margaret Weir, sociologist and political scientist
- Barry Wellman, Canadian/American sociologist
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett, American sociologist, journalist, social worker
- John Westergaard, British sociologist
- Edvard Westermarck, Finnish sociologist and philosopher
- Nathan Whetten, American sociologist and academic administrator
- Douglas R. White, American mathematical sociologist and anthropologist
- Harrison White, American sociologist
- William Foote Whyte, American sociologist
- William H. Whyte, American sociologist, journalist and peoplewatcher
- Saskia Wieringa, Dutch sociologist and professor
- Leopold von Wiese, German sociologist
- Michel Wieviorka, French sociologist
- Jean-Paul Willaime, French sociologist of religions
- Sidney M. Willhelm, American sociologist, author
- Raymond Williams, British sociologist, novelist, and critic
- Paul Willis, British sociologist and social scientist
- Helmut Willke, German sociologist
- William Julius Wilson, American sociologist
- Howard Winant, American sociologist
- Christopher Winship, American sociologist
- Louis Wirth, German/American sociologist
- Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski, Polish sociologist
- José Woldenberg, Mexican sociologist
- Mary Wollstonecraft, British social reformer
- Steve Woolgar, British sociologist
- Monroe Work, American sociologist
- Cas Wouters, Dutch sociologist
- Erik Olin Wright, American sociologist
- Robert Wuthnow, American sociologist
Y
- Lewis Yablonsky, American sociologist
- Kazuo Yamaguchi, Japanese sociologist, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
- Masahiro Yamada, Japanese sociologist
- Hajar Yazdiha, American sociologist
- John Milton Yinger, American sociologist, president of the American Sociological Association 1976–1977
- Paul Yonnet, French sociologist
- Michael Young, British sociologist and Labour politician
- Wayland Young, British historian, social thinker and Labour politician
Z
- Benjamin Zablocki, American sociologist and social psychologist
- Mayer Zald, American sociologist
- Tatyana Zaslavskaya, Russian sociologist
- René Zavaleta Mercado, Bolivian sociologist
- Hans Zeisel, Austrian-American sociologist
- Viviana Zelizer,Argentinian Sociologist
- Eviatar Zerubavel, American cognitive sociologist
- Jean Ziegler, Swiss sociologist
- Carle C. Zimmerman, American sociologist
- Florian Znaniecki, Polish/American sociologist
- Irving Zola, American medical sociologist and disability rights activist
- Tukufu Zuberi, American sociologist
- Harriet Zuckerman, American sociologist, specializes in science
- Sharon Zukin, American sociologist
- Phil Zuckerman, American sociologist