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