List of sociologists

This article provides a list of sociologists. It is intended to cover those who have made substantive contributions to social theory and research, including any sociological subfield. Scientists in other fields and philosophers are not included, unless at least some of their work is defined as being specifically sociological in nature. Also included are certain politicians and other notable individuals who gained a university degree in the subject.

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  Ferdinand Tönnies
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  Thorstein Veblen
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  Georg Simmel
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  Émile Durkheim
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  Max Weber

A

• Andrew Abbott, American sociologist
• Anwar Abdel-Malek, Egyptian sociologist
• Aso Magdid Abdulla Gardi, Kurdish sociologist 1987
• Peter Abell, British sociologist
• Barbara Adam, British sociologist
• Jane Addams (1860–1935), American social worker and reformer
• Theodor Adorno (1903–1969), German philosopher and cultural sociologist
• Richard Alba, American sociologist
• Francesco Alberoni, Italian sociologist
• Martin Albrow, British sociologist
• Alwardi Ali, (1914–1995) Iraqi sociologist
• Jeffrey C. Alexander, American sociologist
• Edwin Amenta, American sociologist
• Nancy Ammerman, American sociologist
• Elijah Anderson, American sociologist
• Stanislav Andreski, Polish-British sociologist
• Robert C. Angell, American sociologist
• Aaron Antonovsky, Israeli sociologist
• Arjun Appadurai, Indian sociologist
• Stanley Aronowitz, American sociologist
• Margaret Archer, British sociologist
• Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), German political theorist
• Raymond Aron (1905–1983), French philosopher and sociologist
• Giovanni Arrighi, Italian sociologist
• James Arvanitakis, Australian sociologist
• Johan Asplund (born 1937), Swedish sociologist
• Vilhelm Aubert (1922–1988), Norwegian sociologist
• Francisco Ayala, Spanish sociologist and novelist

B

• 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
• E. Digby Baltzell, American sociologist
• Yves Barel, French sociologist
• Eileen Barker, British sociologist
• Anne Bargès, French sociologist
• Ugurol Barlas, Turkish sociologist
• Barry Barnes, British sociologist
• Liberty Barnes, American sociologist
• Roland Barthes (1915–1980), French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician
• Roger Bastide, French sociologist
• Gregory Bateson (1904–1980), English/American cybernetican
• Jean Baubérot (born 1941), French historian and sociologist
• Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007), French cultural theorist
• Zygmunt Bauman (born 1925), Polish/British sociologist
• (Dagogo Hart) (Born 1964), Nigerian Sociologist
• Frank Bean, American sociologist
• Peter Bearman (born 1956), American sociologist
• Ulrich Beck (born 1944), German sociologist
• Gary Becker, American economist
• Howard P. Becker, American sociologist
• Howard S. Becker (born 1928), American sociologist
• Jens Beckert, German sociologist
• Richard F. Behrendt (1908–1973), German sociologist
• Daniel Bell (born 1919), American sociologist
• Robert N. Bellah, American sociologist
• Walden Bello, Filipino sociologist
• Reinhard Bendix, German-American sociologist
• Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), German cultural writer and sociologist
• Joseph Berger, American sociologist
• Peter L. Berger (born 1929), Austro-American sociologist
• Pierre L. van den Berghe, Belgian sociologist
• Henri Bergson (1859–1941), French philosopher
• Jessie Bernard, American feminist sociologist
• Eduard Bernstein, German politician and intellectual
• Jean-Michel Berthelot, French sociologist
• Andre Beteille, Indian sociologist
• Krishna Bhattachan, Nepalese sociologist
• Robert Bierstedt, American sociologist
• Norman Birnbaum, American sociologist
• Donald Black, American sociologist
• Hubert M. Blalock, American sociologist
• Peter Blau (1918–2002), American sociologist
• Kathleen M. Blee (born 1953), American sociologist
• David Bloor, British sociologist
• Hans-Peter Blossfeld, German sociologist
• Herbert Blumer (1900–1987), American sociologist
• Olivier Bobineau (born 1972), French sociologist
• Luc Boltanski, French sociologist
• Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, American Sociology
• Scott Boorman (born 1949), American sociologist
• Charles Booth, British social researcher
• Ernst Borinski (1901–1983), German sociologist
• Thomas Bottomore (1920–1992), British sociologist
• Raymond Boudon, French sociologist
• Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002), French sociologist
• Gaston Bouthoul (1896–1980), French sociologist
• John David Brewer (born 1951), British sociologist
• Ronald Breiger, American sociologist
• Victor Branford (1863-1930), British sociologist
• Carl Brinkmann (1885–1954), German sociologist
• David G. Bromley, American sociologist
• Rogers Brubaker, American sociologist
• Hauke Brunkhorst, German sociologist
• Walter F. Buckley, American sociologist
• Michael Burawoy, American sociologist
• Ernest Burgess (1886–1966), Canadian sociologist
• Tom R. Burns, European-American sociologist
• Ronald Burt, American sociologist
• Judith Butler (born 1956), American gender theorist

C

• Roger Caillois, French sociologist
• Craig Calhoun, American sociologist
• Michel Callon, French sociologist
• Elias Canetti, Bulgaria-born novelist and outsider sociologist
• Georges Canguilhem, French intellectual
• Leni Carballo,Filipino sociologist, teacher De La Salle- College of Saint Benilde
• Fernando Henrique Cardoso, (born 1931), Brazilian sociologist, former President of Brazil
• Kathleen Carley, American computational sociologist
• Antonio Caso, Mexican sociologist
• Robert Castel, French sociologist
• Manuel Castells (born 1942), Spanish sociologist and urban planner
• Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–1997), Greek philosopher and political theorist
• Daniel Cefai, French sociologist
• Michel de Certeau, French cultural sociologist
• Janet Saltzman Chafetz, feminist sociologist
• Francis Stuart Chapin (1888–1974), American sociologist
• Christopher Chase-Dunn, American sociologist
• Louis Chauvel (born 1967), French sociologist
• Mohamed Cherkaoui, Moroccan/French sociologist
• Eli Chinoy, American sociologist
• Nancy Chodorow (born 1944), American sociologist, psychoanalyst, and gender theorist
• Nicholas A. Christakis, American sociologist
• Chua Beng Huat, Singaporean sociologist
• Aaron Cicourel, American sociologist
• Dieter Claessens (1921–1997), German sociologist,
• Lars Clausen (born 1935), German sociologist
• Richard Cloward (1926–2001), American sociologist
• Philip N. Cohen, American sociologist
• Ronald L. Cohen, American social psychologist
• Stanley Cohen, British sociologist (criminology)
• James Samuel Coleman (1926–1995), American sociologist
• Harry Collins, British sociologist
• Patricia Hill Collins (born 1948), American sociologist
• Randall Collins, American sociologist
• Paul Colomy, American sociologist
• Auguste Comte (1798–1857), French founder of sociology
• Nicolas de Condorcet, French mathematician and early sociologist.
• Dalton Conley, American sociologist
• R.W. Connell (born 1944), Australian sociologist
• Paul Connerton, British sociologist
• Charles Cooley (1864–1929), American sociologist
• Lewis A. Coser (1913–2003), American sociologist
• Anna Julia Cooper, American sociologist
• Carl J. Couch (1925–1994), American sociologist
• Douglas E. Cowan, Canadian sociologist
• Maxine Leeds Craig, American sociologist
• Colin Crouch, British sociologist
• Michel Crozier, French sociologist
• Agustin Cueva, Ecuadorian sociologist
• Stefan Czarnowski (1879–1937), Polish sociologist

D

• Robert Dahl (born 1915), American political scientist
• Dankwart Danckwerts (born 1933), German sociologist
• Ralf Dahrendorf (1929–2009), German-British sociologist and politician
• Yvon Dandurand (21st century), Canadian sociologist and criminologist
• Randy David, Filipino sociologist
• Leonore Davidoff, American-British sociologist and historian
• Kingsley Davis, American sociologist
• Georges Davy, French sociologist
• Donatella della Porta, Italian sociologist and political scientist
• François de Singly, French sociologist
• Régis Debray, French mediologist
• Alexander Deichsel (born 1935), German sociologist
• Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995), French philosopher
• Christine Delphy, French sociologist
• Bogdan Denitch, American sociologist
• Nancy A. Denton, American sociologist
• Norman Denzin, American sociologist
• Régis Dericquebourg (born 1947), French sociologist of religions
• Jacques Derrida, French philosopher
• Mario Diani, Italian sociologist
• Heinz Dieterich, German-Mexican sociologist
• Wilhelm Dilthey, German historian, psychologist and sociologist
• Helen Dinerman (1920–1974), American public opinion researcher
• Paul DiMaggio, American cultural sociologist
• Georgi Dimitrov Dimitrov, Bulgarian sociologist
• Stuart C. Dodd, American sociologist
• G. William Domhoff, American sociologist
• Jose Mauricio Domingues, Brazilian social theorist
• Jacques Donzelot, French sociologist
• Mary Douglas, British anthropologist and sociologist of perception
• Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician
• W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), American sociologist and civil rights leader
• Emanuel Lima Duarte, Portuguese sociologist
• Denis Duclos, French sociologist
• François Dubet, French sociologist
• Otis Dudley Duncan, American sociologist
• Mitchell Duneier, American sociologist
• Eric Dunning, British sociologist
• Émile Durkheim (1858–1917), French sociologist
• Troy Duster, American sociologist
• Maurice Duverger, French sociologist
• Jean Duvignaud, French sociologist
• Gunter Dux, German sociologist
• Dina El Hakim, Egyptian physicist

E

• Gaze C. Garcia (born 1853), Italian sociologist
• Gerald L. Eberlein (born 1930), German sociolog
• Alain Ehrenberg, French sociologist
• Eugen Ehrlich, German sociologist
• Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt (1923–2010), Israeli sociologist
• Glen H. Elder, Jr., American sociologist
• Inya Abam Eteng (1931-2013), Nigerian Sociologist.
• Norbert Elias (1897–1990), German sociologist
• Nina Eliasoph, American sociologist
• Elizabethann Ellis (born 1965) Disability researcher
• Jon Elster, Norwegian sociologist
• Mustafa Emirbayer, American sociologist
• Hugo O. Engelmann (1917–2002), American sociologist
• Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), German socialist philosopher
• Paula England, American sociologist
• Ronald Enroth (born 1938), American sociologist
• Kai T. Erikson (born 1931), American sociologist
• Hartmut Esser, German sociologist
• Gosta Esping-Andersen, Danish sociologist
• Amitai Etzioni (born 1929), American sociologist
• Peter B. Evans, American sociologist
• Dhanagare D.N., Indian Sociologist

F

• FATEH MUHAMMAD BURFAT, Pakistani sociologist
• Enzo Faletto, Chilean sociologist
• Orlando Fals Borda, Colombian sociologist
• Frantz Fanon, Martinican intellectual and sociologist
• Rick Fantasia, American sociologist
• Thomas Fararo (born 1933), American mathematical sociologist
• Paul Fauconnet (1874–1938), French sociologist
• Gary Faulkner (born 1940), American sociologist
• Joe Feagin, American sociologist
• David Featherman, American sociologist
• Fei Xiaotong (1910–2005), Chinese sociologist and anthropologist
• Anuška Ferligoj, Slovenian mathematical sociologist
• Florestan Fernandes (1920–1995), Brazilian sociologist
• Myra Marx Ferree (born 1949), American sociologist
• Enrico Ferri, Italian sociologist and criminologist
• Gary Alan Fine (born 1950), American sociologist
• Claude Fischer (born 1947), American author of the subcultural theory of urbanism
• Peter Flora, Austrian sociologist
• Heinz von Foerster (1911–2002), Austrian/American cybernetican
• Pim Fortuyn (1948–2002), Dutch sociologist author and politician
• Daniel A. Foss (born 1940), American sociologist
• Robert Fossaert, French sociologist
• John Bellamy Foster, American sociologist and journalist
• Michel Foucault (1926–1984), French philosopher
• Alfred Jules Émile Fouillée, French philosopher and sociologist
• Charles Fourier (1772–1837), French proto-sociologist
• Renée Fox, American sociologist
• Andre Gunder Frank (1929–2005), German economic historian and sociologist
• David D. Franks, American neurosociologist
• Yervand Frangyan, Armenian sociologist
• Nancy Fraser, American social theorist
• Michel Freitag, Swiss-Canadian sociologist
• Hans Freyer (1887–1969), German sociologist and philosopher
• Gilberto Freyre (1900–1987), Brazilian sociologist
• Erhard Friedberg, Austrian-French sociologist
• Georges Friedmann, French sociologist
• Robert W. Friedrichs
• Stephan Fuchs, German sociologist
• Steve Fuller, American sociologist
• Celso Furtado, Brazilian economist

G

• Gacia, Jionesa, Filipino sociologist
• Luciano Gallino, Italian sociologist
• Francis Galton (1822–1911), English statistician
• Johan Galtung, Norwegian sociologist, mathematician, and founder of peace studies.
• Diego Gambetta, Italian sociologist
• Herbert Gans (born 1927), American sociologist
• Harold Garfinkel (born 1917), American sociologist
• David W Garland, British sociologist
• Marcel Gauchet, French sociologist
• John Gaventa, American-British sociologist
• Patrick Geddes, Scottish sociologist
• Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist
• Arnold Gehlen (1904–1976), German philosopher and sociologist
• Theodor Geiger (1891–1952), German sociologist
• Ernest Gellner (1925–1995), Czech-British philosopher and social anthropologist
• Gary Gereffi, American sociologist
• Gino Germani, Argentinian sociologist
• Hans Heinrich Gerth, German-American sociologist
• Anthony Giddens (born 1938), English sociologist
• Franklin Henry Giddings, American sociologist
• Nigel Gilbert, British sociologist
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American sociologist
• Paul Gilroy, British sociologist
• Salvador Giner, Spanish sociologist
• Morris Ginsberg, British sociologist
• Corrado Gini (1884–1965), Italian statistician
• Herbert Gintis, American behavioral scientist
• Claude Giraud, French sociologist
• Henry Giroux, American sociologist of education
• Todd Gitlin, American sociologist
• Barney Glaser, American sociologist
• David Glass (1911–1978), British sociologist
• Barry Glassner (born 1952), American sociologist
• Nathan Glazer, American sociologist
• Max Gluckman (1911–1975), South African/English social anthropologist
• Erving Goffman (1922–1982), Canadian interactionistic sociologist
• Steven J. Gold (born 1955), American sociologist
• Lucien Goldmann, Romanian/French sociologist
• Jack Goldstone, American sociologist
• John H. Goldthorpe (born 1935), British sociologist
• Yasunosuke Gonda, Japanese sociologist
• Pablo González Casanova, Mexican sociologist
• Jeff Goodwin, American sociologist
• Johan Goudsblom, Dutch sociologist
• Alvin Gouldner, American sociologist
• Ziya Gökalp, (1876–1924), Turkish Sociologist, Writer, Poet and Political Activist
• Jorge Graciarena, Argentinian sociologist
• Isacque Graeber (1905–1984), Sociologist and Jewish Historian
• Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937), Italian Marxist and social theorist
• Richard Grathoff (born 1934), German sociologist and phenomenologist
• Mark Granovetter, American sociologist
• Andrew M. Greeley, American sociologist, priest, writer
• Liah Greenfeld (born 1951), Russian/American sociologist
• Leonid Grinin (born 1958), Russian sociologist
• Ludwig Gumplowicz (1838–1909), Polish sociologist, one of the founders of European sociology
• Dipankar Gupta(born 1944),Indian Sociologist,formerly with JNU
• Georges Gurvitch, Russian-French sociologist
• Dimitrie Gusti (1880–1955), Romanian sociologist, the creator of the sociological monographic method

H

• Hamied Al Hashimi (Iraqi Sociologist)
• Jürgen Habermas (born 1929), German social theorist
• Jeffrey K. Hadden (1937–2003), American sociologist
• Dimitrios Michael Hadzantonis, Greek-Australian sociologist, sociolinguist
• Maurice Halbwachs (1877–1945), French philosopher and sociologist
• Drew Halfmann (born 1967), American sociologist
• John A. Hall (born 1949), British/Canadian sociologist
• Stuart Hall (born 1932), British cultural theorist
• Donna Haraway (born 1944), American gender and technology theorist
• Russell Hardin, American social theorist
• Eszter Hargittai, Hungarian sociologist
• Marta Harnecker, Chilean sociologist
• David Harvey, British social theorist
• Chandrakala A. Hate (1903–1990), Indian sociologist, social worker, and author
• Alkabi Hatem, Iraqi sociologist
• Peter Hedström, Swedish sociologist
• Horst Helle, German sociologist
• John Heritage, American sociologist
• Samuel Heilman, American sociologist
• Wilhelm Heitmeyer, German sociologist
• Dirk Helbing, Swiss sociologist
• Ágnes Heller, Hungarian philosopher and sociologist
• Will Herberg (1901–1977), American sociologist
• Danièle Hervieu-Léger, French sociologist
• Robert Hertz, French sociologist
• Reuben Hill, British sociologist
• Ulf Himmelstrand, Swedish sociologist
• Paul Hirst, British sociologist
• Thomas Hobbes, British philosopher
• Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, pioneer British sociologist
• Arlie Russell Hochschild, American sociologist
• Richard Hoggart (born 1918), British sociologist and founding member of the Birmingham University Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
• John Holloway, Irish sociologist
• Robert J. Holton, British sociologist
• George C. Homans (1910–1989), American behavioural sociologist
• Axel Honneth (born 1949), German social theorist
• Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), German social theorist
• Irving Louis Horowitz, American sociologist
• Eugenio María de Hostos, Puerto Rican sociologist
• Philip N. Howard, Canadian American sociologist and professor of communication at the University of Washington's Department of Communication
• Everett Hughes, American sociologist
• Stephen J. Hunt, British sociologist

I

• Octavio Ianni (1926–2004), Brazilian sociologist
• Ibn Khaldun (1332/ah732–1406/ah808), North African historian, forerunner of modern historiography, sociology, and economics
• Kancha Ilaiah (born 1952), Indian political scientist and social activist
• Eva Illouz, Moroccan sociologist
• Alex Inkeles, American sociologist
• Harold Innis, Canadian sociologist who developed staples theory
• John Keith Irwin (1929–2010), American sociologist known for his expertise on the American prison system

J

• Eliezer Jaffe, Israeli-American sociologist
• Marie Jahoda (1907–2001), Austrian sociologist
• Marie Jaisson, French sociologist
• Fredric Jameson, American philosopher and social theorist
• Morris Janowitz, American sociologist
• James M. Jasper (born 1957), American sociologist
• Gail Jefferson (1938–2008), American sociologist and conversation analyst
• Hans Joas, German social theorist
• Benton Johnson (born 1928), American sociologist
• Guy Benton Johnson (1901–1991), American sociologist
• Harry M. Johnson, American sociologist
• Miriam M. Johnson (1928–2007), American sociologist
• Rodrigo Jokisch (born 1946), German-Mexican sociologist and social theorist
• Lewis Wade Jones (1910–1979), African/American sociologist and educator
• Danny Jorgensen, American sociologist
• Paul Jorion, Belgian American sociologist and cognitive scientist
• Isaac Joseph, French sociologist
• Paramjit Singh Judge, Indian sociologist of exclusion

K

• Dirk Kaesler (born 1944), German sociologist
• Boris Kagarlitsky, Russian sociologist
• Rand L. Kannenberg (born 1960), American clinical sociologist
• Alexandr Kapto, Russian and Ukrainian scientist, sociologist, and political scientist; a diplomat, journalist, politician, and statesman.
• Elihu Katz, American sociologist
• Jean-Claude Kaufmann, French sociologist
• Karl Kautsky, Russian Marxist theorist
• Vytautas Kavolis, Lithuanian-American sociologist and literary critic
• Stephen A. Kent, Canadian sociologist
• Andre Kieserling, German sociologist
• Baruch Kimmerling, Israeli sociologist
• Martin Luther King, American civil rights activist, held Bachelor of Arts in sociology
• Antonina Kłoskowska (1919–2001), Polish sociologist
• John Kitsuse, Japanese-American sociologist
• Bernardo Kliksberg, Argentinian sociologist
• Eric Klinenberg, American sociologist
• Karin Knorr Cetina (born 1944), Austrian sociologist
• René König (1906–1992), German sociologist
• Andrey Korotayev (born 1961), Russian sociologist
• Reinhart Koselleck (1923-2006), German historian and social theorist
• Maksim Kovalevsky (1851–1916), Russian sociologist
• Siegfried Kracauer, German sociologist
• Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French feminist sociologist
• Alfred L. Kroeber (1876–1960), American anthropologist
• Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), Russian anarchist thinker
• Thomas S. Kuhn (1922–1996), American science theorist
• Eugene M. Kulischer (1891–1956) Russian American sociologist
• Charles Kurzman, American sociologist
• Martin Kusch, Austrian philosopher and sociologist

L

• William Labov (born 1927), American sociolinguist and dialectologist
• Jacques Lacan (1901–1981), French psychoanalyst
• Ernesto Laclau, Argentinian sociologist
• Joyce Ladner, American sociologist and activist
• Bernard Lahire, French sociologist
• Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher
• Georges Lapassade, Franch sociologist
• Janja Lalich (born 1945), American sociologist
• Michele Lamont, American sociologist
• David C. Lane (born 1956), American sociologist
• Georges Lapassade, French sociologist and socioanalyst
• Ralph Larkin, American sociologist
• Scott Lash, American sociologist
• Harold Lasswell, American political sociologist
• Bruno Latour (born 1947), French sociologist of science
• Peter Lavrovich Lavrov, Russian sociologist
• Derek Layder, British sociologist
• John Law (sociologist), British sociologist
• Paul F. Lazarsfeld (1901–1976), Austrian/American sociologist
• Emmanuel Lazega, French sociologist
• Gustave Le Bon (1841–1931), French social psychologist
• Frederic Le Play, early French sociologist
• Emil Lederer, German sociologist
• Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991), French Marxist philosopher
• Charles Lemert (born 1937), American sociologist
• Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary and intellectual
• Gerhard Lenski, American evolutionary sociologist
• Yuri Levada, Russian sociologist
• John Levi Martin, American sociologist
• Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009), French anthropologist
• Jack Levin (born 1941), American sociologist/criminologist
• Barry B. Levine (born 1941), American sociologist
• Ruth Levitas, British sociologist
• Daniel Levy, German-American sociologist
• Diane Levy (born 1949), American sociologist
• Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857–1939), French philosopher, sociologist, and ethnographer
• Kurt Lewin, German social psychologist
• Loet Leydesdorff, Dutch sociologist
• Nan Lin, American sociologist
• Alfred R. Lindesmith (1905–1991), American sociologist of drug policy
• Frederick B. Lindstrom (1915-1998), American sociologist of the arts
• Gustavo Lins Ribeiro, Brazilian anthropologist
• Gilles Lipovetsky, French philosopher
• Seymour Martin Lipset (born 1922), American comparativist sociologist
• Allen Liska, American sociologist
• Theodor Litt, German philosopher and sociologist
• Émile Littré, French philosopher and sociologist, disciple of Comte
• Omar Lizardo, American sociologist
• David Lockwood, British sociologist
• John Locke, English philosopher
• Joseph Lopreato, American sociologist
• Leo Löwenthal, German sociologist
• Michael Löwy, Brazilian-French sociologist
• Nathalie Luca (born 1966), French sociologist
• Thomas Luckmann (born 1927), German sociologist
• György Lukács, Hungarian philosopher
• Steven Lukes, British social theorist
• Niklas Luhmann (1927–1998), German sociologist (systems theory)
• George Lundberg (1895–1966), American sociologist (Scientific)
• Rosa Luxemburg (1870–1919), German socialist theoretician
• Robert Staughton Lynd (1892–1970), American sociologist
• Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998), French philosopher

M

• Amin Maalouf, Lebanese author with a degree in sociology
• Henry Maine (1822–1888), British jurist and legal historian
• Carl R May (born 1961), British medical sociologist
• Robert Morrison MacIver (1882–1970), Scottish/American sociologist
• Donald A. MacKenzie, British sociologist
• Annie Marion MacLean (1869-1934), Canadian-American applied sociologist
• Bronisław Malinowski (1884–1942), Polish social anthropologist
• Thomas Malthus (1766–1834), English demographer
• Richard Machalek (born 1946), American sociologist and sociobiologist
• Michel Maffesoli, French sociologist
• Sinisa Malesevic (born 1969), Irish political and historical sociologist
• Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Brazilian social theorist
• Michael Mann (born 1942), British/American sociologist
• Karl Mannheim (1893–1947), Hungarian/German sociologist
• Peter K. Manning (born 1940), American sociologist
• José María Maravall, Spanish sociologist
• Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), German/American sociologist (Frankfurt School)
• Władysław Markiewicz (born 1920), Polish sociologist
• Dennis Marsden, British sociologist
• Alfred Marshall, English economist
• Thomas Humphrey Marshall, British sociologist
• John Levi Martin, American sociologist
• Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), English writer described as 'first female sociologist'
• Danilo Martuccelli, French sociologist
• Vladimir Martynenko (born 1957), Russian sociologist, economist, political scientist
• Gary T. Marx, American sociologist
• Karl Marx (1818–1883), German political philosopher, social theorist
• Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czech sociologist
• Karen Oppenheim Mason, American sociologist and demographer
• Douglas Massey, American sociologist
• Brian Massumi, Canadian social theorist
• Humberto Maturana, Chilean biologist and sociologist of knowledge
• Marcel Mauss (1872–1950), French sociologist
• Doug McAdam, American sociologist
• Mary McIntosh, American sociologist
• Fayette Avery McKenzie, (1872–1957), American sociologist
• Robert McKenzie (1917–1981), Canadian Politics professor and psephologist
• Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980), Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar
• Miller McPherson, American sociologist
• George Herbert Mead (1863–1931), American philosopher and social psychologist
• Margaret Mead (1901–1978), American cultural anthropologist
• José Medina Echevarría, Spanish sociologist
• Alberto Melucci, Italian sociologist
• Lucio Mendieta y Núñez, Mexican sociologist
• Stephen Mennell (born 1944), English sociologist
• Marcel Merle, French sociologist
• Robert K. Merton (1910–2003), American sociologist
• Michael Messner (1952-), American pro-feminist sociologist
• John W. Meyer, American sociologist
• Robert Michels (1876–1936), German political sociologist
• Ralph Miliband, British sociologist
• C. Wright Mills (1916–1962), American sociologist
• Andrew Milner (born 1950), British-Australian sociologist of literature
• Ann Mische, American sociologist
• Munesuke Mita, Japanese sociologist
• J. Clyde Mitchell (1918–1995), British social anthropologist
• Shinji Miyadai (born 1959), Japanese sociologist
• Tariq Modood, British sociologist
• Abraham Moles (1920–1992), French sociologist, psychologist, and engineer
• Andres Molina Enriquez, Mexican sociologist
• Montesquieu, French philosopher
• James D. Montgomery, American economist and mathematical sociologist
• James Moody, American mathematical sociologist
• Barrington Moore, Jr., American political sociologist
• Edgar Morin, French sociologist
• Gaetano Mosca (1858–1941), 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
• Nicos Mouzelis, Greek-British sociologist
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927–2003), American sociologist, diplomat and politician
• Radhakamal Mukerjee, Indian sociologist
• Peter A. Munch (1908–1984), Norwegian/American sociologist
• Charles Murray (born 1943), American sociologist
• Mohanty B.B., Indian Sociologist
• Mumtaz Ali Khaskheli, Pakistani sociologist

N

• Ashis Nandy, Indian sociologist
• Armin Nassehi, German sociologist
• Vicenç Navarro, Spanish sociologist
• Victor Nee, American sociologist
• Antonio Negri, Italian political philosopher and critic of Luhmann
• Oswald von Nell-Breuning (1890–1991), German Roman Catholic theologian, sociologist and social reformer
• Otto Neurath (1882–1945), Austrian sociologist and political economist
• Otto Newman ( born Neumann 1922), Austrian-British sociologist
• Peter Neville (died 2002), British further education lecturer and sociologist
• Norman H. Nie (born 1943), Inventor of SPSS
• Robert Nisbet (1913–1996), American sociologist
• Helga Nowotny (born 1937), Austrian sociologist

O

• Claus Offe (born 1940), German sociologist
• William F. Ogburn (1886–1959), American sociologist
• Lloyd Ohlin, American sociologist
• Michael Omi, American sociologist
• Gail Omvedt (born 1941), American/Indian sociologist
• Franz Oppenheimer (1864–1943), German sociologist and political economist
• Valerie Kincaid Oppenheimer (died 2009), American sociologist
• T. K. Oommen, Indian sociologist
• José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher
• Stanislaw Ossowski (1897–1963), Polish sociologist
• Moisey Ostrogorsky, Belarusian sociologist
• William Outhwaite, British social theorist
• Robert Owen (1771–1858), Welsh social reformer

P

• Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923), Italian economist and sociologist
• Robert E. Park (1864–1944), American sociologist
• Talcott Parsons (1902–1979), American sociologist
• C.J. Pascoe, American sociologist
• Jean-Claude Passeron, French sociologist
• Orlando Patterson, American sociologist
• Karl Pearson (1857–1936), English statistician
• James Petras, American sociologist
• Jean Piaget (1896–1980), Swiss developmental psychologist
• Andrew Pickering, British sociologist
• Trevor Pinch, British sociologist
• Helmuth Plessner, German sociologist
• Joel M. Podolny, American sociologist
• Karl Polanyi, Hungarian economist
• Friedrich Pollock, German social scientist
• Heinrich Popitz, German sociologist
• Karl Popper, Austrian philosopher
• John Porter (1921–1979), Canadian sociologist
• Alejandro Portes, Cuban-American sociologist
• Adam Possamai, Belgian Born Sociologist
• Nicos Poulantzas (1936–1979), Greek political sociologist
• Émile Poulat, French historian and sociologist
• Walter W. Powell, American sociologist
• Ricardo Pozas Arciniega, Mexican sociologist and anthropologist
• Harriet B. Presser (died 2012), American sociologist and demographer
• Samuel H. Preston, American demographer and sociologist
• Ludger Pries, German sociologist
• Ilya Prigogine, Belgian chemist, main contribution to sociology is dissipative structures theory
• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865), French utopian socialist thinker
• Adam Przeworski, Polish political sociologist
• Jade Puget (born 1973), American musician
• Robert Putnam (born 1941), American political scientist

Q

• Al Nouri Qais, Iraqi sociologist
• Sigrid Quack, German sociologist
• Enrico Quarantelli, American sociologist
• Louis Quéré, French sociologist
• Adolphe Quetelet, French statistician and sociologist
• Anibal Quijano, Peruvian sociologist
• Richard Quinney (born 1934), American sociologist

R

• Michael W. Raphael, American sociologist and chess player
• Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austrian sociologist
• Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (1881–1955), British social anthropologist
• Charles C. Ragin, American sociologist
• Stephen Raudenbush, American sociologist and statistician
• Uri Ram, Israeli sociologist
• Aviad Raz (born 1968), Israeli sociologist and anthropologist
• Sal Restivo, American sociologist
• John Rex (born 1928), British sociologist
• Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher
• Sam Richards, American sociologist
• David Riesman, American sociologist
• George Ritzer (born 1940), American sociologist
• Bryan Roberts, American sociologist
• Roland Robertson, British sociologist
• Terje Rød-Larsen (born 1947), Norwegian diplomat and sociologist
• William I. Robinson, American sociologist
• Arnold Marshall Rose, American sociologist
• Gillian Rose, British sociologist
• Nikolas Rose, British sociologist
• Paul Rosenfels (1909–1985), American psychologist and sociologist
• Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888–1973), German social philosopher
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher
• Rubén G. Rumbaut, Cuban-American sociologist
• Chris Rumford, British sociologist and international relations expert
• W. G. Runciman, British sociologist
• Arne Runeberg (1912–1979), Finnish sociologist, anthropologist and linguist

S

• Harvey Sacks (died 1975), American sociologist and ethnomethodologist
• Renaud Sainsaulieu (1936–2002), French sociologist concerned with the sociology of organizations
• Henri de Saint-Simon (1760–1825), French philosopher and social thinker
• Robert J. Sampson, American sociologist
• Pierre Sansot, French sociologist
• Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Portuguese sociologist
• Theotonio dos Santos, Brazilian sociologist and economist
• Giovanni Sartori, Italian political scientist
• Saskia Sassen (born 1949), American sociologist
• Peter Saunders, Australian sociologist
• Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913), Swiss linguist (structuralism)
• Joachim J. Savelsberg, German sociologist
• 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 (1912–1984), German sociologist
• Juraj Schenk (born 1948), Slovak sociologist
• Herbert Schiller, American sociologist
• Kurt C. Schlichting, American sociologist
• Wolfgang Schluchter, German sociologist
• Paul Schnabel, Dutch sociologist
• Allan Schnaiberg (1939–2009), American environmental sociologist
• Juliet Schor, American sociologist
• Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950), Austrian economist
• Alfred Schütz (1899–1959), Austrian philosopher and sociologist (phenomenology)
• Michael Schwartz (born 19--), American sociologist
• John Scott (born 1949), British sociologist
• Pedro Scuro, Brazilian sociologist and jurist
• Martin Segalen, French sociologist
• Jean Séguy, French sociologist of religions (1925–2007)
• Steven Seidman, American sociologist
• Pınar Selek, Turkish sociologist
• Philip Selznick, American sociologist
• Amartya Sen, Indian economist influential in the sociology of development
• Richard Sennett (born 1943), American sociologist and public figure
• William H. Sewell, American sociologist
• Steven Shapin, American sociologist
• Jeremy J. Shapiro, American sociologist
• Ali Shariati (1933–1977), Iranian sociologist and writer
• Tamotsu Shibutani, Japanese-American sociologist
• Edward Shils, American sociologist
• Anson Shupe, American sociologist
• Volkmar Sigusch, German sociologist and sexuologe
• Charles E. Silberman, American criminologist
• François Simiand, French sociologist
• Georg Simmel (1858–1918), German sociologist and philosopher
• Herbert A. Simon, American social scientist
• Leslie Sklair, British sociologist
• Iván Szelényi, Hungarian-American sociologist
• Albion Woodbury Small (1854–1926), American sociologist
• Neil Smelser, American sociologist
• Adam Smith (1723–1790), Scottish economist and philosopher
• Christian Smith (born 1960), American sociologist of religion
• Dorothy E. Smith (born 1926), British/American sociologist and gender theorist
• Richard Smith, Scottish sociologist presently researching youth culture and the sociology of music
• Stephen C. Smith (born 1968), American sociologist and 21st century trend researcher
• Tom Snijders, Dutch mathematical sociologist
• David A. Snow (born 1942), American sociologist
• Werner Sombart (1863–1941), German economist and sociologist
• Georges Sorel, French philosopher
• Bernardo Sorj (born 1948), Brazilian sociologist
• Pitirim Sorokin (1889–1968), Russian sociologist
• Herbert Spencer (1820–1903), English philosopher
• Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), German philosopher
• Lynette Spillman, American sociologist
• M N Srinivas (1916–1999), Indian sociologist
• Susan Star, American sociologist
• David C. Stark, American sociologist
• Paul Starr, American sociologist
• Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Mexican anthropologist and sociologist
• George Philip Steinmetz, American sociologist
• Judith Stepan-Norris, American sociologist, University of California, Irvine
• Rudolph Stichweh, German sociologist
• Arthur Stinchcombe, American sociologist
• Samuel A. Stouffer, American sociologist
• Anselm L. Strauss (1916–1996), American sociologist
• Lucy Suchman, American sociologist
• Mark Suchman, American sociologist
• Thomas Sugrue, American historian and sociologist
• William Graham Sumner (1840–1910), American sociologist
• Eilert Sundt (1817–1875), Norwegian sociologist
• Edwin Sutherland (1893–1950), American criminologist
• Ian Svenonius, American cultural sociologist
• Richard Swedberg, Swedish sociologist
• Ann Swidler, American sociologist
• Jan Szczepanski (1913–2004), Polish sociologist
• Piotr Sztompka (born 1944), Polish sociologist

T

• Hippolyte Taine (1828–1893), French positivist historian and critic
• Yasuma Takada, Japanese sociologist
• Salim Tamari, Palestinian historical sociologist
• Lisa Taraki, Palestinian sociologist
• Alexander Tarasov, Russian sociologist
• Gabriel Tarde (1843–1904), French sociologist and social psychologist
• Sidney Tarrow, American sociologist
• R. H. Tawney, English ethical socialist
• Ian Taylor (1944–2001), English sociologist and criminologist
• Laurie Taylor (born 1936), English sociologist and broadcaster
• Friedrich Tenbruck, German sociologist
• Lorne Tepperman, Canadian sociologist
• Göran Therborn, Swedish-British sociologist
• Alexandar Thomas, American sociologist
• W. I. Thomas (1863–1947), American social psychologist
• E. P. Thompson (1924–1993), British socialist historian
• John Thompson, British sociologist of culture and media
• Charles Tilly (1929–2008), American sociologist
• Nicholas Timasheff, Russian sociologist
• Edward Tiryakian, American sociologist
• Valery Tishkov (born 1941), Russian ethnologist and sociologist
• Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859), French essayist and political analyst
• Ferdinand Tönnies (1855–1936), German philosopher and founder of German sociology
• Alain Touraine (born 1925), French sociologist
• Peter Townsend, British sociologist of poverty
• Renato Treves, Italian sociologist
• Judith Treas, American sociologist
• Harry Triandis, Greek-American sociologist
• Ernst Troeltsch, German sociologist and philosopher
• Raimo Tuomela, Finnish philosopher and social theorist
• Sherry Turkle, American sociologist
• Bryan S. Turner, British sociologist
• Jonathan H. Turner, American social theorist
• Victor Turner, British anthropologist
• France Winddance Twine (born 1960), American sociologist and ethnographer
• Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist

U

• Lars Udehn, Swedish sociologist
• John Urry, British sociologist

V

• Mariana Valverde, Canadian sociologist
• Francisco Varela (1946–2001), Chilean biologist and philosopher
• Steven Vallas, American sociologist
• Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), American sociologist and economist
• Ruut Veenhoven, Dutch sociologist
• Calvin Veltman (born 1941), Canadian sociologist, demographer and sociolinguist
• Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, American sociologist
• Alfred Vierkandt, German sociologist
• George Edgar Vincent, American sociologist
• Paul Virilio, French philosopher and social theorist
• Shiv Visvanathan, Renowned Indian Sociologist and Social Scientist

W

• Jessa Wachuvchuv, not a sociologist
• Loic Wacquant, French sociologist
• Peter Wagner, German sociologist and social theorist
• Sylvia Walby, British sociologist
• Immanuel Wallerstein (born 1930), American sociologist and historian
• Lester Frank Ward (1841–1913), founder of American sociology
• Mark R. Warren, American sociologist
• Duncan Watts, American mathematical sociologist and network theorist
• Emile Waxweiler, Belgian sociologist
• Beatrice Webb (1858–1943), British socialist and social theorist
• Sidney Webb (1859–1947), British socialist and social theorist
• Alfred Weber (1868–1958), German sociologist
• Marianne Weber, German sociologist
• Max Weber (1864–1920), German sociologist
• Frank Webster (born 1950), British sociologist
• Margaret Weir, sociologist and political scientist
• Barry Wellman (born 1942), Canadian/American sociologist
• Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931), American sociologist, journalist, social worker
• John Westergaard (born 1927), British sociologist
• Edvard Westermarck (1862–1939), Finnish sociologist and philosopher
• Douglas R. White (born 1942), American mathematical sociologist and anthropologist.
• Harrison White, American sociologist
• William Foote Whyte, American sociologist
• William H. Whyte (1917–1999), American sociologist, journalist and peoplewatcher
• Leopold von Wiese, German sociologist
• Michel Wieviorka (born 1946), French sociologist
• Norbert Wiley, American sociologist
• Jean-Paul Willaime (born 1947), French sociologist of religions
• Raymond Williams (1921–1988), Welsh sociologist, novelist, and critic
• Robin Murphy Williams, American sociologist
• John B. Williamson (born 1943), American sociologist
• Helmut Willke, German sociologist
• William Julius Wilson (born 1935), American sociologist
• Howard Winant, American sociologist
• Christopher Winship, American sociologist
• Louis Wirth (1897–1952), German/American sociologist
• Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski (born 1944), Polish sociologist
• Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), British social reformer
• Dominique Wolton, French sociologist
• Steve Woolgar, British sociologist
• Monroe Work (1866–1945), American sociologist
• Erik Olin Wright, American sociologist
• Robert Wuthnow, American sociologist

X

• Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist.

Y

• Kazuo Yamaguchi, Japanese sociologist,　Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago 1946-
• Masahiro Yamada, Japanese sociologist
• John Milton Yinger, American sociologist who was president of the American Sociological Association 1976–1977.
• Michael Young, British Sociologist and Labour politician who coined the term "meritocracy".

Z

• Benjamin Zablocki (born 1941), American sociologist and social psychologist
• Mayer Zald, American sociologist
• Tatyana Zaslavskaya, Russian sociologist
• René Zavaleta Mercado, (1935–1984), Bolivian sociologist
• Viviana Zelizer, American sociologist
• Hugo Zemelman, Chilean sociologist
• Eviatar Zerubavel, American cognitive sociologist
• Jean Ziegler (born 1934), Swiss sociologist
• Florian Znaniecki (1882–1958), Polish/American sociologist
• Irving Zola, American medical sociologist and disability rights activist
• Tukufu Zuberi, American sociologist
• Sharon Zukin, American sociologist
• Ziya Gökalp, Turkish sociologist who is known as the founder of Turkish Sociology.