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This list of sociologists includes people who have made notable contributions to sociological theory or to research in one or more areas of sociology This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
A list of social theorists includes classical as well as modern thinkers in social theory that were notable for the impact of their published works on the general discipline of sociology. Jane Addams; Theodor Adorno; Muhammad Asad; Roland Barthes; Peter L. Berger; William Edward Burghardt Du Bois; Pierre Bourdieu, 1930-2002; Auguste Comte ...
Also: United States: People: By occupation: Social scientists: Sociologists This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:Presidents of the American Sociological Association The contents of that subcategory can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
List of sociologists; U. List of urban planners; List of urban theorists This page was last edited on 13 September 2020, at 00:26 (UTC). Text is available under ...
A typical textbook definition of sociology calls it the study of the social lives of humans, groups and societies. Sociology is interested in our behavior as social beings; thus the sociological field of interest ranges from the analysis of short contacts between anonymous individuals on the street to the study of global social processes.
Stanley Milgram - performed famous experiment that demonstrated people's excessive willingness to obey authority figures; Walter Mischel - among the first to promote a situationist view of personality; Abraham Moles - one of the first to establish and analyze links between aesthetics and information theory; Serge Moscovici; Gordon Moskowitz
Erving Goffman (11 June 1922 – 19 November 1982) was a Canadian-born American sociologist, social psychologist, and writer, considered by some "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century".
This is a list of prominent figures who contributed to Marxist theory, principally as authors; it is not intended to list politicians who happen(ed) to be a member of an ostensibly communist political party or other organisation.