| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Raymond Aron |
Philosopher |
14-Mar-1905 |
17-Oct-1983 |
Political philosopher, social theorist |
| Daniel Bell |
Sociologist |
10-May-1919 |
25-Jan-2011 |
The End of Ideology |
| Charles Booth |
Sociologist |
30-Mar-1840 |
23-Nov-1916 |
Studied poverty in London |
| Sophonisba Breckinridge |
Activist |
1-Apr-1866 |
30-Jul-1948 |
Suffragette and abolitionist |
| Erna Brodber |
Novelist |
20-Apr-1940 |
|
Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home |
| Arthur C. Brooks |
Author |
21-May-1964 |
|
Gross National Happiness |
| Ernest Burgess |
Sociologist |
16-May-1886 |
27-Dec-1966 |
Introduction to the Science of Sociology |
| Tony Campolo |
Religion |
25-Feb-1935 |
|
Red-Letter Christian sociologist |
| James S. Coleman |
Sociologist |
12-May-1926 |
25-Mar-1995 |
Foundations of Social Theory |
| Auguste Comte |
Sociologist |
19-Jan-1798 |
5-Sep-1857 |
Positivist founder of Sociology |
| Charles Cooley |
Educator |
17-Aug-1864 |
8-May-1929 |
Looking-glass self |
| W. E. B. Du Bois |
Sociologist |
23-Feb-1868 |
27-Aug-1963 |
Civil rights activist |
| Émile Durkheim |
Sociologist |
15-Apr-1858 |
15-Nov-1917 |
Rules of the Sociological Method |
| Joseph Fletcher |
Sociologist |
10-Apr-1905 |
28-Oct-1991 |
Situation ethics |
| Mary Parker Follett |
Business |
3-Sep-1868 |
18-Dec-1933 |
Community centers and conflict resolution |
| E. Franklin Frazier |
Sociologist |
24-Sep-1894 |
17-May-1962 |
Black Bourgeoisie |
| Erving Goffman |
Sociologist |
11-Jun-1922 |
19-Nov-1982 |
The Presentation of Self |
| Starr Roxanne Hiltz |
Sociologist |
c. 1943 |
|
Mother of on-line education |
| bell hooks |
Sociologist |
9-Sep-1952 |
|
Ain't I A Woman |
| Oscár Jászi |
Sociologist |
2-Mar-1875 |
13-Feb-1957 |
The Dissolution of the Habsburg Monarchy |
| Charles S. Johnson |
Sociologist |
24-Jul-1893 |
27-Oct-1956 |
The Negro in Chicago |
| Benjamin Kidd |
Sociologist |
9-Sep-1858 |
2-Oct-1916 |
Social Evolution |
| Lester A. Kirkendall |
Sociologist |
15-Nov-1903 |
31-May-1991 |
Premarital Intercourse and Interpersonal Relationships |
| Wolf Lepenies |
Sociologist |
11-Jan-1941 |
|
Melancholy and Society |
| Max Lerner |
Sociologist |
20-Dec-1902 |
5-Jun-1992 |
Ideas Are Weapons |
| Seymour M. Lipset |
Sociologist |
18-Mar-1922 |
31-Dec-2006 |
American Exceptionalism |
| Leo Lowenthal |
Sociologist |
3-Nov-1900 |
21-Jan-1993 |
Literature and the Image of Man |
| Robert Morrison MacIver |
Sociologist |
17-Apr-1882 |
15-Jun-1970 |
The Web of Government |
| Karl Mannheim |
Sociologist |
27-Mar-1893 |
9-Jan-1947 |
Ideology and Utopia |
| Herbert Marcuse |
Philosopher |
19-Jul-1898 |
29-Jul-1979 |
One-Dimensional Man |
| Marcel Mauss |
Sociologist |
10-May-1872 |
10-Feb-1950 |
The Gift |
| George Herbert Mead |
Philosopher |
27-Feb-1863 |
26-Apr-1931 |
Pragmatist, social behaviorist |
| Robert K. Merton |
Sociologist |
4-Jul-1910 |
23-Feb-2003 |
On the Shoulders of Giants |
| Kelly Miller |
Sociologist |
23-Jul-1863 |
29-Dec-1939 |
Out of the House of Bondage |
| C. Wright Mills |
Sociologist |
28-Aug-1916 |
20-Mar-1962 |
The Power Elite |
| Otto Neurath |
Sociologist |
10-Dec-1882 |
22-Dec-1945 |
Vienna Circle positivist |
| Elinor Ostrom |
Sociologist |
7-Aug-1933 |
12-Jun-2012 |
Common-pool resources |
| Vance Packard |
Sociologist |
22-May-1914 |
12-Dec-1996 |
The Hidden Persuaders |
| Robert E. Park |
Sociologist |
14-Feb-1864 |
7-Feb-1944 |
Race and Culture |
| Talcott Parsons |
Sociologist |
13-Dec-1902 |
8-May-1979 |
The Structure of Social Action |
| Frances Fox Piven |
Activist |
10-Oct-1932 |
|
Regulating The Poor |
| Georg Simmel |
Sociologist |
1-Mar-1858 |
26-Sep-1918 |
Philosophy of Money |
| Herbert Spencer |
Philosopher |
27-Apr-1820 |
8-Dec-1903 |
Synthetic Philosophy |
| William Graham Sumner |
Educator |
30-Oct-1840 |
12-Apr-1910 |
Laissez faire sociologist |
| Gabriel Tarde |
Sociologist |
12-Mar-1843 |
13-May-1904 |
Group mind, Theory of Imitation |
| Thorstein Veblen |
Economist |
30-Jul-1857 |
3-Aug-1929 |
The Theory of the Leisure Class |
| Lester Frank Ward |
Sociologist |
18-Jun-1841 |
18-Apr-1913 |
Dynamic Sociology |
| Max Weber |
Sociologist |
21-Apr-1864 |
14-Jun-1920 |
The Protestant Ethic |
| Raymond Williams |
Critic |
31-Aug-1921 |
26-Jan-1988 |
Culture and Society |
| Edward O. Wilson |
Biologist |
10-Jun-1929 |
|
Father of Sociobiology |
| William Julius Wilson |
Sociologist |
20-Dec-1935 |
|
Poverty in America's inner cities |
| Carroll D. Wright |
Sociologist |
25-Jul-1840 |
20-Feb-1909 |
The Industrial Evolution of the United States |
