List of sociologists
This is a list of predominantly male 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.
A
- Peter Abell, British 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
- Edwin Amenta, American sociologist
- Nancy Ammerman, American sociologist
- Eric Anderson, American-British sociologist
- Elijah Anderson, American sociologist
- Stanislav Andreski, Polish-British 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
- 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
- E. Digby Baltzell, American 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 Bastide, French sociologist
- Gregory Bateson, English/American cybernetician
- Jean Baubérot, French historian and 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
- Robert N. Bellah, American sociologist
- Walden Bello, Filipino sociologist
- 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
- Pierre L. van den Berghe, Belgian sociologist
- Henri Bergson, 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
- 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
- David Bloor, British sociologist
- Herbert Blumer, American sociologist
- Olivier Bobineau, French sociologist
- Luc Boltanski, French sociologist
- Scott Boorman, American sociologist
- Charles Booth, British social researcher
- Ernst Borinski, German 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
- 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
- Laila Bushra, Pakistani Sociologist
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
- Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Brazilian sociologist, former President of Brazil
- 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
- Michel de Certeau, French cultural sociologist
- Francis Stuart Chapin, American sociologist
- Christopher Chase-Dunn, American sociologist
- Louis Chauvel, French sociologist
- Nancy Chodorow, American sociologist, psychoanalyst, and gender theorist
- Nicholas A. Christakis, American sociologist
- Chua Beng Huat, Singaporean sociologist
- Aaron Cicourel, American sociologist
- Dieter Claessens, German sociologist,
- Lars Clausen, German sociologist
- Clifford Clogg, American sociologist
- Richard Cloward, American 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
- Charles Cooley, American sociologist
- Anna Julia Cooper, American sociologist
- Lewis A. Coser, American sociologist
- Carl J. Couch, 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, 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
- Régis Dericquebourg, French sociologist of religions
- Jacques Derrida, French philosopher
- Heinz Dieterich, German-Mexican sociologist
- Wilhelm Dilthey, German historian, psychologist and sociologist
- Helen Dinerman, American public opinion researcher
- Paul DiMaggio, American cultural sociologist
- Georgi Dimitrov Dimitrov, Bulgarian sociologist
- Stuart C. Dodd, American sociologist
- G. William Domhoff, American 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
- Norbert Elias, German 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
- 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
- Paul Fauconnet, French sociologist
- Joe Feagin, American 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
- 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
- Andre Gunder Frank, German economic historian and sociologist
- Nancy Fraser, American social theorist
- Hans Freyer, German sociologist and philosopher
- Gilberto Freyre, Brazilian sociologist
- Georges Friedmann, French sociologist
- Steve Fuller, 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 Gans, American sociologist
- Harold Garfinkel, 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, German philosopher and sociologist
- Theodor Geiger, German sociologist
- Ernest Gellner, Czech-British philosopher and social anthropologist
- Anthony Giddens, English sociologist
- Franklin Henry Giddings, American 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
- Jeff Goodwin, 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
- 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
- John A. Hall, British/Canadian sociologist
- Stuart Hall, British cultural theorist
- Donna Haraway, American gender and technology theorist
- Eszter Hargittai, Hungarian sociologist
- Marta Harnecker, Chilean sociologist
- David Harvey, British social theorist
- Chandrakala A. Hate, Indian sociologist, social worker, and author
- Peter Hedström, Swedish sociologist
- Samuel Heilman, American 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 current Irish president
- 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
- Robert J. Holton, British sociologist
- George C. Homans, American behavioral 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
- Philip N. Howard, Canadian American sociologist
- Spomenka Hribar, Slovenian sociologist, philosopher politician, and public intellectual
- Everett Hughes, American sociologist
- Stephen J. Hunt, British 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
J
- Eliezer Jaffe, Israeli-American sociologist
- Jacquelyne Jackson, American sociologist and educator
- Stevi Jackson, British sociologist
- Janet L. Jacobs, 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
- 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
K
- Dirk Kaesler, German sociologist
- Boris Kagarlitsky, Russian 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, Russian 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
- Abdelkebir Khatibi, Moroccan literary critic, novelist, philosopher, playwright, poet, and sociologist
- Aquila Berlas Kiani, Indian sociologist and educator
- 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
- 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
- David C. Lane, American sociologist
- Ralph Larkin, American sociologist
- Scott Lash, American sociologist
- Harold Lasswell, American political sociologist
- Bruno Latour, French sociologist of science
- 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
- Emil Lederer, German sociologist
- Henri Lefebvre, French Marxist philosopher
- Charles Lemert, 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, French anthropologist
- Jack Levin, American sociologist/criminologist
- Barry B. Levine, 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
- Nan Lin, American sociologist
- Alfred R. Lindesmith, American sociologist of drug policy
- Frederick B. Lindstrom, American sociologist of the arts
- Gilles Lipovetsky, French philosopher
- Seymour Martin Lipset, American comparativist 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
- 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
- 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
- Władysław Markiewicz, Polish 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'
- Vladimir Martynenko, Russian sociologist, economist, political scientist
- 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
- 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
- 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, German political 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
- Edgar Morin, French 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
- Peter A. Munch, Norwegian/American sociologist
- Charles Murray, American sociologist
- Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist, sociologist, and politician
- Saud Muhammad, Pakistani Sociologist, sociologist, and activist
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
- Claus Offe, German sociologist
- William F. Ogburn, American sociologist
- Lloyd Ohlin, American 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
- Moisey Ostrogorsky, Russian sociologist
P
- Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist and sociologist
- Robert E. Park, American sociologist
- Talcott Parsons, American sociologist
- C.J. Pascoe, American sociologist
- Jean-Claude Passeron, French sociologist
- Orlando Patterson, 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
- Michael Plekon, American sociologist
- Helmuth Plessner, German sociologist
- Joel M. Podolny, American sociologist
- Karl Polanyi, Hungarian economist
- Friedrich Pollock, German social scientist
- Karl Popper, Austrian philosopher
- John Porter, Canadian sociologist
- Alejandro Portes, Cuban-American sociologist
- Adam Possamai, Belgian Born Sociologist
- Nicos Poulantzas, Greek political sociologist
- Émile Poulat, French historian and sociologist
- Walter W. Powell, American sociologist
- Ricardo Pozas Arciniega, Mexican sociologist and anthropologist
- 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
- Sal Restivo, American sociologist
- John Rex, British sociologist
- James Mahmud Rice, Australian sociologist
- Sam Richards, American sociologist
- Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher
- David Riesman, American sociologist
- George Ritzer, American sociologist
- Roland Robertson, British sociologist
- William I. Robinson, American sociologist
- Terje Rød-Larsen, Norwegian diplomat and sociologist
- Jesús M. de Miguel Rodríguez, Spanish 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
- 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
- Robert J. Sampson, American sociologist
- Pierre Sansot, French 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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, German sociologist and philosopher
- Herbert A. Simon, American social scientist
- Theda Skocpol, American sociologist and political scientist
- 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
- 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
- David C. Stark, American sociologist
- Paul Starr, American sociologist
- Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Mexican anthropologist and sociologist
- Samuel A. Stouffer, American sociologist
- Anselm L. Strauss, 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
- 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
- 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 of poverty
- Judith Treas, American sociologist
- Renato Treves, Italian 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, American sociologist and ethnographer
- Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist
U
- John Urry, British sociologist
V
- Mariana Valverde, Canadian sociologist
- Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist and philosopher
- Aninhalli Vasavi, Indian sociologist
- Thorstein Veblen, American sociologist and economist
- Ruut Veenhoven, Dutch sociologist
- Calvin Veltman, 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, Indian sociologist and social scientist
W
- Loïc Wacquant, French sociologist
- Peter Wagner, German sociologist and social theorist
- Sylvia Walby, British sociologist
- Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist and historian
- Lester Frank Ward, founder of American sociology
- Vron Ware, British educator and journalist
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Mary Wollstonecraft, British social reformer
- Steve Woolgar, British sociologist
- Monroe Work, American sociologist
- Erik Olin Wright, American sociologist
- Robert Wuthnow, American sociologist
Y
- Kazuo Yamaguchi, Japanese sociologist, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago 1946–
- Masahiro Yamada, Japanese sociologist
- John Milton Yinger, American sociologist, president of the American Sociological Association 1976–1977
- Michael Young, British sociologist and Labour politician
Z
- Benjamin Zablocki, American sociologist and social psychologist
- Mayer Zald, American sociologist
- Tatyana Zaslavskaya, Russian sociologist
- René Zavaleta Mercado, Bolivian sociologist
- Viviana Zelizer, American sociologist
- Eviatar Zerubavel, American cognitive sociologist
- Jean Ziegler, Swiss 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