List of social theorists
Topic: Social
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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
- William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
- Pierre Bourdieu, 1930-2002
- Auguste Comte
- Charles Cooley
- Anna Julia Cooper
- Émile Durkheim
- Norbert Elias
- Friedrich Engels
- Amitai Etzioni
- Michel Foucault, 1926-1984
- Paulo Freire
- Ernest Gellner
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Max Gluckman
- Erving Goffman, 1922-1982
- Antonio Gramsci
- Ludwig Gumplowicz
- Jürgen Habermas
- Prince Peter Kropotkin
- Henri Lefebvre
- Vladimir Lenin
- Niklas Luhmann, 1927-1998
- György Lukács
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Jean-François Lyotard
- Karl Mannheim
- Harriet Martineau
- Karl Marx
- George Herbert Mead
- Robert King Merton
- John Stuart Mill
- Charles Wright Mills
- Vilfredo Pareto
- Robert Ezra Park
- Talcott Parsons
- Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon
- Georg Simmel
- Dorothy E. Smith
- Pitirim A. Sorokin
- Herbert Spencer
- Rudolf Steiner
- William Graham Sumner
- Gabriel Tarde
- William Isaac Thomas
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Ferdinand Tönnies
- Thorstein Veblen
- Immanuel Wallerstein
- Beatrice Webb
- Marianne Weber
- Max Weber
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