Other Social Theorists

Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on human social behaviour, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.

areas of interest included anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, invention, and physics

was a French social thinker, political theorist, historian, and later journalist

was an English sociologist, economist, feminist, socialist thinker and social reformer

was an American economist, sociologist, and university professor, journalist, and publicist

was a French diplomat, political philosopher and historian

Scottish biologist, sociologist, Comtean positivist, geographer, philanthropist and pioneering town planner

As a sociologist, Ziya Gökalp was influential

was a German economist, geographer, sociologist, philosopher, and cultural theorist

was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, philosopher, and author

author of seminal works on media, communication theory, and Canadian economic history

was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic

was a British socialist, economist and reformer, who co-founded the London School of Economics

was a German philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, ethics, and philosophical anthropology

was a German philosopher and anthropologist who was a leading figure among the Young Hegelians

J. I. Hans Bakker has argued that Dilthey should be considered one of the classical sociological theorists

was an American author and political activist

was an American business theorist and professor at Yale School of Management and Harvard Business School

the indissoluble connection between sociology as a science and basic principles of individual morality

played a key role in the establishment of sociology as an academic discipline

was an American social thinker, management consultant, social worker, political scientist, philosopher

was an Italian eugenicist, criminologist, phrenologist, physician

Spengler's model of history postulates that human cultures and civilizations are akin to biological entities, each with a limited, predictable, and deterministic lifespan.

In 1917 he became a contributor to the newspaper El Sol, where he published, as a series of essays, his two principal works: España invertebrada (Invertebrate Spain) and La rebelión de las masas (The Revolt of the Masses).

He made contributions to theories of population, value, capital and money, as well as methodological contributions to econometrics.

Nietzsche's work encompasses poetry, cultural criticism, and philosophical essays

The English historian Henry Thomas Buckle (1821-1862) was a major figure in the positivist movement in historical scholarship.

Charles Booth (1840-1916) was an English reformer, social surveyor, and social scientist

Karl Eugen Dühring (12 January 1833-21 September 1921) was a German philosopher, economist, and socialist.

Othmar Spann (1 October 1878-8 July 1950) was a conservative Austrian philosopher, sociologist and economist.

Heinrich John Rickert (; German: [ˈʁɪkɐt]; 25 May 1863-25 July 1936) was a German philosopher, a leading neo-Kantian of the Baden school.

Adam Heinrich Müller (after 1827 Ritter von Nitterdorf; 30 June 1779-17 January 1829) was a German-Austrian conservative philosopher, literary critic, and political economist, working within the Romantic tradition.

Adam Smith (baptised 16 June [O.S. 5 June] 1723-17 July 1790) was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the field of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment.

Wilhelm Windelband (; German: [ˈvɪndl̩bant]; 11 May 1848-22 October 1915) was a German philosopher of the Baden school.

Francis Hutcheson (; 8 August 1694-8 August 1746) was an Irish philosopher widely regarded as one of the key figures of the early Scottish Enlightenment.

Friedrich von Gentz (2 May 1764-9 June 1832) was a Prussian-Austrian diplomat and a writer.

Alfred Victor Espinas (23 May 1844-24 February 1922) was a French thinker noted for having been an influence on Nietzsche.

Nikolay Konstantinovich Mikhaylovsky (Russian: Никола́й Константи́нович Михайло́вский; 27 November [O.S. 15 November] 1842-10 February [O.S. 28 January] 1904) was a Russian literary critic, sociologist, writer on public affairs, and one of the theoreticians of the Narodniki movement.

Johann Karl Rodbertus (August 12, 1805, in Greifswald, Swedish Pomerania, December 6, 1875, in Jagetzow), also known as Karl Rodbertus-Jagetzow, was a German economist and socialist

Albert Galloway Keller (April 10, 1874, October 31, 1956) was an American sociologist, author, and student and colleague of William Graham Sumner.

He has been described as one of the leading American sociologists of the interwar period, studying intolerance, communication and revolutions and using many multidisciplinary methods.

He was the main contributor to the creation of a new Romanian school of sociology.

He founded one of the first sociology departments at an American university, at the University of Southern California in 1915.

was one of the most prominent members of the Chicago School of Sociology in the 1920s.

Frank Wilson Blackmar (November 3, 1854, March 30, 1931) was an American sociologist, historian and educator.

He is widely regarded as the "father of experimental psychology".

Paul Fauconnet (March 13, 1874 in Saint-Denis, 1938) was a French sociologist who is best known as a contributor to the L'Année Sociologique.

Thomas Humphrey Marshall (19 December 1893-29 November 1981) was an English sociologist who is best known for his essay "Citizenship and Social Class," a key work on citizenship that introduced the idea that full citizenship includes civil, political, and social citizenship.

Johannes "Hans" Freyer (31 July 1887-18 January 1969) was a German sociologist and philosopher of the conservative revolutionary movement.

Howard Paul Becker (December 9, 1899, June 8, 1960) was an American sociologist who was professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Although Dewey is known best for his publications about education, he also wrote about many other topics, including epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, art, logic, social theory, and ethics.

Kidd is reckoned as a founder of sociology as a discipline.

Albert Salomon (8 December 1891, Berlin, 18 December 1966, New York City) was a German-Jewish sociologist.

He was a student and disciple of Émile Durkheim.

Ellsworth Faris (September 30, 1874, December 19, 1953) was an influential sociologist of the Chicago school.

He also served as the 25th President of the American Sociological Association.

He was the 22nd President of the American Sociological Association (for the year 1932).

Lundberg's approach to sociology is usually categorized as neo-positivism.

Edward Cary Hayes (1868-1928) was a pioneer in American sociology and was a founder and president of the American Sociological Association.

Annie Marion MacLean (1869-1934) was a pioneering American sociologist of the women's Chicago School, and is sometimes referred to as the "mother of contemporary ethnography".

Clifford Robe Shaw (1895-1957) was an American sociologist and criminologist.

Marcel Granet (French: [ɡʁanɛ]; 29 February 1884-25 November 1940) was a French sociologist, ethnologist and sinologist.

Charles Richmond Henderson (1848-1915) was an American Baptist minister and sociologist.

Dorothy Swaine Thomas (October 24, 1899, May 1, 1977) was an American sociologist and economist.

Paul Frommhold Ignatius von Lilienfeld-Toal (Russian: Павел Фёдорович Лилиенфельд-Тоаль, romanized: Pavel Fëdorovič Lilienfel'd-Toal'; French: Paul de Lilienfeld; 1829-1903) was a Baltic German politician and social scientist of imperial Russia.

Robert Cooley Angell (April 29, 1899, May 12, 1984) was an American sociologist and educator.

was a British sociologist, economist and historian of Austrian origin

He expounded a circular view of world history.

socialist philosopher, often identified as a utopian socialist and leading theoretician of Russian nihilism and the Narodniks

was a German philosopher and sociologist

was a French philosopher regarded as having founded the concept of utopian socialism

was a German philosopher

was a German economist and social reformer

was a German philosopher, a follower of Christian Wolff and teacher of Immanuel Kant

He was an early pioneer of the field of sociology in Norway.

He founded several institutes in Calcutta, including the Bengali Institute of Sociology

Kang called for an end to property and the family in the interest of an idealized future cosmopolitan utopia

a German philosopher and sociologist

était un sociologue russe d'expression française

He is best known for his work on the Cold War and grand strategy

was a German philosopher and logician

Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, and politician

known for his work within Jewish philosophy, existentialism, and phenomenology

was a German Protestant religious philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Leipzig

In the 1960s, he developed Tuckman’s Stages of Group Development that continues to be taught and used worldwide ("forming, storming, norming, and performing").

Jennifer J. Freyd, PhD is a psychology researcher, educator, and author.

Jackson’s Life in Classrooms launched a generation of qualitative studies of schools and teacher work that captured the sensibilities of teacher/student interactions within schools and what was consciously and unconsciously being taught and learned.