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All Social Theorists

The founding and major figures of sociology and anthropology, carried here as two standalone social sciences through this category's own theorist SubLabel grouping (Sociology, Anthropology) rather than as separate discipline entities, from Auguste Comte and Franz Boas through contemporary theorists working in every major tradition this atlas's own Social Theory and Concepts category documents. Belongs here: a person whose primary scholarly identity is sociology or anthropology. Does not belong here: a philosopher of social science writing about method rather than practicing it, whom Philosophy atlas carries per this atlas's own scope charter seam.

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1780 1
All Social Theorists
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A. R. Radcliffe-Brown

Anthropology

Abraham Leon

Sociology

Achille Mbembe

Sociology

Ágnes Heller

Sociology

Alain Touraine

Sociology

Albert Meltzer

Sociology

Aldon Morris

Sociology

Alejandro Portes

Sociology

Alex Callinicos

Sociology

Alexander Berkman

Sociology

Alexander Bogdanov

Sociology

Alexander Parvus

Sociology

Alfred Klahr

Sociology

Alfred L. Kroeber

Anthropology

Alfred Schutz

Sociology

Ali Shariati

Sociology

Alison Kafer

Sociology

Álvaro García Linera

Sociology

Alvin Gouldner

Sociology

Amadeo Bordiga

Sociology

Amitai Etzioni

Sociology

Andre Beteille

Sociology

Andre Gunder Frank

Sociology

Andrea Dworkin

Sociology

Andrej Grubačić

Sociology

Andrew Cherlin

Sociology

Angela Davis

Sociology

Anibal Quijano

Sociology

Ann Laura Stoler

Anthropology

Ann Oakley

Sociology

Ann Swidler

Sociology

Anna G. Jónasdóttir

Sociology

Anna Tsing

Anthropology

Anne Fausto-Sterling

Sociology

Annemarie Mol

Anthropology

Annette Lareau

Sociology

Annette Weiner

Anthropology

Anselm Strauss

Sociology

Anthony Giddens

Sociology

Anton Pannekoek

Sociology

Antonio Gramsci

Sociology

Antonio Labriola

Sociology

Antonio Negri

Sociology

Arjun Appadurai

Anthropology

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Sociology

Arnold van Gennep

Anthropology

Arthur Keith

Anthropology

Arthur Kleinman

Anthropology

Ashley Montagu

Anthropology

Audre Lorde

Sociology

Audrey Richards

Anthropology

August Bebel

Sociology

Auguste Comte

Sociology

Axel Honneth

Sociology

Azfar Hussain

Sociology

Barney Glaser

Sociology

Barrington Moore Jr.

Sociology

Barry Wellman

Sociology

Basil Bernstein

Sociology

bell hooks

Sociology

Benjamin Tucker

Sociology

Ber Borochov

Sociology

Bertolt Brecht

Sociology

Betty Friedan

Sociology

Bijan Jazani

Sociology

Boris Kagarlitsky

Sociology

Bracha L. Ettinger

Sociology

Brenda Feigen

Sociology

Bronislaw Malinowski

Anthropology

Bruce Tuckman

Sociology

Bruce Western

Sociology

Bruno Latour

Sociology

C. Wright Mills

Sociology

Camille Paglia

Sociology

Chantal Mouffe

Sociology

Charles Bettelheim

Sociology

Charles Horton Cooley

Sociology

Charles Perrow

Sociology

Charles Tilly

Sociology

Che Guevara

Sociology

Chiara Bottici

Sociology

Chie Nakane

Anthropology

Chris Harman

Sociology

Claire Colebrook

Sociology

Clara Wichmann

Sociology

Claude Lefort

Sociology

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Anthropology

Claus Offe

Sociology

Clifford Geertz

Anthropology

Clyde Kluckhohn

Anthropology

Colin Crouch

Sociology

Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea

Sociology

Cornelius Castoriadis

Sociology

Craig Calhoun

Sociology

Daniel Bell

Sociology

Daniel Bensaïd

Sociology

Daniel De Leon

Sociology

Daniel Guérin

Sociology

Danko Grlić

Sociology

David A. Snow

Sociology
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1. Wikipedia: Sociology
WikipediaSociology, lead section, era sentence
Quote, Sociology, lead section, era sentence
The term sociology was coined in the late 18th century to describe the scientific study of society.
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