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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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David Graeber

Anthropology

David Harvey

Sociology

David M. Schneider

Anthropology

David McNally

Sociology

Devah Pager

Sociology

Dipesh Chakrabarty

Sociology

Donna Haraway

Sociology

Dorothy E. Smith

Sociology

Doug McAdam

Sociology

Douglas S. Massey

Sociology

DP Mukerji

Sociology

Duncan J. Watts

Sociology

E. E. Evans-Pritchard

Anthropology

E. Franklin Frazier

Sociology

Edmund Leach

Anthropology

Eduard Bernstein

Sociology

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Sociology

Edvard Kardelj

Sociology

Edward Burnett Tylor

Anthropology

Edward Said

Sociology

Edward Sapir

Anthropology

Elijah Anderson

Sociology

Elinor Ostrom

Sociology

Émile Armand

Sociology

Emile Durkheim

Sociology

Emma Goldman

Sociology

Enver Hoxha

Sociology

Eric Wolf

Anthropology

Erich Fromm

Sociology

Erik Olin Wright

Sociology

Ernest Gellner

Anthropology

Ernest Mandel

Sociology

Ernest W. Burgess

Sociology

Ernesto Laclau

Sociology

Ernst Bloch

Sociology

Errico Malatesta

Sociology

Erving Goffman

Sociology

Étienne Balibar

Sociology

Eve Chiapello

Sociology

Everett Hughes

Sociology

Eviatar Zerubavel

Sociology

Fatema Mernissi

Sociology

Fei Xiaotong

Anthropology

Ferdinand Tonnies

Sociology

Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Sociology

Florestan Fernandes

Sociology

Florian Znaniecki

Sociology

Frances Fox Piven

Sociology

Franco Berardi

Sociology

Frank Furstenberg

Sociology

Frank Parkin

Sociology

Frantz Fanon

Sociology

Franz Boas

Anthropology

Fredric Jameson

Sociology

Fredrik Barth

Anthropology

Fredy Perlman

Sociology

Friedrich Engels

Sociology

Friedrich Pollock

Sociology

Frithjof Bergmann

Sociology

G. A. Cohen

Sociology

Gabriel Kuhn

Sociology

Gabriel Tarde

Sociology

Gajo Petrović

Sociology

Galvano Della Volpe

Sociology

Gary Chartier

Sociology

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Sociology

Gayle Rubin

Anthropology

Georg Simmel

Sociology

George C. Homans

Sociology

George Herbert Mead

Sociology

George Marcus

Anthropology

George Novack

Sociology

George Peter Murdock

Anthropology

George Ritzer

Sociology

Georges Gurvitch

Sociology

Georgi Plekhanov

Sociology

Gilberto Freyre

Sociology

Gilles Dauvé

Sociology

Giovanni Arrighi

Sociology

Gloria Steinem

Sociology

Gopal Balakrishnan

Sociology

Goran Therborn

Sociology

Grace Davie

Sociology

Gregory Bateson

Anthropology

Greta Gaard

Sociology

Gustav Landauer

Sociology

Guy Debord

Sociology

György Lukács

Sociology

Hal Draper

Sociology

Hans Heinz Holz

Sociology

Hare Krishna Konar

Sociology

Harold Garfinkel

Sociology

Harriet Martineau

Sociology

Harrison C. White

Sociology

Harry Cleaver

Sociology

Harry Magdoff

Sociology

Haz Al-Din

Sociology

Hélène Cixous

Sociology

Henri Lefebvre

Sociology

Henrietta L. Moore

Anthropology
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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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SocietyAtlas (internal)Contains: Ferdinand Tonnies
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