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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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Herbert Blumer

Sociology

Herbert Gans

Sociology

Herbert Marcuse

Sociology

Herbert Spencer

Sociology

Homi K. Bhabha

Sociology

Howard S. Becker

Sociology

Howard Winant

Sociology

Ibn Khaldun

Sociology

Immanuel Wallerstein

Sociology

István Mészáros

Sociology

J. Moufawad-Paul

Sociology

J. Posadas

Sociology

Jack Goody

Anthropology

Jacques Camatte

Sociology

Jacques Derrida

Sociology

James C. Scott

Anthropology

James Clifford

Anthropology

James Ferguson

Anthropology

James George Frazer

Anthropology

James S. Coleman

Sociology

Jan Nederveen Pieterse

Sociology

Jeffrey C. Alexander

Sociology

Jennifer Freyd

Sociology

Johan Galtung

Sociology

Johannes Fabian

Anthropology

John Bellamy Foster

Sociology

John Goldthorpe

Sociology

John Henry Mackay

Sociology

John Rex

Sociology

John Urry

Sociology

John W. Meyer

Sociology

John William Cooke

Sociology

John Zerzan

Sociology

Jon Elster

Sociology

José Carlos Mariátegui

Sociology

Jose Casanova

Sociology

Joseph Déjacque

Sociology

Joseph Dietzgen

Sociology

Josephine Donovan

Sociology

Judith Butler

Sociology

Judith C. Brown

Sociology

Judith Lorber

Sociology

Julia Kristeva

Sociology

Julian Steward

Anthropology

Juliet Schor

Sociology

Jürgen Habermas

Sociology

Jyoti Basu

Sociology

Karel Kosík

Sociology

Karin Knorr Cetina

Sociology

Karl Kautsky

Sociology

Karl Korsch

Sociology

Karl Liebknecht

Sociology

Karl Mannheim

Sociology

Karl Marx

Sociology

Karl Polanyi

Sociology

Kathryn Edin

Sociology

Kathy Charmaz

Sociology

Kimberle Crenshaw

Sociology

Kingsley Davis

Sociology

Laura Nader

Anthropology

Leo Panitch

Sociology

Leslie White

Anthropology

Lester Frank Ward

Sociology

Lewis A. Coser

Sociology

Lewis Henry Morgan

Anthropology

Lila Abu-Lughod

Anthropology

Loic Wacquant

Sociology

Louis Althusser

Sociology

Louis Dumont

Anthropology

Louis Wirth

Sociology

Luc Boltanski

Sociology

Luce Irigaray

Sociology

Lucien Goldmann

Sociology

Ludovico Geymonat

Sociology

Luigi Galleani

Sociology

Lysander Spooner

Sociology

M. N. Srinivas

Anthropology

Makoto Itoh

Sociology

Mancur Olson

Sociology

Manuel Castells

Sociology

Marcel Mauss

Anthropology

Margaret Archer

Sociology

Margaret Mead

Anthropology

Marilyn Strathern

Anthropology

Mark Granovetter

Sociology

Mark Mizruchi

Sociology

Marshall Berman

Sociology

Marshall Sahlins

Anthropology

Marvin Harris

Anthropology

Mary Douglas

Anthropology

Mary Wollstonecraft

Sociology

Matthew Desmond

Sociology

Maurice Bloch

Anthropology

Maurice Godelier

Anthropology

Maurice Halbwachs

Sociology

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Sociology

Max Gluckman

Anthropology

Max Horkheimer

Sociology

Max Weber

Sociology

Melville J. Herskovits

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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