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All Other Social Theorists

Members of this subcategory whose primary contribution does not fit one of the nine more specific traditions and subfields gathered elsewhere on this page. Because this residue is itself large, it is organized into seven child groups below by subfield (sociology of religion, family and demographic sociology, urban and community sociology, race, ethnicity and inequality, globalization and world-systems theory, postmodern and late-modern social theory, and general contemporary sociology) rather than listed flat, covering theorists who work mainly within a substantive area of social life rather than within one of the named theoretical traditions above.

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All Other Social Theorists
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Aldon Morris

Sociology

Andre Beteille

Sociology

Andre Gunder Frank

Sociology

Andrew Cherlin

Sociology

Ann Swidler

Sociology

Annette Lareau

Sociology

Anthony Giddens

Sociology

Basil Bernstein

Sociology

Bruce Tuckman

Sociology

Bruce Western

Sociology

Craig Calhoun

Sociology

Daniel Bell

Sociology

Devah Pager

Sociology

Douglas S. Massey

Sociology

E. Franklin Frazier

Sociology

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Sociology

Elijah Anderson

Sociology

Ernest W. Burgess

Sociology

Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Sociology

Florestan Fernandes

Sociology

Frank Furstenberg

Sociology

Frithjof Bergmann

Sociology

Georges Gurvitch

Sociology

Gilberto Freyre

Sociology

Giovanni Arrighi

Sociology

Grace Davie

Sociology

Herbert Gans

Sociology

Howard Winant

Sociology

Immanuel Wallerstein

Sociology

Jacques Derrida

Sociology

Jan Nederveen Pieterse

Sociology

Jennifer Freyd

Sociology

John Rex

Sociology

John Urry

Sociology

Jose Casanova

Sociology

Kathryn Edin

Sociology

Loic Wacquant

Sociology

Louis Wirth

Sociology

Manuel Castells

Sociology

Margaret Archer

Sociology

Matthew Desmond

Sociology

Michael Omi

Sociology

Michel Foucault

Sociology

Michèle Lamont

Sociology

Mitchell Duneier

Sociology

Nikolas Rose

Sociology

Orlando Patterson

Sociology

Paul James

Sociology

Philip W. Jackson

Sociology

Pierre Bourdieu

Sociology

Richard Sennett

Sociology

Robert J. Sampson

Sociology

Robert N. Bellah

Sociology

Robert Nisbet

Sociology

Robert Wuthnow

Sociology

Robin D. G. Kelley

Sociology

Rodney Stark

Sociology

Rogers Brubaker

Sociology

Roland Robertson

Sociology

Saskia Sassen

Sociology

Sharon Zukin

Sociology

Sudhir Venkatesh

Sociology

Ulrich Beck

Sociology

William Foote Whyte

Sociology

William Julius Wilson

Sociology

Zygmunt Bauman

Sociology
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1. Wikipedia: Sociology
WikipediaSociology, lead section, definition sentence, applied to theorist school classification
Quote, Sociology, lead section, definition sentence, applied to theorist school classification
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.
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Sage Publishing author page: Bruce Wayne Tuckman
Has Member: Bruce Tuckman, Author biography
Quote, Has Member: Bruce Tuckman, Author biography
In the 1960s, he developed Tuckman’s Stages of Group Development that continues to be taught and used worldwide ("forming, storming, norming, and performing").
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Jennifer Joy Freyd, PhD: Biography of Jennifer Joy Freyd
Jennifer Joy Freyd, PhDHas Member: Jennifer Freyd, Biography
Quote, Has Member: Jennifer Freyd, Biography
Jennifer J. Freyd, PhD is a psychology researcher, educator, and author.
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Larry Cuban blog: Life in Classrooms and Philip Jackson
Has Member: Philip W. Jackson, Paragraph 5
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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.
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