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Max Weber
Maximilian Carl Emil Weber (German pronunciation: [maks ˈveːbɐ]) (21 April 1864–14 June 1920) was a German lawyer, politician, historian, political economist, and sociologist, who profoundly influenced social theory and the remit of sociology itself. Weber's major works dealt with the...
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Ferdinand de Saussure
Ferdinand de Saussure (French pronunciation: [fɛʁdinɑ̃ də soˈsyːʁ]) (26 November 1857 – 22 February 1913) was a Swiss linguist whose ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in linguistics in the 20th century. Saussure is widely...
Friedrich Hayek
Friedrich August von Hayek CH (8 May 1899 – 23 March 1992), was an Austrian and British economist and philosopher known for his defense of classical liberalism and free-market capitalism against socialist and collectivist thought. He is considered...
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Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas (pronounced /ˈjɜrɡən or ˈjʊrɡən ˈhɑːbərˌmɑːs/; German pronunciation: [ˈjʏʁɡən ˈhaːbɐmaːs]; born June 18, 1929) is a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for...
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (French pronunciation: [mɔʁis mɛʁlopɔ̃ti]) (March 14, 1908 – May 3, 1961) was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger in addition to being closely associated with Jean...
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Max Horkheimer
Max Horkheimer (February 14, 1895 – July 7, 1973) was a German philosopher and sociologist. He is well known for being a leader in the Frankfurt School, for his work with critical theory and his most important works: The Eclipse of Reason (1947),...
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Theodor W. Adorno
Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno (September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969) was a German-born international intellectual, sociologist, philosopher, musicologist, and composer. He was a member of the Frankfurt School along with Max Horkheimer, Walter...
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Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu (1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was an acclaimed French sociologist.
Bourdieu pioneered investigative frameworks and terminologies such as cultural, social, and symbolic capital, and the concepts of habitus, field or location, and...
Leo Strauss
Leo Strauss (September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973) was born in Germany to Jewish parents and later emigrated to the United States where took up his trade as a political philosopher who specialized in classical political philosophy. He spent most of...
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Ernest Gellner
Ernest André Gellner (9 December 1925 – 5 November 1995) was a philosopher, a sociologist and a social anthropologist, cited as one of the world's "most vigorous intellectuals" and a "one-man crusade for critical rationalism," whose first book,...
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Robert K. Merton
Robert Kapris Merton (July 4, 1910 – February 23, 2003, born Meyer R. Schkolnick to immigrant parents) was a distinguished American sociologist perhaps best known for having coined the phrase "self-fulfilling prophecy," the explanation for how a...
Charles Taylor
Charles Margrave Taylor, CC, GOQ, FRSC (born November 5, 1931) is a Canadian philosopher from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, who has made contributions to political philosophy, philosophy of social science, and the history of philosophy. He is often...
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H. L. A. Hart
Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart (1907–1992) was an influential legal philosopher of the 20th century. He was Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford University. He authored The Concept of Law and made major contributions to political philosophy.
Hart was...
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Karl Jaspers
Karl Theodor Jaspers (February 23, 1883 – February 26, 1969) was a German psychiatrist and philosopher who had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry and philosophy. After being trained in and practicing psychiatry, Jaspers turned to...
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Peter L. Berger
Peter Ludwig Berger (born March 17, 1929) is an Austrian-born American sociologist and Lutheran theologian well known for his work, co-authored with Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (New...
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Thomas Luckmann
Thomas Luckmann (born October 14, 1927) is a German sociologist of Slovene origin. His main areas of research are the sociology of communication, Sociology of knowledge, sociology of religion, and the philosophy of science.
He was born as Tomaž...
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Ralf Dahrendorf
Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, KBE, FBA (May 1, 1929 – June 17, 2009) was a German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and liberal politician.
During his political career, he was a Member of the German Parliament,...
C. Wright Mills
Charles Wright Mills (August 28, 1916, Waco, Texas – March 20, 1962, West Nyack, New York) was an American sociologist. Mills is best remembered for his 1959 book The Sociological Imagination in which he lays out a view of the proper relationship...
Reinhard Bendix
Reinhard Bendix (February 25, 1916 – February 28, 1991) was a sociologist born in Berlin, Germany.
As a teenager, he briefly belonged to Neu beginnen and Hashomer Hatzair, groups that resisted the Nazis. In 1938 he emigrated to the United States. He...
Peter Blau
Peter Michael Blau (February 7, 1918–March 12, 2002) was an Austrian sociologist and theorist. Born in Vienna, Austria, he immigrated to the United States in 1939. He received his PhD at Columbia University in 1952 before moving on to teach at the...
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Chester Barnard
Chester Irving Barnard (1886 – 1961) was an American business executive, public administrator, and the author of pioneering work in management theory and organizational studies. His landmark 1938 book, Functions of the Executive, sets out a theory...
Howard S. Becker
Howard Saul Becker (born April 18, 1928, Chicago) is an American sociologist.
Howard Becker was born in Chicago, Illinois on April 18,1928 . As an undergraduate and later a graduate student at the University of Chicago, he worked as a professional...
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Seymour Martin Lipset
Seymour Martin Lipset (March 18, 1922–December 31, 2006) was an American political sociologist, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and the Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University. His major work was in the fields of...
Lewis A. Coser
Lewis Coser (27 November 1913–8 July 2003) was an American sociologist.
Born in Berlin (Ludwig Cohen), Coser was the first sociologist to try to bring together structural functionalism and conflict theory; his work was focused on finding the...
Jacob Taubes
Jacob Taubes (February 25, 1923 – March 21, 1987) was a sociologist of religion, philosopher, and scholar of Judaism.
Taubes was born into an old rabbinical family. He was married to the writer Susan Taubes. He obtained his doctorate in 1947 for a...
Hamid Dabashi
Hamid Dabashi (Persian: حمید دباشی) is an Iranian-American intellectual historian, cultural critic and literary theorist who has studied Iran, world cinema and Shi'a Islam from a postcolonial perspective. He is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of...
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Shmuel Eisenstadt
Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt (Hebrew: שמואל נח אייזנשטדט) (born September 10, 1923 in Warsaw) is an Israeli sociologist. In 1959 he was appointed to a teaching post in the sociology department of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Since 1990 he has been...
Jean-Michel Berthelot
Jean-Michel Berthelot (1945 – 2006) was a French sociologist, philosopher, epistemologist and social theorist, specialist in philosophy of social sciences,history of sociology, sociology of education, sociology of knowledge, sociology of science and...
