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This article provides a list of noted sociologists and major contributors to sociology (even if they did not primarily work as sociologists):
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Jane Addams (1860-1935), American social worker and reformer
Raymond Aron (1905 - 1983) French philosopher and sociologist
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Scott Boorman (b.1949) American sociologist, Professor of sociology at Yale University
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Kathleen Carley American computational sociologist at Carnegie Mellon University
Nancy Chodorow (b. 1944), American sociologist, psychoanalyst and gender theorist
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Hamid Dabashi, American-Iranian cultural critic and intellectual historian
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Claude Fischer (b. 1947), American author of the subcultural theory of urbanism
Fei Xiaotong (1910-2005) Chinese sociologist and anthropologist
Hans Freyer (1887 - 1969) German sociologist and philosopher
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Harold Garfinkel (b.1917), Professor Emeritus in sociology at Harvard University
Felix Guattari (1930 - 1992), French institutional psychotherapist, founder of schizoanalysis and ecosophy
Max Gluckman (1911-1975), South African/English social anthropologist
Ludwig Gumplovicz (1838-1909), Polish-Austrian sociologist, one of the founders of European sociology
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Richard Hoggart (b. 1918), British sociologist (Birmingham School, culture studies)
Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), German social philosopher (Frankfurt School)
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Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), Arab historian and proto-sociologist
Kancha Ilaiah, (1952-) Indian political scientist and social activist
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Jane Jacobs (b.1916 - 2006), US/Canadian writer and activist
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Ibn Khaldun (1332/ah732 - 1406/ah808), North African historian, forerunner of modern historiography, sociology and economics
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Henry Maine (1822-1888), British jurist and legal historian
Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), German-American sociologist (Frankfurt School)
Karl Marx (1818-1883), German political philosopher, social theorist (see Marxism)
Robert McKenzie(1917-1981), Canadian-born Politics professor and psephologist.
Henri Mendras (1927-2003), French sociologist, chronicler of La fin des paysans
Brij Mohan (1939--), Indian-American social scientist
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Otto Neurath (1882-1945), Austrian sociologist and political economist
Peter Neville (d. 2002) British further education lecturer and sociologist
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Jean Piaget (1896 – 1980), Swiss developmental psychologist
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Aviad Raz (b. 1968) Israeli sociologist and anthropologist
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Harvey Sacks (d. 1975), American sociologist in the ethnomethodology tradition
Alfred Schütz (1899-1959), Austrian philosopher and sociologist (phenomenology)
Albion Woodbury Small (1854-1926), American sociologist, founder of Chicago University Dept. of Sociology
Adam Smith(1723-1790), Scottish economist and philosopher
Anselm L. Strauss (1916 - 1996), American sociologist (sociology of medicine, qualitative methods)
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Gabriel Tarde (1843 - 1904), French sociologist and social psychologist
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Calvin Veltman (b.1941), American sociologist, demographer and sociolinguist at the University of Québec at Montréal
Nildo Viana (b.1965), Brazilian sociologist and philosopher
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Stanley Wasserman, Professor of Sociology, Psychology, and Statistics at Indiana University.
Duncan Watts, American mathematical sociologist and network theorist
Sidney Webb (1859-1947), British socialist and social theorist
Douglas R. White, (b. 1942), American Mathematical Sociologist and Anthropologist.
William H. Whyte (b. 1917 - 1999), American sociologist, journalist and peoplewatcher
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Yu Xie Professor of sociology and statistics at the University of Michigan
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Benjamin Zablocki (1941-), Professor for sociology of religion and social psychology at Rutgers
Henry Zentner (d. 1986), Professor of sociology at the University of Calgary, Canada.
Jean Ziegler (b. 1934), professor of sociology at the University of Geneva and the Sorbonne, Paris.
Slavoj Zizek (b. 1949), Slovenian sociologist and philosopher
Irving Zola, medical sociologist and disability rights activist
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