1. Charles Cooley (1864)

American Sociologist

Sociologist who developed the idea of the 'looking-glass self', which posits that our self-image is generated by the feedback we get from others. This revolutionary work in sociology was first...

2. Kate Barnard (1875)

American Sociologist

Famous as the first female elected official in the state government of Oklahoma, she served two terms as Oklahoma Commissioner of Charities and Corrections.

3. Talcott Parsons (1902)

American Sociologist

A sociologist who united the previously disparate theories of centuries past into a single structural-functional approach. He called this general theory for the study of society action theory.

4. David Riesman (1909)

American Sociologist

An American sociologist and author, he is particularly known for his bestselling book, The Lonely Crowd. The work deals primarily with the alienating effects of modern society.

5. Morrie Schwartz (1916)

American Sociologist

American author of Letting Go: Morrie's Reflections on Living While Dying. He was also the subject of Tuesdays with Morrie, a successful book-turned-film.

6. C. Wright Mills (1916)

American Sociologist

Charles Wright Mills was an American sociologist and a professor of sociology at Columbia University from 1946 until his death in 1962. Mills was published widely in popular and intellectual...

7. Herbert J. Gans (1927)

American Sociologist

Herbert J. Gans is a German-born American sociologist who has taught at Columbia University between 1971 and 2007. One of the most prolific and influential sociologists of his generation Gans...

8. Armand Mauss (1928)

American Sociologist

Armand Lind Mauss is an American sociologist specializing in the sociology of religion. He is professor emeritus of Sociology and Religious Studies at Washington State University is the most often...

9. Frances Fox Piven (1932)

American Sociologist

s Fox Piven is an American professor of political science and sociology at The Graduate Center City University of New York where she has taught since 1982. Previously she had...

10. Tony Campolo (1935)

American Sociologist

Anthony Tony Campolo is an American sociologist pastor author public speaker and former spiritual advisor to U. S. President Bill Clinton. Campolo is known as one of the most influential...

11. Ronald Enroth (1938)

American Sociologist

Ronald M. Enroth has been a Professor of Sociology at Westmont College in Santa Barbara California prominent evangelical Christian author of books concerning what he defines as cults and new...

12. George Ritzer (1940)

American Sociologist

George Ritzer is an American sociologist professor and author who studies globalization metatheory patterns of consumption and modern and postmodern social theory. His most notable contribution to date is his...

13. Benjamin Zablocki (1941)

American Sociologist

Benjamin Zablocki is an American professor of sociology at Rutgers University where he teaches sociology of religion and social psychology. He has published widely on the subject of charismatic religious...

14. Jonathan R. Cole (1942)

American Sociologist

Jonathan R. Cole is an American sociologist John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University at Columbia University. He is best known for his scholarly work developing the sociology of science...

15. Xavier Briggs (1942)

American Sociologist

Xavier de Souza Briggs is an American sociologist and planner known for his work on social capital civic capacity and community building as well as the concept of the geography...

16. Samuel Heilman (1946)

American Sociologist

Samuel Heilman is a professor of Sociology at Queens College of the City University of New York who focuses on social ethnography of contemporary Jewish Orthodox movements.

17. Sherry Turkle (Unknow)

American Sociologist

Sherry Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She obtained a BA in Social Studies and...

18. Robert Groves (1948)

American Sociologist

Robert Martin Groves is an American sociologist and expert in survey methodology who has served as the Provost of Georgetown University in Washington D. C. since August 2012. He also...

19. Ruth Milkman (1954)

American Sociologist

Ruth Milkman is a professor of sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and at the Joseph F. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies where she is also Academic...

20. Susan Leigh Star (Unknow)

American Sociologist

Susan Leigh Star was an American sociologist. She specialized in the study of information in modern society; information worlds; information infrastructure; classification and standardization; sociology of science; sociology of work...

21. Gary Alan Fine (1950)

American Sociologist

Gary Alan Fine is an American sociologist and author.

22. Steven M. Cohen (1950)

American Sociologist

Steven M. Cohen is a sociologist whose work focuses on the American Jewish Community. He is currently a Research Professor of Jewish Social Policy at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of...

23. Peter Kollock (1959)

American Sociologist

Peter Enrique Kollock was an American sociologist and an associate professor and vice chair in the department of sociology at the University of California Los Angeles.

24. Michael Kimmel (1951)

American Sociologist

Michael Scott Kimmel is an American sociologist specializing in gender studies. He holds the position of Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Stony Brook University in New York and is...

25. Tukufu Zuberi (1959)

American Sociologist

Tukufu Zuberi is an American sociologist filmmaker social critic educator and writer. Zuberi has appeared in several documentaries on Africa and the African diaspora including Liberia: America's Stepchild and 500...

26. Paul DiMaggio (1951)

American Sociologist

Paul Joseph DiMaggio is an American educator and professor of sociology at Princeton University since 1992.

27. Tricia Rose (1962)

American Sociologist

Tricia Rose is a professor of Africana Studies at Brown University cultural critic and public intellectual. Rose was born in New York City to a white mother and black father....

28. Craig Calhoun (Unknow)

American Sociologist

Craig Calhoun is an American sociologist and an advocate of using social science to address issues of public concern. He became Director of the London School of Economics and Political...

29. Carl L. Bankston (1952)

American Sociologist

Carl L. Bankston III is an American sociologist and author. He is best known for his work on immigration to the United States particularly on the adaptation of Vietnamese American...

30. Jerry A. Jacobs (1955)

American Sociologist

Jerry A. Jacobs is an American sociologist noted for his work on women and work. He is professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and an affiliate of the...

31. Juliet Schor (Unknow)

American Sociologist

Juliet Schor is Professor of sociology at Boston College. She studies trends in working time and leisure consumerism the relationship between work and family women's issues and economic justice. She...

32. Steven J. Gold (Unknow)

American Sociologist

Steven J. Gold is a sociologist involved in research on ethnic economies international migration the development of ethnic communities visual sociology and qualitative methods. Having served as President of the...

33. Barbara Risman (Unknow)

American Sociologist

Barbara Risman is Professor and Head of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

34. Benjamin H. Bratton (1968)

American Sociologist

American fencer see Benjamin Bratton. Benjamin H. Bratton is Associate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of California San Diego and Director of The Center for Design and Geopolitics...

35. Alan N. Shapiro (1956)

American Sociologist

Alan N. Shapiro is an American science fiction and media theorist. He is a lecturer and essayist in the fields of science fiction studies media theory French philosophy technological art...

36. Betsy Leondar-Wright (1956)

American Sociologist

Betsy Leondar-Wright is an economic justice activist sociologist and author who writes on class and economic inequality.

37. Laura Kipnis (1956)

American Sociologist

Laura Kipnis is a professor of media studies at Northwestern University. She is also a cultural and media critic who focuses especially on gender issues sexual politics popular culture and...

38. Sam Richards (sociologist) (1960)

American Sociologist

Samuel Martell Richards is a sociologist working at the Pennsylvania State University. His work focuses on race and ethnicity.

39. Philip Kasinitz (1957)

American Sociologist

Philip Kasinitz is an American sociologist. He is currently a Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center where he has chaired the doctoral program in Sociology since 2001. Kasinitz...

40. Eric Klinenberg (1970)

American Sociologist

Eric Klinenberg is an American sociologist and a scholar of urban studies culture and media. He is best known for his contributions as a public sociologist. Klinenberg was born in...

41. Alvin Ward Gouldner (Unknow)

American Sociologist

Alvin Ward Gouldner taught sociology at Antioch College and was professor of sociology at Washington University in St. Louis at the University at Buffalo President of the Society for the...

42. Alfred Schütz (1899)

American Sociologist

Alfred Schütz was an Austrian social scientist whose work bridged sociological and phenomenological traditions to form a social phenomenology. Notably Schütz is gradually achieving recognition as one of the foremost...

43. Pitirim Sorokin (1889)

American Sociologist

Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin Russian Empire – February 11 1968 Winchester Massachusetts) was a Russian American sociologist born in modern-day Komi. An academic and political activist in Russia he emigrated from...

44. Helen Lynd (1896)

American Sociologist

Helen Merrell Lynd was an American sociologist and social philosopher and was the author of Shame and the Search for Identity and co-author of Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American...

45. Siobhan Brooks (1972)

American Sociologist

Siobhan Brooks is an African-American lesbian feminist sociologist known for her work with African-American women in the sex worker industry and feminist issues affecting these women. She holds a B....

46. Daniel J. Myers (1966)

American Sociologist

Daniel J. Myers is a professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame. He is best known for his research on the urban unrest of the 1960s and the...

47. Martha Beck (1962)

American Sociologist

Martha Nibley Beck is an American sociologist life coach best-selling author and speaker who specializes in helping individuals and groups achieve personal and professional goals. She holds a bachelor's degree...

48. Steven Messner (1951)

American Sociologist

Steven Messner is a famous American sociologist, who was born on February 27, 1951 in United States. Steven Fredrick Messner (born February 27, 1951) is an American sociologist and Distinguished...

49. Cindy Patton (1956)

American Sociologist

Cindy Patton is a famous American sociologist, who was born on February 12, 1956 in United States. Cindy Patton (born February 12, 1956) is an American sociologist and historian specializing...