List of social theorists

A list of social theorists includes classical as well as modern thinkers in social theory that were notable for the impact of their published works on the general discipline of sociology.


 * Jane Addams
 * Theodor Adorno
 * Muhammad Asad
 * Roland Barthes
 * Peter L. Berger
 * William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
 * Pierre Bourdieu, 1930-2002
 * Auguste Comte
 * Charles Cooley
 * Anna Julia Cooper
 * Émile Durkheim
 * Norbert Elias
 * Friedrich Engels
 * Amitai Etzioni
 * Michel Foucault, 1926-1984
 * Paulo Freire
 * Ernest Gellner
 * Charlotte Perkins Gilman
 * Max Gluckman
 * Erving Goffman, 1922-1982
 * Antonio Gramsci
 * Ludwig Gumplowicz
 * Jürgen Habermas
 * Prince Peter Kropotkin
 * Henri Lefebvre
 * Vladimir Lenin
 * Niklas Luhmann, 1927-1998
 * György Lukács
 * Rosa Luxemburg
 * Jean-François Lyotard
 * Karl Mannheim
 * Harriet Martineau
 * Karl Marx
 * George Herbert Mead
 * Robert King Merton
 * John Stuart Mill
 * Charles Wright Mills
 * Vilfredo Pareto
 * Robert Ezra Park
 * Talcott Parsons
 * Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon
 * Georg Simmel
 * Dorothy E. Smith
 * Pitirim A. Sorokin
 * Herbert Spencer
 * Rudolf Steiner
 * William Graham Sumner
 * Gabriel Tarde
 * William Isaac Thomas
 * Alexis de Tocqueville
 * Ferdinand Tönnies
 * Thorstein Veblen
 * Immanuel Wallerstein
 * Beatrice Webb
 * Marianne Weber
 * Max Weber