Concept information
Preferred term
key people in social theory
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- Agnes Heller
- Alain Touraine
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Alfred Schütz
- Alvin Gouldner
- Amos Hawley
- Angela Davis
- Anselm Strauss
- Anthony Giddens
- Antonio Gramsci
- Audre Lorde
- Auguste Comte
- Barry Markovsky
- Bruno Latour
- Bryan Turner
- Carol Gilligan
- Charles Horton Cooley
- Charles Taylor
- Charles Tilly
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Cornelius Castoriadis
- C. Wright Mills
- Daniel Bell
- David Willer
- Dorothy Smith
- Edward Lawler
- Elizabeth Minnich
- Émile Durkheim
- Erik Olin Wright
- Ernst Cassirer
- Erving Goffman
- Everett Hughes
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Ferdinand Tönnies
- Florian Witold Znaniecki
- Frederic Jameson
- Gayle Rubin
- George Herbert Mead
- George Homans
- George Ritzer
- Georges Bataille
- Georg Simmel
- Gilles Deleuze
- Gloria Anzaldúa
- Guy Debord
- György Lukács
- Harold Garfinkel
- Harrison White
- Henri Lefebvre
- Herbert Blumer
- Herbert Spencer
- Howard Becker
- Immanuel Wallerstein
- Jack Goldstone
- Jacques Derrida
- Jacques Lacan
- James Coleman
- Janet Chafetz
- Jean Baudrillard
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Jeffrey Alexander
- Jessica Benjamin
- Jonathan Turner
- Joseph Berger
- Joseph de Maistre
- Judith Butler
- Julia Kristeva
- Jürgen Habermas
- Karen Cook
- Karl Mannheim
- Karl Marx
- Lewis Coser
- Linda Molm
- Louis Althusser
- Louis de Bonald
- Luce Irigaray
- Marc Augé
- Marianne Weber
- Max Scheler
- Max Weber
- Michael Mann
- Michel de Certeau
- Michel Foucault
- Montesquieu
- Nancy Chodorow
- Nancy Hartsock
- Neil Smelser
- Niklas Luhmann
- Norbert Elias
- Patricia Hill Collins
- Paul Virilio
- Peter Blau
- Philip Rieff
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Pitirim A. Sorokin
- Rae Blumberg
- Ralf Dahrendorf
- Randall Collins
- Richard Emerson
- Richard Rorty
- Robert Bellah
- Robert Merton
- Robert Park
- Robert Wuthnow
- Sandra Harding
- Sandra Lee Bartky
- Sara Ruddick
- Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
- Siegwart Lindenberg
- Sigmund Freud
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Slavoj Žižek
- Stuart Hall
- Talcott Parsons
- Thorstein Veblen
- Ulrich Beck
- Vilfredo Pareto
- Walter Benjamin
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Werner Sombart
- Wilhelm Dilthey
- William Graham Sumner
- William Isaac Thomas
- Zygmunt Bauman
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/key_people_in_social_theory
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