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Émile Durkheim

Émile Durkheim (1858-1917) was a French sociologist who helped establish sociology as an independent academic discipline...

Classical French 19TH Century Suicide

9.2 Excellent

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Max Weber

Max Weber (1864-1920) was a German sociologist, historian, economist, and political thinker whose work helped establish...

German Classical 19TH Century Bureaucracy

9.2 Excellent

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Georg Simmel

Georg Simmel (1858–1918) was a German sociologist who pioneered formal sociology and micro-level social interaction anal...

German Classical 19TH Century Interaction

9.2 Excellent

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George Herbert Mead

George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) was an American philosopher and social theorist associated with pragmatism and the Unive...

Classical American 20TH Century Self

9.2 Excellent

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Robert K. Merton

Robert K. Merton (1910–2003) was an American sociologist at Columbia University who coined the terms 'role model,' 'self...

American 20TH Century Functionalism Middle Range

9.2 Excellent

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Erving Goffman

Erving Goffman (1922–1982) was a Canadian-American sociologist who founded dramaturgical analysis, portraying everyday s...

American 20TH Century Stigma Micro Sociology

9.2 Excellent

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James Coleman

James S. Coleman was an American sociologist whose research addressed education, inequality, organizations, and rational...

American Education 20TH Century Social Capital

9.2 Excellent

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C. Wright Mills

C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) was an American sociologist known for analyzing power, social structure, and the responsibil...

American 20TH Century Conflict Power Elite

9.1 Excellent

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Arlie Hochschild

Arlie Hochschild (born 1940) is an American sociologist at UC Berkeley who coined the term 'emotional labor' in The Mana...

American 20TH Century Feminist Labor

9.1 Excellent

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Harriet Martineau

Harriet Martineau (1802–1876) was a British writer regarded as the first female sociologist, who translated Comte's Posi...

Classical 19TH Century British Feminist

8.8 Great

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Robert E. Park

Robert E. Park was an American sociologist and a central figure in the development of the Chicago School of sociology. A...

American 20TH Century Urban Race

8.8 Great

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Herbert Blumer

Herbert Blumer was an American sociologist closely associated with the Chicago School and the development of symbolic in...

American 20TH Century Chicago School Symbolic Interactionism

8.6 Great

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William Thomas

William Isaac Thomas was an American sociologist whose work examined migration, social behavior, and the ways people int...

American 20TH Century Immigration Chicago School

8.6 Great

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Charles Cooley

Charles Cooley (1864–1929) was an American sociologist at the University of Michigan who developed the concept of the 'l...

Classical American 20TH Century Looking Glass Self

8.4 Great

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Louis Wirth

Louis Wirth was a German-born American sociologist associated with the Chicago School and the study of urban life, migra...

American 20TH Century Urban Urbanism

8.3 Great

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Everett Hughes

Everett C. Hughes was an American sociologist associated with the Chicago School and the study of symbolic interaction....

American 20TH Century Race Work

8.2 Great

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Lester Frank Ward

Lester Frank Ward was an American sociologist, botanist, and paleontologist who lived from 1841 to 1913. He argued that...

American Evolution 19TH Century Reform

8.0 Great

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Ernest Burgess

Ernest Watson Burgess (1886-1966) was a Canadian-born American sociologist and a major figure in the Chicago school of s...

American 20TH Century Urban Chicago School

7.9 Good

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Edward A. Ross

Edward Alsworth Ross was an American sociologist associated with the formative period of sociology in the United States...

Progressive American 19TH Century Criminology

7.6 Good

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Franklin Henry Giddings

Franklin Henry Giddings (1855–1931) was an American sociologist who held a professorship at Columbia University beginnin...

American 19TH Century Quantitative Early Sociology

7.3 Good