swap_horiz Bruno Latour Alternatives

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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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Pierre Bourdieu

Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) was a French sociologist who developed the concepts of cultural capital, habitus, and field,...

French 20TH Century Capital Field Theory

9.2 Excellent

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Mark Granovetter

Mark Granovetter is an American sociologist associated with social network analysis and economic sociology. His 1973 art...

American Contemporary Networks Economic Sociology

9.1 Excellent

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Matthew Desmond

Matthew Desmond is an American sociologist whose research focuses on poverty, housing, eviction, and economic inequality...

American Contemporary Urban Poverty

9.1 Excellent

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R.W. Connell

R. W. Connell is an Australian sociologist known for research on gender, education, class, and global patterns of knowle...

Contemporary Australian Gender Masculinity

9.0 Excellent

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Douglas Massey

Douglas S. Massey is an American sociologist whose research examines international migration, residential segregation, u...

American Contemporary Immigration Segregation

9.0 Excellent

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Henri Lefebvre

Henri Lefebvre was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist whose work examined everyday life, urbanization, and the...

French Space 20TH Century Marxist

9.0 Excellent

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Saskia Sassen

Saskia Sassen is a Dutch-born American sociologist known for research on globalization, migration, inequality, and the o...

Contemporary Immigration Globalization Dutch American

8.9 Great

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Manuel Castells

Manuel Castells is a Spanish sociologist known for research on cities, communication, globalization, and the social effe...

Contemporary Spanish Urban Information

8.8 Great

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Robert Sampson

Robert J. Sampson is an American sociologist and criminologist known for studying neighborhoods, urban inequality, and c...

American Contemporary Urban Criminology

8.8 Great

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Annette Lareau

Annette Lareau is an American sociologist whose research examines social class, family life, education, and inequality....

American Contemporary Education Parenting

8.8 Great

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Elijah Anderson

Elijah Anderson is an American sociologist whose research examines race, inequality, urban life, and the informal rules...

American Contemporary Urban Race

8.8 Great

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Doug McAdam

American sociologist who developed the political process model of social movements, applied extensively to the U.S. civi...

American Contemporary Social Movements Political Process

8.7 Great

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John Goldthorpe

John Goldthorpe is a British sociologist known for research on social class, occupational structure, and intergeneration...

Contemporary British Mobility Class

8.7 Great

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Luc Boltanski

Luc Boltanski is a French sociologist whose research addresses criticism, justification, capitalism, institutions, and m...

French Contemporary Critique Justification

8.5 Great

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Harry Collins

Harry Collins is a British sociologist of science whose research examines scientific knowledge, expertise, and the role...

Contemporary British Science Technology Expertise

8.1 Great

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Trevor Pinch

Trevor Pinch was a British sociologist whose research examined how scientific facts and technologies acquire meaning thr...

Music Contemporary British Social Construction

8.0 Great

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Bernard Lahire

Bernard Lahire is a French sociologist whose research addresses socialization, cultural practices, education, and indivi...

French Contemporary Practice Individual

7.9 Good

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Wiebe Bijker

Wiebe E. Bijker is a Dutch scholar of science, technology, and society who helped develop the Social Construction of Tec...

Contemporary Dutch Artifacts Social Construction

7.9 Good

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Nathalie Heinich

Nathalie Heinich is a French sociologist and research director at CNRS whose work focuses on the sociology of art and cu...

French Contemporary Art Values

7.3 Good