swap_horiz Émile Durkheim Alternatives

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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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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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Bruno Latour

Bruno Latour (1947-2022) was a French philosopher, sociologist, and anthropologist whose work examined how scientific fa...

French Contemporary Materiality Actor Network

9.1 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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Talcott Parsons

Talcott Parsons (1902–1979) was an American sociologist at Harvard University who built structural functionalism into th...

American 20TH Century Structural Systems Theory

8.9 Great

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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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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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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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Alain Touraine

Alain Touraine was a French sociologist who lived from 1925 to 2023 and studied industrial society, social movements, la...

French 20TH Century Post Industrial Social Movements

8.4 Great

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Raymond Aron

Raymond Aron was a French sociologist, political philosopher, journalist, and historian who lived from 1905 to 1983. A d...

French 20TH Century Liberalism Political Sociology

8.3 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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Michel Crozier

Michel Crozier was a French sociologist whose work focused on bureaucracy, organizations, power, and institutional chang...

French 20TH Century Power Bureaucracy

7.9 Good

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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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Neil Smelser

Neil Smelser (1930–2017) was an American sociologist at UC Berkeley who developed a theory of collective behavior and co...

American 20TH Century Economy Functionalism

7.8 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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Roger Bastide

Roger Bastide (1898–1974) was a prominent French sociologist and anthropologist who significantly advanced the study of...

French 20TH Century Race Brazil

7.5 Good

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Albion Small

Albion Small (1854–1926) was an American sociologist who founded the first sociology department in the United States at...

Classical American 19TH Century Institutional

7.4 Good