swap_horiz Frank Parkin Alternatives

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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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Niklas Luhmann

Niklas Luhmann (1927–1998) was a German sociologist who developed social systems theory, arguing that society consists o...

Communication German 20TH Century Systems Theory

9.2 Excellent

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Norbert Elias

Norbert Elias was a German-born sociologist who lived from 1897 to 1990 and later became a British citizen. His major wo...

20TH Century Historical German British Figurational

9.2 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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Anthony Giddens

Anthony Giddens, born in 1938, is a British sociologist whose structuration theory examines how human agency and social...

20TH Century British Modernity Globalization

8.9 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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Erik Olin Wright

Erik Olin Wright was an American sociologist known for analytical Marxist research on class structure and alternatives t...

American 20TH Century Marxist Class

8.6 Great

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Peter Blau

Peter M. Blau was an Austrian-born American sociologist whose research addressed social exchange, organizations, bureauc...

American 20TH Century Stratification Exchange Theory

8.6 Great

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Paul Willis

Paul Willis is a British social scientist known for ethnographic research on education, youth culture, labor, and social...

Education Culture 20TH Century Resistance

8.6 Great

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Basil Bernstein

Basil Bernstein was a British sociologist known for studying relationships among language, social class, education, and...

Language Education 20TH Century British

8.5 Great

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Arthur Stinchcombe

Arthur L. Stinchcombe was an American sociologist known for work on organizations, stratification, economic sociology, a...

American 20TH Century Historical Organizations

8.3 Great

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Nicos Poulantzas

Nicos Poulantzas was a Greek-born Marxist political sociologist and theorist who worked primarily in France from the 196...

20TH Century Power Marxist State

8.0 Great

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Manning Marable

Manning Marable was an American historian, sociologist, and scholar of African American politics and history. He taught...

African American American 20TH Century Race

7.9 Good

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David Lockwood

David Lockwood was a British sociologist whose research influenced modern studies of class, work, and social stratificat...

Integration 20TH Century British Class

7.8 Good

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Ralph Miliband

Ralph Miliband was a Belgian-born British sociologist and political theorist who lived from 1924 to 1994 and became an i...

20TH Century Power Marxist State

7.8 Good

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Robert Miles

Robert Miles was a British sociologist whose work examined racism, migration, labor, and the process of racialization. W...

Migration 20TH Century British Race

7.7 Good

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Tom Bottomore

Tom Bottomore was a British sociologist and Marxist scholar who lived from 1920 to 1992. His research addressed social c...

20TH Century British Marxist Classes

7.7 Good

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John Rex

John Rex was a South African-born British sociologist whose scholarship helped establish race and ethnic relations as a...

20TH Century British Race Colonialism

7.6 Good

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Mary McIntosh

British feminist sociologist and activist who contributed influential analyses of the family, sexuality, and the capital...

20TH Century British Feminist Sexuality

7.2 Good