swap_horiz Georg Simmel 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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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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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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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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Harold Garfinkel

Harold Garfinkel (1917–2011) was an American sociologist who founded ethnomethodology, studying the tacit methods ordina...

American 20TH Century Phenomenology Micro Sociology

8.9 Great

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Ulrich Beck

German sociologist who introduced risk society theory in 'Risikogesellschaft' (1986), arguing that industrial modernity...

German Global 20TH Century Reflexive Modernization

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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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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Thomas Luckmann

Thomas Luckmann (1927–2016) was a German-Slovenian sociologist who co-authored The Social Construction of Reality (1966)...

German 20TH Century Religion Phenomenology

8.3 Great

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Hartmut Rosa

Hartmut Rosa is a German sociologist and social theorist whose work examines how modern societies organize time, change,...

German Contemporary Acceleration Resonance

8.2 Great

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Wolfgang Streeck

Wolfgang Streeck is a German economic sociologist whose research examines capitalism, political economy, labor relations...

German Contemporary Capitalism Institutions

8.1 Great

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Hans Joas

Hans Joas is a German sociologist and social theorist whose work connects pragmatism, action theory, religion, and the s...

Action German Contemporary Pragmatism

8.1 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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Claus Offe

Claus Offe is a German political sociologist associated with critical theory and research on capitalism, democracy, publ...

German Contemporary Critical Political Sociology

8.0 Great

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Gary Alan Fine

Gary Alan Fine is an American sociologist known for ethnographic research on small groups, culture, interaction, and col...

American Contemporary Culture Interaction

7.9 Good

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Fritz Scharpf

Fritz W. Scharpf is a German political scientist whose research examines governance, federalism, public policy, and Euro...

German Contemporary Europe Governance

7.8 Good

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Andreas Reckwitz

Andreas Reckwitz is a German sociologist whose work addresses social theory, cultural sociology, subjectivity, and trans...

German Contemporary Culture Practice Theory

7.7 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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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