swap_horiz Hans Joas 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

2

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ann Swidler

Ann Swidler is an American sociologist known for research on culture, institutions, and social action. Her 1986 article...

Action American Contemporary Culture

8.5 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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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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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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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

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Richard Münch

Richard Münch is a German sociologist whose scholarship focuses on sociological theory, modernity, globalization, and th...

German Contemporary Theory Globalization

7.1 Good

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Bernd Wegener

Bernd A. Wegener is a German sociologist whose work examines social inequality, stratification, mobility, social justice...

German Contemporary Justice Networks

6.9 Fair