swap_horiz Harriet Martineau 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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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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Arlie Hochschild

Arlie Hochschild (born 1940) is an American sociologist at UC Berkeley who coined the term 'emotional labor' in The Mana...

American 20TH Century Feminist Labor

9.1 Excellent

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Patricia Hill Collins

Patricia Hill Collins (born 1948) is an American sociologist who developed intersectionality theory and Black feminist t...

American 20TH Century Intersectionality Feminist

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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Dorothy Smith

Dorothy Smith (1926–2022) was a British-Canadian sociologist who founded institutional ethnography and standpoint theory...

Canadian 20TH Century Feminist Standpoint Theory

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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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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Paul Gilroy

Paul Gilroy is a British sociologist and cultural theorist whose work examines race, racism, nationalism, modernity, and...

Contemporary British Diaspora Race

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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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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Joan Acker

Joan Acker was an American sociologist and feminist theorist known for showing that organizations are not gender-neutral...

American 20TH Century Feminist Gender

8.4 Great

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Beverley Skeggs

Beverley Skeggs is a British sociologist whose work addresses social class, gender, culture, value, and respectability....

Contemporary Culture British Feminist

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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Avtar Brah

Avtar Brah is a sociologist whose scholarship examines migration, diaspora, race, ethnicity, gender, and class, particul...

Contemporary British Feminist Diaspora

7.7 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

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Franklin Henry Giddings

Franklin Henry Giddings (1855–1931) was an American sociologist who held a professorship at Columbia University beginnin...

American 19TH Century Quantitative Early Sociology

7.3 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