swap_horiz Johan Galtung Alternatives

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C. Wright Mills

C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) was an American sociologist known for analyzing power, social structure, and the responsibil...

American 20TH Century Conflict Power Elite

9.1 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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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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Robert Sampson

Robert J. Sampson is an American sociologist and criminologist known for studying neighborhoods, urban inequality, and c...

American Contemporary Urban Criminology

8.8 Great

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Annette Lareau

Annette Lareau is an American sociologist whose research examines social class, family life, education, and inequality....

American Contemporary Education Parenting

8.8 Great

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Elijah Anderson

Elijah Anderson is an American sociologist whose research examines race, inequality, urban life, and the informal rules...

American Contemporary Urban Race

8.8 Great

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Randall Collins

Randall Collins, born in 1941, is an American sociologist known for connecting face-to-face interaction with larger patt...

American 20TH Century Conflict Interaction Ritual

8.7 Great

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Doug McAdam

American sociologist who developed the political process model of social movements, applied extensively to the U.S. civi...

American Contemporary Social Movements Political Process

8.7 Great

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Devah Pager

Devah Pager was an American sociologist whose research used field experiments to measure discrimination in employment. I...

American Contemporary Race Discrimination

8.7 Great

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Alejandro Portes

Alejandro Portes is a Cuban American sociologist whose research examines immigration, social capital, economic sociology...

Contemporary Immigration Social Capital Cuban American

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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Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is a Puerto Rican-born American sociologist whose research focuses on racism, racial ideology, and...

American Contemporary Race Racism

8.6 Great

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Paul DiMaggio

Paul DiMaggio is an American sociologist known for research on organizations, culture, the arts, and social inequality....

American Contemporary Culture Organizations

8.6 Great

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Viviana Zelizer

Viviana A. Zelizer is an economic sociologist at Princeton University whose research examines how economic activity is s...

American Contemporary Culture Money

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