swap_horiz Lester Frank Ward 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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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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James Coleman

James S. Coleman was an American sociologist whose research addressed education, inequality, organizations, and rational...

American Education 20TH Century Social Capital

9.2 Excellent

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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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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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William Julius Wilson

William Julius Wilson is an American sociologist known for research on race, employment, urban inequality, and concentra...

American 20TH Century Urban Race

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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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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Edwin Sutherland

Edwin H. Sutherland was an American sociologist and criminologist whose work helped establish crime as a subject of syst...

American 20TH Century Criminology White Collar Crime

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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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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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

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Jonathan Turner

Jonathan Turner is an American sociologist who served as a professor at the University of California, Riverside. He is r...

American Contemporary Evolution Theory

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