swap_horiz Mary McIntosh Alternatives

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Norbert Elias

Norbert Elias was a German-born sociologist who lived from 1897 to 1990 and later became a British citizen. His major wo...

20TH Century Historical German British Figurational

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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Howard Becker

Howard S. Becker was an American sociologist whose work examined deviance, occupations, education, artistic production,...

American 20TH Century Labeling Theory Deviance

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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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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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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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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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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Edwin Lemert

Edwin M. Lemert was an American sociologist whose work on deviance became central to the development of labeling theory....

American 20TH Century Labeling Theory Deviance

7.8 Good

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David Lockwood

David Lockwood was a British sociologist whose research influenced modern studies of class, work, and social stratificat...

Integration 20TH Century British Class

7.8 Good

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Jeffrey Weeks

Jeffrey Weeks is a British sociologist and historian whose scholarship examines sexuality, sexual identities, social reg...

History Contemporary Identity British

7.8 Good

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Ken Plummer

Ken Plummer is a British sociologist associated with the University of Essex and the symbolic interactionist tradition....

Narrative Contemporary British Sexuality

7.7 Good

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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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Robert Miles

Robert Miles was a British sociologist whose work examined racism, migration, labor, and the process of racialization. W...

Migration 20TH Century British Race

7.7 Good

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Tom Bottomore

Tom Bottomore was a British sociologist and Marxist scholar who lived from 1920 to 1992. His research addressed social c...

20TH Century British Marxist Classes

7.7 Good

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Frank Parkin

Frank Parkin was a British sociologist known for analyzing class inequality through the concept of social closure. In Ma...

20TH Century British Marxist Stratification

7.6 Good

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John Rex

John Rex was a South African-born British sociologist whose scholarship helped establish race and ethnic relations as a...

20TH Century British Race Colonialism

7.6 Good