swap_horiz Max Weber 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

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

3

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

4

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

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

Thomas Luckmann

Thomas Luckmann (1927–2016) was a German-Slovenian sociologist who co-authored The Social Construction of Reality (1966)...

German 20TH Century Religion Phenomenology

8.3 Great

9

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

10

Wolfgang Streeck

Wolfgang Streeck is a German economic sociologist whose research examines capitalism, political economy, labor relations...

German Contemporary Capitalism Institutions

8.1 Great

11

Hans Joas

Hans Joas is a German sociologist and social theorist whose work connects pragmatism, action theory, religion, and the s...

Action German Contemporary Pragmatism

8.1 Great

12

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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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

14

Michel Crozier

Michel Crozier was a French sociologist whose work focused on bureaucracy, organizations, power, and institutional chang...

French 20TH Century Power Bureaucracy

7.9 Good

15

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

16

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

17

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

18

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

19

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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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