swap_horiz Pierre Bourdieu 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

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

3

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

4

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

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

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

11

Paul Lazarsfeld

Paul F. Lazarsfeld (1901-1976) was an Austrian-born American sociologist who helped establish quantitative research on m...

20TH Century Quantitative Austrian American Media Effects

9.1 Excellent

12

Stuart Hall

Stuart Hall was a Jamaican-born British cultural theorist and sociologist whose work examined media, ideology, race, ide...

20TH Century Identity Race Cultural Studies

9.1 Excellent

13

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

14

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

15

Barrington Moore Jr.

Barrington Moore Jr. was an American historical sociologist and political scholar known for comparative studies of socia...

American 20TH Century Historical Democracy

9.0 Excellent

16

Henri Lefebvre

Henri Lefebvre was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist whose work examined everyday life, urbanization, and the...

French Space 20TH Century Marxist

9.0 Excellent

17

Alain Touraine

Alain Touraine was a French sociologist who lived from 1925 to 2023 and studied industrial society, social movements, la...

French 20TH Century Post Industrial Social Movements

8.4 Great

18

Raymond Aron

Raymond Aron was a French sociologist, political philosopher, journalist, and historian who lived from 1905 to 1983. A d...

French 20TH Century Liberalism Political Sociology

8.3 Great

19

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

20

Roger Bastide

Roger Bastide (1898–1974) was a prominent French sociologist and anthropologist who significantly advanced the study of...

French 20TH Century Race Brazil

7.5 Good