swap_horiz Ralph Miliband Alternatives

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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

2

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

3

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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Pierre Bourdieu

Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) was a French sociologist who developed the concepts of cultural capital, habitus, and field,...

French 20TH Century Capital Field Theory

9.2 Excellent

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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

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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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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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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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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

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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

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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

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Erik Olin Wright

Erik Olin Wright was an American sociologist known for analytical Marxist research on class structure and alternatives t...

American 20TH Century Marxist Class

8.6 Great

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Frances Fox Piven

Frances Fox Piven is an American political scientist and sociologist whose work examines poverty, welfare policy, voting...

American 20TH Century Power Welfare

8.1 Great

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Nicos Poulantzas

Nicos Poulantzas was a Greek-born Marxist political sociologist and theorist who worked primarily in France from the 196...

20TH Century Power Marxist State

8.0 Great

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Manning Marable

Manning Marable was an American historian, sociologist, and scholar of African American politics and history. He taught...

African American American 20TH Century Race

7.9 Good

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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

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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