swap_horiz Raymond Aron 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

9.20 Excellent

2

George Herbert Mead

Associated with American pragmatism and the University of Chicago, George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) studied how communica...

Classical American 20TH Century Self

9.20 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

9.20 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

9.20 Excellent

5

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

9.20 Excellent

6

Norbert Elias

German-born sociologist Norbert Elias (1897-1990), who later became a British citizen, examined social change across lon...

20TH Century Historical German British Figurational

9.20 Excellent

7

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

9.18 Excellent

8

James Coleman

Education and inequality were central to the work of American sociologist James S. Coleman, whose research also addresse...

American Education 20TH Century Social Capital

9.15 Excellent

9

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

9.10 Excellent

10

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

9.08 Excellent

11

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

9.05 Excellent

12

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

9.05 Excellent

13

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

9.05 Excellent

14

Bruno Latour

Bruno Latour (1947-2022) was a French philosopher, sociologist, and anthropologist whose work examined how scientific fa...

French Contemporary Materiality Actor Network

9.05 Excellent

15

Henri Lefebvre

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

French Space 20TH Century Marxist

8.95 Great

16

Seymour Martin Lipset

Seymour Martin Lipset was an American sociologist and political scientist whose research examined democracy, political l...

American 20TH Century Comparative Democracy

8.72 Great

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

8.35 Great

18

Stein Rokkan

Stein Rokkan was a Norwegian political scientist and sociologist who lived from 1921 to 1979. He is known for comparativ...

Norwegian 20TH Century Comparative Political Sociology

8.35 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

7.85 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

7.45 Good