swap_horiz Stuart Hall Alternatives

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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

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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

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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

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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

9.20 Excellent

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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

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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

9.05 Excellent

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Robert E. Park

Robert E. Park was an American sociologist and a central figure in the development of the Chicago School of sociology. A...

American 20TH Century Urban Race

8.78 Great

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Orlando Patterson

Orlando Patterson is a Jamaican-born American historical sociologist whose work addresses slavery, race, freedom, and cu...

Culture 20TH Century Race Slavery

8.75 Great

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Zygmunt Bauman

Zygmunt Bauman (1925–2017) was a Polish-British sociologist who coined the concept of 'liquid modernity' to describe the...

20TH Century Identity Postmodern Polish British

8.72 Great

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Paul Gilroy

Paul Gilroy is a British sociologist and cultural theorist whose work examines race, racism, nationalism, modernity, and...

Contemporary British Diaspora Race

8.55 Great

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Harrison White

Harrison C. White was an American sociologist known for applying mathematical network analysis to social structure. His...

American 20TH Century Identity Markets

8.38 Great

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Everett Hughes

Everett C. Hughes was an American sociologist associated with the Chicago School and the study of symbolic interaction....

American 20TH Century Race Work

8.20 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

7.85 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

7.70 Good

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Reynolds Farley

Reynolds Farley is an American sociologist and demographer known for research on racial inequality, residential segregat...

American 20TH Century Race Segregation

7.65 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

7.55 Good

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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

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Karyn Lacy

Karyn Lacy is an American sociologist whose research examines race, class, and suburban inequality. She is the author of...

American Contemporary Identity Race

7.25 Good

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Joyce Ladner

Joyce Ladner is an American sociologist and civil rights activist who contributed to the field of Black sociology. She p...

American Family 20TH Century Race

7.20 Good

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Robert Staples

Robert Staples was an American sociologist whose scholarship focused on Black families, gender relations, masculinity, a...

American Family 20TH Century Race

6.95 Fair