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Sociologists On E2

This is the Sociologists Metanode, an index of writeups about sociologists on E2. This is a subnode of the top-level Scientists node, and is a collaborative effort by the usergroup E2science. To suggest additions or alterations, please /msg e2_science or anthropod.

• Homi Bhabha
  Indian post-colonial theorist.
• Pierre Bourdieu
  Formulated practice theory and the concept of habitus.
• Auguste Comte
  Positivist who coined the term sociology.
• Emil Durkheim
  19th century social theorist; "father" of sociology.
• Andre Gorz
  Austrian sociologist who wrote about work.
• Frantz Fanon
  Wrote of the psychological impacts of colonialism.
• Michel Foucault
  Wrote groundbreaking works on power and discourse.
• Andre Gunder Frank*
  Formulated dependency theory to explain why some countries are underdeveloped.
• Erving Goffman*
  
• Paul F. Lazarsfeld
  Social psychologist who studied mass media and voting patterns.
• Cesare Lombroso
  Italian criminologist. (1836 - 1909)
• Marshall McLuhan
  Canadian observer of modern culture who coined the term "The medium is the message"
• Karl Marx
  Political economist who viewed society as based on classes.
• Robert Merton
  Criminologist who promoted sociology as a science.
• Charles Murray
  Sociologist and libertarian.
• Georg Simmel
  19th century thinker who formulated many basic sociological concepts.
• Herbert Spencer
  19th century evolutionary theorist.
• Thorstein Veblen
  Early thinker who coined the phrase conspicuous consumption.
• Immanuel Wallerstein
  Formulated a world-systems approach to understanding societies and their interactions.
• Max Weber
  Early sociologist who wrote of the Protestant work ethic.
• William Julius Wilson
  American sociologist who argues that racial tensions are the result of a global economy

*: just a nodeshell at the moment

So`ci*ol"o*gist (?), n.

One who treats of, or devotes himself to, the study of sociology.

J. S. Mill.

© Webster 1913.