Biographies: Leaders in Sociology

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Leaders in Sociology

Albert Brisbane

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Biographies by Category

• Booth, Charles, English social investigator
• Breckinridge, Sophonisba Preston, American pioneer social worker
• Brisbane, Albert, American social theorist
• Coleman, James S., American sociologist
• Collier, John, American social worker
• Cooley, Charles Horton, American sociologist
• Durkheim, Émile, French sociologist
• Gans, Herbert, American sociologist and educator
• Geddes, Sir Patrick, Scottish biologist and sociologist
• Giddings, Franklin Henry, American sociologist
• Goffman, Erving, American sociologist
• Hobhouse, Leonard Trelawney, English philosopher
• Howard, Sir Ebenezer, English town planner
• Lazarsfeld, Paul F., American sociologist
• Le Bon, Gustave, French psychologist and sociologist
• Le Play, Pierre Guillaume Frédéric, French sociologist and economist
• Lynd, Robert Staughton, American sociologist
• MacIver, Robert Morrison, Scottish-American sociologist
• Mannheim, Karl, Austro-Hungarian sociologist and historian
• Merton, Robert King, American sociologist
• Mills, C. Wright (Charles Wright Mills), American sociologist
• Moore, Barrington, sociologist and political scientist
• Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, American sociologist and politician
• Mumford, Lewis, American social philosopher
• Myrdal, Alva, Swedish sociologist
• Odum, Howard Washington, American sociologist
• Parsons, Talcott, American sociologist
• Quetelet, Adolphe, Belgian statistician and astronomer
• Ross, Edward Alsworth, American sociologist
• Simkhovitch, Mary Kingsbury, American social worker
• Simmel, Georg, German philosopher and sociologist
• Small, Albion Woodbury, American sociologist
• Sorokin, Pitirim Alexandrovitch, Russian-American sociologist
• Sumner, William Graham, American sociologist and political economist
• Tönnies, Ferdinand, German sociologist and political scientist
• Tarde, Gabriel de, sociologist and criminologist
• Tilly, Charles, American sociologist
• Wald, Lillian D., American social worker and pioneer in public health nursing
• Ward, Lester Frank, American sociologist and paleontologist
• Weber, Max, German sociologist
• Westermarck, Edward Alexander, Finnish social philosopher and anthropologist
• Woods, Robert Archey, American social worker