Political And Social Theorists
31 entries in the Political And Social Theorists compendium.
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Ferdinand TönniesGerman sociologist who distinguished community from society.Frances Fox PivenProfessor, activist, and co-author of the Cloward–Piven strategy.Georg SimmelGerman sociologist who asked 'What is society?'George C. HomansAmerican sociologist who founded social exchange theory.George FitzhughPro-slavery theorist who defended slavery as a social good.George FriedmanHungarian-born American futurologist and geopolitical forecaster.George Herbert MeadAmerican pragmatist and founder of symbolic interactionism.Giovanni GentileFascist politician, journalist, and translator of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.Gustave Le BonFrench polymath known for crowd psychology and conservative views.Guy DebordFrench Marxist theorist and filmmaker who critiqued the spectacle.György LukácsHungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic.Hannah ArendtGerman-American political theorist who coined 'the banality of evil.'Hans MorgenthauGerman-American jurist and political scientist; leading post-WWII realist.Harriet MartineauEnglish social theorist and abolitionist who supported herself by writing.Harrison WhiteSociologist most directly connected to relational sociology and the New York School.Henri de Saint-SimonFrench theorist who proposed a society led by industrial and scientific merit.Herbert MarcuseGerman-American philosopher and New Left theorist.Immanuel WallersteinAmerican sociologist and economic historian who developed the world-systems approach.James C. ScottScholar of peasant resistance and state power.Niklas LuhmannGerman sociologist, philosopher of social science, and systems theorist.Norbert EliasSociologist who theorized civilizing and decivilizing processes.Pierre-Joseph ProudhonFirst self-proclaimed anarchist and founder of mutualist philosophy.Pierre BourdieuFrench sociologist who analyzed power, culture, and social reproduction.Pitirim SorokinRussian American sociologist and theorist of social cycles.R. H. TawneyEnglish economic historian, Christian socialist, and adult education advocate.Raymond AronFrench thinker who critiqued Marxism and defended liberal democracy.Robert K. MertonFounding father of modern sociology and criminology.Samuel P. HuntingtonPolitical scientist who theorized post-Cold War cultural conflict.Seymour Martin LipsetSociologist and political scientist who theorized democracy and American exceptionalism.Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)Jamaican-British Marxist sociologist and cultural theorist.Thomas SowellAmerican economist, economic historian, social theorist, and Hoover senior fellow.
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