Social Scientists And Sociologists
21 entries in the Social Scientists And Sociologists compendium.
Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le PlayFrench engineer and sociologist who pioneered empirical family studies.Robert D. PutnamPolitical scientist who theorized social capital decline in America.Robert E. ParkAmerican urban sociologist who shaped early U.S. sociology.Saskia SassenPioneering theorist of globalization, migration, and the global city.Erving GoffmanSociologist known for dramaturgical analysis of everyday life.George Herbert MeadAmerican pragmatist and founder of symbolic interactionism.Harold LasswellAmerican political scientist and communications theorist.Herbert SpencerEnglish polymath who coined 'survival of the fittest.'Paul LazarsfeldFounding figure in 20th-century empirical sociology.Peter BlauSociologist who linked micro-level exchange to macro-level social structures.Stanley Cohen (sociologist)Sociologist who developed the concept of moral panics.C. Wright MillsAmerican sociologist who popularized the term 'New Left'.Immanuel WallersteinAmerican sociologist who developed the world-systems approach.Karl MannheimHungarian sociologist and founder of the sociology of knowledge.Max WeberGerman sociologist and key figure in the development of social sciences.Michel FoucaultFrench philosopher who analyzed power, knowledge, and social control.Noam ChomskyFounder of modern linguistics and influential political critic.Raymond WilliamsWelsh socialist writer and founder of cultural studies.Seymour Martin LipsetSociologist and political scientist who theorized democracy and American exceptionalism.Talcott ParsonsAmerican sociologist known for social action theory and structural functionalism.Vilfredo ParetoItalian polymath who shaped economics and sociology.
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