[{"n": "Norman Finkelstein", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-cultural-theorists/norman-finkelstein/", "s": "American political scientist and critic of Israeli policy."}, {"n": "Paul Lazarsfeld", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-cultural-theorists/paul-lazarsfeld/", "s": "Founder of modern empirical sociology and pioneer of the two-step flow of communication."}, {"n": "Peter Blau", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-cultural-theorists/peter-blau/", "s": "Sociologist of exchange, structure, and Blau space"}, {"n": "Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-cultural-theorists/stuart-hall-cultural-theorist/", "s": "Jamaican-British Marxist sociologist and cultural theorist, a founding figure of British Cultural Studies."}, {"n": "Stanley Cohen (sociologist)", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-cultural-theorists/stanley-cohen-sociologist/", "s": "Sociologist who coined the concept of moral panics."}, {"n": "Norbert Elias", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-cultural-theorists/norbert-elias/", "s": "German-British sociologist known for his theory of civilizing processes."}, {"n": "Pierre Bourdieu", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-cultural-theorists/pierre-bourdieu/", "s": "French sociologist who analyzed power, culture, and social reproduction."}, {"n": "Pitirim Sorokin", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-cultural-theorists/pitirim-sorokin/", "s": "Russian American sociologist and anti-communist activist"}, {"n": "Ralf Dahrendorf", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-cultural-theorists/ralf-dahrendorf/", "s": "German-British sociologist and liberal politician, author of Class and Conflict in Industrial Society."}, {"n": "Raymond Aron", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-cultural-theorists/raymond-aron/", "s": "French philosopher, sociologist, and journalist; author of The Opium of the Intellectuals."}, {"n": "Robert D. Putnam", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-cultural-theorists/robert-d-putnam/", "s": "Political scientist known for two-level game theory and the concept of social capital."}, {"n": "Robert E. Park", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-cultural-theorists/robert-e-park/", "s": "American urban sociologist and pioneer of the Chicago School"}, {"n": "Robert K. Merton", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-cultural-theorists/robert-k-merton/", "s": "American sociologist and founding father of modern sociology, major contributor to criminology"}, {"n": "Saskia Sassen", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-cultural-theorists/saskia-sassen/", "s": "Dutch-American sociologist known for her work on globalization and the global city."}, {"n": "Seymour Martin Lipset", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-cultural-theorists/seymour-martin-lipset/", "s": "Sociologist and political scientist who theorized democracy and American exceptionalism."}, {"n": "Studs Terkel", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-cultural-theorists/studs-terkel/", "s": "Oral historian of ordinary Americans and longtime Chicago radio host."}, {"n": "Richard Hofstadter", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-cultural-theorists/richard-hofstadter/", "s": "American historian of consensus and conflict."}, {"n": "Robert Paxton", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-cultural-theorists/robert-paxton/", "s": "Historian who reshaped understanding of Vichy France."}, {"n": "Richard Wolin", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-cultural-theorists/richard-wolin/", "s": "American intellectual historian of 20th-century European philosophy"}]