[{"n": "Achille Mbembe", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-political-theorists/achille-mbembe/", "s": "Cameroonian historian and political theorist known for writings on colonialism and necropolitics."}, {"n": "Adam Ferguson", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-political-theorists/adam-ferguson/", "s": "Scottish Enlightenment philosopher and historian of civil society."}, {"n": "Albion Woodbury Small", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-political-theorists/albion-woodbury-small/", "s": "Founder of the first U.S. sociology department."}, {"n": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-political-theorists/alexis-de-tocqueville/", "s": "French diplomat and thinker who analyzed democracy and revolution."}, {"n": "Anthony Giddens", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-political-theorists/anthony-giddens/", "s": "English sociologist known for structuration and modern society analysis."}, {"n": "Antonio Gramsci", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-political-theorists/antonio-gramsci/", "s": "Italian Marxist philosopher and political theorist known for cultural hegemony"}, {"n": "Antonio Negri", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-political-theorists/antonio-negri/", "s": "Italian autonomist Marxist philosopher and co-author of Empire"}, {"n": "Benedict Anderson", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-political-theorists/benedict-anderson/", "s": "Anglo-Irish scholar who theorized nations as imagined communities."}, {"n": "Bernard Mandeville", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-political-theorists/bernard-mandeville/", "s": "Anglo-Dutch philosopher and satirist who argued that private vices lead to public benefits."}, {"n": "Bruno Latour", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-political-theorists/bruno-latour/", "s": "French philosopher who reshaped science and technology studies."}, {"n": "C. L. R. James", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-political-theorists/c-l-r-james/", "s": "Trinidadian Marxist writer, historian, and anti-Stalinist dialectician."}, {"n": "C. Wright Mills", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-political-theorists/c-wright-mills/", "s": "American sociologist who popularized the term 'New Left'."}, {"n": "Charles Horton Cooley", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-political-theorists/charles-horton-cooley/", "s": "American sociologist known for the looking-glass self and primary groups."}, {"n": "Charles Tilly", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-political-theorists/charles-tilly/", "s": "American sociologist who studied politics, state formation, and social movements."}, {"n": "Cornel West", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-political-theorists/cornel-west/", "s": "Philosopher, theologian, activist, and democratic socialist."}, {"n": "Daniel Bell", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-political-theorists/daniel-bell/", "s": "American sociologist known for theories of post-industrial society."}, {"n": "Donna Haraway", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-political-theorists/donna-haraway/", "s": "American philosopher and scholar of feminist theory, ecofeminism, and science studies"}, {"n": "E. Franklin Frazier", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-political-theorists/e-franklin-frazier/", "s": "First black president of the American Sociological Association."}, {"n": "Ernest Burgess", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-political-theorists/ernest-burgess/", "s": "Canadian-American urban sociologist and 24th President of the American Sociological Society"}, {"n": "Ernest Gellner", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-political-theorists/ernest-gellner/", "s": "French-born British-Czech philosopher and social anthropologist known for his theory of nationalism and critiq"}, {"n": "Ernst Cassirer", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-political-theorists/ernst-cassirer/", "s": "German neo-Kantian philosopher and historian of philosophy."}, {"n": "Erving Goffman", "u": "/e/sociologists-and-political-theorists/erving-goffman/", "s": "Canadian-born American sociologist known for dramaturgical analysis and the study of everyday social interacti"}]