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List of the most influential people in Sociology,

#1301

John W. Mohr

#117206

Overall Influence

1956 - 2019 (63 years)

John W. Mohr was an American sociologist and Professor of Sociology at University of California-Santa Barbara. He was widely cited in the subfields of the sociology of culture, organizational sociology, institutional analysis, and social network analysis. His focus was on "developing applications of formal methods of relational analysis to the study of discourse in institutional systems." He was considered a "pioneer in modeling cultural forms," and in 1996, he won the Clifford Geertz Award for Best Article in Cultural Sociology.

#1302

William Hamilton Sewell

#121788

Overall Influence

#1303

Dennis L. Peck

#80437

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Dennis L. Peck is an American sociologist and Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Alabama, best known for his research on suicide, single-vehicle car accidents, and learning to cope with the last moments of life.

#1304

Gina Neff

#40992

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Gina Neff is the Executive Director of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge. Neff was previously Professor of Technology & Society at the Oxford Internet Institute and the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Neff is an organizational sociologist whose research explores the social and organizational impact of new communication technologies, with a focus on innovation, the digital transformation of industries, and how new technologies impact work.

#1305

Recep Senturk

#86446

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Recep Senturk , is a Turkish academic and sociologist of religion. He is currently serving as the Rector of Ibn Haldun University and is a strong advocate of non-western sociological theories such as those by the Muslim sociologist Ibn Khaldun.

#1306

Maristella Svampa

Maristella Svampa

#84423

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Maristella Noemi Svampa is an Argentine sociologist. Biography She got a B.A. in Philosophy at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, in 1984, and a PhD in Sociology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, in Paris. She is a full professor at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata and a researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, a public organization in Argentina that promotes science and technology. She is the head of the journal "Observatório Social de América Latina" of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences .

#1307

John Holloway

#12923

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

John Holloway is a Marxist-oriented lawyer, sociologist and philosopher, whose work is closely associated with the Zapatista movement in Mexico, his home since 1991. It has also been taken up by some intellectuals associated with the piqueteros in Argentina; the Abahlali baseMjondolo movement in South Africa and the Anti-Globalization Movement in Europe and North America. He is currently a professor at the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at the Autonomous University of Puebla.

#1308

Edward F. Borgatta

#122118

Overall Influence

#1309

Paul Rock

#40148

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Paul Rock is British sociologist and criminologist, and is Professor of Social Institutions at the London School of Economics. He was a founder member of the National Deviancy Conference. Paul Rock has contributed to the field of public criminology. He believes that this field should not be looked away in the eyes of criminologist, however, he does state that public criminology does have flaws. Flaws that may not allow it to "rise" up.

#1310

Carol Aneshensel

#71762

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Carol Aneshensel is an American sociologist. She specializes in the sociology of mental health, focusing especially on how social inequalities lead to corresponding disparities in mental health. She is currently professor and vice chair for the Department of Community Health Sciences in the School of Public Health at University of California, Los Angeles .

#1311

Frank E. X. Dance

#44961

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (95 years)

Frank E. X. Dance is an American communication professor. In 1994–1995, he was John Evans Professor at University of Denver. Life He graduated from Fordham University and Northwestern University. Legacy A scholarship is named for him at University of Wisconsin.

#1312

Michel Clouscard

#20193

Overall Influence

1928 - 2009 (81 years)

Michel Clouscard was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist. An opponent of capitalism, a critic of the evolution of ideas of progress confronted with the liberal mutations of the end of the 20th century, his work is linked to the thought of Rousseau, Hegel and Marx, whose links and unity he shows. He is known to have philosophically shown the collusion between capitalism and the French theory, represented by Lévi-Strauss and Deleuze, constructing his own concept of neo-Kantianism. He developed a philosophical research around the idea of social contract, postulating that "the constituti...

#1313

Krzysztof Konecki

Krzysztof Konecki

#67030

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Krzysztof T. Konecki is a full professor and Vice Dean for Research at the Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Łódź. He is the editor-in-chief of Qualitative Sociology Review, and he holds the position of President of the Polish Sociological Association. He is also a member of the Sociology Committee of Polish Academy of Science. His interests lie in qualitative sociology, sociology of interaction, symbolic interactionism, sociology of body, methodology of social sciences, visual sociology, communication and intercultural management, organizational culture and management, and contemplative sociology.

#1314

Thomas A. DiPrete

#83503

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Thomas A. DiPrete is the Giddings Professor of Sociology, co-director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia University. Biography DiPrete was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1950. He received his B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ph.D. from Columbia University. Prior to joining the Columbia faculty, DiPrete served on the faculties of the University of Chicago, Duke University, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research has focused on applying quantitative methods to the study of social and gender inequality in education a...

#1315

David Grusky

#101499

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

David Bryan Grusky is an American sociologist and the Barbara Kimball Browning Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. He is also a senior fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the director of the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality. He formerly taught at Cornell University, where he was the founder and founding director of the Center for the Study of Inequality.

#1316

Cor van Dijkum

#93313

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Cornelis Johannes "Cor" van Dijkum is a Dutch sociologist, consultant and academic at the Utrecht University, known for his contributions in the field of methodology for complex societal problems. Biography Van Dijkum obtained his MSc in Physics from the University of Amsterdam in the 1970s, and in 1988 his PhD in Social Sciences from the Utrecht University with the thesis entitled "Paradoxen : een methodologische studie naar vicieuze cirkels in denken en handelen" .

#1317

Rob Kling

#32509

Overall Influence

1944 - 2003 (59 years)

Rob Kling was a North American professor of Information Systems and Information science at the School of Library and Information Science and adjunct professor of computer science, Indiana University, United States. He directed the interdisciplinary Center for Social Informatics , at Indiana University. He is considered to have been a key founder of social analyses of computing and a leading expert on the study of social informatics.

#1318

Jack Mezirow

#8831

Overall Influence

1923 - 2014 (91 years)

Jack Mezirow was an American sociologist and Emeritus Professor of Adult and Continuing Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Mezirow received his B.A. and M.A. Degree in Social Sciences and Education from the University of Minnesota, and his Ed.D. Degree in Adult Education from the University of California, Los Angeles. He was an Emeritus Professor of Adult and Continuing Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, and the founder of the Adult Education Guided Intensive Study doctoral program at Teachers College, Columbia University.

#1319

Chrys Ingraham

#34239

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Chrys Ingraham is Professor of Sociology at Purchase College of the State University of New York. Biography Dr. Ingraham is a native of New York State where she worked for 12 years at U.S.Air and co-owned a feminist bookstore before returning to school at Onondaga Community College. She transferred to Syracuse University's Maxwell School where she graduated with a Masters in Public Administration , Graduate Certification in Women's Studies and a Ph.D. in Sociology . Her dissertation research addressed how the Comstock Law allowed for the censorship and suppression of feminist thought in 19th century U.S.

#1320

Leonard Saxe

#66274

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Leonard Saxe is an American social psychologist whose work focuses on sociology of religion, American Jews and the American Jewish community. He is currently the director of the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University.

#1321

Erella Shadmi

#78016

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Erella Shadmi is an Israeli sociologist and peace activist. She previously worked for two decades for the Israel Police. Career Shadmi was born in Tel Aviv. Whilst at school she attended left-wing demonstrations and became a peace activist. She then studied communications at university. Despite her activism giving her a critical attitude towards the Israel Police, she decided to join in 1970 and rose to the position of colonel. In an interview with Al-Monitor, she criticised the sexual inequalities she experienced and credited two commissioners for their respect of women. She also commented in a book chapter that the police force could tolerate her pregnancy but not her lesbianism.

#1322

Gunnar Breivik

#122533

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Gunnar Breivik is a Norwegian sociologist. He was born in Oslo. Specializing in the sociology of sports, he was hired as an associate professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in 1975. He was promoted to professor in 1985, and was the rector there since 1999. Sigmund Loland took over in 2005.

#1323

J. Richard Udry

#113095

Overall Influence

1929 - 2012 (83 years)

J. Richard Udry was an American sociologist and demographer, known for his work on the biological and sociological factors affecting human behavior. He was Kenan Distinguished Professor of maternal and child health in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health and professor of sociology in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences. He joined the faculty at UNC from 1965, and remained there for the rest of his career. He also directed UNC's Carolina Population Center from 1977 to 1992. He is known for designing the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health , which he also secured funding for and directed from 1994 to 2004.

#1324

József Böröcz

#56794

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

József Böröcz is a sociologist who is currently Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University. He earned his PhD in Sociology at The Johns Hopkins University in 1992. He has a Dr. Sc. degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences . According to Google Scholar, Böröcz's H-Index score is 30.

#1325

Ted Goertzel

#26823

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Ted George Goertzel , is an Emeritus Professor in the Sociology Department at Rutgers University–Camden. He is the author and co-author of books and articles spanning from social economy, politics, and conspiracy theories. He is the father of Ben Goertzel, with whom he co-authored the 1995 book Linus Pauling: A Life in Science and Politics.

#1326

Margit Warburg

#59583

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Margit Warburg is a Danish sociologist of religion. Since 2004, she has been professor of Sociology of Religion in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen. She was an associate professor at the same university from 1979 to 2004.

#1327

Carole Ferrier

#42816

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Carole Ferrier is an Australian feminist academic. She is Professor in English at the School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland. She has many published works about feminism, socialism, literature and culture. She has been the editor of the radical feminist academic journal Hecate since its inception in 1975.

#1328

Jonathan M. Eisenberg

#123436

Overall Influence

#1329

Darnell Hunt

#43925

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Darnell Hunt is an American sociologist and academic administrator. As of September 1, 2022, Darnell Hunt is UCLA's executive vice chancellor and provost. He has served as the dean of Social Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is also a professor of Sociology and African American Studies, and the former director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. He is the author or editor of four books, and annual reports on the lack of diversity in the film industry.

#1330

Kavous Seyed-Emami

#41203

Overall Influence

1953 - 2018 (65 years)

Kavous Seyed-Emami was an Iranian-Canadian academic and conservationist. Seyed-Emami ran the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation and was a sociology professor. In February 2018, Iran's judiciary said that he killed himself while in detention in Evin Prison, Tehran, because of the evidence against him in a spying case. This claim, including the alleged suicide, has been rejected by his family.

#1331

Peter Marsh

#114448

Overall Influence

1950 - 2014 (64 years)

Professor Peter Marsh is a British academic administrator and academic in the fields of sociology and social work. He is the Professor of Child and Family Welfare at the University of Sheffield and was the Dean of Social Sciences at the University from 2005-2008.

#1332

Geoff Whitty

#60501

Overall Influence

1946 - 2018 (72 years)

Geoffrey James Whitty CBE was a British economist and professor for equity in education at the University of Newcastle, Australia and who was also a director of the Institute of Education, University of London.

#1333

Gianfranco Poggi

#124019

Overall Influence

#1334

Peter Beresford

#62466

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Peter Beresford OBE, FAcSS, FRSA is a British academic, writer, researcher and activist best known for his work in the field of citizen participation and user involvement, areas of study he helped to create and develop. He is currently visiting professor and senior research fellow in the School of Health & Social Sciences at the University of East Anglia, emeritus professor of citizen participation at the University of Essex and emeritus professor of social policy at Brunel University London. Much of his work has centred on including the viewpoints, lived experience and knowledge of disabled ...

#1335

Peggy Phelan

#18399

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Peggy Phelan is an American feminist scholar. She is one of the founders of Performance Studies International, the former chair of New York University's Department of Performance Studies from 1993 to 1996, Stanford's Theatre and Performance Studies Department from 2007 to 2011, and continues as the Ann O’Day Maples Professor of the Arts, Professor of Theater & Performance Studies and English, and the Denning Family Director of the Stanford Arts Institute. Her research interests while at Stanford University include; American Literature, British Literature, and performance studies with a focus...

#1336

Donald Gunn MacRae

#87236

Overall Influence

1921 - 1997 (76 years)

Donald Gunn MacRae was a British sociologist. MacRae was born in Glasgow on 20 April 1921, and raised there and on the Isle of Skye, where his grandparents lived. His father Donald MacRae was an engineer who worked for a flour mill, and his mother Elizabeth Maud MacRae was a teacher. He attended the University of Glasgow, followed by the Balliol College, Oxford. Upon attaining first-class honours in philosophy, politics and economics, MacRae joined the London School of Economics faculty in 1945, as an assistant lecturer. He was promoted to lecturer in 1950, and appointed reader in 1954. MacR...

#1337

Karen Hansen

#99440

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Karen V. Hansen is an American author and professor of sociology and women's and gender studies at Brandeis University. Her books include Encounter on the Great Plains and Not-So-Nuclear Families. Biography Hansen was born in Chico, California, and received her BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

#1338

Nilüfer Göle

#36938

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Nilüfer Göle is a Turkish sociologist and a contemporary Turkish academic who specializes in the political movement of today's educated, urbanized, and religious Muslim women. From 1986 to 2001 a professor at the Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, she is currently Directrice d'études at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales , Centre d’Analyse et d’Intervention Sociologiques , in Paris. Göle is the author of Interpénétrations: L’Islam et l’Europe and The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and Veiling. Through personal interviews, Göle has developed detailed case studies of young Turkish women who are turning to the tenets of fundamental Islamic gender codes.

#1339

Robb Willer

#35001

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Robb Willer is an American sociologist and social psychologist known for his work on political persuasion, polarization, democracy, and morality. He is a professor of sociology, psychology, and organizational behavior at Stanford University where he is the Director of the Polarization and Social Change Lab and Faculty Co-Director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society.

#1340

Berth Danermark

#104946

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Berth Danermark is currently a Professor Emeritus at Örebro University in Sweden. Danermark has held numerous national and international assignments of importance as well as several management and leadership positions. Danermark attended the University of Uppsala and received his Ph.D. in Sociology . In 1992, he received the qualification of Reader in Sociology from Örebro University.

#1341

Marion Fourcade

#100385

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Marion Fourcade is a French sociologist. She is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is known for her work on the sociology and history of the field of economics, as well as her work on digital society and digital economy.

#1342

Jean Floud

#34464

Overall Influence

1915 - 2013 (98 years)

Jean Esther Floud was a prominent educational sociologist and later an academic. She was the Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, from 1972 to 1983. Early life She was born Jean Esther McDonald to working-class parents and went to primary and secondary schools in her home town of Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. In 1927, the family moved to Stoke Newington, north London where she won a free place at North Hackney Central School for Girls, a grammar school.

#1343

Théodore Caplow

#124621

Overall Influence

#1344

Hans Henrik Bruun

#75057

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Hans Henrik Eduard Reventlow Bruun is a Danish sociologist and diplomat. He is an MA in political science from University of Aarhus. Through nearly thirty years, he served in the Danish diplomatic mission. From 1987 ambassador to Turkey, from 1999 to France. After his retirement from the foreign service, he joined the staff at the University of Copenhagen Institute for Sociology as an adjunct professor. In his academic field, he is an expert on the philosophy of Max Weber.

#1345

César Rendueles

César Rendueles

#73666

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

César Rendueles is a Spanish sociologist and essayist. Life Although born in Girona, he grew up in Gijon and lives in Madrid. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy, was an associate professor at the Carlos III University and visiting professor at the National University of Colombia. He currently teaches sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid. He was a founding member of the cultural intervention group Ladinamo, which edited the magazine of the same name. He directed cultural projects for eight years at the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. He often writes on epistemology, political phi...

#1346

Dorothy Height

#5191

Overall Influence

1912 - 2010 (98 years)

Dorothy Irene Height was an African American civil rights and women's rights activist. She focused on the issues of African American women, including unemployment, illiteracy, and voter awareness. Height is credited as the first leader in the civil rights movement to recognize inequality for women and African Americans as problems that should be considered as a whole. She was the president of the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years. Height's role in the "Big Six" civil rights movement was frequently ignored by the press due to sexism. In 1974, she was named to the National Commission...

#1347

Dietrich Prof. Dr. Knorr

#124847

Overall Influence

#1348

Yehuda Elkana

#33000

Overall Influence

1934 - 2012 (78 years)

Yehuda Elkana was a historian and philosopher of science, and a former president and rector of the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Life and career Born as László Fröhlich to Hungarian-speaking Jewish parents in Yugoslavia, Elkana moved with his family to Szeged in 1944. That same year, Elkana and his parents were dispatched to Auschwitz. His family escaped the gas chambers when the Nazis transferred them to Austria as corvée labourers for the reconstruction of war-torn cities. In 1948, at the age of 14, he immigrated to Israel. He took up residence in Kibbutz HaZore'a, but health problems impeded Elkana from performing physical tasks.

#1349

Ted Chiricos

#97495

Overall Influence

1942 - 2022 (80 years)

Ted Chiricos was an American criminologist and the William Julius Wilson Professor of Criminology at Florida State University. Early life and education Chiricos received a bachelor in Sociology from Merrimack College in 1963, a masters in sociology from University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1965 and a Ph.D. in sociology from University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1968. Chiricos died of cancer on November 7, 2022.

#1350

Carl-Ulrik Schierup

#33890

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Carl-Ulrik Schierup is a Swedish Professor of Ethnicity at Linköping University. Schierup was born in Aarhus, Denmark. He concluded his doctoral studies in socioanthropology in 1977 at Aarhus University . In 1988 he completed a doctoral degree in sociology at Umeå University, in Sweden. At the South Jutland University Centre, Denmark, and at Umeå University he directed major research programmes on migration and ethnic relations. In 1999 he was appointed professor of labour and ethnic studies at the Swedish National Institute for Working Life and Linköping University. He is director of the I...

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