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List of the most influential people in Sociology,

#1351

Margaret Stacey

#110289

Overall Influence

1922 - 2004 (82 years)

Professor Margaret "Meg" Stacey was a British sociologist and a leading figure in the establishment of Sociology as an academic discipline. Early life and education She was born Margaret Petrie, in London on 27 March 1922. Her mother was a teacher and her father was a manufacturer and printer.

#1352

Shulamit Reinharz

Shulamit Reinharz

#37092

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Shulamit Reinharz was the Jacob Potofsky Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University until 2017. During her tenure at Brandeis, she was director of the women's studies program from 1991 to 2001 and launched The Scholars Program, the first graduate program to focus on Jewish women. She was the founding director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute in 1997 and founder and director of the Women's Studies Research Center in 2001.

#1353

Alfred R. Schutz

#125130

Overall Influence

#1354

Bruce A. Chadwick

#99731

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Bruce A. Chadwick is an emeritus professor of sociology at Brigham Young University . Chadwick has a Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis. Chadwick was for a time director of BYU's Center for Studies of the Family. From 1992 to 1996 he did an exhaustive study along with Brent L. Top involving 4000 participants of religious affiliation and other actions of Latter-day Saint teens.

#1355

Jacqueline Peschard

Jacqueline Peschard

#53213

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Jacqueline Peschard Mariscal is a Mexican sociologist who specializes in electoral integrity and democracy studies. She was President Commissioner of the Federal Institute for Access to Public Information from 2009 until 2013. She also served as Counselor to the Instituto Nacional Electoral from 1997 to 2003. In 2010, she was elected president of the Iberoamerican Network of Data Protection , which is a forum for promoting the universal right to data protection across Latin America.

#1356

Linda Haas

#125312

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Linda L. Haas is an American sociologist. She is professor emerita of sociology at the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Life Haas holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and has received an honorary doctorate in social sciences from the Gothenburg University in Sweden.

#1357

Rhacel Parreñas

Rhacel Parreñas

#125489

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Rhacel Salazar Parreñas is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at University of Southern California. She previously taught at Brown University, the University of California, Davis and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research has been featured in NPR's "The World", Bloomberg News, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, de Volkskrant, and the American Prospect. Parreñas has written five monographs, co-edited three anthologies, and published a number of peer-reviewed articles.

#1358

Lawrence T. Nichols

#78143

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Lawrence T. Nichols is a professor of sociology in the Division of Sociology and Anthropology at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. Nichols is renowned for his scholarly research. He is the editor of The American Sociologist, a peer-reviewed journal that examines the history, current status and future prospects of the discipline of sociology. His teaching method makes extensive use of categorization of concepts. He is credited with establishing criminology concentration at West Virginia University.

#1359

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

#92116

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is an American sociologist. Her main areas of research are gender, migration studies, and Latino studies. She has authored several books, received numerous awards and honors, and contributed to the field through various talks, publications, and mentoring. In 2015, she received the Distinguished Career Award from the American Sociological Association, International Migration Section, and in 2018 she received the Julian Samora Distinguished Career Award from the American Sociological Association, Latina/o Sociology Section.

#1360

Drew Halfmann

#92566

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Drew Halfmann is an American sociologist best known for his research on social policy in the United States. Career Drew Halfmann is currently Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis.

#1361

Julius Alfred Roth

#96409

Overall Influence

1924 - 2002 (78 years)

Julius A. Roth was Professor of Sociology at University of California, Davis. He is best known for his 1963 groundbreaking work in medical sociology, Timetables: Structuring the Passage of Time in Hospital Treatment and Other Careers, based in part on his own experience as a tuberculosis patient. Excerpts from Timetables were included in the Penguin Modern Sociology Readings anthology Rules and Meanings .

#1362

John G. Richardson

#125740

Overall Influence

#1363

Maynard Amerine

#89666

Overall Influence

1911 - 1998 (87 years)

Maynard Andrew Amerine was a pioneering researcher in the cultivation, fermentation, and sensory evaluation of wine. His academic work at the University of California at Davis is recognized internationally. His 16 books and some 400 articles contributed significantly to the development of the modern wine industry in California; to the improvement of wine cultures in Europe, South America, and Australia; and to the professional standards for judging and tasting wine.

#1364

David Knoke

#125817

Overall Influence

#1365

Karla F.C. Holloway

#41810

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Karla Francesca Holloway is an American academic. She is James B. Duke Professor of English & Professor of Law at Duke University, and holds appointments in the Duke University School of Law as well as the university's Department of English, Department of African & African American Studies, and Program in Women's Studies.

#1366

John Asimakopoulos

#30155

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

John Asimakopoulos is an American sociologist and author. He is a professor of sociology at the Bronx Community College of the City University of New York. Asimakopoulos co-founded the Transformative Studies Institute.

#1367

Joyce Ladner

#40336

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Joyce Ann Ladner is an American civil rights activist, author, civil servant, and sociologist. Early life and education Ladner was born in Battles, Wayne County, Mississippi, on October 12, 1943, and grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She was raised with four brothers and four sisters. Ladner graduated high school in 1960 with her older sister, Dorie Ladner. She earned her B.A. in sociology in 1964 from Tougaloo College, before earning her Ph.D at Washington University in St. Louis in 1968. During college, Ladner and her sister Dorie organized civil rights protests alongside Medgar Evers and other students from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

#1368

Norman K. Gottwald

#64619

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (98 years)

Norman Karol Gottwald was a 20th-century American Marxist, political activist, and Old Testament scholar who pioneered the use of social theory and method in biblical studies. Education Gottwald received an A.B. and Th.B. from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary , an M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary , and a doctorate in biblical literature from Columbia University .

#1369

Kim Moody

#64459

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Kim Moody is an American socialist activist and writer on labor who advocates social movement unionism, a revitalized labor movement of mobilized and militant rank-and-file workers, rather than business unionism, structured from the top down and compromised by coziness with corporations.

#1370

Mark Mizruchi

#39929

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Mark Sheldon Mizruchi is the Robert Cooley Angell Collegiate Professor of Sociology and Barger Family Professor of Organizational Studies at the University of Michigan. He also holds an appointment as Professor of Management and Organizations at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. His research has focused on the political activity of the U.S. corporate elite over the 20th and 21st centuries. He was influential in the development of social network analysis, and has published research in the fields of organizational theory, economic sociology, and political sociology.

#1371

Geneviève Zubrzycki

#89686

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Geneviève Zubrzycki is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, and the Center for European Studies at the University of Michigan. She is also affiliated with the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.

#1372

John Markoff

#56391

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

John Markoff is an American sociologist working as a distinguished professor of sociology and history at the University of Pittsburgh. Education Markoff received a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in 1962 and a PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1972.

#1373

André Beteille

#106568

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (90 years)

André Beteille, is an Indian sociologist, writer and academician. He is known for his studies of the caste system in South India. He has served with educational institutions in India such as Delhi School of Economics, North Eastern Hill University , and Ashoka University.

#1374

Loretta Ross

#44619

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Loretta J. Ross is an American academic, feminist, and activist who advocates for reproductive justice, especially among women of color. As an activist, Ross has written on reproductive justice activism and the history of African American women.

#1375

Celia Stopnicka Heller

#84610

Overall Influence

1922 - 2011 (89 years)

Celia Heller was an American sociologist. She was born in Poland. Biography After graduating from Brooklyn College, in 1950, she entered a graduate program in sociology at Columbia University, earning a Master's in 1952, and a Ph.D. in 1962. Subsequently, she taught at Hunter College, beginning as an assistant professor, in 1964. She became a full professor there in 1972, and retired with emeritus status in 1984. During her career at Hunter College, she also taught at the Graduate Center, CUNY. From 1970 to 1971 she was a visiting professor at Tel Aviv University and Bar Ilan University.

#1376

Bob Lingard

#126522

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

#1377

Julia Chinyere Oparah

#46312

Overall Influence

Julia Chinyere Oparah, formerly Julia Sudbury, is a British professor and department chair of Ethnic Studies at Mills College in Oakland California, where she also played a major role in establishing its Queer Studies Program. She is an activist-scholar, a community organizer, and an intellectual focused on producing relevant scholarship in accompaniment to social justice movements.

#1378

Antonio Casilli

Antonio Casilli

#29156

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Antonio A. Casilli is a Professor of Sociology at Télécom Paris, the school of telecommunications engineering of the Polytechnic Institute of Paris, and an Associate Researcher at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. His research focuses on computer-mediated communication, labour, and fundamental rights. He has been a regular commentator at La Grande Table and Place de la Toile on France Culture.

#1379

Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca

Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca

#64848

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca is a Spanish social scientist based at the Charles III University of Madrid. He has been the director of the Instituto Carlos III-Juan March since its creation in 2013 from CEACS.

#1380

Rashawn Ray

#70803

Overall Influence

Rashawn Ray is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. Since 2017 he has been the editor of Contexts magazine, published by the American Sociological Association, with co-editor Fabio Rojas.

#1381

François Cooren

#27570

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

François Cooren is a French and Canadian communication scholar and was, from 2005 to 2008, the editor of Communication Theory. He completed his Ph.D. at the Department of communication of the Université de Montréal in 1996, under the supervision of James R. Taylor. He was chairman of that same department from 2006 to 2015, where he is full professor. Cooren also completed a postdoc at the Université de Louvain-la-Neuve, in Belgium.

#1382

Timothy Luke

#59070

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Timothy W. Luke is university distinguished professor of political science in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences as well as program chair of the Government and International Affairs Program, School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia.

#1383

Bonnie Thornton Dill

#111462

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Bonnie Thornton Dill is a feminist scholar and Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland, College Park. Born in Chicago, Dill attended the University of Chicago Laboratory School, which she credits with inspiring her approach to leadership and research.

#1384

Clare Collins

#80436

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Clare Elizabeth Collins is an Australian dietician who is Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Newcastle. She serves as Director for Research in the School of Health Sciences and Deputy Director of the Priority Research Centre. She was awarded the 2017 Hunter Medical Research Institute Researcher of the Year and is a Fellow of Dietitians Australia.

#1385

Ganapati P. Patil

#127125

Overall Influence

#1386

Li Yinhe

#64142

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Li Yinhe is a Chinese sociologist, sexologist, and activist for LGBT rights in China. Her main academic interests have been sexual norms in contemporary China, homosexuality, diverse sexual behaviors including sadomasochism, and women's studies.

#1387

Stein Bråten

#83494

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (90 years)

Stein Leif Bråten is a Norwegian sociologist and social psychologist specializing in communication. He used the Simula programming language in one of the earliest uses of computers in modelling interpersonal communication . In 1989 he was awarded a PhD. in psychology at the University of Bergen for work on preverbal communication with infants connected to his theory of the virtual other. He is recognized for his work on mother-child interaction and in 1998 edited Intersubjective Communication and Emotion in Early Ontogeny, published by Cambridge University Press . He is professor emeritus at the University of Oslo and is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science.

#1388

James N. Seiber

#127347

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

#1389

Akosua Adomako Ampofo

#77168

Overall Influence

Josephine Akosua Adomako Ampofo is a Ghanaian academic who is a professor of Gender Studies and African Studies at the University of Ghana. She is feminist activist-scholar, and a strong advocate for social justice.

#1390

Henry Wechsler

#54395

Overall Influence

Henry Wechsler was a lecturer at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and was principal investigator of the College Alcohol Study. He died in November of 2021. Wechsler is noted for his studies of drinking by college students and for popularizing the term “binge drinking” to refer to the consumption of four alcoholic drinkss by a woman on an occasion and five alcoholic drinks by a man. Wechsler has brought attention to the large number of problems students who drink at this level produce for themselves, for others on campus, and for residents of neighborhoods where the colleges are l...

#1391

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

#49417

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is Professor of English at Emory University with a focus on disability studies and feminist theory. Her book Extraordinary Bodies, published in 1997, is a founding text in the disability studies canon.

#1392

Arland Thornton

#100077

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Arland Thornton is an American sociologist who specializes in the study of marriage and family. He was the director of the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan from 2004-2008. He received his bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

#1393

Yuri Semenov

#18042

Overall Influence

1929 - 2023 (94 years)

Yuriy Ivanovich Semenov was a Soviet and Russian historian, philosopher, ethnologist, anthropologist, expert on the history of philosophy, history of primitive society, and the theory of knowledge. He was also the original creator of the globally-formation concept of world history and is a Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Historical Sciences , and Professor. He was Distinguished Professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

#1394

Zdravko Mlinar

#95108

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

Zdravko Mlinar is a retired Slovene sociologist, Doctor of Social and Political Sciences, Professor of Spatial Sociology, Professor Emeritus at the University of Ljubljana, and a member of the Slovenian and Croatian Academy of Sciences.

#1395

Frans van Vught

Frans van Vught

#16543

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Franciscus Adrianus van Vught is a Dutch social scientist and Professor of Higher Education Policy at the University of Twente, known for his work on the theory of higher education innovation, higher education policy and relationship between government and higher education.

#1396

Christopher J. Schneider

#81711

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (45 years)

Christopher J. Schneider is an American sociologist and professor of sociology at Brandon University. Educational background Schneider received his B.A. summa cum laude in 2002 from Northeastern Illinois University, with a major in sociology and a minor in criminal justice. Schneider was selected as the NEIU 2002 spring commencement speaker He received an M.A. in Sociology with a concentration in Criminology in 2004 from Northern Illinois University Schneider continued his graduate studies in Justice Studies at Arizona State University. In 2008, he graduated from ASU with a Doctoral Degree ...

#1397

Bart Bonikowski

Bart Bonikowski

#49372

Overall Influence

Bart Bonikowski is an American sociologist. Prior to joining the faculty at New York University , Bonikowski was an Associate professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Early life and education Bonikowski earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from Queen's University and his first Master's degree from Duke University in 2005. While at Queens, he served as Vice President of Operations for the Alma Mater Society. Following Duke, he enrolled in Princeton University for his second Master's and PhD. His thesis, published in 2011, was titled Toward a Theory of Popular Nationalism: Share...

#1398

Gerhard Stapelfeldt

#44430

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Gerhard Stapelfeldt is a German sociologist. He was a university teacher at University of Hamburg until December 2010. In 1979 Stapelfeldt published his PhD Thesis, a reconstruction and interpretation of Karl Marx's Das Kapital with special reference to Marx's further studies and writings. Following this interpretation he then put its consequences into practice by developing a programme of depicting and interpreting political economy, from mercantilism, to Liberalism, imperialism and finally Neoliberalism.

#1399

Eduardo P. Archetti

#60228

Overall Influence

1943 - 2005 (62 years)

Eduardo P. Archetti or more affectionately Lali Archetti was an Argentine anthropologist and sociologist, essayist and educator, considered one of the most original social scientists in Latin America. He was a pioneer of the anthropological approach to sports and its relationship to the collective imagination. He died of cancer in Norway, while still the director of the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo.

#1400

Karl Ulrich Mayer

#51484

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Karl Ulrich Mayer is a German sociologist. He is Director Emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany, as well as the Stanley B. Resor Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Professor at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. He was president of the Leibniz Association from 2010 to 2014 and chaired the Department of Sociology at Yale from 2005 to 2010. He was director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development from 1983 to 2005, and was the founding editor of the European Sociological Review from 1985 to 1990.

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