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List of the most influential people in Sociology,

#2101

Oleg Manaev

#101165

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Oleg Manaev is a well-known Belarusian sociologist and public person. Career He graduated from the School of Journalism at the Belarusian State University in 1974, got Ph.D. in 1983, and Dr. Habilitate in Sociology in 1991. Published over 180 scholarly articles, and edited dozen books on mass media, communication and democracy, civil society and political process in the USSR, Belarus and abroad .

#2102

Leith Dunn

#41560

Overall Influence

Leith Lorraine Dunn is a Jamaican sociologist, writer and academic. She taught at the University of the West Indies where she focused on gender and human rights, as well as acting for a consultant to the United Nations and the Caribbean Community. In 2020, she was presented the Award for Excellence by Jamaica's National Family Planning Board.

#2103

Nancy Mathiowetz

#96232

Overall Influence

Nancy A. Mathiowetz is an American sociologist and statistician, known for her pioneering combination of cognitive psychology with survey methodology and for her research on poverty and disability. She is a professor emerita of sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, the former president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, and the former editor-in-chief of Public Opinion Quarterly

#2104

George Brown

#122428

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (94 years)

George William Brown OBE FBA is a British medical sociologist who works in the field of social nature of mental illness. Life and work Brown was born in Portobello, London, in 1930, as one of non-identical twins. His father was a lens maker and his mother had been a waitress. He left school at 16 and initially moved between a number of jobs, including work in the . In 1948, he was called up for national service in the Air Force. He then went to University College London in 1951, studying archaeology and anthropology. After a series of jobs he obtained a research post at the Social Psychiatry Research Unit at the Maudsley Hospital.

#2105

Ricard Zapata Barrero

#78969

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Ricard Zapata-Barrero is a scholar of migration studies, specializing in migration governance, citizenship, and diversity. He is a full professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and the director of the Research Group on Immigration .

#2106

Barrie Karp

#78803

Overall Influence

1945 - 2019 (74 years)

Barrie Karp was an artist, independent scholar and academic. Karp grew up first in Scranton and Wilkes-Barre and then, in the later part of her childhood, in Williamsport, Pennsylvania and the surrounding Lycoming County area. She was an educator in philosophy, cultural studies, humanities and arts from a feminist and anti-racist perspective in New York City colleges and universities since 1970. Karp was part of the founding generation of academic feminist educators, producing cutting edge-pedagogy in academic fields that, by the 1990s became categorized, disciplined, and designated as cultural and media studies.

#2107

Janet Jakobsen

#171512

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Janet R. Jakobsen is a scholar of gender and sexuality. She is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College and Director of Barnard's Center for Research on Women. She has also been Barnard's Dean for Faculty Diversity and Development.

#2108

Heidi Stöckl

#173284

Overall Influence

Heidi Stöckl is a German researcher and sociologist at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Her research investigates gender-based violence and human trafficking. She has previously worked at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and with the World Health Organization on the design and implementation of strategies to end violence against women.

#2109

Larry Townsend

#13679

Overall Influence

1930 - 2008 (78 years)

Larry Townsend was the American author of dozens of books including Run, Little Leather Boy and The Leatherman's Handbook , published by pioneer erotic presses such as Greenleaf Classics and the Other Traveler imprint of Olympia Press. Leatherman's Handbook, with illustrations by Sean, was among the first books to popularize BDSM among the general public.

#2110

Valeria Pulignano

Valeria Pulignano

#173946

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Valeria Pulignano is an Italian-born sociologist, full Professor of Sociology at the University of Leuven , Belgium, and author of numerous publications on comparative industrial relations, labour markets and employment in Europe. She was formerly scientific director of the Center for Social Sociological Research at KU Leuven. She is Specialty Chief Editor of the "Work, Employment and Organization" section of Frontiers in Sociology, co-coordinator of the RN17 Work, Employment and Industrial Relations at the European Sociological Association and principal investigator of the ERC Advanced Gr...

#2111

Margaret C. McCulloch

#159979

Overall Influence

1901 - 1996 (95 years)

Margaret Callender McCulloch was a writer, teacher, and activist during the civil rights movement. McCulloch authored several books and articles on race relations and the segregation of African Americans, as well as two biographies. Her most influential books included Segregation, a Challenge to Democracy and Integration: Promise, Process, Problems. The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana houses McCulloch's articles, speeches, and correspondences.

#2112

Jyoti Puri

#75952

Overall Influence

Jyoti Puri is Hazel Dick Leonard Chair and Professor of Sociology at Simmons University. She is a leading feminist sociologist who advocates for transnational and postcolonial approaches to the study of gender, sexuality, state, nationalism, and death and migration. She has published three books, and her most recent book, Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle Against the Antisodomy Law in India’s Present received the Distinguished Book Award from the Sociology of Sexualities Section of the American Sociological Association. She has delivered keynote lectures and given talks across a wide ...

#2113

Roger Finke

#176897

Overall Influence

#2114

Kristen Olson

#168717

Overall Influence

Kristen Marie Olson is an American sociologist and statistician specializing in survey methodology. She is the Leland J. and Dorothy H. Olson Professor of Sociology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and also directs its Bureau of Sociological Research.

#2115

Paul Bowman

#104877

Overall Influence

Paul Bowman teaches Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. He is author of Post-Marxism Versus Cultural Studies , Deconstructing Popular Culture and Theorizing Bruce Lee , editor of Interrogating Cultural Studies , The Truth of Žižek , Reading Ranciere and The Rey Chow Reader .

#2116

Emma Sulkowicz

#42316

Overall Influence

1992 - Present (32 years)

Emma Sulkowicz is best known as a political activist and performance artist. While still a college student, Sulkowicz developed a national reputation with the performance artwork Mattress Performance . In 2019, she said she had stopped making art and began a master's program in traditional Chinese medicine.

#2117

Janet Ford

#134707

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Professor Janet Ford is a British sociologist and university administrator. Until October 2007 she served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of York; her remit included estates and strategic projects, including the expansion of the University approved on 25 May 2007.

#2118

Sarah Cunningham-Burley

#173426

Overall Influence

Sarah Jane Cunningham-Burley FRSE FAcSS is a Professor of Medical and Family Sociology in the Usher Institute at the University of Edinburgh. Research and career Cunningham-Burley's research spans medical and family sociology. She is the Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, and the Dean of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences at the University of Edinburgh.

#2119

Sylvia Barack Fishman

#59382

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Sylvia Barack Fishman is an American feminist sociologist and author. She is the Joseph and Esther Foster Professor of Judaic Studies at Brandeis University, Co-Director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, and a board member of JOFA, the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance. She writes about Jewish life in America.

#2120

Jeffrey Weeks

#115021

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Jeffrey Weeks is a gay activist and an historian and sociologist specialising in work on sexuality. Career Weeks is among the academics in the early period of gay men's studies in Britain that emerged from the Gay Liberation Front which he joined in 1970 and the Gay Left of which he was a founding member.

#2121

Piotr Gliński

#115934

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Piotr Tadeusz Gliński is a Polish sociologist, professor, university lecturer and politician. He served as president of the Polish Sociological Association from 2005 to 2011. He was the nominee of Law and Justice for Prime Minister of Poland in 2012 and again in 2014. In the cabinet of Beata Szydło, he served as the First Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. He continues to serve in his Ministry in the government of Mateusz Morawiecki.

#2122

Dorothy Griffiths

#43423

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Dorothy Seymour "Dot" Griffiths, is a British academic and sociologist. She championed gender equality at Imperial College London, where she was a lecturer in sociology from 1969. She was Professor of Human Resource Management from 2002 to 2017.

#2123

Bridget Hutter

#104865

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Bridget M. Hutter was a British sociologist. Hutter attended the University of London, where she studied sociology, and later earned a doctorate in the subject from the University of Oxford. She began teaching at Oxford and later moved to the London School of Economics, serving as director of the ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation from 2000 to 2010. Hutter is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Royal Society of Arts.

#2124

Stanford Lyman

#174807

Overall Influence

1933 - 2003 (70 years)

Stanford Morris Lyman was an American sociologist. He is recognized for his work on interactionism and the sociology of race relations in the United States. He served as president of the Mid-South Sociological Association, and he co-founded the American Sociological Association's Section on Asian/Asian American sociology. He was also a founder of the International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. He died of liver cancer on March 9, 2003.

#2125

Leo Ruickbie

#22545

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Leo Ruickbie is a British historian and sociologist of religion, specializing in exceptional experiences, paranormal beliefs, magic, witchcraft and Wicca. He is the author of several books, beginning with Witchcraft Out of the Shadows, a 2004 publication outlining the history of witchcraft from ancient Greece until the modern day. Ruickbie was born in Scotland and took a master's degree in Sociology and Religion at the University of Lancaster. He then studied at King's College London and was an awarded a PhD for his thesis entitled The Re-Enchanters: Theorising Re-Enchantment and Testing for its Presence in Modern Witchcraft.

#2126

Nancy Feldman

#88663

Overall Influence

1922 - 2014 (92 years)

Nancy G. Feldman was a civil rights activist and longtime educator from the U.S. state of Illinois. Feldman taught at the University of Tulsa for thirty-seven years and lectured across the United States and internationally. Feldman was inducted to the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame in 1995. Her advocating for the expansion of art education in Tulsa public schools remains one of her biggest legacies. Feldman and her husband traveled to some of the most remote locations in the world during their retirement and worked to connect Tulsa with the world through the Tulsa Global Alliance.

#2127

Joanne M. Cohoon

#146725

Overall Influence

1954 - 2016 (62 years)

Joanne Louise McGrath Cohoon was an American sociologist noted for her research on gender imbalance in computing. Biography Cohoon received a B.A. in philosophy from Ramapo College in 1976. She received a M.A. in student personnel administration in higher education from Columbia University Teachers College in 1979 and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Virginia in 2000.

#2128

Chai-Sik Chung

#86567

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (94 years)

Chai-Sik Chung is an American social ethicist and sociologist of religion. He studied under Walter George Muelder at the Boston University School of Theology, where he served as the Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics from 1990 to 2011. He also studied under the late Robert N. Bellah at Harvard Divinity School with whom he had been long associated. As a scholar of comparative religious ethics, he has been a pioneer in the study of social and ethical problems arising from East Asia's modern transformation. He has published widely in both Korean and English, on social and ethical issue...

#2129

Sally Hines

#111046

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Sally Hines is a British sociologist and gender studies scholar. She is Professor of Sociology and Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at the Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield. She is the daughter of Barry Hines, the novelist and screenwriter whose most famous book, A Kestrel for a Knave, was turned into the 1969 film Kes.

#2130

Sofia Gruskin

#170925

Overall Influence

Sofia Gruskin is a scholar and advocate in the field of health and human rights whose contributions range from global policy to the grassroots level. For more than 25 years her work has been instrumental in developing the conceptual, methodological, and empirical links between health and human rights, with a focus on sexual and reproductive health, HIV and AIDS, child and adolescent health, gender-based violence, non-communicable disease, and health systems. Currently, Gruskin is a professor at the Keck School of Medicine and Gould School of Law at the University of Southern California. Gruski...

#2131

Gregor Gall

#128851

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Gregor Gall is a British left-wing academic and writer, who has taught at several British universities. Career He was professor of industrial relations at the University of Bradford and before then professors of industrial relations at the University of Stirling and the University of Hertfordshire. He is now an affiliate research associate in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow, a visiting professor at the University of Leeds and an honorary professor at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He researches and writes primarily about trade unions, and has ...

#2132

Gordon Chavunduka

Gordon Chavunduka

#51511

Overall Influence

1931 - 2013 (82 years)

Gordon Lloyd Chavunduka was a Zimbabwean sociologist and traditional healer. Biography He served as a member of Abel Muzorewa's delegation to the 1979 Lancaster House Conference that led to Zimbabwe's independence. He has published several books on traditional medicine.

#2133

Mary Earle

#64345

Overall Influence

1929 - 2021 (92 years)

Mary Davidson Earle was a Scottish-born New Zealand food technologist. She was the first female faculty member of a university engineering department in New Zealand when she joined Massey University's food technology department in 1965.

#2134

Kathleen Wilber

#75769

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Kathleen H. Wilber is a professor of gerontology and policy planning and development at the University of Southern California. At the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, she holds the title of Mary Pickford Foundation Professor of Gerontology. Wilber also holds an appointment in Health Services Administration in the School of Planning, Policy, and Development. She has dedicated her career to improving the quality of life of people with chronic physical and mental health conditions, by improving the formal health and long term care delivery system. The collaborative relationships among he...

#2135

Boel Berner

#128900

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Boel Berner is a Swedish sociologist, historian, and editor. Early life and education Karin Boel Christina Berner was born 3 August 1945 in Helsingborg. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from Lund University in 1967, and a PhD in sociology from Lund University in 1981.

#2136

Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha

#69106

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha is a Scottish sociologist and cultural scientist, working in Germany. Biography and career After the unexpected death of her father Robertson-von Trotha left Oban High School at the age of 15 without School Leaving Qualifications. In 1967 she completed her basic training in hotel management and was awarded with the gold medal of the Oban Hotel Association. After having worked in the hotel industry/sector for two years, Robertson-von Trotha began a journey as a backpacker through Europe and Turkey, which took her finally to Germany. Here she prepared herself autodidactically for the Scottish Higher Level Examinations.

#2137

Elsa Leo-Rhynie

#39957

Overall Influence

Elsa Ann Leo-Rhynie OJ is a retired Jamaican academic and university administrator who is a professor emerita of the University of West Indies . She is a former principal and pro-vice-chancellor of its Mona, Jamaica, campus.

#2138

Rachael Stolzenberg-Solomon

#73750

Overall Influence

Rachael Zoe Stolzenberg-Solomon is an American epidemiologist and dietitian. She is a senior investigator and head of the metabolic epidemiology branch at the National Cancer Institute. Life Stolzenberg-Solomon received a B.S. in nutrition and dietetics at the University of California, Davis, followed by a dietetic internship and M.Ed. in health science education at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Peabody College, respectively. After this training, she worked as a registered dietitian for ten years.

#2139

Julius Weinberg

#34455

Overall Influence

Julius Weinberg is a British academic and previously the Vice-Chancellor of Kingston University. He was educated at The Queen's College, Oxford and the Open University. Weinberg is a governor of the Independent school Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith.

#2140

Leslie Irvine

#57676

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Leslie Jane Irvine is an American sociologist specializing in conceptions of the self and human-animal relationships. She is currently a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she has worked since 1998. Her methodological specializations include qualitative research and narrative analysis. Born and raised in Buffalo, New York, she attended Palm Beach Junior College , Florida Atlantic University and State University of New York at Stony Brook .

#2141

Antonio Virgili

#81293

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Antonio Virgili is an Italian social sciences and integrative medicine professor, researcher, and consultant. He is the scientific director of the Italian Institute of Social Sciences, president of the Centro Studi Internazionali, president of Corpo Italiano di San Lazzaro, and vice president of the Lazarus Union. In 2019, he was appointed by the High Council of the Judiciary and the Ministry of Justice as an Honorary Judge at Youth Courts. He has authored numerous articles, essays, and books, and is a scholar of esotericism and heraldic and symbology studies. He is also the second duke of Castelvenere.

#2142

Kim Weeden

#171698

Overall Influence

Kim A. Weeden is an American sociologist. She is a professor of sociology at Cornell University, where she is also a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and the Jan Rock Zubrow '77 Professor of the Social Sciences. Weeden studies income inequality, the gender wage gap, and what determines the professions that different people enter and the academic majors that students select. She primarily uses large-scale surveys to study these topics.

#2143

Mark Shucksmith

#46836

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

David Mark Shucksmith is Director of the Newcastle Institute for Social Renewal. He was previously Professor of Town Planning at Newcastle University, and is also an adviser to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation "Action in Rural Areas" programme, a board member of the Countryside Agency, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Rural Research at the University of Trondheim.

#2144

Ralph Thomlinson

#94346

Overall Influence

1925 - 2007 (82 years)

Ralph Thomlinson was an American sociologist and demographer. Thomlinson served in the U.S. Army during World War II. Subsequently, he earned his B.A. from Oberlin College in 1948, his M.A. from Yale University in 1949, and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1960. He was a faculty member at California State University, Los Angeles from 1959 until his retirement in 1988, serving as department chair from 1967 to 1969.

#2145

Gordie C. Hanna

#72747

Overall Influence

1903 - 1993 (90 years)

Gordie C. Hanna was a University of California-Davis agronomy professor who helped revolutionize the tomato-growing industry. He won the John Scott Award in 1976 for his development of a tomato variety capable of being machine-harvested. The variety came to be known as the "square tomato," being slightly blockier, preventing it from rolling off conveyor belts.

#2146

May-Len Skilbrei

#170641

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

May-Len Skilbrei is a Norwegian sociologist, criminologist and gender studies scholar. She is Professor of Criminology at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo Faculty of Law. She has previously been Managing Director of the Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies. She is editor-in-chief of the journal Sosiologi i dag . She has also been President of the Association for Gender Research in Norway, board member of the European Society of Criminology and board member of the University of Oslo Faculty of Law. She also headed the Research network on prostitution in the Nordic countries.

#2147

Roderick Martin

#172301

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Roderick Martin is a British sociologist and retired academic specialising in industrial relations, management and organisation behaviour. Career Born on 18 October 1940, Roderick Martin was educated at the Royal Grammar School in Lancaster and at Balliol College, Oxford. He completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Hugh Clegg and Philip Williams; his DPhil was awarded in 1965 for his thesis "The National Minority Movement: a study in the organisation of trade union militancy in the inter-war period". A lecturer at the University of York from 1964 to 1966, ...

#2148

Peter Kemp

#81189

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Peter Anthony Kemp, FAcSS is a social scientist. Career Kemp was born on 25 December 1955. He graduated from the University of Southampton with a geography degree in 1977 and two years later completed a Master of Philosophy degree at the University of Glasgow. In 1984, the University of Sussex awarded him a doctorate for his thesis "The transformation of the urban housing market in Britain c. 1885–1939". Kemp returned to Glasgow in 1985 as a research fellow, before lecturing at the University of Salford from 1987 to 1990, when he was appointed the first Joseph Rowntree Professor of Housing Policy at the University of York.

#2149

Arnold Binder

#98765

Overall Influence

Arnold Binder is an American sociologist, criminologist, and Professor Emeritus of Criminology, Law & Society at the University of California, Irvine, where he founded the School of Social Ecology in 1970.

#2150

C. Nadine Wathen

#177586

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

C. Nadine Wathen is a Canadian researcher. She is a Full Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Mobilizing Knowledge on Gender-Based Violence at the University of Western Ontario and the Academic Director of the Centre for Research on Health Equity and Social Inclusion.

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