List of sociologists

This is the list of famous sociologists and major contributor to sociology who are not sociologists.

Important sociologists

• Auguste Comte
• Emile Durkheim
• Karl Marx
• Max Weber
• Georg Simmel
• Alfred Schütz
• George Herbert Mead[?]
• W. I. Thomas
• Talcott Parsons
• Robert K. Merton
• Erving Goffman
• C. Wright Mills[?]
• Oswald von Nell-Breuning
• Thorstein Veblen
• Anthony Giddens[?]
• George Ritzer
• Niklas Luhmann
• Pierre Bourdieu
• Ali Shariati

Major contributors to sociology

• Henry Maine
• Sigmund Freud
• Ferdinand Saussure
• Claude Levi-Strauss
• Michel Foucault
• Theodor Adorno
• Max Horkheimer
• Jürgen Habermas