Sociologists

List of Sociologists and Works
with Historical Events

Historical Events

Industrial Revolution

1750

French Revolution

1789

Napoleon Regime

1800 - 1815

Victoria Regime

20 Jun 1837 - 22 Jan 1901

Napoleon III Regime

1849 - 4 Sep 1870

US Civil War

1861 - 1865

American Civil War

Bismarck Regime

1862 - 1890

WW1

28 Jul 1914 - 11 Nov 1918

World War I

Bolshevik Revolution

1917

Russia

Wall Street Crash

1929

WW2

1 Sep 1939 - 2 Sep 1945

World War II

Post World War

Sep 1945

Soviet Dissolution

December 25, 1991

9/11 Terror

September 11, 2001

Present

2013

Still Alive

2050

Social Theorists

Thomas Hobbes

5 April 1588 - 4 December 1679

John Locke

29 August 1632 - 28 October 1704

Charles de Montesquieu

Jan 18, 1689 - Feb 10, 1755

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jun 28, 1712 - Jul 2, 1778

Adam Smith

Jun 15, 1723 - Jul 17, 1790

Immanuel Kant

1724 - 1804

Henry Saint-Simon

17 Oct 1760 - 19 May 1825

Friedrich Hegel

August 27, 1770 - November 14, 1831

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Friedrich Engels

Nov 28, 1820 - Aug 5, 1895

Wilhelm Dilthey

1833 - 1911

Sigmund Freud

May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939

Edmund Husserl

April 8, 1859 - April 26, 1938

Heinrich Rickert

1863 - 1936

Karl Popper

28 July 1902 - 17 September 1994

Sir Karl Raimund Popper

Writings

Montesquieu: Spirit of Laws

1748

Rousseau: 2nd Discourse

1755

A Discourse upon the Origin and Foundation of Inequality among Mankind

Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations

1776

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Immanuel Kant: Critique Series

1781 - 1790

Critique of Pure Reason (1781)
Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics (1783)
What Is Enlightenment? (1784)
Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals (1785)
Critique of Practical Reason (1788)
Critique of Judgement (1790)

Hegel: The Phenomenology of Mind

1807

Marx and Engels: Communist Manifesto

1848

Marx: Das Kapital

1867

1867 Vol. 1
1885 Vol. 2
1894 Vol. 3

Spencer: Principles of Sociology

1874 - 1896

Synthetic Philosophy
The Studies of Sociology

Durkheim: On the Division of Labour in Society

1893

Weber: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

1906

Sociologists

Auguste Comte

1798 - 5 Sep 1857

Herbert Spencer

1820 - 1903

Vilfredo Pareto

1848 - 1923

Thorstein Veblen

1857 - 1929

Max Weber

21 Apr 1864 - 14 Jun 1920

Pierre Bourdieu

1 Aug 1930 - 23 Jan 2002

Anthony Giddens

8 Jan 1938 - 2050

Sociologists - Functional Paradigm

Emile Durkheim

15 Apr 1858 - 15 Nov 1917

Talcott Parsons

13 Dec 1902 - 8 May 1979

Robert Merton

4 Jul 1910 - 23 Feb 2003

Robert King Merton

Jeffrey C. Alexander

30 May 1947 - 2050

Jeffrey Charles Alexander

Sociologists - Conflict Paradigm

Karl Marx

1818 - 1883

Georg Lukacs

13 Apr 1885 - 4 Jun 1971

Antonio Gramsci

22 January 1891 - 27 April 1937

Max Horkheimer

February 14, 1895 - July 7, 1973

Frankfurt School - Generation I

Herbert Marcuse

July 19, 1898 - July 29, 1979

Frankfurt School – Generation II

Theodore W. Adorno

September 11, 1903 - August 6, 1969

Frankfurt School – Generation II

Lewis Coser

27 November 1913 - 8 July 2003

Ralph Darendorf

1 May 1929 - 17 June 2009

Ralph Gustav Darendorf
Frankfurt School – Generation III

Jurgen Habermas

June 18, 1929 - 2050

Jean Baudrillard

27 July 1929 - 6 March 2007

Post-Marxism

Sociologists - Interaction Paradigm

Georg Simmel

1 Mar 1858 - 1918

George Herbert Mead

27 Feb 1863 - 1931

Robert Ezra Park

February 14, 1864 - February 7, 1944

Charles Horton Cooley

August 17, 1864 - May 8, 1929

Herbert Blumer

March 7, 1900 - April 13, 1987

Erving Goffman

June 11, 1922 - November 19, 1982

Sociologists - Interpretive Paradigm

Karl Mannheim

1893 - 1947

Alfred Schutz

1899 - 1959

Harold Garfinkel

October 29, 1917 - April 21, 2011

Thomas Luckmann

Oct 14, 1927 - 2050

Peter L. Berger

Mar 17, 1929 - 2050

Peter Ludwig Berger

Sociologists - Exchange Paradigm

George Homans

August 11, 1910 - May 29, 1989

George Casper Homans

Peter Blau

February 7, 1918 - March 12, 2002

Peter Michael Blau
Social Mix

Richard Emerson

1925 - 1982

Richard Marc Emerson
Power-dependence

Michael Hechter

1943 - 2050

Rational Choice Theory
1943?