Sociologist Irving Louis Horowitz argues that left-wing fascism in the United States consists of a rejection of American democracy and a devotion to socialism that is merely an idealized abstraction, combined with an unwillingness to confront the actual history of communism.

Sociologist Max Weber developed a tripartite classification of authority ; the cult of personality holds parallels with what Weber defined as " charismatic authority ".

Sociologist of science Bruno Latour and economist Romain Laufer may also be considered part of, or close to this group.

Sociologist and Economist Thorstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class illustrates how individuals imitate other group members of higher social status in their consumer behavior.

Sociologist Frank Furedi also deems VHEMT to be a Malthusian group, classifying them as a type of environmental organization that " the worst about the human species ".

Sociologist Matthew W. Hughey explains that while prior research on stigma has emphasized individual and group attempts to reduce stigma by ' passing as normal ', by shunning the stigmatized, or through selective disclosure, that some actors may embrace particular markings of stigma ( e. g.: dishonor or select dysfunctions ) as signs of moral commitment and / or cultural and political authenticity.

Sociologist Ray Oldenburg states in The Great Good Place that people need three places: 1 ) the home, 2 ) the office, and, 3 ) the community hangout or gathering place.

Sociologist Daniel Chirot claims that around 100 million people suffered and at least one million people, and perhaps as many as 20 million, died in the Cultural Revolution.

Sociologist Carl L. Bankston has argued that a secular, leftist view of social justice entails viewing the redistribution of goods and resources as based on the rights of disadvantaged categories of people, rather than on compassion or national interest.

Sociologist Barry Wellman presents the idea of “ glocalization ”- the ability for the Internet to extend participants ’ social connections to people around the world while also aiding them in further engagement with their local community.

" Sociologist John Theobald argued that instead of providing factual material on the Soviet Union, Hergé depicted the Bolsheviks rigging elections, killing opponents and stealing the grain from the people, all of which was done in order to portray them in a negative light in the minds of his young readers.

Sociologist Andrew Holden claims his research indicated many Witnesses who would otherwise defect because of disillusionment with the organization and its teachings retain affiliation out of fear of being shunned and losing contact with friends and family members.

Sociologist Susie Scott, in her book Shyness and Society ( 2007 ), is one expert who has sought to challenge the pathological interpretation and treatment of shyness.

Sociologist William H. Whyte was among those who saw the tests as helping to create and perpetuate the oppressive groupthink of " The Organization Man " mid-20th century corporate capitalistic mentality.

Mention must also be made of the term " Conversational analysis ", which was influenced by the Sociologist Harold Garfinkel who is the founder of Ethnomethodology.

Sociologist Lewis Mumford, who often criticized the effect of superhighway construction on contemporary cities, always advised friends traveling up from New York to visit him at his house in Amenia that they should take the Taconic to do so.

Sociologist Morten Ender conducted the largest scientific study to date exclusively on career military brats ( those who had at least one parent in the military from birth through high school ).

Shyamji Krishnavarma ( Shyamji Krishna Nakhua ) ( 1857 – 1930 ) was an Indian revolutionary, lawyer and journalist who founded the Indian Home Rule Society, India House and The Indian Sociologist in London.

Sociologist W. Phillips Davison, who first articulated the third-person effect hypothesis in 1983, explains that the phenomenon first piqued his interest in 1949 or 1950 upon learning of a Japanese attempt during World War II to dissuade black U. S. soldiers from fighting at Iwo Jima using propaganda.

His involvement with The Indian Sociologist brought him into contact with Har Dayal, who combined anarchism with his Indian Nationalism, based on his view of ancient Aryan culture and Buddhism.

Sociologist Stephen Steinberg explained in 2010, that the Moynihan report was condemned " because it threatened to derail the black liberation movement.

Sociologist Margot Adler highlighted how several pagan groups, like the Reformed Druids of North America and the Erisian movement refuse to take their rituals seriously, instead incorporating into them a great deal of play.

Sociologist Gerhard Lenski differentiates societies based on their level of technology, communication, and economy: ( 1 ) hunters and gatherers, ( 2 ) simple agricultural, ( 3 ) advanced agricultural, ( 4 ) industrial, and ( 5 ) special ( e. g. fishing societies or maritime societies ).

Sociologist Andrew Holden claims meetings create an atmosphere of uniformity for Witnesses, intensify their sense of belonging to a religious community, and reinforce the plausibility of the organization's belief system.

Sociologist Dennis Gilbert states that it is possible for households to out-earn other households over higher class standing through increasing their number of income earners.

Sociologist Geoff Dench has stated that Hewitt discourages male involvement in child rearing by questioning " whether we can trust men with children " and she concluded that it would be necessary to adopt the practice of " not leaving men on their own with groups of children ".

Sociologist Michael Schudson argues that " the belief in objectivity is a faith in ' facts ,' a distrust in ' values ,' and a commitment to their segregation.

Sociologist Phoebe Price posed three possible hypotheses as to why brats are better behaved: firstly, military parents have a lower threshold for misbehavior in their children ; secondly, the mobility of teenagers might make them less likely to attract attention to themselves, as they want to fit in and are less secure with their surroundings ; and thirdly, normative constraints are greater, with brats knowing that their behavior is under scrutiny and can affect the military member ’ s career.

Sociologist Robert K. Merton used the parable of talents to describe the reward system in science in which famous scientists often receive disproportionate credit for their contributions, whereas lesser known scientists receive less credit than their contributions actually merit.

Sociologist Anne-Cécile Bégot considered the Antoinist healing of the first decades a form of protest against ( 1 ) the efficiency of medicine, ( 2 ) the traditional representation of disease — the real healing can be attained only through a new approach to the disease, which is never considered a particular misfortune and thus is not reduced to its biological dimension — and ( 3 ) the management of disease — sick are always responsible for their own illness.

Sociologist Frank Furedi has stated that CRB checks cannot provide a " cast-iron guarantee that children will be safe with a particular adult ", and that their use has created an atmosphere of suspicion and is " poisoning " relationships between the generations, with many ordinary parents finding themselves regarded as " potential child abusers ".

Sociologist Harry Lefever states that verbal skill and wit is just as valued among African Americans as physical strength: " Verbal facility is thus a criterion that is used to separate the men from the boys ".

Sociologist Max Weber wrote that the state has a " monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force ", or, in Karl Marx's words, the state was only the repressive apparatus of the bourgeois class.

Sociologist Mary Bernstein writes: " For the lesbian and gay movement, then, cultural goals include ( but are not limited to ) challenging dominant constructions of masculinity and femininity, homophobia, and the primacy of the gendered heterosexual nuclear family ( heteronormativity ).

" Sociologist Dr. Suzanne Mcdonald-Walker states: " Marlon Brando, sporting leather jacket, jeans, and moody glare, became a cultural icon summing up ' the road ' in all its maverick glory.

Sociologist Anthony Synnott argues that the reality of misandry is undeniable when one looks to cultural, academic, and media depictions of men.

Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu used the term in 1972 in his Outline of a Theory of Practice, and clarified the term some years later in contrast to cultural, economic, and symbolic capital.

H. Freyer, as Philosopher and Sociologist, and the first Bearer of the German professorship for Sociology in Leipzig, keeps the mind that the notion of “ Ideal Type ” is “ a logical peculiarity of historical and cultural cognition ” and “ oversees the contrast of personal and general methods of thinking, on one hand, by defining the logical character in individual, and on the other, by progressing on the way to generalization only till showing the typicalness and not the pure general rule ”.

Frank Webster, a Sociologist with interests in Information Society issues and sympathy for the ' cultural turn ', joined the newly formed Centre for Cultural Studies and Sociology in 1999, but left for City University London when the Centre was closed in 2002.

Sociologist Orlando Patterson has seen the controversy as a dispute between liberal and conservative criminologists in which both parties focus on a single aspect of the causal net, with liberals focusing on factors external to the groups in question and conservatives focusing on internal cultural and behavioral factors.

Sociologist Anthony Giddens adopted a post-empiricist frame for his theory, as he was concerned with the abstract characteristics of social relations.