Most commentators consider Marcel Mauss ( 1872 – 1950 ), nephew of the influential sociologist Émile Durkheim, to be the founder of the French anthropological tradition.

* November 15 – Émile Durkheim, French sociologist ( b. 1858 )

David Émile Durkheim ( ) ( April 15, 1858 – November 15, 1917 ) was a French sociologist.

It was popularized by French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his influential book Suicide ( 1897 ).

The nineteenth century French pioneer sociologist Émile Durkheim borrowed the word from French philosopher Jean-Marie Guyau and used it in his influential book Suicide ( 1897 ), outlining the social ( and not individual ) causes of suicide, characterized by an absence or diminution of standards or values ( referred to as normlessness ), and an associated feeling of alienation and purposelessness.

* November 15-Émile Durkheim, sociologist

* April 15-Émile Durkheim, sociologist

Collective consciousness was a term coined in psychology by the French sociologist Émile Durkheim ( 1858 – 1917 ) to refer to the shared beliefs and moral attitudes which operate as a unifying force within society.

In addition to social structure and the evolution of societies, the French sociologist Émile Durkheim developed the concept of functionalism which stresses the interdependence of the institutions of a society and their interaction in maintaining cultural and social unity.

Labeling theory had its origins in Suicide, a book by French sociologist Émile Durkheim.

* Suicide ( book ), an 1897 case study on suicide by French sociologist Émile Durkheim

The French sociologist Émile Durkheim indicated in his Rules of the Sociological Method that it was necessary for the sociological method to offer parameters to distinguish normality from pathology or abnormality.

Émile Durkheim, the sociologist and founder of the Année Sociologique in 1898, would greatly influence the life and work of Granet, and began teaching a course on pedagogy at the Sorbonne, which was compulsory for all students from 1904 until 1913.

In 1905, Granet joined a socialist study group whose membership included Durkheimian sociologist, anthropologist, major contributor to the Année and nephew of Durkheim himself, Marcel Mauss, along with future ancient Greek specialist and editor of the Année Louis Gernet, and future Durkheimian sociologist, philosopher and contributor to the Année, Maurice Halbwachs.

Daniel Bell ( May 10, 1919 – January 25, 2011 ) was an American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor emeritus at Harvard University, best known for his seminal contributions to the study of post-industrialism.

The concept of Obligatory passage point ( OPP ) was developed by sociologist Michel Callon in a seminal contribution to Actor-network theory: Callon, Michel ( 1986 ), " Elements of a sociology of translation: Domestication of the Scallops and the Fishermen of St Brieuc Bay ".

British sociologist Eileen Barker titled her 1984 book, which was based on seven years of first-person study of members of the Unification Church in the United States and Great Britain and has been influential in the field of the sociology of religion, The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing ?.

" In the same book, Anson Shupe, a sociologist known for his studies of religious issues, and David Bromley, a sociologist who has written extensively on new religious movements, also use the word Moonies to refer to members of the Unification Church.

In his 1997 book The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy, sociologist Allan G. Johnson stated that accusations of man-hating have been used to put down feminists and shift attention onto men in a way that reinforces male-centered culture.

English philosopher, sociologist, biologist and writer Herbert Spencer wrote of the many aspects of the character of the state as opposed to the character of man in his book The Man Versus The State.

More recently, sociologist and historian of science Steven Shapin opened his book, The Scientific Revolution, with the paradoxical statement: " There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it.

Author and sociologist E. Moore Quinn in her book ‘ Irish American Folklore in New England ’, published in 2009, quotes the full lyric of The Voice.

Mannheim's book Ideologie und Utopie ( 1929 ) was the most widely debated book by a living sociologist in Germany during the Weimar Republic ; the English version Ideology and Utopia ( 1936 ) has been a standard in American-style international academic sociology, carried by the interest it aroused in the United States.

Santayana is quoted by the Canadian-American sociologist Erving Goffman as a central influence in the thesis of his famous 1959 book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life.

In the 19th century, the term “ conspicuous consumption ” was introduced by the economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen ( 1857 – 1929 ), in the book The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions ( 1899 ), to describe the behavioural characteristics of the nouveau riche ( new rich ) social class who emerged as a result of the accumulation of capital wealth during the Second Industrial Revolution ( ca.

Reviewing Sowell's 1984 book Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality ?, University of Chicago sociologist William Julius Wilson said that Sowell did not explore " reasonable alternative explanations and hypotheses " in his critiques of affirmative action.

Then in 1992, the German sociologist Gerhard Schulze argued for the idea of the “ experience society ” in his book " Erlebnisgesellschaft ", which was translated into English as " The Experience Society " in 1995.

In 1956, sociologist C. Wright Mills had claimed in his book The Power Elite that a class of military, business, and political leaders, driven by mutual interests, were the real leaders of the state, and were effectively beyond democratic control.

Israeli sociologist Baruch Kimmerling uses the term in his book Politicide: Sharon ’ s War Against the Palestinians and in various articles.

The term was popularized by sociologist and University of Pennsylvania professor E. Digby Baltzell in his 1964 book The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America.

Conversational narcissism is a term used by sociologist Charles Derber in his book, The Pursuit of Attention: Power and Ego in Everyday Life.

McDonaldization is a term used by sociologist George Ritzer in his book The McDonaldization of Society ( 1993 ).

A recent articulation of conflict theory is found in Alan Sears ' ( Canadian sociologist ) book A Good Book, in Theory: A Guide to Theoretical Thinking ( 2008 ):

Cuomo described his experience in that dispute in the book Forest Hills Diary and the story was retold by sociologist Richard Sennett in The Fall of Public Man.

* The State ( book ), a book by German sociologist Franz Oppenheimer

Two of his most widely read books are " Det sociala livets elementära former " ( 1987, approximately " Elementary forms of social life "), in which he introduces his theory about humans as essentially " socially responsive " ( socialt responsiva ), and " Essä om Gemeinschaft och Gesellschaft " ( 1991, " Essay about Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft "), in which he explains and discusses this concept, originally developed by the German sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies, 1887.

The Rise of Christianity, ( subtitled either " A sociologist reconsiders history " or " How the Obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force in the Western World in a Few Centuries ," depending on the edition ) is a book by the sociologist Rodney Stark, which examines the rise of Christianity from a small movement in Galilee and Judea at the time of Jesus, to the majority religion of the Roman Empire a few centuries later.

* University of Virginia Religious Movements Homepage – Website featuring the opinions and collected papers of the late sociologist Jeffrey Hadden, regarding new religious movements, now edited by Douglas E. Cowan

William Anthony " Bill " Donohue ( born July 18, 1947 ) is a sociologist, civil activist and current president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights in the United States, a position he has held since 1993.

The Physical Quality of Life Index ( PQLI ) is a measure developed by sociologist Morris David Morris in the 1970s, based on basic literacy, infant mortality, and life expectancy.

* Peter Kivisto is a noted sociologist, former editor of the Sociological Quarterly, and author of over a dozen books on immigration, ethnic and racial studies, and social theory, most recently " Illuminating Social Life " ( fifth edition, Pine Forge Press, 2010 ) and the forthcoming " Race and Ethnicity: The Basics ( with Paul Croll, Routledge, 2012 ).