He was a friend and collaborator of the political sociologist Barrington Moore, Jr. and of the political philosopher Robert Paul Wolff, and also a friend of the Columbia University sociology professor C. Wright Mills, one of the founders of the New Left movement.

* 1910 – Robert K. Merton, American sociologist ( d. 2003 )

A focus on studying political behavior, rather than institutions or interpretation of legal texts, characterized early behavioral political science, including work by Robert Dahl, Philip Converse, and in the collaboration between sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld and public opinion scholar Bernard Berelson.

Serendipity is used as a sociological method in Anselm L. Strauss ' and Barney G. Glaser's Grounded Theory, building on ideas by sociologist Robert K. Merton, who in Social Theory and Social Structure ( 1949 ) referred to the " serendipity pattern " as the fairly common experience of observing an unanticipated, anomalous and strategic datum which becomes the occasion for developing a new theory or for extending an existing theory.

American sociologist Robert K. Merton ( 1910 – 2003 ) dedicates a section of Social Theory and Social Structure ( 1949 ; revised and expanded, 1957 and 1968 ) to the study of the sociology of knowledge in Part III, titled The Sociology of Knowledge and Mass Communications.

Merton was born in New York City to sociologist Robert K. Merton and Suzanne Carhart.

The concept has long existed but was named and popularised in the 20th century by American sociologist Robert K. Merton.

However, it was the sociologist Robert K. Merton who popularized this concept in the twentieth century.

* Robert O. Trout, sociologist

* Robert O. Trout, American sociologist and professor at Louisiana Tech University, was born in Marion in 1904.

* Robert Ezra Park ( 1864 – 1944 ), urban sociologist

The application of the concept of civil religion to the United States was in large part the work of sociologist Robert Bellah.

The first focus groups were created at the Bureau of Applied Social Research in the USA, by associate director, sociologist Robert K. Merton.

Cohen brought on board strong editors who themselves wrote important essays, including Irving Kristol ; art critic Clement Greenberg ; film and cultural critic Robert Warshow ; and sociologist Nathan Glazer.

Robert King Merton ( July 4, 1910 – February 23, 2003 ) was a distinguished American sociologist.

Although examples of such prophecies can be found in literature as far back as ancient Greece and ancient India, it is 20th-century sociologist Robert K. Merton who is credited with coining the expression " self-fulfilling prophecy " and formalizing its structure and consequences.

The famous sociologist, Robert K. Merton, wrote that a person's expectation is directly linked to the Self-fulfilling Prophecy.

Robert K. Merton, a sociologist, found that 92 % of cases of simultaneous discovery in the 17th century ended in dispute.

At missionary-founded Yenching University ( 燕京大学 ) in Beijing, which had China ’ s best sociology program, he was stimulated by the semester visit of Robert E. Park, the University of Chicago sociologist.

Robert K. Merton, a sociologist, found that 92 percent of cases of simultaneous discovery in the 17th century ended in dispute.

Second, he was part of a group of critical scholars at Columbia University including Robert S. Lynd, a leading sociologist in the United States.

* Robert Leroux ( sociologist )

Robert Ezra Park ( February 14, 1864 – February 7, 1944 ) was an American urban sociologist who is considered to be one of the most influential figures in early U. S. sociology.

* Robert E. Park ( 1864 – 1944 ), American urban sociologist

* James M. Jasper ( born 1957 ), a writer and sociologist

First introduced in 2007 by the soil scientist William L. Bland and the environmental sociologist Michael M. Bell of the University of Wisconsin – Madison, holon agroecology draws on Koestler's notion of a " holon " which is both part and whole and develops it with ideas of narrative, intentionality, and incompleteness or unfinalizability, within an ever-changing " ecology of contexts ".

Andrew M. Greeley ( born February 5, 1928, Oak Park, Illinois ) is an Irish-American Roman Catholic priest, sociologist, journalist and fiction writer.

Among the 39 WSU alumni to receive the Regents ' Distinguished Alumnus Award since 1962 are recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Irwin Rose, broadcaster Edward R. Murrow, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, astronaut John M. Fabian, cartoonist Gary Larson, molecular evolutionist Allan Wilson, banking executive Phyllis J. Campbell, Entrepreneur Clint Hedin, sociologist William Julius Wilson, author and film director Sherman Alexie, veterinary researcher John Gorham, wheat breeder Orville Vogel, physicist Philip Abelson and physician Neva Abelson.

Three of the pioneers were the Educational Testing Service psychometrician Frederic M. Lord, the Danish mathematician Georg Rasch, and Austrian sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld, who pursued parallel research independently.

Charles Horton Cooley ( August 17, 1864-May 8, 1929 ) was an American sociologist and the son of Thomas M. Cooley.

Everett M. Rogers ( March 6, 1931 – October 21, 2004 ) was a communication scholar, sociologist, writer, and teacher.

In a 1996 paper discussing the various sociological studies that had then been made of Paganism, the sociologist Sarah M. Pike noted that Drawing Down the Moon had gone " a long way towards answering the question " as to " what makes these ritual activities valid and viable to those who engage in them ".

The American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen was an early advocate of Technocracy, and was involved in the Technical Alliance as was Howard Scott and M. King Hubbert ( who later developed the theory of peak oil ).

* James Burk ( sociologist ), sociologist and professor of sociology at Texas A & M University

Current faculty include Religion scholar Wendy Doniger, theologian David Tracy, sociologist Hans Joas, literary theorist Thomas Pavel, theorist of German literature David Wellbery, classicist James M. Redfield, philosopher and psychoanalyst Jonathan Lear, philosopher Jean-Luc Marion, medieval historian David Nirenberg, philosopher Robert B. Pippin, Nobel Laureate economist Robert Fogel, classicist Laura M. Slatkin, historian of science Lorraine Daston, physician and philosopher Leon Kass ( former chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics ), political theorist Nathan Tarcov, and poet Adam Zagajewski.

This term was made popular by Indian sociologist M. N. Srinivas in the 1950s, although earlier references to this process can be found in Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

The preconditions of sociology have remained largely unexamined by the sociologist.

The term was originally coined in the 19th century by the founding sociologist and philosopher of science, Auguste Comte, and has become a major topic for psychologists ( especially evolutionary psychology researchers ), evolutionary biologists, and ethologists.

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

* 1930 – Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist ( d. 2002 )

* 1929 – Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist ( b. 1857 )

* 1918 – Gordon Zahn, American sociologist, pacifist, and author ( d. 2007 )

* 1916 – C. Wright Mills American sociologist ( d. 1962 )

In 1953, sociologist Theodor W. Adorno conducted a study of the astrology column of a Los Angeles newspaper as part of a project examining mass culture in capitalist society.

S. A. Hamed Hosseini ( an Australian sociologist and expert in global social movement studies ), argues that the term anti-globalization can be ideal-typically used only to refer to only one ideological vision he detects alongside three other visions ( the anti-globalist, the alter-globalist and the alter-globalization ).

* 1864 – Max Weber, German economist and sociologist ( d. 1920 )

* 1998 – Jean-François Lyotard, French philosopher and sociologist ( b. 1924 )

* 2005 – Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist ( b. 1910 )

According to sociologist Marcelo Ridenti, Brazilian politics is divided between internationalistic liberals and statist nationalistics.

The sociologist Richard Quinney has written about the relationship between society and crime.

Marker had collaborated with Belgian sociologist Armand Mattelart and ISKRA members Valérie Mayoux and Jacqueline Meppiel to shoot and collect the visual materials, which Marker then edited together and provided the commentary for.

Corrado Gini ( May 23, 1884 – March 13, 1965 ) was an Italian statistician, demographer and sociologist who developed the Gini coefficient, a measure of the income inequality in a society.

" Pound came to this position partly through long debates with his former colleague at the University of Nebraska, the rising sociologist Edward A. Ross.

Jean Baudrillard has also been described as a critical theorist to the extent that he was an unconventional and critical sociologist ; this appropriation is similarly casual, holding little or no relation to the Frankfurt School.

The phrase was coined by Charles Moskos, a military sociologist.

* 1902 – Talcott Parsons, American sociologist, ( d. 1979 )