A list of social theorists includes classical as well as modern thinkers in social theory that were notable for the impact of their published works on the general discipline of sociology.
Jane Addams
Roland Barthes
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Pierre Bourdieu, 1930-2002
Auguste Comte
Charles Cooley
Anna Julia Cooper
Émile Durkheim
Norbert Elias
Amitai Etzioni
Michel Foucault, 1926-1984
Paulo Freire
Ernest Gellner
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Max Gluckman
Erving Goffman, 1922-1982
Ludwig Gumplowicz
Jürgen Habermas
Prince Peter Kropotkin
Henri Lefebvre
Jean-François Lyotard
Karl Mannheim
Harriet Martineau
Karl Marx
George Herbert Mead
Robert King Merton
John Stuart Mill
Charles Wright Mills
Vilfredo Pareto
Robert Ezra Park
Talcott Parsons
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon
Georg Simmel
Dorothy E. Smith
Pitirim A. Sorokin
Herbert Spencer
William Graham Sumner
Gabriel Tarde
William Isaac Thomas
Ferdinand Tönnies
Thorstein Veblen
Beatrice Potter Webb
Marianne Weber
Max Weber
Niklas Luhmann, 1927-1998
Muhammad Asad
