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
  • Theodor Adorno
  • Muhammad Asad
  • Roland Barthes
  • Peter L. Berger
  • William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
  • Pierre Bourdieu, 1930-2002
  • Auguste Comte
  • Charles Cooley
  • Anna Julia Cooper
  • Émile Durkheim
  • Norbert Elias
  • Friedrich Engels
  • Amitai Etzioni
  • Michel Foucault, 1926-1984
  • Paulo Freire
  • Ernest Gellner
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Max Gluckman
  • Erving Goffman, 1922-1982
  • Antonio Gramsci
  • Ludwig Gumplowicz
  • Jürgen Habermas
  • Prince Peter Kropotkin
  • Henri Lefebvre
  • Vladimir Lenin
  • Niklas Luhmann, 1927-1998
  • György Lukács
  • Rosa Luxemburg
  • 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
  • Rudolf Steiner
  • William Graham Sumner
  • Gabriel Tarde
  • William Isaac Thomas
  • Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Ferdinand Tönnies
  • Thorstein Veblen
  • Immanuel Wallerstein
  • Beatrice Webb
  • Marianne Weber
  • Max Weber
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