JEWS IN
SOCIOLOGY
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Ranked among the
half-dozen
or so founders of modern sociology are three Jews: Émile
Durkheim,
Karl Marx, and Georg Simmel. According
to Ronald Fernandez's study Mappers of
Society:
The Lives, Times, and Legacies of the Great Sociologists,1
Durkheim, Marx, and Simmel constitute three of the four individuals
"indisputably at the core of sociology's birth
and
growth." (The fourth of these individuals, according to
Fernandez, was Max Weber.) Of
the fifty preeminent sociologists discussed in Dirk Kaesler's Klassiker der Soziologie2
(see also the companion website http://www.kfunigraz.ac.at/sozwww/agsoe/lexikon/klassiker),
approximately thirty percent were, or are, Jews. The following
lists
contain
the names of influential Jewish sociologists and of other Jewish
scholars
who have impacted the field. See also Jews
in Anthropology and Jews in Psychology.
SHORT LIST
- Theodor Adorno 3
- Raymond Aron
- Daniel Bell
- Lewis Coser
- Émile Durkheim
- Norbert Elias
- Nathan Glazer
- Erving Goffman
- Mark Granovetter
- Philip Hauser
- Marie Jahoda
- Paul Lazarsfeld
- Seymour Martin Lipset
- Karl Mannheim
- Karl Marx
- Marcel Mauss
- Robert King Merton
- Stanley Milgram
- David Riesman
- Alfred Schutz
- Georg Simmel
- Louis Wirth
LONG
LIST
- Theodor Adorno 3
- Raymond Aron
- Zygmunt Bauman
- Gary Becker
- Howard Becker
- Daniel Bell
- Reinhard Bendix
- Basil Bernstein
- Peter Blau
- Alvin Boskoff
- Werner Cahnman
- Lewis Coser
- Émile Durkheim
- Shmuel Eisenstadt
- Norbert Elias
- Amitai Etzioni
- Lewis Feuer
- Ronald Freedman
- Georges Friedmann
- Herbert Gans
- Harold Garfinkel
- Morris Ginsberg
- Nathan Glazer
- Erving Goffman
- Rudolf Goldscheid
- Calvin Goldscheider
- Leo Goodman
- Alvin Gouldner
- Mark Granovetter
- Ludwig Gumplowicz
- Georges Gurvitch
- Louis Guttman
- Philip Hauser
- Robert Hauser
- Will Herberg
- Max Horkheimer
- Irving Louis Horowitz
- Alex Inkeles
- Marie Jahoda
- Morris Janowitz
- Nathan Keyfitz
- Siegfried Kracauer
- Paul Lazarsfeld
- Bernard Lazerwitz
- Oscar Lewis
- Stanley Lieberson
- Seymour Martin Lipset
- Leo Lowenthal
- Karl Mannheim
- Herbert Marcuse
- Karl Marx
- Marcel Mauss
- Robert King Merton
- Stanley Milgram
- Franz Oppenheimer
- Philip Rieff
- David Riesman
- Sophia Robison
- Arnold Rose
- Alfred Schutz
- Edward Shils
- Georg Simmel
- Marshall Sklare
- Neil Smelser
- Ross Stolzenberg
- Albert Vorspan
- Immanuel Wallerstein
- Louis Wirth
- Kurt Wolff
NOTES
1. Mappers of
Society:
The Lives, Times, and Legacies of the Great Sociologists, by Ronald
Fernandez (Praeger,
Westport, CT and London, 2003, p. xvii).
2. Klassiker der Soziologie 1: Von Auguste
Comte bis Alfred Schütz, by Dirk Kaesler (C.H. Beck,
Munich, 2006) and Klassiker der Soziologie
2: Von Talcott Parsons bis Anthony Giddens, by Dirk Kaesler
(C.H. Beck, Munich, 2003).
3. Jewish father,
non-Jewish
mother.
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