Ulrich Beck

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1. Ulrich Beck

   Author of What Is Globalization, Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order, The Brave New World of Work

2. Jürgen Habermas

   Author of The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought), Knowledge and Human Interests, Legitimation Crisis

3. Anthony Giddens

   Author of The Consequences of Modernity, The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration, The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy (IGN European Country Maps)

4. Zygmunt Bauman

   Author of Modernity and the Holocaust, Globalization: The Human Consequences, Intimations of Postmodernity

5. Émile Durkheim

   Author of Suicide, The Division of Labor in Society, Sociology and philosophy

6. Pierre Bourdieu

   Author of Outline of a Theory of Practice, Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action, Acts of Resistance: Against the Tyranny of the Market

7. Richard Sennett

   Author of The Fall of Public Man, The Culture of the New Capitalism, Respect in a World of Inequality

8. Bruno Latour

   Author of We Have Never Been Modern, Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society, Eine neue Soziologie für eine neue Gesellschaft

9. Manuel Castells

   Author of The Rise of the Network Society, The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society, End of Millennium

10. Luc Boltanski

    Author of The New Spirit of Capitalism, On Justification: Economies of Worth (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology)

11. Kurt Tucholsky

    Author of Gesammelte Werke I. 1907 - 1918, Gesammelte Werke III. 1921 - 1924, Gesammelte Werke. Bd. 2. 1919 - 1920

12. Niklas Luhmann

    Author of Social Systems (Writing Science), Ecological Communication

13. Peter L. Berger

    Author of The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

14. Michel Foucault

    Author of Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977, "Society Must Be Defended": Lectures at the College de France, 1975-1976, Power: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, Volume III

15. Rolf Wiggershaus

    Author of The Frankfurt School: Its History, Theories, and Political Significance (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)

16. James C. Scott

    Author of Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

17. Günther Anders

    Author of Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen 1., Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen: Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen. Band II: Über die Zerstörung des Lebens im Zeitalter

18. Axel Honneth

    Author of The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)

19. Max Horkheimer

    Author of Dialectic of Enlightenment, Eclipse of Reason (Eclipse of Reason Ppr)

20. Max Weber

    Author of Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology (2 volume set)