Randall Collins

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1. Randall Collins

   Author of The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change, The Discovery of Society, Four Sociological Traditions

2. Pierre Bourdieu

   Author of Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action, An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology, Pascalian Meditations

3. Émile Durkheim

   Author of Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Suicide, The Division of Labor in Society

4. Michael Hardwick

   Author of The Revenge of the Hound, Sherlock Holmes: My Life and Crimes, Prisoner of the Devil

5. L. B. Greenwood

   Author of Sherlock Holmes and The Case of Sabina Hall, Sherlock Holmes and the Thistle of Scotland, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Raleigh Legacy

6. Max Weber

   Author of From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology (2 volume set), General Economic History

7. Anthony Giddens

   Author of Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber, The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration, Sociology, a Brief but Critical Introduction

8. Ernst Cassirer

   Author of An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture, The Philosophy of the Enlightenment, The Myth of the State

9. Erving Goffman

   Author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience

10. Michael Kurland

    Author of The Infernal Device, My Sherlock Holmes: Untold Stories of the Great Detective

11. Stephen Edelston Toulmin

    Author of Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity, The Uses of Argument

12. Loren D. Estleman

    Author of Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes

13. Jürgen Habermas

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

14. Peter L. Berger

    Author of The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge, Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective

15. Charles Tilly

    Author of Coercion, Capital and European States: AD 990 - 1992 (Studies in Social Discontinuity), Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons, Durable Inequality

16. Jon Elster

    Author of Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences, Making Sense of Marx (Studies in Marxism and Social Theory), Alexis de Tocqueville, the First Social Scientist

17. Walter W. Powell

    Author of The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis

18. Ian Hacking

    Author of The Social Construction of What?

19. Jack Tracy

    Author of Subcutaneously, my dear Watson : Sherlock Holmes and the cocaine habit

20. Ronald Burt De Waal

    Author of The World Bibliography of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson