Mitchell Duneier

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1. Émile Durkheim

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

2. Mitchell Duneier

   Author of Sidewalk, Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity

3. Howard S. Becker

   Author of Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Pub, Outsiders

4. William Julius Wilson

   Author of When Work Disappears : The World of the New Urban Poor, The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy, The Declining Significance of Race : Blacks and Changing American Institutions

5. Max Weber

   Author of From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology (2 volume set), The Methodology Of The Social Sciences

6. Frances Fox Piven

   Author of Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail, Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare

7. Pierre Bourdieu

   Author of Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, The Logic of Practice

8. Walter W. Powell

   Author of The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis

9. Elijah Anderson

   Author of Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City, Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community

10. Claude S. Fischer

    Author of Inequality by Design

11. Georg Simmel

    Author of Georg Simmel on Individuality and Social Forms (Heritage of Sociology Series)

12. Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

    Author of American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto

13. Douglas Massey

    Author of American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass

14. Jane Jacobs

    Author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities

15. C. Wright Mills

    Author of The Sociological Imagination

16. James Coleman

    Author of Foundations of Social Theory

17. Paul Willis

    Author of Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs

18. Jay MacLeod

    Author of Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood

19. Stephen Steinberg

    Author of The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in America

20. Charles C. Ragin

    Author of The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies