Norbert Elias (1897–1990)

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1. Norbert Elias

   Author of The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations, The Court Society, Involvement and Detachment

2. Pierre Bourdieu

   Author of On Television, Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action, Pascalian Meditations

3. Jürgen Habermas

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

4. Émile Durkheim

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

5. Peter Burke

   Author of Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe, The Italian Renaissance, History and Social Theory

6. Max Weber

   Author of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, The Sociology of Religion

7. Carlo Ginzburg

   Author of The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century, Wooden Eyes: Nine Reflections on Distance

8. E.P. Thompson

   Author of Making of the English Working Class, Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture, Whigs And Hunters: The Origin Of The Black Act

9. Erving Goffman

   Author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization of Gatherings

10. Clifford Geertz

    Author of The Interpretation of Cultures, Local Knowledge: Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology (Basic Books Classics), Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author

11. E. J. Hobsbawm

    Author of The Invention of Tradition, Nations and Nationalism Since 1780, Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz

12. Philippe Aries

    Author of The Hour of Our Death, Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life, Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present

13. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

    Author of Montaillou : Cathars and Catholics in a French village, 1294-1324, Carnival in Romans, The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga

14. 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)

15. Paul Veyne

    Author of Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths?: An Essay on the Constitutive Imagination, Comment on écrit l'histoire, Bread and Circuses: Historical Sociology and Political Pluralism

16. Claude Lévi-Strauss

    Author of Tristes Tropiques, The Savage Mind, Race et histoire

17. 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

18. Fernand Braudel

    Author of The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Vol. 2, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, The Identity of France

19. Marc Bloch

    Author of Feudal society, The Royal Touch: Monarchy and Miracles in France and England

20. Georges Duby

    Author of A History of Private Life, Volume II: Revelations of the Medieval World, The Knight, the Lady and the Priest: The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France