Erving Goffman (1922–1982)

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1. Erving Goffman

   Author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization of Gatherings, Encounters: Two Studies in the Sociology of Interaction

2. Michel Foucault

   Author of Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: The Will to Knowledge (An Introduction), Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

3. Émile Durkheim

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

4. Max Weber

   Author of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology (2 volume set)

5. Pierre Bourdieu

   Author of Outline of a Theory of Practice, Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action, An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology

6. Peter L. Berger

   Author of The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge, Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective, Homeless Mind: Modernization and Consciousness

7. C. Wright Mills

   Author of The Sociological Imagination, The Power Elite, White Collar: The American Middle Classes

8. Claude Lévi-Strauss

   Author of The Savage Mind, Structural Anthropology, The Raw and the Cooked: Mythologiques, Volume 1 (Raw & the Cooked)

9. George Herbert Mead

   Author of Mind, Self, and Society: From the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist (Works of George Herbert Mead), George Herbert Mead on Social Psychology (Heritage of Sociology Series), Movements of Thought in the Nineteenth Century

10. R. D. Laing

    Author of The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness, Self and Others, Sanity, Madness and the Family: Families of Schizophrenics

11. Clifford Geertz

    Author of The Interpretation of Cultures, Local Knowledge: Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology (Basic Books Classics)

12. Anthony Giddens

    Author of Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber, Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age, The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration

13. Jürgen Habermas

    Author of Knowledge and Human Interests, The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 1: Reason and the Rationalization of Society (The Theory of Communicative Act, Legitimation Crisis

14. Mary Douglas

    Author of Purity and Danger, Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology, How Institutions Think (Frank W. Abrams Lectures)

15. Talcott Parsons

    Author of The Social System, The Structure of Social Action, Vol. 1: Marshall, Pareto, Durkeim, The Structure of Social Action, Vol. 2

16. Georg Simmel

    Author of Georg Simmel on Individuality and Social Forms (Heritage of Sociology Series), The Philosophy of Money, Conflict And The Web Of Group Affiliations

17. Benedict Anderson

    Author of Imagined Communities

18. Karl Mannheim

    Author of Ideology and Utopia: An Introduction to the Sociology of Knowledge

19. Thorstein Veblen

    Author of The Theory of the Leisure Class

20. Thomas S. Kuhn

    Author of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change