C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)

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1. C. Wright Mills

   Author of The Sociological Imagination, The Power Elite, The Marxists

2. Émile Durkheim

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

3. 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)

4. Karl Marx

   Author of The Marx-Engels Reader, Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy, Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations

5. Herbert Marcuse

   Author of One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society, Eros and Civilization : A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud, Reason and Revolution : Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory

6. Peter L. Berger

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

7. Jürgen Habermas

   Author of The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 2: Lifeworld and System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason, Legitimation Crisis, Observations on "The Spiritual Situation of the Age"

8. Erving Goffman

   Author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, Relations in Public

9. Georg Simmel

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

10. Antonio Gramsci

    Author of Selections from the Prison Notebooks, The Modern Prince and Other Writings, The Antonio Gramsci Reader: Selected Writings 1916-1935

11. Pierre Bourdieu

    Author of Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology

12. John Kenneth Galbraith

    Author of The Affluent Society, The New Industrial State, Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went

13. Albert O. Hirschman

    Author of The Passions and the Interests

14. Isaac Deutscher

    Author of Stalin: A Political Biography, The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879-1921, The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky 1921-1929

15. Clifford Geertz

    Author of The Interpretation of Cultures

16. George Herbert Mead

    Author of Mind, Self, and Society: From the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist (Works of George Herbert Mead), The Philosophy of the Present (Great Books in Philosophy)

17. Barrington Moore

    Author of Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World

18. Karl Mannheim

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

19. Anthony Giddens

    Author of Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber

20. Martin Jay

    Author of The Dialectical Imagination, Marxism and Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from Lukács to Habermas