Talcott Parsons (1902–1979)

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1. Talcott Parsons

   Author of The Social System, Toward a General Theory of Action: Theoretical Foundations for the Social Sciences, Societies - Evolutionary and Comparative Perspectives

2. Pierre Bourdieu

   Author of Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action, Pascalian Meditations, The Social Structures of the Economy

3. Jürgen Habermas

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4. Émile Durkheim

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

5. 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

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. C. Wright Mills

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

8. Anthony Giddens

   Author of The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration, Central Problems in Social Theory: Action, Structure, and Contradiction in Social Analysis, New Rules of Sociological Method

9. Reinhard Bendix

   Author of Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait, Work and Authority in Industry: Ideologies of Management in the Course of Industrialization

10. Clifford Geertz

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11. Robert K. Merton

    Author of Social Theory and Social Structure, On Theoretical Sociology

12. Robert Redfield

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13. Erving Goffman

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14. Seymour Martin Lipset

    Author of Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics, Social Mobility in Industrial Society

15. Perry Anderson

    Author of Lineages of the Absolutist State, Passages from antiquity to feudalism, In the Tracks of Historical Materialism: Wellek Library Lectures

16. Ralf Dahrendorf

    Author of Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society

17. Carl Schmitt

    Author of Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty, Political Romanticism

18. Axel Honneth

    Author of Communicative action : essays on Jürgen Habermas's The theory of communicative action

19. Philip Selznick

    Author of Leadership in Administration: A Sociological Interpretation

20. Paul A. Baran

    Author of Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order (Library of Holocaust Testimonies,), Political Economy of Growth