V. 1. Classical social theorists. 1. Ibn Khaldun / Syed Farid Alatas
2. Auguste Comte / Mary Pickering
3. Harriett Martineau / Susan Hoecker-Drysdale
4. Alexis de Tocqueville / Laura Janara
5. Karl Marx / Robert J. Antonio
6. Herbert Spencer / Mark Francis
7. Thorstein Veblen / Ken McCormick
8. Georg Simmel / Lawrence A. Scaff
9. Émile Durkheim / Tara Milbrandt and Frank Pearce
10. Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Judith A. Allen
11. Max Weber / Stephen Kalberg
12. George Herbert Mead / Dmitri N. Shalin
13. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois / Paul C. Taylor
14. Joseph Schumpeter / Harry F. Dahms
15. Karl Mannheim / Colin Loader
16. Alfred Schutz / Jochen Dreher
17. Talcott Parsons / Victor Lidz
18. Theodor W. Adorno / Harry F. Dahms
v. 2. Contemporary social theorists.
1. Norbert Elias / Richard Kilminster and Stephen Mennell
2. Henri Lefebvre / Kanishka Goonewardena
3. Robert K. Merton / Charles Crothers
4. Harold Garfinkel / Anne Warfield Rawls
5. Erving Goffman / Greg Smith
6. Zygmunt Bauman / Peter Beilharz
7. Gilles Deleuze / Ian Buchanan
8. Richard M. Emerson / Karen S. Cook and Joseph M. Whitmeyer
9. James S. Coleman / Guillermina Jasso
10. Michel Foucault / Couze Venn
11. Dorothy E. Smith / Marie L. Campbell and Marjorie L. DeVault
12. Niklas Luhmann / Rudolf Stichweh
13. Jean Baudrillard / Douglas Kellner
14. Jürgen Habermas / William Outhwaite
15. Pierre Bourdieu / Craig Calhoun
16. Immanuel Wallerstein / Christopher Chase-Dunn and Hiroko Inoue
17. Edward W. Said / Patrick Williams
18. Anthony Giddens / Christopher G.A. Bryant and David Jary
19. Giorgio Agamben / Catherine Mills
20. Ulrich Beck / Iain Wilkinson
21. Donna Haraway / Janet Wirth-Cauchon
22. Bruno Latour / Sal Restivo
23. Judith Butler / Moya Lloyd.
