Sociology

Theorists whose primary discipline is sociology, the comparative and structural study of societies, institutions and social relations, from the founding nineteenth-century figures such as Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer through the classical triumvirate of Durkheim, Weber and Marx-era contemporaries such as Georg Simmel, to twentieth and twenty-first century theorists working in functionalist, conflict, interactionist and contemporary traditions. Belongs here: a theorist whose primary scholarly identity and institutional home is sociology. Does not belong here: a theorist trained or working primarily in anthropology, grouped under this category's own Anthropology subcategory, even where the two disciplines share a concept or a debate, per this atlas DataBrief's own instruction that sociology and anthropology are carried as standalone fields through this SubLabel split rather than as separate discipline entities.