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Alessandro Orsini (Italian sociologist)

Alessandro Orsini, born in Naples in 1975, is an Italian sociologist of terrorism and radicalization, an associate professor at Luiss in Rome known for the DRIA model.

Dominique Schnapper

Dominique Schnapper is a French sociologist, daughter of Raymond Aron, known for her work on nation and citizenship and for serving on the Conseil constitutionnel.

Edward Shils

Edward Shils (1910–1995) was an American sociologist who spent most of his career at the University of Chicago, theorizing tradition, intellectuals, and the center and periphery of society.

Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz

Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz (1872–1905) was a Polish Marxist sociologist, philosopher, and publicist who served as chief theorist of the Polish Socialist Party and formulated the law of revolutionary retrospection.

Renata Salecl

Renata Salecl is a Slovene philosopher, sociologist, and legal theorist of the Ljubljana Lacanian school, known for books on anxiety, choice, and ignorance, including The Tyranny of Choice.

W. E. H. Stanner

William Edward Hanley Stanner, known as W. E. H. Stanner (1905–1981), was an Australian anthropologist who coined the phrase "the Great Australian silence" about Australia's forgetting of Aboriginal people.

William Isaac Thomas

William Isaac Thomas (1863–1947) was an American sociologist at the University of Chicago who coauthored The Polish Peasant in Europe and America and formulated the Thomas theorem.