Anthony Giddens male

Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens (born January 18, 1938) is a British sociologist who is renowned for his theory of structuration and his holistic...

Georg Simmel male, deceased

Georg Simmel (March 1, 1858 - September 28, 1918, Berlin, Germany) was one of the first generation of German sociologists. He was born to a Jewish...

Barry Wellman male

Barry Wellman, FRSC (b. 1942) directs NetLab as the S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. His areas of research are...

Peter Blau male, deceased

Peter Michael Blau (February 7, 1918-March 12, 2002) was a sociologist. Born in Vienna, Austria, he emigrated to the United States in 1939. He...

Germaine Dieterlen female, deceased

French anthropologist Germaine Dieterlen (1903-1999) was a student of Marcel Mauss and wrote on a large range of ethnographic topics and made...

Gil Vicente male, deceased

Gil Vicente <small>&lt;/small> (born c. 1465; died c.1536 or 1537) was a Portuguese playwright and poet who acted in and directed his own plays....