- Robin Hanson
Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University. He is known as an expert on idea futures markets and was involved in the creation of the Foresight Exchange and DARPA's FutureMAP project. Hanson has expressed great disappointment in the cancellation of the FutureMAP project, and he attributes this to the controversy surrounding the related Total Information Awareness program.
- Fernand Braudel
Fernand Braudel (August 24 1902-November 27 1985) was a French historian. He revolutionized the 20th century study of his discipline by considering the effects of such outside disciplines as economics, anthropology, and geography on global history. He was a prominent member of the Annales School of historiography, who concentrated on meticulous historical analysis in the social sciences
- Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels was a German social scientist and philosopher, who developed communist theory alongside his better-known collaborator, Karl Marx, co-authoring "The Communist Manifesto" (1848). Engels also edited the second and third volumes of "Das Kapital" after Marx's death.
- Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal, (June 19 1623-August 19 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators, the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli.
- Stein Rokkan
Stein Rokkan was a Norwegian political scientist and sociologist. He was a professor in comparative politics at the University of Bergen. Originally educated as a philosopher, Rokkan collaborated in the 1940s and 1950s with Arne Næss as his research assistant. Later on, his interest turned towards the study of politics, especially the formation of political parties and European nation-states. It was during this period that he collaborated with Seymour Martin Lipset, …
- Émile Durkheim
Émile Durkheim was a French sociologist whose contributions were instrumental in the formation of sociology and anthropology. His work and editorship of the first journal of sociology (L'Année Sociologique) helped establish sociology within the academy as an accepted social science. During his lifetime, Durkheim gave many lectures, and published numerous sociological studies on subjects such as education, crime, religion, suicide, and many other aspects of society.
- Donald T. Campbell
Donald Thomas Campbell (November 20 1916 - May 5, 1996) was an American social scientist. He is noted for his work in methodology. He coined the term "evolutionary epistemology" and developed a selectionist theory of human creativity. He made contributions in a wide range of disciplines like psychology, sociology, anthropology, biology and philosophy. He taught at Lehigh University, which established the Donald T. Campbell Social Science Research Prizes.
- Sharon Zukin
Sharon Zukin is a professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and the Graduate School, City University of New York. She is the author of "Loft Living, Landscapes of Power", and "The Culture of Cities". Her current work includes the study of culture and economy, shopping and spaces of consumption, urban development and art, and real estate as well as racial ghettos.
- Martin Jay
Martin Jay (born 1944) is the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a renowned Intellectual Historian and his research has revolved around Marxism, the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, and other moments and concepts in German History. He received his B.A from Union College in 1965. In 1971, he completed his Ph.D. in History at Harvard under the tutelage of H. Stuart Hughes.
- Karl Deutsch
Karl Wolfgang Deutsch (1912 - 1992) was a German-American social and political scientist. His work focused on the study of war and peace, nationalism, co-operation and communication. He is also well known for his interest in introducing quantitative methods and formal system analysis and model-thinking into the rather rhetorical field of political and social sciences, and is one of the most well known social scientists of the 20th century.
- David Butler
Dr. David Butler (born 17 October 1924) is a Social Scientist and Psephologist. His most important work is the Nuffield Election Studies of each United Kingdom General Election since 1945. Since 1974, these studies have been co-written with Dennis Kavanagh. He was an on-screen expert on the BBC's election coverage from the 1950 election to the 1979 election, and was a co-inventor of the swingometer. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.
- David Gauntlett
David Gauntlett (b. March 15, 1971) is a sociologist specialising in the study of contemporary media audiences, and the role of media in shaping self-identity. He took his PhD and then taught at the University of Leeds, UK, from 1993 to 2002, then at the age of 31, was appointed Professor of Media and Audiences at Bournemouth University, UK. In September 2006 he joined the School of Media, Arts and Design at the University of Westminster, London, …
- Robert J. Gordon
Robert J. Gordon is an economics professor at Northwestern University. He also holds the title of "Stanley G. Harris Professor in the social sciences". He is an expert on measuring and explaining productivity growth, the causes of unemployment and airline economics. From 1995-1997 he served on the Boskin Commission to assess the accuracy of the United States Consumer Price Index (CPI), having written the definitive criticism of CPI inflation-overstatement in 1990.
- Paul Dourish
Paul Dourish is a computer scientist best known for his work at the intersection of computer science and social science. He is a professor at the University of California, Irvine, where he joined the faculty in 2000. Born and raised in Glasgow, Dourish received a B.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh in 1989. While at Rank Xerox EuroPARC (later the Xerox Research Center Europe) in Cambridge, UK, …
- Alfred Schütz
Alfred Schütz was a philosopher and sociologist. He was born in Austria, studied law in Vienna, worked as an international businessperson for Reitler and Company, and moved to the United States ]]in 1939, where he became a member of the faculty of the New School for Social Research. He worked on phenomenology, social science methodology and the philosophy of Edmund Husserl, William James and others.
- Kenneth E. Boulding
Kenneth Ewart Boulding (January 18 1910 - March 18 1993) was an economist, educator, peace activist, poet, religious mystic, devoted Quaker, systems scientist, and interdisciplinary philosopher. He was born in Liverpool, England, graduated from Oxford University, and granted United States citizenship in 1948. During the years 1949 to 1967, he was a faculty member of the University of Michigan.
- Preston McAfee
R. Preston McAfee (born July 7, 1956) is the J. Stanley Johnson Professor of Business, Economics, and Management at the California Institute of Technology, where he is the executive officer for the social sciences. He teaches business strategy, managerial economics, and introductory microeconomics. McAfee has joined Yahoo! Research as Research Fellow and Vice President. He leads a group focused on microeconomics research.
- Achille Mbembe
Achille Mbembe was born in Cameroon in 1957. He obtained his Ph. D. in History at the University of Sorbonne in Paris, France, in 1989. He subsequently obtained a D.E.A. in Political Science at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in the same city. As one of the most sought-after postcolonial theorists of today, he has spent time working at Columbia University, New York, Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C., University of Pennsylvania, University of California, Berkeley, …
- Adolphe Quetelet
Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quételet was a Flemish astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist. He founded and directed the Brussels Observatory and was influential in introducing statistical methods to the social sciences. Some French-language sources give his last name as Quetelet, with no accent.
- Derek Wall
Derek Wall PhD is a British politician and current Principal Speaker of the Green Party of England and Wales as well as an environmental and social activist, academic and writer whose work concentrates on eco-socialism and the relationship between Marxism and the environment. Wall is also a Zen-practitioner and keeps a regular blog. =Academic Career= Wall teaches political economy at Goldsmiths College, University of London, …
- Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot is an American sociologist who examines the culture of schools, the patterns and structures of classroom life, socialization within families and communities, and the relationships between culture and learning styles. Lawrence-Lightfoot has pioneered portraiture, an approach to social science methodology that bridges the realms of aesthetics and empiricism. Lawrence-Lightfoot has written eight books, including "I've Known Rivers", …
- Os Guinness
Os Guinness is a writer and social critic living in McLean, Virginia. Born in China during World War II where his parents were medical missionaries, he is the great-great grandson of Arthur Guinness, the famous Dublin brewer. He started school at a boarding school in China, and remained there until 1951 when the communists forced most foreigners to leave. Since then he has lived mostly in England, Switzerland, and the United States.
- John Heron
John Heron (b. 1928) is a pioneer in the creation of a participatory research method in the social sciences, called co-operative inquiry, originally based on his experiences and training in Re-evaluation Counselling, which has been applied by practitioners in many fields of professional and personal development. He is committed to the process of co-operative inquiry, in whatever field it is applied, as a basic form of relational and participative spiritual practice.
- Prabhat Patnaik
Prabhat Patnaik is an Indian social scientist. He is a professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning in the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. He has written for several journals, such as "Monthly Review" and "Political Affairs". He is the author of eight books on economics, imperialism, Marxism and India. He is currently Vice-chairman of the Planning Commission of the Indian state of Kerala.
- John Grady
John James Grady (born 1923) is an Australian author and academic. While a senior lecturer at the Newcastle College of Advanced Education in Newcastle, NSW, he wrote two text books for social science students.
- William Irwin Thompson
William Irwin Thompson (born July 16, 1938) is known primarily as a social philosopher and cultural critic, but has recently been writing mostly poetry. He has made significant contributions to cultural history, social criticism, the philosophy of science, and the study of myth. He describes his writing and speaking style as "mind-jazz on ancient texts". He is an astute reader of science, social science, history, and literature.
- Roger Shepard
Roger Newland Shepard (born January 30, 1929 in Palo Alto, California) is a cognitive scientist and author of "Toward a Universal Law of Generalization for Psychological Science". He is seen as the father of spatial relations and obtained his Ph.D. in psychology at Yale University in 1955 where he was a member of Skull and Bones society. In 1995, Shepard received National Medal of Science for his contributions in the field of cognitive science.
- Patricia Broadfoot
Patricia M. Broadfoot (born 13 July 1949 in Kingswood, Gloucestershire) is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Gloucestershire. Broadfoot's main academic interests are in sociology and educational assessment. This began with her studies at the University of Leeds, from where she graduated in 1971 with a BA in sociology. She spent the following year obtaining a PGCE at the University of London, …
- W. B. Gallie
Walter Bryce Gallie was a British social theorist, political theorist and philosopher. Gallie grew up in a British boarding school and later published his memoirs of this in the book "An English School". He taught at University College, North Staffordshire, where he published (among other things) "Explanations in History and the Genetic Sciences" (Mind, Vol. 64, No. 254 [Apr. 1955], pp. 160–180).
- James E. Davis
James E. Davis was a New York City police officer, corrections officer and councilmember. He was killed by a fellow politician in New York's City Hall, in a bizarre instance of political rivalry gone awry. Davis was born and raised in Brooklyn, the son of a corrections officer and a registered nurse. He spent his early childhood in Bedford-Stuyvesant before his family moved to Crown Heights.
- Geoff Walsham
Geoff Walsham (born 1946 in Manchester), is an English scholar in the Social Study of Information Systems and IT in developing countries. He is credited with starting off interpretive research in the field of Information Systems through his book "Interpreting Information Systems in Organizations" (Wiley, 1993). After studying Mathematics at the University of Oxford, he worked as an operational researcher at BP, and later gained an MA at Warwick University.
- Jerome C. Glenn
Jerome C. Glenn is co-founder and Director of the Millennium Project and Executive Director of the American Council for the United Nations University. He is known for inventing of the Futures wheel technique and is cited as an expert on Future studies methodology by RAND Corporation. As Director of the Millennium Project, Glenn is the primary author on their annual State of the Future reports.
- Jean-Claude Schmitt
Jean-Claude Schmitt (born March 4 1946 in Colmar) is a prominent French medievalist, the former student of Jacques Le Goff. He studies the socio-cultural aspects of medieval history in Western Europe and has made important contributions in his use of anthropological and art historical methods to interpret history. His most significant work has dealt with the relationships among elites and laymen in medieval life, particularly in the realm of religious culture, …
- François Houtart
François Houtart is a Belgian sociologist and catholic priest. He studied philosophy and theology at the seminary of Mechelen (Belgium) and became a priest in 1949. He earned a masters degree in political and social sciences at the Catholic university of Leuven (Belgium). He earned a degree at the International Superior Institute of Urbanism (Brussels, Belgium).
- François Simiand
François Simiand was a French sociologist and economist best known as a participant in the Année Sociologique. As a member of the French Historical School of economics, Simiand predicated a rigorous factual and statistical basis for theoretical models and policies. His contribution to French social science was recognized in 1931 when, at the age of 58, he was elected to the faculty of the Collège de France and accepted the chair in labor history.
- Sally Baldwin
Sally Baldwin (4 November 1940-28 October 2003) was a former University of York social sciences professor, who was killed by an automatic escalator. Sally was born in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland. At the University of Glasgow she studied English Language and Literature, in which she gained a first class degree. She later moved to the University of York, where she gained a diploma in social administration in 1973.
- Erlendur Haraldsson
Erlendur Haraldsson is a Professor emeritus Faculty of social science at the University of Iceland who, despite having retired from his former post at the University of Iceland, continues to be an active academic. He has published work in various parapsychology journals, and done work with Ian Stevenson and Karlis Osis researching reincarnation. As well as doing work in Iceland, Haraldsson worked in the United States and at the University of Freiburg, in Germany.
- Michael Bounds
Michael Bounds is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Western Sydney. Bounds lectures in urban sociology, social impact of urban development, housing, social and demographic change, impact on urban development, public housing, gentrification, development and cultural change in suburbs, master planned estates in Sydney From 1996 to 2002 Bounds was head of the former School of Sociology and Justice Studies at UWS.
- Lorenzo Booker
Lorenzo Booker (born June 14, 1984 in Oxnard, California) is an American football running back who currently plays for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Dolphins in the third round (71st overall) of the 2007 NFL Draft. He played collegiately at Florida State.
- Tun Myint
Dr. Tun Myint (b. 1970) was born in Andaw Village, Yinmarbin Township, Sagaing Division of the Upper Burma. His parents, U Khin Maung and Daw Phwa Gyi, were farmers. He has five brothers all of whom reside in Myanmar. He was schooled at the village monastery in Andaw Village until 2nd standard. His parents then transferred him to the village elementary school where he completed his 3rd and 4th standard education.