Tariq Said Ramadan (1962)

Cornel West (1953)

Neil Postman (1931-2003) author of "Amusing Ourselves to Death"

Immanuel Wallerstein (1930)

Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)

Amitai Etzioni (1929) famous for his work on communitarianism: a philosophy of

global governance based on the principles of the Kibbutz movement in which he was brought up

Ralf Dahrendorf (1929)

Jean Baudrillard (1929)

Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998)

Michel Foucault (1926-1984) called himself a historian of thought, held that

individuals are controlled by their own knowledge as self forming subjects

Michel de Certeau (1925-1986)

Jean Francois Lyotard (1924-1998) defined postmodernism,

Louis Althusser (1918-1990)

Charles Wright Mills (1916-1962) The Power Elite

Roland Barthes (1915-1980) post structuralist literary critic and essayist,

Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) famous for coining 

the phrase "The medium is the message"

Robert King Merton (1910-2003) best known for having coined the phrases

"self-fulfilling prophecy", "role model" and "unintended consequences"

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969)

Talcott Parsons (1902-1979)

Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979)

Georges Bataille (1897-1962) 

Max Horkheimer (1895-1973)

Karl Mannheim (1893-1947)

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)

Georg Lukacs (1885-1971)

Florian Znaniecki (1882-1958)

Otto Neurath (1882-1945)

Oswald Spengler (1880-1936) author of "Prussianism and Socialism"

as well as "The Decline of the West" which argues that the development

of civilizations follows a recognizable cyclical pattern

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963)

Grigorij Jefimowitsch Rasputin (1865-1916) was a Russian 

mystic who had influence on Russia's Romanov dynasty

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (1864-1929)

Max Weber (1864-1920)

Georg Simmel (1858-1918)

Émile Durkheim (1858-1917)

Georgy Valentinovich Plekhanov (1856-1918) father of russian marxism,

Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936)

Karl Kautsky (1854-1938)

Eduard Bernstein (1850-1932)

Georges Sorel (1847-1922) social activist, reflections on violence, introduced 

myth rather than reason as the correct way to interpret social totality

Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904)

Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (1842-1921) was one of Russia's foremost anarchists and one of the first

advocates of what he called "anarchist communism", his main work is entitled "Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution"

Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911)

Pierre Laffitte (1823-1903) on the schism of the Positivist body which followed Comte's death, he was

recognized as head of the section which accepted the full Comtian doctrine; the other section adhering

to Littre, rejected the religion of humanity as inconsistent with the materialism of Comte's earlier period

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)

Karl Marx (1818-1883)

Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876) wrote the first Russian translation of

the Communist Manifesto, founded the Social Democratic Alliance

Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)

Auguste Comte (1798-1855)

Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406)

Abu Bakr Ibn Tufayl (1105-1186)

Abu Nasr al Farabi (870-950)