Hexa.Sociology

Thinkers

Who the examiner actually asks about.

Every thinker named in the last seventeen years of Sociology Optional papers, ranked by how many questions turn on them. Open any thinker to see those questions, the concepts they travel with, and the syllabus topics where they appear.

410 thinkers tagged · 128 with a full page

  1. 1M. N. Srinivas133 questions
  2. 2Max Weber118 questions
  3. 3Émile Durkheim89 questions
  4. 4André Béteille82 questions
  5. 5Karl Marx78 questions
  6. 6Amartya Sen57 questions
  7. 7Talcott Parsons44 questions
  8. 8B. R. Ambedkar40 questions
  9. 9Jan Breman38 questions
  10. 10Louis Dumont34 questions
  11. 11Sylvia Walby33 questions
  12. 12G. S. Ghurye31 questions
  13. 13Rajni Kothari29 questions
  14. 14Auguste Comte28 questions
  15. 15C. Wright Mills27 questions
  16. 16Robert K. Merton27 questions
  17. 17Anthony Giddens26 questions
  18. 18M. S. A. Rao26 questions
  19. 19Pierre Bourdieu25 questions
  20. 20A. R. Desai24 questions
  21. 21Manuel Castells24 questions
  22. 22Yogendra Singh21 questions
  23. 23Leela Dube20 questions
  24. 24Daniel Thorner19 questions
  25. 25Peter Berger19 questions
  26. 26T. N. Madan19 questions
  27. 27Verrier Elwin18 questions
  28. 28A. M. Shah17 questions
  29. 29T. K. Oommen16 questions
  30. 30Ulrich Beck16 questions
  31. 31Antonio Gramsci15 questions
  32. 32Irawati Karve15 questions
  33. 33A. R. Radcliffe-Brown14 questions
  34. 34Dipankar Gupta14 questions
  35. 35Guy Standing14 questions
  36. 36Uma Chakravarti14 questions
  37. 37Wilhelm Dilthey14 questions
  38. 38Friedrich Engels13 questions
  39. 39Louis Wirth13 questions
  40. 40Pitirim Sorokin13 questions
  41. 41Ramachandra Guha13 questions
  42. 42Utsa Patnaik12 questions
  43. 43Vilfredo Pareto12 questions
  44. 44Ann Oakley11 questions
  45. 45Gail Omvedt11 questions
  46. 46Robert Dahl11 questions
  47. 47Robert Putnam11 questions
  48. 48Walter Fernandes11 questions
  49. 49Andre Gunder Frank10 questions
  50. 50Kingsley Davis10 questions
  51. 51Paul Brass10 questions
  52. 52Alfred Schutz9 questions
  53. 53Alvin Gouldner9 questions
  54. 54George Herbert Mead9 questions
  55. 55Herbert Blumer9 questions
  56. 56Jürgen Habermas9 questions
  57. 57Jyotirao Phule9 questions
  58. 58Vandana Shiva9 questions
  59. 59William F. Ogburn9 questions
  60. 60Ashis Nandy8 questions
  61. 61Bryan Wilson8 questions
  62. 62D. N. Dhanagare8 questions
  63. 63George Peter Murdock8 questions
  64. 64Gopal Guru8 questions
  65. 65Immanuel Wallerstein8 questions
  66. 66Jawaharlal Nehru8 questions
  67. 67Keith Hart8 questions
  68. 68Madhav Gadgil8 questions
  69. 69McKim Marriott8 questions
  70. 70Meyer Fortes8 questions
  71. 71Milton Singer8 questions
  72. 72Robert Redfield8 questions
  73. 73B. K. Roy Burman7 questions
  74. 74Bronisław Malinowski7 questions
  75. 75Krishna Kumar7 questions
  76. 76M. K. Gandhi7 questions
  77. 77Myron Weiner7 questions
  78. 78Wilbert Moore7 questions
  79. 79William J. Goode7 questions
  80. 80Yogendra Yadav7 questions
  81. 81Alexis de Tocqueville6 questions
  82. 82B. B. Misra6 questions
  83. 83Benedict Anderson6 questions
  84. 84Ernst Troeltsch6 questions
  85. 85Francine Frankel6 questions
  86. 86Fredrik Barth6 questions
  87. 87G. W. F. Hegel6 questions
  88. 88Gunnar Myrdal6 questions
  89. 89Harry Braverman6 questions
  90. 90I. P. Desai6 questions
  91. 91Imtiaz Ahmad6 questions
  92. 92Melvin Tumin6 questions
  93. 93Michael Cernea6 questions
  94. 94Ralf Dahrendorf6 questions
  95. 95T. H. Marshall6 questions
  96. 96Alberto Melucci5 questions
  97. 97Amita Baviskar5 questions
  98. 98Bipan Chandra5 questions
  99. 99Claude Lévi-Strauss5 questions
  100. 100Clifford Geertz5 questions
  101. 101E. A. Ramaswamy5 questions
  102. 102Leela Fernandes5 questions
  103. 103Raja Rammohan Roy5 questions
  104. 104Robert Michels5 questions
  105. 105S. C. Dube5 questions
  106. 106Barbara Miller4 questions
  107. 107Charles Tilly4 questions
  108. 108Christophe Jaffrelot4 questions
  109. 109David Schneider4 questions
  110. 110Erving Goffman4 questions
  111. 111Frederick Winslow Taylor4 questions
  112. 112Gaetano Mosca4 questions
  113. 113Georg Simmel4 questions
  114. 114Ghanshyam Shah4 questions
  115. 115Jean Dreze4 questions
  116. 116José Casanova4 questions
  117. 117Judith Stacey4 questions
  118. 118K. M. Kapadia4 questions
  119. 119Kathleen Gough4 questions
  120. 120Maithreyi Krishnaraj4 questions
  121. 121Marc Galanter4 questions
  122. 122P. C. Joshi4 questions
  123. 123Partha Nath Mukherji4 questions
  124. 124Peter Townsend4 questions
  125. 125Ravi Srivastava4 questions
  126. 126Roy Wallis4 questions
  127. 127Thorstein Veblen4 questions
  128. 128Tulsi Patel4 questions

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Arjan de Haan 3Arjun Appadurai 3Arlie Hochschild 3Ashish Bose 3Charles Horton Cooley 3Charles Taylor 3E. B. Tylor 3Elton Mayo 3Ernest Gellner 3Fernand Braudel 3Gerald Berreman 3Goode and Hatt 3Harold Garfinkel 3Herbert Gintis 3Irudaya Rajan 3John Calvin 3Kanshi Ram 3Ludwig Feuerbach 3M. S. Gore 3Mark Holmström 3Max Müller 3Montesquieu 3Naila Kabeer 3Neera Desai 3R. W. Connell 3Rajeev Bhargava 3S. N. Eisenstadt 3Samuel Bowles 3Sharit Bhowmik 3Simone de Beauvoir 3Theda Skocpol 3A. R. Vasavi 2Alain Touraine 2Alan Bryman 2Ansley Coale 2Arthur Bentley 2Asghar Ali Engineer 2Barbara Harriss-White 2Bernard Cohn 2Bhikhu Parekh 2Bina Agarwal 2Carol Upadhya 2D. D. Kosambi 2D. N. Majumdar 2Daniel Bell 2David Truman 2E.E. Evans-Pritchard 2Edmund Husserl 2Ernesto Laclau 2F. G. Bailey 2Ferdinand Tönnies 2Fernando Cardoso 2Fernando Henrique Cardoso 2Flavia Agnes 2Gyan Prakash 2Herbert Spencer 2James Coleman 2Jean-Jacques Rousseau 2Judith Blake 2Judith Butler 2Judy Wajcman 2Karl Polanyi 2Karl Popper 2Kate Millett 2Kimberlé Crenshaw 2Leela Gulati 2Lewis Coser 2Louis Althusser 2M. N. Roy 2M. P. Jain 2Mahbub ul Haq 2Mancur Olson 2N. K. Bose 2Neil Smelser 2Nicholas Dirks 2Nivedita Menon 2Noam Chomsky 2P. C. Mahalanobis 2Partha Chatterjee 2Patricia Uberoi 2Paul Baran 2Paul Lazarsfeld 2Pauline Kolenda 2Paulo Freire 2Pavan Varma 2Peter Laslett 2Philippe Aries 2Prem Chowdhry 2Radha Kumar 2Rajni Palme Dutt 2Reena Patel 2Robert Bellah 2Robert Blauner 2Robert Havighurst 2Ruth Levitas 2Sidney Tarrow 2Steve Bruce 2Steven Lukes 2Surajit Sinha 2Tom Brass 2Verghese Kurien 2Vina Mazumdar 2Virginius Xaxa 2William Foote Whyte 2Zeynep Tufekci 2Zoya Hasan 2A. de Haan 1A. V. Thakkar 1Adam Smith 1Albert Cohen 1Alfred Sauvy 1Alfred Weber 1Almond and Powell 1Amina Wadud 1Amrita Sharma 1Anselm Strauss 1Anthony D. Smith 1Archie Carroll 1Arnold Feldman 1Ashok Rudra 1Atul Kohli 1Audrey Richards 1Barney Glaser 1Basil Bernstein 1Beatrice Webb 1Bernard Berelson 1Bertrand Russell 1C. R. Kothari 1Carole Pateman 1Christine Hine 1Condorcet 1Crane Brinton 1D. L. Sheth 1D. P. Mukerji 1Dadabhai Naoroji 1Daniel Lerner 1David Harvey 1David Held 1David Morgan 1Dayananda Saraswati 1Deniz Kandiyoti 1Diana Pearce 1Donna Haraway 1Dorothy Smith 1E. V. Ramasamy Periyar 1Eckehard Kulke 1Edward Said 1Eileen Barker 1Elaine Cumming 1Elaine Cumming and William Henry 1Elinor Ostrom 1Eric Hobsbawm 1Eric Wolf 1Ernest Renan 1Ester Boserup 1Florian Znaniecki 1Floyd Hunter 1Frances Fox Piven 1Frank Parkin 1G. E. Howard 1Gabriel Almond 1Gayatri Spivak 1George Ritzer 1Georges Friedmann 1Gerda Lerner 1Ghaus Ansari 1Granville Austin 1Gro Harlem Brundtland 1Guru Nanak 1Harold Lasswell 1Heidi Hartmann 1Heinrich Rickert 1Herbert Hyman 1Horace Kallen 1Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar 1J. F. Staal 1J. S. Furnivall 1J.M. Yinger 1James Davies 1Jean-Francois Lyotard 1Johan Galtung 1John Creswell 1John Dewey 1John McCarthy 1John Rawls 1Judy Whitehead 1K. S. Singh 1Kabir 1Kamala Kempadoo 1Kancha Ilaiah 1Karel Dobbelaere 1Karl Mannheim 1Kath Weston 1Klaus Krippendorff 1L. K. Mahapatra 1Lata Mani 1Lee Cronbach 1Leela Visaria 1Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph 1Lloyd Rudolph and Susanne Rudolph 1Loïc Wacquant 1M. S. Swaminathan 1Maria Mies 1Marshall McLuhan 1Mary John 1Mary Kaldor 1Mayer Zald 1Meyer F. Nimkoff 1Michael Levien 1Michael Marmot 1Michel Foucault 1Mike Davis 1Milton Friedman 1Mircea Eliade 1Nawal El Saadawi 1Niraja Gopal Jayal 1Norbert Wiener 1Norman Cohn 1Norman Denzin 1Oscar Lewis 1P. V. Young 1Patricia Hill Collins 1Paul Hatt 1Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann 1Peter Worsley 1Philip Abrams 1R. C. Dutt 1R. K. Mukherjee 1Rajinder Sachar 1Ralph Turner 1Ramkrishna Mukherjee 1Ranajit Guha 1Randall Collins 1Raul Prebisch 1Ravenstein 1Raymond Boudon 1Reinhard Bendix 1Robert E. Park 1Robert Kozinets 1Roethlisberger and Dickson 1Roland Robertson 1Ron Lesthaeghe 1Rosabeth Moss Kanter 1Roscoe Pound 1Ruth Vanita 1S. M. Lipset 1Saint-Simon 1Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis 1Samuel Stouffer 1Sandra Harding 1Saskia Sassen 1Savitribai Phule 1Serena Nanda 1Sharad Joshi 1Sharmila Rege 1Sharon Zukin 1Sheila Jasanoff 1Sherry Turkle 1Sidney Webb 1Stanley Milgram 1Stark and Bainbridge 1Surinder Jodhka 1T. J. Byres 1T. M. Luhrmann 1Ted Gurr 1Theotonio dos Santos 1Thomas Malthus 1Thomas Piketty 1Upendra Baxi 1V. I. Lenin 1Veronica Beechey 1Viviana Zelizer 1Voltaire 1W. Arthur Lewis 1W. H. R. Rivers 1W. I. Thomas 1W. W. Rostow 1Wilhelm Windelband 1Will Kymlicka 1William F. Whyte 1William Graham Sumner 1Zygmunt Bauman 1