who would you consider the most influential sociologist in the world
Please clarify: do you mean influential within the field of sociology or influential in setting public policy?
in the purely academic sense within the field of sociology
Good question. I have no idea personally. Plus the lines blur between sociologist, political scientist, evolutionary biologist, etc.
Just a thought but one way to narrow down the list is to look at sociology professional societies and their annual meetings. The chair of the annual professional meeting or the most distinguished speaker slot are sociologists who probably are very well-respected.
How about Francois Hollande?
eta: I see the OP is looking for an academic rather than somebody with political influence.
yes im looking for purely academic…
who would you consider for that?
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OOP! Sorry!
Sociologists are known experts on discontinued electronics. I once bought an 8-track player off Karl Popper.
I suppose one could Google “famous living sociologists” for a start.
Well that was risky. How did you know Popper hadn’t empirically falsified the 8 track?
Jurgen Habermas or Anthony Giddens.
Sociologists have influence?!?!
would you put William Julius Wilson in with those 2?