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Auguste Comte
French philosopher, mathematician and sociologist (1798–1857)
Michel Foucault
French philosopher (1926–1984)
Émile Durkheim
French sociologist (1858–1917)
Alexis de Tocqueville
French political thinker and historian, minister of Foreign Affairs (1805-1859)
Claude Lévi-Strauss
French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009)
Gustave Le Bon
French psychologist (1841-1931)
Pierre Bourdieu
French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher (1930–2002)
Jean Baudrillard
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist (1929–2007)
Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat de Condorcet
French philosopher, mathematician, and political scientist (1743-1794)
Raymond Aron
French philosopher, sociologist, journalist, and political scientist (1905–1983)
Marcel Mauss
French sociologist and anthropologist (1872-1950)
Bruno Latour
French sociologist and philosopher (1947–2022)
Tzvetan Todorov
Bulgarian historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist (1939-2017)
Henri Lefebvre
French philosopher (1901-1991)
Louis de Bonald
French philosopher (1754-1840)
Gabriel Tarde
French sociologist (1843–1904)
Alain Touraine
French sociologist (1925–2023)
Edgar Morin
French philosopher and sociologist (b. 1921)
Jacques Ellul
French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarchist
Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play
French engineer, sociologist and economist (1806-1882)
Maurice Halbwachs
French sociologist (1877-1945), died in Buchenwald concentration camp
Maurice Duverger
French academic (1917–2014)
Emmanuel Todd
historian, demographer, anthropologist, sociologist, political scientist
Élisabeth Badinter
French author, historian, and professor
Maxime Rodinson
French historian, sociologist and orientalist (1915–2004)
Georges Gurvitch
French sociologist (1894-1965)
Christine Delphy
French sociologist
Loïc Wacquant
French sociologist
Gilles Kepel
French political scientist and Arabist (born 1955)
François de La Rochefoucauld, 7th Duke of La Rochefoucauld
Duke of France (1747–1827)
Michel Bampély
French poet, singer
Michael Löwy
French sociologist
Gilles Lipovetsky
French philosopher, writer and sociologist
Marcel Granet
French sociologist (1884-1940)
Michel Maffesoli
French sociologist (1944-)
Serge Moscovici
Romenian social psychologist (1925-2014)
Henri Hubert
French sociologist (1872–1927)
Didier Eribon
French author and philosopher (born 1953)
Georges Palante
French philosopher and sociologist (1862–1925)
Seyhan Kurt
Turkish-French sociologist (born 1971)
Georges Balandier
French anthropologist and ethnologist (1920–2016)
Robert Hertz
French sociologist (1881–1915)
Michel Crozier
French sociologist (1922–2013)
Maurice Hauriou
French legal scholar (1856–1929)
Alfred Espinas
French academic (1844–1922)
Émile Boutmy
French political scientist and sociologist (1835–1906)
Michel Wieviorka
French sociologist
Raymond Boudon
French sociologist (1934–2013)
Gilbert Durand
French academic (1921–2012)
Célestin Bouglé
French philosopher (1870-1940)
Constantin Pecqueur
French academic and politician (1801-1887)
Ève Chiapello
French sociologist
Michel Callon
French sociologist
Marcel Gauchet
French historian, philosopher, and sociologist
René Worms
French auditor of the council of state, son of professor of political economics Émile Worms (1869-1926)
Luc Boltanski
French sociologist
René Dumont
French agronomist and sociologist (1904–2001)
Daniel Defert
French AIDS activist (1937–2023)
Pierre Naville
French sociologist (1904-1993)
Robert Escarpit
French academic, writer and journalist (1918-2000)