Goffman was one of the most influential sociologists of the twentieth century.

Erving Goffman (June 11, 1922 - November 19, 1982) was a Canadian-born sociologist and writer, considered "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century".

Robert K. Merton, one of the most influential sociologists of the 20th century, whose coinage of terms like "self-fulfilling prophecy" and "role models" filtered from his academic pursuits into everyday language, died yesterday.

Ellsworth Faris (September 30, 1874 - December 19, 1953) was an influential sociologist of the Chicago school.

Johan Vilhelm Aubert (7 June 1922 - 19 July 1988) was an influential Norwegian sociologist.

And the most influential sociologist of culture is, without parallel, Pierre Bourdieu.

For many years Parsons was the best-known sociologist in the United States, and indeed one of the most influential and most controversial sociologists in the world.

William Simon (1930-2000) was an influential intellectual sociologist of human sexualities between 1970 and 2000.

Robert Bierstedt (1913-1998), influential sociologist at the University of Virginia and former president of the Eastern Sociological Society.

Riesman, a highly influential sociologist then, produced a social scientist's diagnosis of an American condition.