Sociologists' Birthdays

January 11th, (1841): William James

January 18th, (1842): Lester Ward

January 19^th (1798): August Comte

January 21^st (1889): Pitirim Sorokin

January 26th, (1884): Edward Sapir

February 7^th (1918): Peter Blau

February 14^th (1864): Robert Park

February 23rd (1868): W.E.B. Du Bois

February 27^th (1863): George Herbert Mead

March 1^st (1858): Georg Simmel

March 12th, (1843): Gabriel Tarde

March 18th, (1922): Seymour Martin Lipset

March 23rd, (1855): Franklin Giddings

March 23rd, (1900): Erich Fromm

April 15^th, (1858): Emile Durkheim

April 17th, (1882): Robert MacIver

April 24th, (1897): Benjamin Whorf

April 24^th, (1864): Max Weber

May 5^th, (1818): Karl Marx

May 6th, (1856): Sigmund Freud

May 11th, (1854): Albion Small

May 12th, (1843): Frederick Le Play

May 16th, (1886): Ernest Burgess

May 29th, (1880): Oswald Spengler

June 5th, (1887): Ruth Benedict

June 8^th, (1903): Jessie Bernard

June 11^th (1922): Erving Goffman

June 12th, (1802): Harriet Martineau

June 29th, (1886): William Ogburn

July 5th, (1910): Robert Merton

July 9th, (1858): Franz Boas

July 15th, (1848): Vilfredo Pareto

July 19th, (1898): Hebert Marcuse

July 26th, (1855): Ferdinand Toennies

July 29th, (1805): Alexis de Tocqueville

July 30th, (1857): Thorstein Veblen

August 13th, (1863): W. I. Thomas

August 17th, (1864): Charles Horton Cooley

August 20th, (1908): Kingsley Davis

August 28th, (1897): Louis Wirth

August 28^th (1916): C. Wright Mills

September 6 (1860): Jane Addams

September 28^th (1930): Immanuel Wallerstein

December 2nd (1921): Otis Dudley Duncan

December 13th (1902): Talcott Parsons

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