1926–1984 · Contemporary
Michel Foucault
Philosophy
Showed how institutions, discourse, knowledge, and power shape subjects, bodies, norms, and truth regimes.
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1948–present · Contemporary
Patricia Hill Collins
Sociology
Sociologist of Black feminist thought and controlling images.
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1921–1997 · Contemporary
Paulo Freire
Education
Turned education into a practice of dialogue, dignity, and liberation from internalized oppression.
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1909–2005 · Modern
Peter Drucker
Management Thought
Management thinker of institutions, knowledge work, and responsibility.
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1842–1921 · Modern
Peter Kropotkin
Political Thought
Anarchist thinker of mutual aid, cooperation, and decentralized society.
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1930–2002 · Modern
Pierre Bourdieu
Sociology
Sociologist of habitus, capital, taste, and symbolic power.
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1871–1919 · Modern
Rosa Luxemburg
Political Thought
Revolutionary theorist of democracy, capitalism, and mass action.
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1951–present · Contemporary
Shoshana Zuboff
Social Theory
Theorist of surveillance capitalism and digital power.
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1932–2014 · Modern
Stuart Hall
Cultural Theory
Cultural theorist of identity, media, race, and representation.
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1930–present · Contemporary
Thomas Sowell
Economics
Economist and social theorist of tradeoffs, knowledge, and incentives.
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1868–1963 · Modern
W.E.B. Du Bois
Social Theory
Founded modern Black sociology and analyzed race, democracy, education, empire, and the color line.
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