Sociologists and Social Theorists

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"'Critical' does not mean destructive, but only willing to examine what we sometimes presuppose in our way of thinking, and that gets in the way of making a more livable world."  ~ Judith Butler
"'Critical' does not mean destructive, but only willing to examine what we sometimes presuppose in our way of thinking, and that gets in the way of making a more livable world."  ~ Judith Butler (b. 1956)

Theorists: Judith Butler

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"In a white supremacist culture, isn’t the most dangerous thing Black people can do is to begin to love ourselves?"  ~ bell hooks, off our backs, july 1993 [click on this image to find a short video featuring a recreation of Dr. Kenneth Clark's famous “doll test” from the 1940s, which demonstrates the psychological effects of segregation on black children]
"I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance."  ~ bell hooks (1952 - )  Gloria Jean Watkins adopted her pen name, bell hooks, from her maternal great-grandmother Bell Blair Hooks.  [Click on this image to find a video and analysis exploring bell hooks notion of "eating the other" applied to Miley Cyrus]

Theorists: bell hooks

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Patricia Hill Collins  "I want to get intersectional with you."  Artist: Zoe Caplan
"The potential significance of Black feminist thought goes far beyond demonstrating that African-American women can be theorists. Like Black feminist practice, which it reflects and which it seeks to foster, Black feminist thought can create a collective identity among African-American women about the dimensions of a Black women's standpoint. Through the process of rearticulating...
Patricia Hill Collins is Distinguished Prof of Sociology at the University of Maryland. She is perhaps best known for her book Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment. In it, she argues that there is no single, monolithic oppression, but instead, multiple oppressions working together to produce injustice.

Theorists: Patricia Hill Collins

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"Your silence will not protect you."   was born in New York City and is known widely as an Caribbean-American writer, poet, social theorist and activist. She described herself as a "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet."  Lorde was an forceful critic of many second wave feminists for focusing on the particular experiences and values of white middle-class women...  Artist: Jen Keenan
"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare." ~ Audre Lorde

Theorists: Audre Lorde

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Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist, anthropologist & philosopher. He pioneered investigative frameworks & concepts such as cultural, social & symbolic capital, & habitus, field, & symbolic violence.

Theorists: Pierre Bourdieu

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Spider-man: With great power comes great responsibility.  Foucault: Actually, I don't think that this is how power works. Power is not like...  Spider-man: Oh, shut up.
Just doing some casual self-surveillance while engaging in processes of normalization, by shaping (and being shaped by) the field of documentation that is the gigantic Panopticon of facebook lol

Theorists: Michel Foucault

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"I have tried to be objective. I do not claim to be detached." ~ C. Wright Mills
C. Wright Mills: "I don't always have personal troubles, but when I do, I prefer connecting them to public issues"
[click on this image for a short video and analysis of Mills' sociological imagination]

Theorists: C.W. Mills

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"One can not start by saying our earthly destiny has or has not importance for it depends on us to give it importance."    ~ Simone de Beauvoir
"Self-Construction" - Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986), Paired with Frida Kahlo for their shared interest in self-portrayal and the social construction of femininity.

Theorists: Simone de Beauvoir

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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. ~ Hannah Arendt was a political theorist. Arendt's work deals with the nature of power, and the subjects of politics, authority, and totalitarianism.
"You say philosophy is generally considered a masculine occupation. It need not remain a masculine occupation."  ~ Hannah Arendt was a German-American political theorist. She often has been described as a philosopher, although she rejected that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular" and instead, she described herself as a political theorist because her work centers on the fact that "men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the world."
"To lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking and cease to ask unanswerable questions [would be to] lose not only the ability to produce those thought-things that we call works of art, but also the capacity to ask all the answerable questions upon which every civilization is founded." ~Hannah Arendt, "The Life of Mind," 1978| Hannah Arendt was a German-American political theorist. Arendt's work deals with the nature of power, and the subjects of politics, authority, and totalitarianism.

Theorists: Hannah Arendt

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Antonio Gramsci was an Italian political theorist and a founding member of the Communist Party of Italy. Gramsci is known as a theorist who worked from a Marxist foundation to produce highly original analyses of culture and political leadership.
"Hegemony can be characterized in this way."  Gramsci was an Italian political theorist, who worked from a Marxist foundation to produce a highly original analysis of culture and political leadership. His concept of Cultural hegemony continues to be useful for culturally oriented scholars, and particularly those who seek to understand the nature of class power.  Artist: Borin Van Loon, in Marxism: A Graphic Guide
Antonio Gramsci was an Italian political theorist, who worked from a Marxist foundation to produce a highly original analysis of culture and political leadership. His concept of cultural hegemony continues to be useful for culturally oriented scholars, and particularly those who seek to understand the nature of class power - Artist: Ricardo Figueroa

Theorists: Antonio Gramsci

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An activist, sociologist, writer, and brilliant scholar, W.E.B Du Bois penned 21 books in his lifetime and over 100 significant essays. He was also the first black man to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard. His seminal work, The Souls of Black Folk, was groundbreaking in 1903—dissecting the emancipation of blacks and its effects on African Americans in the 40 years since. Artist: Railroad Street Youth Project
"Back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem and that is the fact that so many civilized person's are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance, and disease of the majority of their fellowmen, that to maintain this privilege men have waged war until today war tends to become universal and continuous." ~ W.E.B. Du Bois

Theorists: W.E.B. Dubois

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Artist: Moore
Weber's contributions to sociology are too many to count, but chief among them is his articulation of the way cultural change produced the conditions necessary for the rise of capitalism.

Theorists: Max Weber

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Durkheim made innumerable contributions to the young discipline of sociology, but he is most often lauded for his demonstration that even a personal act, such as suicide, is powerfully shaped by social forces.  Artist: Marman
Artist: Moore

Theorists: Emile Durkheim

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Artist: Igor Petrygin-Rodionov
This is not Santa

Theorists: Karl Marx

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An activist, sociologist, writer, and brilliant scholar, W.E.B Du Bois penned 21 books in his lifetime and over 100 significant essays. He was also the first black man to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard. His seminal work, The Souls of Black Folk, was groundbreaking in 1903—dissecting the emancipation of blacks and its effects on African Americans in the 40 years since. Artist: Railroad Street Youth Project Fictional Characters, Man, African, Artist, Activist, Folk, Mural, Du Bois, Scholar
W.E. B. Du Bois (Feb 23, 1868 - Aug 27, 1963)
An activist, sociologist, writer, and brilliant scholar, W.E.B Du Bois penned 21 books in his lifetime and over 100 significant essays. He was also the first black man to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard. His seminal work, The Souls of Black Folk, was groundbreaking in 1903—dissecting the emancipation of blacks and its effects on African Americans in the 40 years since. Artist: Railroad Street Youth Project
Artist: Igor Petrygin-Rodionov Groningen, Steampunk, Vodka, Portrait, Russia Putin, Soviet Union, Russian Memes, Soviet, Famous Faces
Karl Marx: "I'll be back!"
Artist: Igor Petrygin-Rodionov
Durkheim made innumerable contributions to the young discipline of sociology, but he is most often lauded for his demonstration that even a personal act, such as suicide, is powerfully shaped by social forces.  Artist: Marman Ipa, Art, Instagram, Caricature, Inspiration, Caricatures, Caricature Drawing
Emile Durkheim (1858 - 1917)
Durkheim made innumerable contributions to the young discipline of sociology, but he is most often lauded for his demonstration that even a personal act, such as suicide, is powerfully shaped by social forces. Artist: Marman
"Your silence will not protect you."   was born in New York City and is known widely as an Caribbean-American writer, poet, social theorist and activist. She described herself as a "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet."  Lorde was an forceful critic of many second wave feminists for focusing on the particular experiences and values of white middle-class women...  Artist: Jen Keenan Humour, Lorde, Audre Lorde Quotes, Audre Lorde, Black Authors, Feminist Quotes, Silence, Empowering Quotes, Black History Month
Audre Lorde (1934 - 1992)
"Your silence will not protect you." was born in New York City and is known widely as an Caribbean-American writer, poet, social theorist and activist. She described herself as a "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet." Lorde was an forceful critic of many second wave feminists for focusing on the particular experiences and values of white middle-class women... Artist: Jen Keenan
Antonio Gramsci was an Italian political theorist and a founding member of the Communist Party of Italy. Gramsci is known as a theorist who worked from a Marxist foundation to produce highly original analyses of culture and political leadership. Sociologist, Ideas Are Bulletproof, Theories, Fotos, Culture, Social Issues, Ceramica
Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937)
Antonio Gramsci was an Italian political theorist and a founding member of the Communist Party of Italy. Gramsci is known as a theorist who worked from a Marxist foundation to produce highly original analyses of culture and political leadership.
"Hegemony can be characterized in this way."  Gramsci was an Italian political theorist, who worked from a Marxist foundation to produce a highly original analysis of culture and political leadership. His concept of Cultural hegemony continues to be useful for culturally oriented scholars, and particularly those who seek to understand the nature of class power.  Artist: Borin Van Loon, in Marxism: A Graphic Guide Nature, Masters, Motivation, Literary Theory, Sociological Research, Political Environment, Sociology Theory
Antonio Gramsci (1891 – 1937)
"Hegemony can be characterized in this way." Gramsci was an Italian political theorist, who worked from a Marxist foundation to produce a highly original analysis of culture and political leadership. His concept of Cultural hegemony continues to be useful for culturally oriented scholars, and particularly those who seek to understand the nature of class power. Artist: Borin Van Loon, in Marxism: A Graphic Guide
Antonio Gramsci was an Italian political theorist, who worked from a Marxist foundation to produce a highly original analysis of culture and political leadership. His concept of cultural hegemony continues to be useful for culturally oriented scholars, and particularly those who seek to understand the nature of class power - Artist: Ricardo Figueroa Marxist, Vida, Dieselpunk, Sanat, Communism, Italian Posters, Cccp, Ussr
Antonio Gramsci (1891 – 1937)
Antonio Gramsci was an Italian political theorist, who worked from a Marxist foundation to produce a highly original analysis of culture and political leadership. His concept of cultural hegemony continues to be useful for culturally oriented scholars, and particularly those who seek to understand the nature of class power - Artist: Ricardo Figueroa
Antonio Gramsci - Writing on political theory, sociology, and linguistics, Gramsci is an activist and journalist who identified the role that culture and education had within Marx's theories of economics, politics, and class. He is best known for his Prison Notebooks, a collection of work while imprisoned fascist regime 1926-1935.  #Hegemony #SubalternBloc #CivilSociety #PoliticalSociety Popular, Political Theory, Journalist, Civil Society, Antonio
Antonio Gramsci (1891 – 1937)
Antonio Gramsci - Writing on political theory, sociology, and linguistics, Gramsci is an activist and journalist who identified the role that culture and education had within Marx's theories of economics, politics, and class. He is best known for his Prison Notebooks, a collection of work while imprisoned fascist regime 1926-1935. #Hegemony #SubalternBloc #CivilSociety #PoliticalSociety
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. ~ Hannah Arendt was a political theorist. Arendt's work deals with the nature of power, and the subjects of politics, authority, and totalitarianism. Inspirational Quotes, Sayings, Quotes, Quotations, Albert Einstein, Philosophical Quotes, Quote Posters, Words Of Wisdom
Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. ~ Hannah Arendt was a political theorist. Arendt's work deals with the nature of power, and the subjects of politics, authority, and totalitarianism.
"You say philosophy is generally considered a masculine occupation. It need not remain a masculine occupation."  ~ Hannah Arendt was a German-American political theorist. She often has been described as a philosopher, although she rejected that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular" and instead, she described herself as a political theorist because her work centers on the fact that "men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the world." Wise Words, Writers And Poets, Philosophy Of Science, Intelligence Quotes, Intersectional Feminism, Intersectionality, Critical Theory
Hannah Arendt (1906 – 1975)
"You say philosophy is generally considered a masculine occupation. It need not remain a masculine occupation." ~ Hannah Arendt was a German-American political theorist. She often has been described as a philosopher, although she rejected that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular" and instead, she described herself as a political theorist because her work centers on the fact that "men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the world."
"To lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking and cease to ask unanswerable questions [would be to] lose not only the ability to produce those thought-things that we call works of art, but also the capacity to ask all the answerable questions upon which every civilization is founded." ~Hannah Arendt, "The Life of Mind," 1978| Hannah Arendt was a German-American political theorist. Arendt's work deals with the nature of power, and the subjects of politics, authority, and totalitarianism. Biography, Activists, Mindfulness, Critical Thinking, Truth
Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
"To lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking and cease to ask unanswerable questions [would be to] lose not only the ability to produce those thought-things that we call works of art, but also the capacity to ask all the answerable questions upon which every civilization is founded." ~Hannah Arendt, "The Life of Mind," 1978| Hannah Arendt was a German-American political theorist. Arendt's work deals with the nature of power, and the subjects of politics, authority, and totalitarianism.
Hannah Arendt was a German-American political theorist. She often has been described as a philosopher, although she rejected that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular" and instead, she described herself as a political theorist because her work centers on the fact that "men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the world." Arendt's work deals with the nature of power, and the subjects of politics, authority, and totalitarianism. History Books, Design, History, Hannah Arendt, Wise Women
Hannah Arendt (1906 – 1975)
Hannah Arendt was a German-American political theorist. She often has been described as a philosopher, although she rejected that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular" and instead, she described herself as a political theorist because her work centers on the fact that "men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the world." Arendt's work deals with the nature of power, and the subjects of politics, authority, and totalitarianism.
Patricia Hill Collins  "I want to get intersectional with you."  Artist: Zoe Caplan Feminist Theory, Collins, Feminist
Patricia Hill Collins (b. 1948)
Patricia Hill Collins "I want to get intersectional with you." Artist: Zoe Caplan
"The potential significance of Black feminist thought goes far beyond demonstrating that African-American women can be theorists. Like Black feminist practice, which it reflects and which it seeks to foster, Black feminist thought can create a collective identity among African-American women about the dimensions of a Black women's standpoint. Through the process of rearticulating... Ideas, Feminism, People, Black Feminist Thought, Collective Identity, Equality, African American Women, The Fosters
Patricia Hill Collins (b. 1948)
"The potential significance of Black feminist thought goes far beyond demonstrating that African-American women can be theorists. Like Black feminist practice, which it reflects and which it seeks to foster, Black feminist thought can create a collective identity among African-American women about the dimensions of a Black women's standpoint. Through the process of rearticulating...