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Harvey Sacks (died 1975), American sociologist and ethnomethodologist •
Renaud Sainsaulieu (1936–2002), French sociologist concerned with the sociology of organizations •
Henri de Saint-Simon (1760–1825), French philosopher and social thinker •
Patricia Salas O'Brien (born 1958), Peruvian sociologist and Minister of Education •
Robert J. Sampson, American sociologist •
Pierre Sansot, French sociologist •
Abdelmalek Sayad, Egyptian-French sociologist •
Andrew Sayer, British sociologist •
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Portuguese sociologist •
Giovanni Sartori (1924–2017), Italian political scientist •
Saskia Sassen (born 1949), American sociologist •
Peter Saunders, Australian sociologist •
Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913), Swiss linguist (structuralism) •
Albert Schäffle, German sociologist •
Thomas J. Scheff, American sociologist •
Emanuel Schegloff, American sociologist •
Max Scheler, German philosopher and founder of the sociology of knowledge •
Helmut Schelsky (1912–1984), German sociologist •
Juraj Schenk (born 1948), Slovak sociologist •
Herbert Schiller, American sociologist •
Kurt C. Schlichting, American sociologist •
Wolfgang Schluchter, German sociologist •
Sylvia Schmelkes, Mexican sociologist •
Paul Schnabel, Dutch sociologist •
Allan Schnaiberg (1939–2009), American environmental sociologist •
Juliet Schor, American sociologist •
Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950), Austrian economist •
Alfred Schütz (1899–1959), Austrian philosopher and sociologist (phenomenology) •
Michael Schwartz (born 1942), American sociologist •
John Scott (born 1949), British sociologist •
Sue Scott, British sociologist •
Jean Séguy, French sociologist of religions (1925–2007) •
Steven Seidman, American sociologist •
Pınar Selek, Turkish sociologist •
Philip Selznick, American sociologist •
Amartya Sen, Indian economist influential in the sociology of development •
Richard Sennett (born 1943), American sociologist and public figure •
Perla Serfaty (born 1944), Moroccan-born French and Canadian academic, sociologist, psychosociologist, writer •
William H. Sewell, American sociologist •
Steven Shapin, American sociologist •
Jeremy J. Shapiro, American sociologist •
Ali Shariati (1933–1977), Iranian sociologist and writer •
Tamotsu Shibutani, Japanese-American sociologist •
Bahija Ahmed Shihab (1932–2012), Iraqi sociologist and professor •
Edward Shils, American sociologist •
Anson Shupe, American sociologist •
Volkmar Sigusch, German sociologist and sexuologe •
Charles E. Silberman, American criminologist •
Beverly J. Silver, American sociologist •
François Simiand, French sociologist •
Georg Simmel (1858–1918), German sociologist and philosopher •
Herbert A. Simon, American social scientist •
Theda Skocpol (born 1947), American sociologist and political scientist •
Beverley Skeggs, British feminist sociologist •
Albion Woodbury Small (1854–1926), American sociologist •
Neil Smelser, American sociologist •
Adam Smith (1723–1790), Scottish economist and philosopher •
Christian Smith (born 1960), American sociologist of religion •
Dorothy E. Smith (born 1926), British/American sociologist and gender theorist •
Stephen C. Smith (born 1968), American sociologist and 21st century trend researcher •
Tom Snijders, Dutch mathematical sociologist •
David A. Snow (born 1942), American sociologist •
Werner Sombart (1863–1941), German economist and sociologist •
Georges Sorel, French philosopher •
Aage B. Sørensen, Danish-American sociologist •
Bernardo Sorj (born 1948), Brazilian sociologist •
Pitirim Sorokin (1889–1968), Russian sociologist •
Herbert Spencer (1820–1903), English philosopher •
Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), German philosopher •
Lynette Spillman, American sociologist •
Hasso Spode, German sociologist and historian •
M N Srinivas (1916–1999), Indian sociologist •
Susan Star, American sociologist •
Carl Nicolai Starcke, Danish sociologist •
David C. Stark, American sociologist •
Rodney Stark, American sociologist •
Paul Starr, American sociologist •
Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Mexican anthropologist and sociologist •
George Steinmetz, American sociologist •
Ana María Díaz Stevens, Puerto Rican-American sociologist •
Samuel A. Stouffer, American sociologist •
Anselm L. Strauss (1916–1996), American sociologist •
Wolfgang Streeck, German sociologist •
Sheldon Stryker, American sociologist •
Lucy Suchman, American sociologist •
Mark Suchman, American sociologist •
Thomas Sugrue, American historian and sociologist •
William Graham Sumner (1840–1910), American sociologist •
Eilert Sundt (1817–1875), Norwegian sociologist •
Edwin Sutherland (1893–1950), American criminologist •
Maristella Svampa, Argentinian sociologist •
Ian Svenonius, American cultural sociologist •
Richard Swedberg, Swedish sociologist •
Ann Swidler, American sociologist •
Jan Szczepanski (1913–2004), Polish sociologist •
Iván Szelényi, Hungarian-American sociologist •
Piotr Sztompka (born 1944), Polish sociologist ==T==