Back to the subject, professionals are usually considered part of the middle class, which is what we were taking about.

Nope. Did you forget to add "I assume, knowing nothing about sociology" at the end of your sentence?

Oh, are we playing this game? "I made a wild guess about something I know nothing about, prove me wrong?"

So boring. Here is a list of sociologists who disagree with you. Please provide a list of those who agree:

Andrew Abbott, American sociologist
Anwar Abdel-Malek, Egyptian sociologist
Aso Magdid Abdulla Gardi, Kurdish sociologist 1987
Peter Abell, British sociologist
Barbara Adam, British sociologist
Jane Addams (1860–1935), American social worker and reformer
Theodor Adorno (1903–1969), German philosopher and cultural sociologist
Richard Alba, American sociologist
Francesco Alberoni, Italian sociologist
Martin Albrow, British sociologist
Alwardi Ali, (1914–1995) Iraqi sociologist
Jeffrey C. Alexander, American sociologist
Edwin Amenta, American sociologist
Nancy Ammerman, American sociologist
Elijah Anderson, American sociologist
Stanislav Andreski, Polish-British sociologist
Robert C. Angell, American sociologist
Aaron Antonovsky, Israeli sociologist
Arjun Appadurai, Indian sociologist
Stanley Aronowitz, American sociologist
Margaret Archer, British sociologist
Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), German political theorist
Raymond Aron (1905–1983), French philosopher and sociologist
Giovanni Arrighi, Italian sociologist
James Arvanitakis, Australian sociologist
Johan Asplund (born 1937), Swedish sociologist
Vilhelm Aubert (1922–1988), Norwegian sociologist
Francisco Ayala, Spanish sociologist and novelist



Patrick Baert, British sociologist
Sergio Bagú, Argentinian sociologist
Kenneth D. Bailey, American sociologist
Georges Balandier, French sociologist
Emily Greene Balch, American professor of sociology and Nobel Peace laureate.
Robert Balch, American sociologist
E. Digby Baltzell, American sociologist
Yves Barel, French sociologist
Eileen Barker, British sociologist
Anne Bargès, French sociologist
Ugurol Barlas, Turkish sociologist
Barry Barnes, British sociologist
Roland Barthes (1915–1980), French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician
Roger Bastide, French sociologist
Gregory Bateson (1904–1980), English/American cybernetican
Jean Baubérot (born 1941), French historian and sociologist
Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007), French cultural theorist
Zygmunt Bauman (born 1925), Polish/British sociologist
Frank Bean, American sociologist
Peter Bearman (born 1956), American sociologist
Ulrich Beck (born 1944), German sociologist
Gary Becker, American economist
Howard P. Becker, American sociologist
Howard S. Becker (born 1928), American sociologist
Jens Beckert, German sociologist
Richard F. Behrendt (1908–1973), German sociologist
Daniel Bell (born 1919), American sociologist
Robert N. Bellah, American sociologist
Walden Bello, Filipino sociologist
Reinhard Bendix, German-American sociologist
Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), German cultural writer and sociologist
Joseph Berger, American sociologist
Peter L. Berger (born 1929), Austro-American sociologist
Pierre L. van den Berghe, Belgian sociologist
Henri Bergson (1859–1941), French philosopher
Jessie Bernard, American feminist sociologist
Eduard Bernstein, German politician and intellectual
Jean-Michel Berthelot, French sociologist
Andre Beteille, Indian sociologist
Robert Bierstedt, American sociologist
Norman Birnbaum, American sociologist
Donald Black, American sociologist
Hubert M. Blalock, American sociologist
Peter Blau (1918–2002), American sociologist
Kathleen M. Blee (born 1953), American sociologist
David Bloor, British sociologist
Hans-Peter Blossfeld, German sociologist
Herbert Blumer (1900–1987), American sociologist
Olivier Bobineau (born 1972), French sociologist
Luc Boltanski, French sociologist
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, American Sociology
Scott Boorman (born 1949), American sociologist
Charles Booth, British social researcher
Ernst Borinski (1901–1983), German sociologist
Thomas Bottomore (1920–1992), British sociologist
Raymond Boudon, French sociologist
Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002), French sociologist
Gaston Bouthoul (1896–1980), French sociologist
John David Brewer (born 1951), British sociologist
Ronald Breiger, American sociologist
Victor Branford (1863-1930), British sociologist
Carl Brinkmann (1885–1954), German sociologist
David G. Bromley, American sociologist
Rogers Brubaker, American sociologist
Walter F. Buckley, American sociologist
Michael Burawoy, American sociologist
Ernest Burgess (1886–1966), Canadian sociologist
Tom R. Burns, European-American sociologist
Ronald Burt, American sociologist
Judith Butler (born 1956), American gender theorist



Roger Caillois, French sociologist
Craig Calhoun, American sociologist
Michel Callon, French sociologist
Elias Canetti, Bulgaria-born novelist and outsider sociologist
Georges Canguilhem, French intellectual
Leni Carballo,Filipino sociologist, teacher De La Salle- College of Saint Benilde
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, (born 1931), Brazilian sociologist, former President of Brazil
Kathleen Carley, American computational sociologist
Antonio Caso, Mexican sociologist
Robert Castel, French sociologist
Manuel Castells (born 1942), Spanish sociologist and urban planner
Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–1997), Greek philosopher and political theorist
Daniel Cefai, French sociologist
Michel de Certeau, French cultural sociologist
Janet Saltzman Chafetz, feminist sociologist
Francis Stuart Chapin (1888–1974), American sociologist
Christopher Chase-Dunn, American sociologist
Louis Chauvel (born 1967), French sociologist
Mohamed Cherkaoui, Moroccan/French sociologist
Eli Chinoy, American[1] sociologist
Nancy Chodorow (born 1944), American sociologist, psychoanalyst, and gender theorist
Nicholas A. Christakis, American sociologist
Chua Beng Huat, Singaporean sociologist
Aaron Cicourel, American sociologist
Dieter Claessens (1921–1997), German sociologist,
Lars Clausen (born 1935), German sociologist
Richard Cloward (1926–2001), American sociologist
Philip N. Cohen, American sociologist
Ronald L. Cohen, American social psychologist
Stanley Cohen, British sociologist (criminology)
James Samuel Coleman (1926–1995), American sociologist
Harry Collins, British sociologist
Patricia Hill Collins (born 1948), American sociologist
Randall Collins, American sociologist
Paul Colomy, American sociologist
Auguste Comte (1798–1857), French founder of sociology
Nicolas de Condorcet, French mathematician and early sociologist.[2]
Dalton Conley, American sociologist
R.W. Connell (born 1944), Australian sociologist
Paul Connerton, British sociologist