Lawrence T. Nichols (born December 21, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois) was a professor of sociology in the Division of Sociology and Anthropology at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia.
[1] Nichols received an AB (1969) and MA (1973) from Saint Louis University and a Ph.D. from Boston College in 1985.
[1] Nichols is the editor of The American Sociologist, a peer-reviewed journal that examines the history, current status and future prospects of the discipline of sociology.
He is credited with establishing criminology concentration at West Virginia University.
[1] With Anthony F. Buono, he proposed the Stockholder–stakeholder model of corporate social responsibility in the seminal work, "Stockholder and Stakeholder Interpretation of Business' Social Role".