SOCIOLOGISTS from Canada

Top 2

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Canadian Sociologists of all time. This list of famous Canadian Sociologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Erving Goffman (1922 - 1982)

With an HPI of 69.54, Erving Goffman is the most famous Canadian Sociologist.  His biography has been translated into 49 different languages on wikipedia.

Erving Goffman (11 June 1922 – 19 November 1982) was a Canadian-born American sociologist, social psychologist, and writer, considered by some "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century". In 2007, The Times Higher Education Guide listed him as the sixth most-cited author of books in the humanities and social sciences. Goffman was the 73rd president of the American Sociological Association. His best-known contribution to social theory is his study of symbolic interaction. This took the form of dramaturgical analysis, beginning with his 1956 book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Goffman's other major works include Asylums (1961), Stigma (1963), Interaction Ritual (1967), Frame Analysis (1974), and Forms of Talk (1981). His major areas of study included the sociology of everyday life, social interaction, the social construction of self, social organization (framing) of experience, and particular elements of social life such as total institutions and stigmas.

2. Ernest Burgess (1886 - 1966)

With an HPI of 51.53, Ernest Burgess is the 2nd most famous Canadian Sociologist.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.

Ernest Watson Burgess (May 16, 1886 – December 27, 1966) was a Canadian-American urban sociologist who was professor at the University of Chicago. He was the 24th President of the American Sociological Association (ASA).