The Most Famous
SOCIOLOGISTS from Canada
This page contains a list of the greatest Canadian Sociologists. The pantheon dataset contains 79 Sociologists, 2 of which were born in Canada. This makes Canada the birth place of the 7th most number of Sociologists behind Poland, and Austria.
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 born in Tilbury, Ontario. He was educated at Kingfisher College in Oklahoma and continued graduate studies in sociology at the University of Chicago. In 1916, he returned to the University of Chicago, as a faculty member. Burgess was hired as an urban sociologist at the University of Chicago. Burgess also served as the 24th President of the American Sociological Association (ASA).
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Canadian sociologists born between 1886 and 1922. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Canadian sociologists include Erving Goffman, and Ernest Burgess.
