The Most Famous
SOCIOLOGISTS from Denmark
This page contains a list of the greatest Danish Sociologists. The pantheon dataset contains 79 Sociologists, 1 of which were born in Denmark. This makes Denmark the birth place of the 17th most number of Sociologists behind Netherlands, and Norway.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Danish Sociologists of all time. This list of famous Danish Sociologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Gøsta Esping-Andersen (b. 1947)
With an HPI of 50.80, Gøsta Esping-Andersen is the most famous Danish Sociologist. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Gøsta Esping-Andersen (pronounced [ˈjøstæ ˈespe̝ŋ ˈɑnɐsn̩]; born 24 November 1947) is a Danish sociologist whose primary focus has been on the welfare state and its place in capitalist economies. Jacob Hacker describes him as the "dean of welfare state scholars." Over the past decade his research has moved towards family demographic issues. A synthesis of his work was published as Families in the 21st Century (Stockholm, SNS, 2016). Esping-Andersen is a pioneer of power resource theory.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Danish sociologists born between 1947 and 1947. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Danish sociologists include Gøsta Esping-Andersen.
