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The Most Famous

SOCIOLOGISTS from Slovenia

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This page contains a list of the greatest Slovene Sociologists. The pantheon dataset contains 54 Sociologists, 1 of which were born in Slovenia. This makes Slovenia the birth place of the 14th most number of Sociologists behind Jamaica and Turkey.

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

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1. Thomas Luckmann (1927 - 2016)

With an HPI of 58.25, Thomas Luckmann is the most famous Slovene Sociologist.  His biography has been translated into 22 different languages on wikipedia.

Thomas Luckmann (; October 14, 1927 – May 10, 2016) was an American-Austrian sociologist of German and Slovene origin who taught mainly in Germany. Born in Jesenice, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Luckmann studied philosophy and linguistics at the University of Vienna and the University of Innsbruck. He married Benita Petkevic in 1950. His contributions were central to studies in sociology of communication, sociology of knowledge, sociology of religion, and the philosophy of science. His best-known titles are the 1966 book, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (co-authored with Peter L. Berger), The Invisible Religion (1967), and The Structures of the Life-World (1973) (co-authored with Alfred Schütz)

Pantheon has 1 people classified as sociologists born between 1927 and 1927. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased sociologists include Thomas Luckmann.

Deceased Sociologists

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