SOCIOLOGISTS from Ukraine

Top 2

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

1. Maksim Kovalevsky (1851 - 1916)

With an HPI of 47.78, Maksim Kovalevsky is the most famous Ukrainian Sociologist.  His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.

Maksim Maksimovich Kovalevsky (Russian: Максим Максимович Ковалевский; 8 September 1851 – 5 April 1916) was a jurist and the main authority on sociology in the Russian Empire. He was vice-president (1895) and president (1905) of the International Institute of Sociology. He also held a chair in sociology at the Psycho-Neurological Institute. Kovalevsky was elected into the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1914. The Russian Sociological Society adopted his name in 1916.

2. Tatyana Zaslavskaya (1927 - 2013)

With an HPI of 44.00, Tatyana Zaslavskaya is the 2nd most famous Ukrainian Sociologist.  Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Tatyana Ivanovna Zaslavskaya (Russian: Татьяна Ивановна Заславская, April 9, 1927 – August 23, 2013) was a Russian economic sociologist and a theoretician of perestroika. She was the prime author of the Novosibirsk Report and several books on the economy of the Soviet Union (specializing in agriculture) and in sociology of the countryside. She was a member of the Consulting Committee to the President of Russia from 1991 to 1992 and also a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Zaslavskaya was the founder of RPORC and also its director in the years from 1987 to 1992. In 2000 she was the Laureate of the Demidov Prize and the honorary president of the Levada Center.