PHILOSOPHER

Barrington Moore Jr.

1913 - 2005

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Barrington Moore Jr. (12 May 1913 – 16 October 2005) was an American political sociologist, and the son of forester Barrington Moore. He is well-known for his Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (1966), a comparative study of modernization in Britain, France, the United States, China, Japan, Russia, Germany, and India. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barrington Moore Jr. has received more than 140,316 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Barrington Moore Jr. is the 1,083rd most popular philosopher (down from 995th in 2019), the 5,732nd most popular biography from United States (down from 5,194th in 2019) and the 51st most popular American Philosopher.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

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  • 49.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Barrington Moore Jr. ranks 1,083 out of 1,267. Before her are P. C. Chang, Adolf Grünbaum, Mario Tronti, Amina Wadud, Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet, and Josef Pieper. After her are Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, Richard Posner, Ladislav Klíma, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster, Carlo Cattaneo, and Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Barrington Moore Jr. ranks 225. Before her are Jiří Hájek, Willy Vandersteen, Harry Andersson, Frankie Laine, Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis, and Vince Lombardi. After her are Severino Varela, John Cairncross, Arne Nyberg, Masayoshi Ito, Andre DeToth, and Per Borten. Among people deceased in 2005, Barrington Moore Jr. ranks 194. Before her are Maclyn McCarty, Aušra Augustinavičiūtė, Donald Watson, Luther Vandross, Eugene McCarthy, and Nirmal Verma. After her are Sígfrid Gràcia, Saunders Mac Lane, Larry Collins, Charles David Keeling, Abdallah Ibrahim, and John Love.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Barrington Moore Jr. ranks 5,732 out of 20,380. Before her are Jack Bender (1949), Mickey Marcus (1901), Christopher Guest (1948), Tyson Gay (1982), Oswald Veblen (1880), and Helen Johns (1914). After her are Lou Thesz (1916), Joanna Moore (1934), Raymond Cruz (1961), Squanto (1585), Henry Augustus Rowland (1848), and Jorma Kaukonen (1940).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Barrington Moore Jr. ranks 51. Before her are Lon L. Fuller (1902), Josiah Royce (1855), Mary Daly (1928), Hubert Dreyfus (1929), Paul Kurtz (1925), and Amina Wadud (1952). After her are Richard Posner (1939), Ned Block (1942), Susan George (1934), Michael Hardt (1960), Sandra Harding (1935), and Amos Bronson Alcott (1799).

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