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Edwin Sutherland

1883 - 1950

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Edwin Hardin Sutherland (August 13, 1883 – October 11, 1950) was an American sociologist. He is considered one of the most influential criminologists of the 20th century. He was a sociologist of the symbolic interactionist school of thought and is best known for defining white-collar crime and differential association, a general theory of crime and delinquency. Sutherland earned his Ph.D. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edwin Sutherland has received more than 322,633 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Edwin Sutherland is the 46th most popular sociologist (down from 36th in 2019), the 3,901st most popular biography from United States (down from 2,655th in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Sociologist.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Edwin Sutherland ranks 46 out of 79. Before him are David Riesman, Seymour Martin Lipset, Shmuel Eisenstadt, James Samuel Coleman, Juan José Linz, and Nils Christie. After him are Randall Collins, George C. Homans, Lewis A. Coser, Marcel Granet, Basil Bernstein, and Ernest Burgess.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Edwin Sutherland ranks 135. Before him are Paul Levi, Olga Kameneva, Henri Maspero, Fritz Platten, Eric Temple Bell, and Vladimir Kappel. After him are Paul Bader, Ludwig Müller, Demyan Bedny, August Zaleski, Yevgeny Vakhtangov, and Naoya Shiga. Among people deceased in 1950, Edwin Sutherland ranks 89. Before him are Juan Botasso, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, Al Jolson, Raymond Sommer, Gustaf John Ramstedt, and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud. After him are Santiago Casares Quiroga, Ernst Wiechert, Dimitri Uznadze, Sergei Khudyakov, Théodore Steeg, and Ryuzo Shimizu.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edwin Sutherland ranks 3,901 out of 20,380. Before him are John Garfield (1913), Edward Feigenbaum (1936), Leslie Jones (1967), Aaliyah (1979), Muse Watson (1948), and Jack Sharkey (1902). After him are Kathleen Freeman (1919), Reginald VelJohnson (1952), Elizabeth Monroe (1768), Charles P. Thacker (1943), Anne Applebaum (1964), and Tommy Franks (1945).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In United States

Among sociologists born in United States, Edwin Sutherland ranks 16. Before him are Herbert Blumer (1900), Charles Tilly (1929), Mark Granovetter (1943), David Riesman (1909), Seymour Martin Lipset (1922), and James Samuel Coleman (1926). After him are Randall Collins (1941), George C. Homans (1910), Robert N. Bellah (1927), Erik Olin Wright (1947), Jeffrey C. Alexander (1947), and George Ritzer (1940).

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