SOCIOLOGIST

Erving Goffman

1922 - 1982

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Erving Goffman (11 June 1922 – 19 November 1982) was a Canadian-born American sociologist, social psychologist, and writer, considered by some "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century".In 2007, The Times Higher Education Guide listed him as the sixth most-cited author of books in the humanities and social sciences.Goffman was the 73rd president of the American Sociological Association. His best-known contribution to social theory is his study of symbolic interaction. This took the form of dramaturgical analysis, beginning with his 1956 book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erving Goffman has received more than 1,608,425 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Erving Goffman is the 8th most popular sociologist, the 10th most popular biography from Canada (down from 8th in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Sociologist.

Erving Goffman is most famous for his book "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life." In this book, he argues that social life is a performance, and that people are constantly presenting themselves to others in different ways.

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Over the past year Erving Goffman has had the most page views in the with 146,579 views, followed by French (40,769), and German (30,522). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Pashto (156.62%), Turkish (112.43%), and Malagasy (103.79%)

Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Erving Goffman ranks 8 out of 79. Before him are Émile Durkheim, Pierre Bourdieu, Theodor W. Adorno, Robert K. Merton, Georg Simmel, and Talcott Parsons. After him are Anthony Giddens, Norbert Elias, Marcel Mauss, Ulrich Beck, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Niklas Luhmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Erving Goffman ranks 16. Before him are Pierre Cardin, Thomas Kuhn, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Erich Hartmann, Gérard Philipe, and Ava Gardner. After him are Liliane Bettencourt, Emil Zátopek, Hiroo Onoda, Aage Bohr, Kurt Vonnegut, and Jack Kerouac. Among people deceased in 1982, Erving Goffman ranks 16. Before him are Arthur Rubinstein, Philip K. Dick, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Anna Freud, and Vasily Chuikov. After him are Khalid of Saudi Arabia, Louis Aragon, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, Gala Dalí, Jacques Tati, and Barack Obama Sr..

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Erving Goffman ranks 10 out of 1,622. Before him are Albert Bandura (1925), Celine Dion (1968), Justin Trudeau (1971), James Cameron (1954), Donald Sutherland (1935), and Frank Gehry (1929). After him are Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874), Alice Munro (1931), Christopher Plummer (1929), Marshall McLuhan (1911), Margaret Atwood (1939), and David Cronenberg (1943).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In Canada

Among sociologists born in Canada, Erving Goffman ranks 1. After him are Ernest Burgess (1886).

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