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SOCIOLOGIST

George C. Homans

1910 - 1989

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George Caspar Homans (August 11, 1910 – May 29, 1989) was an American sociologist, founder of behavioral sociology, the 54th president of the American Sociological Association, and one of the architects of social exchange theory. Homans is best known in science for his research in social behavior and his works The Human Group, Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms, his contributions to exchange theory, and the different propositions he developed to explain social behavior. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George C. Homans has received more than 210,800 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). George C. Homans is the 52nd most popular sociologist (up from 53rd in 2019), the 4,409th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,485th in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Sociologist.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, George C. Homans ranks 52 out of 54Before him are Basil Bernstein, Nils Christie, James Samuel Coleman, Gøsta Esping-Andersen, Lewis A. Coser, and Robert N. Bellah. After him are Ernest Burgess, Randall Collins, Raewyn Connell, Claus Offe, Michael Mann, and George Ritzer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, George C. Homans ranks 164Before him are Heinrich Sutermeister, Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Paulette Dubost, Alfons Maria Stickler, Maxim Munzuk, and Olga Bergholz. After him are Donald Watson, Jean Martinon, Jean Servais, Vivien Thomas, Lee Wallard, and Herminio Masantonio. Among people deceased in 1989, George C. Homans ranks 134Before him are Kaj Franck, Imre Németh, Georges Schehadé, Prince Wolfgang of Hesse, Carl Dahlhaus, and Luiz Gonzaga. After him are Armand Salacrou, Jean-Michel Charlier, Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, Christine Jorgensen, Harry Andrews, and Wilfrid Sellars.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George C. Homans ranks 4,409 out of 18,182Before him are John D. Rockefeller III (1906), Louis C.K. (1967), Marilyn Burns (1949), Nelson A. Miles (1839), Mae Marsh (1894), and Jim Gray (1944). After him are W. S. Van Dyke (1889), Charles Koch (1935), Raymond Smith Dugan (1878), Elihu Yale (1649), David Bushnell (1742), and Paul Chambers (1935).

Among SOCIOLOGISTS In United States

Among sociologists born in United States, George C. Homans ranks 18Before him are David Riesman (1909), Mark Granovetter (1943), Howard S. Becker (1928), Seymour Martin Lipset (1922), James Samuel Coleman (1926), and Robert N. Bellah (1927). After him are Randall Collins (1941), George Ritzer (1940), Erik Olin Wright (1947), Robert Nisbet (1913), Arlie Russell Hochschild (1940), and Jeffrey C. Alexander (1947).