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 223,511 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. George C. Homans is the 48th most popular sociologist (up from 52nd in 2019), the 4,126th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,397th in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Sociologist.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, George C. Homans ranks 48 out of 79. Before him are Shmuel Eisenstadt, James Samuel Coleman, Juan José Linz, Nils Christie, Edwin Sutherland, and Randall Collins. After him are Lewis A. Coser, Marcel Granet, Basil Bernstein, Ernest Burgess, T. H. Marshall, and Robert N. Bellah.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, George C. Homans ranks 165. Before him are Hideo Shinojima, Qian Zhongshu, Pierre Musy, T-Bone Walker, Gus Hall, and Helmut Kunz. After him are Ennio Flaiano, Cyril Cusack, José María Guido, Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Tomoyuki Tanaka, and Arsenie Boca. Among people deceased in 1989, George C. Homans ranks 130. Before him are Abbie Hoffman, Armand Salacrou, Georges Schehadé, Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, Halina Konopacka, and Nils Axelsson. After him are Imre Németh, Alex Thépot, Bernard-Marie Koltès, Diana Vreeland, Sourou-Migan Apithy, and Paul Shenar.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George C. Homans ranks 4,126 out of 20,380. Before him are Sherilyn Fenn (1965), Meredith Monk (1942), Mickey Spillane (1918), Harry Carey Jr. (1921), Horace Parnell Tuttle (1837), and Charles T. Kowal (1940). After him are E. G. Marshall (1914), Allen Klein (1931), Robert Anton Wilson (1932), Richard Mentor Johnson (1780), Sally Kirkland (1941), and Terry Dischinger (1940).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In United States

Among sociologists born in United States, George C. Homans ranks 18. Before him are Mark Granovetter (1943), David Riesman (1909), Seymour Martin Lipset (1922), James Samuel Coleman (1926), Edwin Sutherland (1883), and Randall Collins (1941). After him are Robert N. Bellah (1927), Erik Olin Wright (1947), Jeffrey C. Alexander (1947), George Ritzer (1940), Robert Nisbet (1913), and Arlie Russell Hochschild (1940).

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