SOCIOLOGIST

Harold Garfinkel

1917 - 2011

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Harold Garfinkel (October 29, 1917 – April 21, 2011) was an American sociologist and ethnomethodologist, who taught at the University of California, Los Angeles. Having developed and established ethnomethodology as a field of inquiry in sociology, he is probably best known for Studies in Ethnomethodology (1967), a collection of articles. Selections from unpublished materials were later published in two volumes: Seeing Sociologically and Ethnomethodology's Program. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harold Garfinkel has received more than 311,391 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Harold Garfinkel is the 33rd most popular sociologist (down from 30th in 2019), the 2,151st most popular biography from United States (down from 1,911th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Sociologist.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Harold Garfinkel ranks 33 out of 79. Before him are Saskia Sassen, Robert E. Park, Howard S. Becker, Stuart Hall, Ludwig Gumplowicz, and Georges Gurvitch. After him are W. I. Thomas, Andre Gunder Frank, Herbert Blumer, Amitai Etzioni, Charles Tilly, and Mark Granovetter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Harold Garfinkel ranks 94. Before him are Nikolai Ogarkov, Otto Kittel, Will Eisner, Zhang Chunqiao, Jean Rouch, and Atle Selberg. After him are Augusto Roa Bastos, Buddy Rich, Charlotte Salomon, Jânio Quadros, Urie Bronfenbrenner, and Irving Penn. Among people deceased in 2011, Harold Garfinkel ranks 88. Before him are Jimmy Savile, Archduke Felix of Austria, Pinetop Perkins, Warren Christopher, Lyudmila Gurchenko, and Farley Granger. After him are Juan María Bordaberry, Danielle Mitterrand, Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy, Saad el-Shazly, Cy Twombly, and Frans Sammut.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harold Garfinkel ranks 2,151 out of 20,380. Before him are John O'Keefe (1939), Jackie Jackson (1951), Karen Uhlenbeck (1942), Allen Newell (1927), Lewis Mumford (1895), and Beau Bridges (1941). After him are Cloris Leachman (1926), Mike Pompeo (1963), Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930), Laura Dern (1967), Alvin Kraenzlein (1876), and George Wallace (1919).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In United States

Among sociologists born in United States, Harold Garfinkel ranks 8. Before him are Talcott Parsons (1902), Immanuel Wallerstein (1930), C. Wright Mills (1916), Daniel Bell (1919), Robert E. Park (1864), and Howard S. Becker (1928). After him are W. I. Thomas (1863), Herbert Blumer (1900), Charles Tilly (1929), Mark Granovetter (1943), David Riesman (1909), and Seymour Martin Lipset (1922).

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