SOCIOLOGIST

Herbert Blumer

1900 - 1987

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Herbert George Blumer (March 7, 1900 – April 13, 1987) was an American sociologist whose main scholarly interests were symbolic interactionism and methods of social research. Believing that individuals create social reality through collective and individual action, he was an avid interpreter and proponent of George Herbert Mead's social psychology, which he labeled symbolic interactionism. Blumer elaborated and developed this line of thought in a series of articles, many of which were brought together in the book Symbolic Interactionism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herbert Blumer has received more than 368,823 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Herbert Blumer is the 36th most popular sociologist (down from 35th in 2019), the 2,589th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,417th in 2019) and the 10th most popular American Sociologist.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Herbert Blumer ranks 36 out of 79. Before him are Stuart Hall, Ludwig Gumplowicz, Georges Gurvitch, Harold Garfinkel, W. I. Thomas, and Andre Gunder Frank. After him are Amitai Etzioni, Charles Tilly, Mark Granovetter, David Riesman, Seymour Martin Lipset, and Shmuel Eisenstadt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Herbert Blumer ranks 103. Before him are James Bond, George Antheil, Mervyn LeRoy, Lorenzo Fernández, Violet Brown, and Arturo Umberto Illia. After him are Gilbert Ryle, Miguel Alemán Valdés, James Hilton, Zhang Wentian, Muhammad Asad, and Valko Chervenkov. Among people deceased in 1987, Herbert Blumer ranks 76. Before him are Andrei Mironov, Henri Cochet, Tawfiq al-Hakim, Randolph Scott, Geraldine Page, and Mervyn LeRoy. After him are Otto Wöhler, Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover, Salim Ali, Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu, Asim Ferhatović, and Masatoshi Nakayama.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Herbert Blumer ranks 2,589 out of 20,380. Before him are Joan Cusack (1962), Lily Tomlin (1939), Pat Metheny (1954), Lewis Hine (1874), Robert Gates (1943), and Roscoe Arbuckle (1887). After him are Erle Stanley Gardner (1889), Miguel Ferrer (1955), KRS-One (1965), John Philip Sousa (1854), Matthew Ridgway (1895), and George Kelly (1905).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In United States

Among sociologists born in United States, Herbert Blumer ranks 10. Before him are C. Wright Mills (1916), Daniel Bell (1919), Robert E. Park (1864), Howard S. Becker (1928), Harold Garfinkel (1917), and W. I. Thomas (1863). After him are Charles Tilly (1929), Mark Granovetter (1943), David Riesman (1909), Seymour Martin Lipset (1922), James Samuel Coleman (1926), and Edwin Sutherland (1883).

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