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SOCIOLOGIST

Howard S. Becker

1928 - 2023

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Howard Saul Becker (April 18, 1928 – August 16, 2023) was an American sociologist who taught at Northwestern University. Becker made contributions to the sociology of deviance, sociology of art, and sociology of music. Becker also wrote extensively on sociological writing styles and methodologies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Howard S. Becker has received more than 418,570 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Howard S. Becker is the 41st most popular sociologist (up from 45th in 2019), the 3,173rd most popular biography from United States (up from 3,604th in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Sociologist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Howard S. Becker ranks 41 out of 54Before him are Herbert Blumer, Edwin Sutherland, Charles Tilly, David Riesman, Mark Granovetter, and Juan José Linz. After him are Shmuel Eisenstadt, Andre Gunder Frank, Seymour Martin Lipset, Marcel Granet, Basil Bernstein, and Nils Christie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Howard S. Becker ranks 192Before him are Bella Darvi, Jack Tramiel, Nora Nova, Ernest Simoni, Ciriaco De Mita, and Tom Sharpe. After him are Willy Mairesse, Vitaliy Masol, Line Renaud, Orson Bean, Horace Silver, and William Peter Blatty. Among people deceased in 2023, Howard S. Becker ranks 117Before him are Ben Ferencz, Concha Velasco, Gaston Glock, Yuri Temirkanov, A. S. Byatt, and Lubomír Štrougal. After him are Hans Albert, Roberto Dinamite, Adolf Scherer, Andrés García, Henri Konan Bédié, and Arnaldo Forlani.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Howard S. Becker ranks 3,173 out of 18,182Before him are Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860), Marty Friedman (1962), Julian Rotter (1916), Jackie Cooper (1922), Frank Beard (1949), and Raymond Smullyan (1919). After him are John Barth (1930), DMX (1970), Abe Vigoda (1921), Elbridge Gerry (1744), Albert Ghiorso (1915), and GG Allin (1956).

Among SOCIOLOGISTS In United States

Among sociologists born in United States, Howard S. Becker ranks 14Before him are Harold Garfinkel (1917), Herbert Blumer (1900), Edwin Sutherland (1883), Charles Tilly (1929), David Riesman (1909), and Mark Granovetter (1943). After him are Seymour Martin Lipset (1922), James Samuel Coleman (1926), Robert N. Bellah (1927), George C. Homans (1910), Randall Collins (1941), and George Ritzer (1940).