1930 - 2019
Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (; September 28, 1930 – August 31, 2019) was an American sociologist and economic historian. He is perhaps best known for his development in sociology of world-systems approach. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Immanuel Wallerstein has received more than 829,841 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Immanuel Wallerstein is the 13th most popular sociologist, the 506th most popular biography from United States (down from 492nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Sociologist.
Wallerstein is most famous for his theory of world-systems which argues that the global economy is a capitalist system with a core of wealthy countries and a periphery of poor countries.
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Among sociologists, Immanuel Wallerstein ranks 13 out of 54. Before him are Talcott Parsons, Erving Goffman, Anthony Giddens, Norbert Elias, Marcel Mauss, and Niklas Luhmann. After him are Ulrich Beck, Karl Mannheim, Gabriel Tarde, Manuel Castells, Pitirim Sorokin, and Peter L. Berger.
1902 - 1979
HPI: 71.74
Rank: 7
1922 - 1982
HPI: 70.53
Rank: 8
1938 - Present
HPI: 69.25
Rank: 9
1897 - 1990
HPI: 68.34
Rank: 10
1872 - 1950
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 11
1927 - 1998
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 12
1930 - 2019
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 13
1944 - 2015
HPI: 66.30
Rank: 14
1893 - 1947
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 15
1843 - 1904
HPI: 65.64
Rank: 16
1942 - Present
HPI: 63.95
Rank: 17
1889 - 1968
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 18
1929 - 2017
HPI: 62.93
Rank: 19
Among people born in 1930, Immanuel Wallerstein ranks 32. Before him are Maximilian Schell, Ion Iliescu, Claude Chabrol, Niki de Saint Phalle, Tu Youyou, and Harold Pinter. After him are Gary Becker, Bernie Ecclestone, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Biljana Plavšić, Robert Wagner, and Carlos Menem. Among people deceased in 2019, Immanuel Wallerstein ranks 19. Before him are Alexei Leonov, Anna Karina, Franco Zeffirelli, Karel Gott, Jeffrey Epstein, and I. M. Pei. After him are Kary Mullis, Marie Fredriksson, Peter Fonda, Michel Legrand, Doris Day, and João Gilberto.
1930 - 2014
HPI: 68.01
Rank: 26
1930 - Present
HPI: 68.00
Rank: 27
1930 - 2010
HPI: 67.26
Rank: 28
1930 - 2002
HPI: 67.04
Rank: 29
1930 - Present
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 30
1930 - 2008
HPI: 66.68
Rank: 31
1930 - 2019
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 32
1930 - 2014
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 33
1930 - Present
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 34
1930 - Present
HPI: 65.25
Rank: 35
1930 - Present
HPI: 65.18
Rank: 36
1930 - Present
HPI: 65.05
Rank: 37
1930 - 2021
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 38
1934 - 2019
HPI: 67.24
Rank: 13
1940 - 2019
HPI: 66.92
Rank: 14
1923 - 2019
HPI: 66.79
Rank: 15
1939 - 2019
HPI: 66.66
Rank: 16
1953 - 2019
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 17
1917 - 2019
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 18
1930 - 2019
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 19
1944 - 2019
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 20
1958 - 2019
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 21
1940 - 2019
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 22
1932 - 2019
HPI: 66.02
Rank: 23
1922 - 2019
HPI: 65.76
Rank: 24
1931 - 2019
HPI: 65.68
Rank: 25
Among people born in United States, Immanuel Wallerstein ranks 506 out of 18,182. Before him are Jeffrey Epstein (1953), Harriet Tubman (1820), Paul Simon (1941), Elinor Ostrom (1933), Melvin Calvin (1911), and Ruth Benedict (1887). After him are Florence Foster Jenkins (1868), John Kerry (1943), Robert Mitchum (1917), Leonard Nimoy (1931), Romina Power (1951), and John Malkovich (1953).
1953 - 2019
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 500
1820 - 1913
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 501
1941 - Present
HPI: 66.44
Rank: 502
1933 - 2012
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 503
1911 - 1997
HPI: 66.42
Rank: 504
1887 - 1948
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 505
1930 - 2019
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 506
1868 - 1944
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 507
1943 - Present
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 508
1917 - 1997
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 509
1931 - 2015
HPI: 66.36
Rank: 510
1951 - Present
HPI: 66.36
Rank: 511
1953 - Present
HPI: 66.36
Rank: 512
Among sociologists born in United States, Immanuel Wallerstein ranks 3. Before him are Robert K. Merton (1910) and Talcott Parsons (1902). After him are C. Wright Mills (1916), Daniel Bell (1919), Robert E. Park (1864), W. I. Thomas (1863), Harold Garfinkel (1917), Herbert Blumer (1900), Edwin Sutherland (1883), Charles Tilly (1929), and David Riesman (1909).
1910 - 2003
HPI: 72.48
Rank: 1
1902 - 1979
HPI: 71.74
Rank: 2
1930 - 2019
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 3
1916 - 1962
HPI: 62.49
Rank: 4
1919 - 2011
HPI: 61.68
Rank: 5
1864 - 1944
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 6
1863 - 1947
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 7
1917 - 2011
HPI: 57.69
Rank: 8
1900 - 1987
HPI: 55.72
Rank: 9
1883 - 1950
HPI: 55.00
Rank: 10
1929 - 2008
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 11
1909 - 2002
HPI: 54.54
Rank: 12