SOCIOLOGIST

Immanuel Wallerstein

1930 - 2019

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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 887,700 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia. Immanuel Wallerstein is the 13th most popular sociologist, the 555th most popular biography from United States (down from 506th 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

Among sociologists, Immanuel Wallerstein ranks 13 out of 79. Before him are Talcott Parsons, Erving Goffman, Anthony Giddens, Norbert Elias, Marcel Mauss, and Ulrich Beck. After him are Niklas Luhmann, Gabriel Tarde, Karl Mannheim, Manuel Castells, Pitirim Sorokin, and Alain Touraine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Immanuel Wallerstein ranks 33. Before him are Carlos Menem, Claude Chabrol, Niki de Saint Phalle, Silvana Mangano, Harold Pinter, and Johan Galtung. After him are Hugh Everett III, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Zhores Alferov, Ali al-Sistani, George E. Smith, and Gylmar dos Santos Neves. Among people deceased in 2019, Immanuel Wallerstein ranks 21. Before him are Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Karel Gott, I. M. Pei, Alexei Leonov, Anna Karina, and Franco Zeffirelli. After him are Gordon Banks, Beji Caid Essebsi, Zhores Alferov, João Gilberto, Bert Hellinger, and Michel Legrand.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Immanuel Wallerstein ranks 555 out of 20,380. Before him are Burt Young (1940), Bob Beamon (1946), Harold Lloyd (1893), Chet Baker (1929), Donna Summer (1948), and Terry Gilliam (1940). After him are Kamala Harris (1964), T. S. Eliot (1888), Oprah Winfrey (1954), Carl Weathers (1948), Gloria Gaynor (1947), and Kim Novak (1933).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In United States

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), Howard S. Becker (1928), Harold Garfinkel (1917), W. I. Thomas (1863), Herbert Blumer (1900), Charles Tilly (1929), and Mark Granovetter (1943).

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