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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 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

Among sociologists, Immanuel Wallerstein ranks 13 out of 54Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Immanuel Wallerstein ranks 32Before 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 19Before 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.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Immanuel Wallerstein ranks 506 out of 18,182Before 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).

Among SOCIOLOGISTS In United States

Among sociologists born in United States, Immanuel Wallerstein ranks 3Before 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).