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 of the general approach in sociology which led to the emergence of his world-systems approach. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Immanuel Wallerstein has received more than 663,619 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Immanuel Wallerstein is the 13th most popular sociologist (up from 16th in 2019), the 492nd most popular biography from United States (up from 624th 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 Robert K. Merton, Erving Goffman, Anthony Giddens, Norbert Elias, Marcel Mauss, and Karl Mannheim. After him are Niklas Luhmann, Gabriel Tarde, Ulrich Beck, Pitirim Sorokin, C. Wright Mills, and Peter L. Berger.
1910 - 2003
HPI: 77.60
Rank: 7
1922 - 1982
HPI: 77.36
Rank: 8
1938 - Present
HPI: 77.10
Rank: 9
1897 - 1990
HPI: 76.46
Rank: 10
1872 - 1950
HPI: 74.77
Rank: 11
1893 - 1947
HPI: 74.61
Rank: 12
1930 - 2019
HPI: 74.56
Rank: 13
1927 - 1998
HPI: 74.49
Rank: 14
1843 - 1904
HPI: 73.89
Rank: 15
1944 - 2015
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 16
1889 - 1968
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 17
1916 - 1962
HPI: 72.25
Rank: 18
1929 - 2017
HPI: 71.66
Rank: 19
Among people born in 1930, Immanuel Wallerstein ranks 32. Before him are Ion Iliescu, Bernie Ecclestone, Claude Chabrol, Maximilian Schell, Harold Pinter, and Niki de Saint Phalle. After him are Silvana Mangano, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Biljana Plavšić, Gary Becker, Hugh Everett III, and Tippi Hedren. Among people deceased in 2019, Immanuel Wallerstein ranks 16. Before him are Agnès Varda, Franco Zeffirelli, Doris Day, Peter Fonda, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and Jeffrey Epstein. After him are Mohamed Morsi, Karel Gott, Bibi Andersson, I. M. Pei, Albert Finney, and João Gilberto.
1930 - Present
HPI: 75.30
Rank: 26
1930 - Present
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 27
1930 - 2010
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 28
1930 - 2014
HPI: 75.00
Rank: 29
1930 - 2008
HPI: 74.77
Rank: 30
1930 - 2002
HPI: 74.69
Rank: 31
1930 - 2019
HPI: 74.56
Rank: 32
1930 - 1989
HPI: 74.45
Rank: 33
1930 - Present
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 34
1930 - Present
HPI: 73.24
Rank: 35
1930 - 2014
HPI: 73.14
Rank: 36
1930 - 1982
HPI: 72.68
Rank: 37
1930 - Present
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 38
1928 - 2019
HPI: 75.41
Rank: 10
1923 - 2019
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 11
1922 - 2019
HPI: 75.29
Rank: 12
1940 - 2019
HPI: 75.27
Rank: 13
1971 - 2019
HPI: 74.74
Rank: 14
1953 - 2019
HPI: 74.61
Rank: 15
1930 - 2019
HPI: 74.56
Rank: 16
1951 - 2019
HPI: 74.33
Rank: 17
1939 - 2019
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 18
1935 - 2019
HPI: 73.93
Rank: 19
1917 - 2019
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 20
1936 - 2019
HPI: 73.89
Rank: 21
1931 - 2019
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 22
Among people born in United States, Immanuel Wallerstein ranks 492 out of 15,968. Before him are Cliff Burton (1962), Jared Leto (1971), Robert Zemeckis (1952), Steve Wozniak (1950), D. B. Cooper (1931), and Yehudi Menuhin (1916). After him are Nat King Cole (1919), Viggo Mortensen (1958), Sidney Sheldon (1917), Harold Lloyd (1893), Machine Gun Kelly (1895), and Mary Higgins Clark (1927).
1962 - 1986
HPI: 74.60
Rank: 486
1971 - Present
HPI: 74.59
Rank: 487
1952 - Present
HPI: 74.58
Rank: 488
1950 - Present
HPI: 74.58
Rank: 489
1931 - 1971
HPI: 74.58
Rank: 490
1916 - 1999
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 491
1930 - 2019
HPI: 74.56
Rank: 492
1919 - 1965
HPI: 74.55
Rank: 493
1958 - Present
HPI: 74.55
Rank: 494
1917 - 2007
HPI: 74.54
Rank: 495
1893 - 1971
HPI: 74.53
Rank: 496
1895 - 1954
HPI: 74.51
Rank: 497
1927 - 2020
HPI: 74.51
Rank: 498
Among sociologists born in United States, Immanuel Wallerstein ranks 3. Before him are Talcott Parsons (1902) and Robert K. Merton (1910). After him are C. Wright Mills (1916), Daniel Bell (1919), Robert E. Park (1864), W. I. Thomas (1863), Harold Garfinkel (1917), Herbert Blumer (1900), David Riesman (1909), Edwin Sutherland (1883), and Seymour Martin Lipset (1922).
1902 - 1979
HPI: 78.58
Rank: 1
1910 - 2003
HPI: 77.60
Rank: 2
1930 - 2019
HPI: 74.56
Rank: 3
1916 - 1962
HPI: 72.25
Rank: 4
1919 - 2011
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 5
1864 - 1944
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 6
1863 - 1947
HPI: 67.97
Rank: 7
1917 - 2011
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 8
1900 - 1987
HPI: 66.80
Rank: 9
1909 - 2002
HPI: 65.39
Rank: 10
1883 - 1950
HPI: 65.11
Rank: 11
1922 - 2006
HPI: 64.54
Rank: 12