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James Samuel Coleman

1926 - 1995

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James Samuel Coleman (May 12, 1926 – March 25, 1995) was an American sociologist, theorist, and empirical researcher, based chiefly at the University of Chicago.He served as president of the American Sociological Association in 1991–1992. He studied the sociology of education and public policy, and was one of the earliest users of the term social capital. He may be considered one of the original neoconservatives in sociology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Samuel Coleman has received more than 274,011 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). James Samuel Coleman is the 48th most popular sociologist (down from 46th in 2019), the 3,800th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,740th in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Sociologist.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, James Samuel Coleman ranks 48 out of 54. Before him are Shmuel Eisenstadt, Andre Gunder Frank, Seymour Martin Lipset, Marcel Granet, Basil Bernstein, and Nils Christie. After him are Gøsta Esping-Andersen, Lewis A. Coser, Robert N. Bellah, George C. Homans, Ernest Burgess, and Randall Collins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, James Samuel Coleman ranks 195. Before him are Sonja Ziemann, Ivica Horvat, Shigeru Kayano, Vitaly Vorotnikov, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, and Peter Lax. After him are Ladislav Adamec, Mickey Hargitay, José Alfredo Jiménez, Sadegh Khalkhali, Michael Bond, and Paul Janssen. Among people deceased in 1995, James Samuel Coleman ranks 127. Before him are Josef Hügi, Miguel Torga, Václav Ježek, Mickey Mantle, Madge Sinclair, and Dmitri Shepilov. After him are Erik Nilsson, Osvaldo Pugliese, John Brunner, Ashapurna Devi, Willem Frederik Hermans, and Nancy Kelly.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Samuel Coleman ranks 3,800 out of 18,182. Before him are Richard Hartshorne (1899), Frank Zamboni (1901), William Goldman (1931), William Conrad (1920), Brett Cullen (1956), and Rosalind Russell (1907). After him are Anne Applebaum (1964), George McGovern (1922), Caspar Weinberger (1917), Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906), Jack Klugman (1922), and Frances Cleveland (1864).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In United States

Among sociologists born in United States, James Samuel Coleman ranks 16. Before him are Edwin Sutherland (1883), Charles Tilly (1929), David Riesman (1909), Mark Granovetter (1943), Howard S. Becker (1928), and Seymour Martin Lipset (1922). After him are Robert N. Bellah (1927), George C. Homans (1910), Randall Collins (1941), George Ritzer (1940), Erik Olin Wright (1947), and Robert Nisbet (1913).

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