SOCIOLOGIST

Margaret Archer

1943 - 2023

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Margaret Scotford Archer (20 January 1943 – 21 May 2023) was a British sociologist, who spent most of her academic career at the University of Warwick where she was for many years Professor of Sociology. She was also a professor at l'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. She is best known for coining the term elisionism in her 1995 book Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Margaret Archer has received more than 139,091 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Margaret Archer is the 71st most popular sociologist (down from 66th in 2019), the 3,995th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,433rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Sociologist.

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  • 46.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Margaret Archer ranks 71 out of 79. Before her are Arlie Russell Hochschild, Maksim Kovalevsky, Louis Wirth, Boris Kagarlitsky, Anthony D. Smith, and Göran Therborn. After her are Theda Skocpol, John Urry, Tatyana Zaslavskaya, Ralph Miliband, Loïc Wacquant, and Rodney Stark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Margaret Archer ranks 517. Before her are Juan Masnik, Albert Lee, Peter Struck, Bobby Keys, Giuseppe Gentile, and Foppe de Haan. After her are Heide Simonis, Gil Gerard, Ahmed Sofa, Florence Ballard, Helen Quinn, and Marita Lange. Among people deceased in 2023, Margaret Archer ranks 468. Before her are Yuliya Borisova, Superstar Billy Graham, Damir Šolman, Rolf Harris, Klaus Beer, and Vadim Abdrashitov. After her are Heide Simonis, Gilles Perrault, Walter Davis, Sergio Gori, Jaak Lipso, and Attila Abonyi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Margaret Archer ranks 3,995 out of 8,785. Before her are Kenneth MacMillan (1929), Joanne Harris (1964), Robin Trower (1945), William Warham (1450), Albert Ball (1896), and Peter Mullan (1959). After her are Thomas Hudson (1701), Frank Lampard (1948), Zara Tindall (1981), Astley Cooper (1768), Burt Kwouk (1930), and Philip Hammond (1955).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among sociologists born in United Kingdom, Margaret Archer ranks 6. Before her are Anthony Giddens (1938), Basil Bernstein (1924), T. H. Marshall (1893), Michael Mann (1942), and Anthony D. Smith (1939). After her are John Urry (1946).

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