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SOCIOLOGIST

Margaret Archer

1943 - 2023

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Margaret Scotford Archer (20 January 1943 – 21 May 2023) was an English 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 132,791 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Margaret Archer is the 66th most popular sociologist, the 4,442nd most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 5th most popular British Sociologist.

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  • 43.00

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  • 15

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  • 4.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Margaret Archer ranks 66 out of 54Before her are Robert Nisbet, Maksim Kovalevsky, Anthony D. Smith, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Jeffrey C. Alexander, and Tatyana Zaslavskaya. After her are Theda Skocpol, Loïc Wacquant, and Ralph Miliband.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Margaret Archer ranks 533Before her are Jonathan Lynn, Martin Mull, Margaret Beckett, Helen Quinn, Pat Barker, and Colin Baker. After her are Dieter Kottysch, Bob Avakian, Charles Saatchi, Francisco Valdés, Gerhard Auer, and Fabrizio Poletti. Among people deceased in 2023, Margaret Archer ranks 330Before her are Charles W. Misner, Telesphore Toppo, Karol J. Bobko, Nikica Valentić, Cindy Williams, and Gérard Collomb. After her are John Jakes, Gary Rossington, Robert Budzynski, Sante Gaiardoni, Jim Gordon, and Guillermo Escalada.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Margaret Archer ranks 4,442 out of 7,765Before her are Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster (1951), Owain Gwynedd (1100), David Beaton (1494), Sam Houser (1972), Carol Cleveland (1942), and Tommy Docherty (1928). After her are Ran Laurie (1915), Tony Rolt (1918), Mark Catesby (1683), Steve McClaren (1961), Tommy Lawton (1919), and Gilbert White (1720).

Among SOCIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among sociologists born in United Kingdom, Margaret Archer ranks 5Before her are Anthony Giddens (1938), Basil Bernstein (1924), Michael Mann (1942), and Anthony D. Smith (1939).