SOCIOLOGIST

Robert K. Merton

1910 - 2003

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Robert King Merton (born Meyer Robert Schkolnick; July 4, 1910 – February 23, 2003) was an American sociologist who is considered a founding father of modern sociology, and a major contributor to the subfield of criminology. He served as the 47th president of the American Sociological Association. He spent most of his career teaching at Columbia University, where he attained the rank of University Professor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert K. Merton has received more than 1,414,490 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Robert K. Merton is the 5th most popular sociologist, the 179th most popular biography from United States (down from 169th in 2019) and the most popular American Sociologist.

Robert K. Merton is most famous for his theory of social structure and anomie.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Robert K. Merton ranks 5 out of 79. Before him are Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, Pierre Bourdieu, and Theodor W. Adorno. After him are Georg Simmel, Talcott Parsons, Erving Goffman, Anthony Giddens, Norbert Elias, Marcel Mauss, and Ulrich Beck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Robert K. Merton ranks 6. Before him are Mother Teresa, Akira Kurosawa, Jacques Cousteau, Giuseppe Meazza, and Ingrid of Sweden. After him are Irena Sendler, Gloria Stuart, Jean Genet, Paulette Goddard, Katherine Oppenheimer, and Django Reinhardt. Among people deceased in 2003, Robert K. Merton ranks 7. Before him are Edward Teller, Katharine Hepburn, Leni Riefenstahl, Charles Bronson, Heydar Aliyev, and Idi Amin. After him are Alija Izetbegović, Gregory Peck, Johnny Cash, Barry White, Maurice Gibb, and Ilya Prigogine.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert K. Merton ranks 179 out of 20,380. Before him are Tom Cruise (1962), John Travolta (1954), Linus Pauling (1901), James Watson (1928), Ray Bradbury (1920), and Clark Gable (1901). After him are Geronimo (1829), Gene Cernan (1934), Tim Cook (1960), Edwin McMillan (1907), Jane Fonda (1937), and Sigourney Weaver (1949).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In United States

Among sociologists born in United States, Robert K. Merton ranks 1. After him are Talcott Parsons (1902), Immanuel Wallerstein (1930), C. Wright Mills (1916), Daniel Bell (1919), Robert E. Park (1864), Howard S. Becker (1928), Harold Garfinkel (1917), W. I. Thomas (1863), Herbert Blumer (1900), Charles Tilly (1929), and Mark Granovetter (1943).

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