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Stuart Hall

1932 - 2014

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Stuart Henry McPhail Hall (3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014) was a Jamaican-born British Marxist sociologist, cultural theorist, and political activist. Hall — along with Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams — was one of the founding figures of the school of thought known as British Cultural Studies or the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies. In the 1950s Hall was a founder of the influential journal New Left Review. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stuart Hall has received more than 59,625 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Stuart Hall is the 25th most popular sociologist (up from 26th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Jamaica (up from 7th in 2019) and the most popular Jamaican Sociologist.

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  • 60k

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  • 58.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Stuart Hall ranks 25 out of 54Before him are Peter L. Berger, C. Wright Mills, Alain Touraine, Daniel Bell, Paul Lazarsfeld, and Robert Michels. After him are Ziya Gökalp, Robert E. Park, W. I. Thomas, Thomas Luckmann, Harold Garfinkel, and Saskia Sassen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Stuart Hall ranks 85Before him are Oscar de la Renta, Joe Zawinul, Dieter Rams, Quino, Hiroaki Sato, and Antonio Tejero. After him are Gunter Sachs, Wolf Vostell, Geraldine McEwan, Corry Brokken, Marisa Pavan, and Manmohan Singh. Among people deceased in 2014, Stuart Hall ranks 60Before him are Yozo Aoki, Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Gottfried John, Miklós Jancsó, Ralph H. Baer, and B. K. S. Iyengar. After him are Veljko Kadijević, Věra Chytilová, Hilderaldo Bellini, Chespirito, Luise Rainer, and Siegfried Lenz.

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In Jamaica

Among people born in Jamaica, Stuart Hall ranks 6 out of 168Before him are Bob Marley (1945), Stamford Raffles (1781), Grace Jones (1948), Usain Bolt (1986), and Peter Tosh (1944). After him are Jimmy Cliff (1948), Marcus Garvey (1887), Lee "Scratch" Perry (1936), Ben Johnson (1961), Liz Mitchell (1952), and Trevor Berbick (1954).

Among SOCIOLOGISTS In Jamaica

Among sociologists born in Jamaica, Stuart Hall ranks 1