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Theda Skocpol

1947 - Today

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Theda Skocpol (née Barron; May 4, 1947) is an American sociologist and political scientist, who is currently the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University. She is best known as an advocate of the historical-institutional and comparative approaches, as well as her "state autonomy theory". She has written widely for both popular and academic audiences. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Theda Skocpol has received more than 282,324 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Theda Skocpol is the 72nd most popular sociologist (down from 67th in 2019), the 8,046th most popular biography from United States (up from 9,090th in 2019) and the 25th most popular American Sociologist.

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  • 280k

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  • 53.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Theda Skocpol ranks 72 out of 79. Before her are Maksim Kovalevsky, Louis Wirth, Boris Kagarlitsky, Anthony D. Smith, Göran Therborn, and Margaret Archer. After her are John Urry, Tatyana Zaslavskaya, Ralph Miliband, Loïc Wacquant, Rodney Stark, and Grażyna Gęsicka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Theda Skocpol ranks 589. Before her are Stuart Hameroff, Majgull Axelsson, Sony Lab'ou Tansi, Subhash Kak, Babita, and Rakhee Gulzar. After her are Charles Rabemananjara, John Varley, Arkady Andreasyan, Tamotsu Suzuki, Andrea Martin, and Peter Osgood.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Theda Skocpol ranks 8,046 out of 20,380. Before her are Edward Hicks (1780), Isabel Briggs Myers (1897), Heather O'Rourke (1975), Larry Williams (1935), Walton Goggins (1971), and Christopher Paolini (1983). After her are Scott O'Dell (1898), Bobby Heenan (1944), Bobbi Starr (1983), Johnny Mandel (1925), Gwen Verdon (1925), and Edward Ruscha (1937).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In United States

Among sociologists born in United States, Theda Skocpol ranks 25. Before her are Robert N. Bellah (1927), Erik Olin Wright (1947), Jeffrey C. Alexander (1947), George Ritzer (1940), Robert Nisbet (1913), and Arlie Russell Hochschild (1940). After her are Rodney Stark (1934), and John Bellamy Foster (1953).

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