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Barrington Moore Jr.

1913 - 2005

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Barrington Moore Jr. (12 May 1913 – 16 October 2005) was an American political sociologist, and the son of forester Barrington Moore. He is well known for his Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (1966), a comparative study of modernization in Britain, France, the United States, China, Japan, Russia, Germany, and India. The book puts forth a neo-Marxist argument that class structures and class alliances at particular points in time can account for the kinds of social revolutions that occurred and did not occur in those countries, putting some countries on a path to democracy, whereas others were put on a path to authoritarianism or communism. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Barrington Moore Jr. is the 559th most popular philosopher (up from 1,083rd in 2019), the 2,190th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,731st in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Barrington Moore Jr. ranks 559 out of 1,267. Before her are Zhou Dunyi, Cesare Ripa, James Ussher, Paul Grice, Karl Korsch, and Arete of Cyrene. After her are Bernardino Telesio, Zaki al-Arsuzi, Harriet Taylor Mill, Al-Shahrastani, Bion of Borysthenes, and Ananda Coomaraswamy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Barrington Moore Jr. ranks 85. Before her are Sergey Mikhalkov, Roger Caillois, Israel Gelfand, 'Abd al-Ilah, Méret Oppenheim, and Paul Grice. After her are Mary Leakey, Osvaldo Moles, Alexander Pokryshkin, Bill Shankly, Victor Mature, and Mark Felt. Among people deceased in 2005, Barrington Moore Jr. ranks 67. Before her are Emmanuelle Arsan, Urie Bronfenbrenner, George Dantzig, William Westmoreland, Ba Jin, and Vincent Schiavelli. After her are Maurice Trintignant, John Garang, Hunter S. Thompson, Narriman Sadek, Augusto Roa Bastos, and Cicely Saunders.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Barrington Moore Jr. ranks 2,190 out of 20,380. Before her are Alex Jones (1974), Jean M. Auel (1936), William Wallace Denslow (1856), Gore Vidal (1925), Thornton Wilder (1897), and Carl Keenan Seyfert (1911). After her are Blase J. Cupich (1949), Henry Ford II (1917), Ving Rhames (1959), Theda Bara (1885), Frank Wilczek (1951), and William Wyatt Bibb (1781).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Barrington Moore Jr. ranks 21. Before her are Murray Bookchin (1921), Ronald Dworkin (1931), Nelson Goodman (1906), Kenneth Waltz (1924), Saul Kripke (1940), and Charles W. Morris (1903). After her are Nancy Fraser (1947), Tom Regan (1938), Jonathan Edwards (1703), Arthur Danto (1924), Michael Walzer (1935), and Reinhold Niebuhr (1892).

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