SOCIOLOGIST

Edwin Sutherland

1883 - 1950

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Edwin Hardin Sutherland (August 13, 1883 – October 11, 1950) was an American sociologist. He is considered one of the most influential criminologists of the 20th century. He was a sociologist of the symbolic interactionist school of thought and is best known for defining white-collar crime and differential association, a general theory of crime and delinquency. Sutherland earned his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1913. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edwin Sutherland is the 44th most popular sociologist (up from 46th in 2019), the 4,177th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,901st in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Sociologist.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Edwin Sutherland ranks 44 out of 79. Before him are Herbert Blumer, Howard S. Becker, Charles Tilly, Amitai Etzioni, Shmuel Eisenstadt, and T. H. Marshall. After him are Mark Granovetter, Marcel Granet, David Riesman, Nils Christie, Randall Collins, and James Samuel Coleman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Edwin Sutherland ranks 132. Before him are Eric Temple Bell, Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz, Richard Ruoff, Andrei Bubnov, Václav Talich, and Cho Man-sik. After him are Louis Lavelle, Giovanni Pastrone, Prince Arthur of Connaught, Fyodor Sergeyev, Mauritz Stiller, and István Friedrich. Among people deceased in 1950, Edwin Sutherland ranks 92. Before him are Yi Kwang-su, Aliya bint Ali, Ulrich Graf, Alan Hale Sr., Joanni Perronet, and Raymond Sommer. After him are Edgar Lee Masters, Santiago Casares Quiroga, Théodore Steeg, John C. Woods, Joseph, Duke of Parma, and Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edwin Sutherland ranks 4,177 out of 20,380. Before him are Eric Carle (1929), Aaliyah (1979), Carl Bernstein (1944), Jennifer Doudna (1964), Zach Galifianakis (1969), and Kenny Clarke (1914). After him are Lucius D. Clay (1898), Chubby Checker (1941), Richard Jordan (1937), Rob Cohen (1949), Patrick Henry (1736), and Tracy Pollan (1960).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In United States

Among sociologists born in United States, Edwin Sutherland ranks 14. Before him are Harold Garfinkel (1917), Robert E. Park (1864), W. I. Thomas (1863), Herbert Blumer (1900), Howard S. Becker (1928), and Charles Tilly (1929). After him are Mark Granovetter (1943), David Riesman (1909), Randall Collins (1941), James Samuel Coleman (1926), George Ritzer (1940), and Arlie Russell Hochschild (1940).

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