SOCIOLOGIST

George C. Homans

1910 - 1989

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George Caspar Homans (August 11, 1910 – May 29, 1989) was an American sociologist, founder of behavioral sociology, the 54th president of the American Sociological Association, and one of the architects of social exchange theory. Homans is best known in science for his research in social behavior and his works The Human Group, Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms, his contributions to exchange theory, and the different propositions he developed to explain social behavior. He is also the third great-grandson of the second President of the United States, John Adams. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George C. Homans is the 58th most popular sociologist (down from 48th in 2019), the 6,560th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,126th in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Sociologist.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, George C. Homans ranks 58 out of 79. Before him are Raewyn Connell, Basil Bernstein, George Ritzer, Gøsta Esping-Andersen, Lewis A. Coser, and Arlie Russell Hochschild. After him are Maksim Kovalevsky, Erik Olin Wright, Jeffrey C. Alexander, Michael Mann, Claus Offe, and Henri Hubert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, George C. Homans ranks 240. Before him are Antal Szabó, Hilde Schrader, Karl Zischek, Heitor Canalli, Katalin Karády, and Glenn Hardin. After him are Raoul Diagne, Genrikh Kasparyan, Stanisław Kowalski, Duncan McNaughton, Jakob Bender, and Rachel de Queiroz. Among people deceased in 1989, George C. Homans ranks 193. Before him are Laurie Cunningham, Süreyya Ağaoğlu, José Augusto Brandão, René Petit, Robert Körner, and Richard Quine. After him are Antonio Janigro, Alvin Ailey, Chico Landi, Yasushi Akutagawa, Luiz Luz, and Ronald Syme.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George C. Homans ranks 6,561 out of 20,380. Before him are Henry Gibson (1935), Rodney Dangerfield (1921), Jude Ciccolella (1947), Charles Kittel (1916), Helen Levitt (1913), and Jesse James (1969). After him are Shonda Rhimes (1970), Colm Feore (1958), Otis Davis (1932), Pat Smear (1959), Schelte J. Bus (1956), and Robert Barro (1944).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In United States

Among sociologists born in United States, George C. Homans ranks 21. Before him are Mark Granovetter (1943), David Riesman (1909), Randall Collins (1941), James Samuel Coleman (1926), George Ritzer (1940), and Arlie Russell Hochschild (1940). After him are Erik Olin Wright (1947), Jeffrey C. Alexander (1947), Theda Skocpol (1947), Robert Nisbet (1913), Rodney Stark (1934), and John Bellamy Foster (1953).

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