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Immanuel Wallerstein

1930 - 2019

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Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (; September 28, 1930 – August 31, 2019) was an American sociologist and economic historian. He is perhaps best known for his development in sociology of world-systems approach. He was a Senior Research Scholar at Yale University from 2000 until his death in 2019, and published bimonthly syndicated commentaries through Agence Global on world affairs from October 1998 to July 2019. He was the 13th president of International Sociological Association (1994–1998). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Immanuel Wallerstein is the 14th most popular sociologist (down from 13th in 2019), the 811th most popular biography from United States (down from 555th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Sociologist.

Wallerstein is most famous for his theory of world-systems which argues that the global economy is a capitalist system with a core of wealthy countries and a periphery of poor countries.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Immanuel Wallerstein ranks 14 out of 79. Before him are Erving Goffman, Talcott Parsons, Marcel Mauss, Norbert Elias, Ulrich Beck, and Karl Mannheim. After him are Niklas Luhmann, Gabriel Tarde, Manuel Castells, Seymour Martin Lipset, Pitirim Sorokin, and Alain Touraine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Immanuel Wallerstein ranks 49. Before him are Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen, Tony Lip, Hugh Everett III, Pat Robertson, Joanne Woodward, and Harold Pinter. After him are Gary Becker, Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Bernie Ecclestone, Akira Suzuki, Biljana Plavšić, and Tippi Hedren. Among people deceased in 2019, Immanuel Wallerstein ranks 31. Before him are Doris Day, Marie Fredriksson, Bert Hellinger, Murray Gell-Mann, João Gilberto, and Mariss Jansons. After him are Alexei Leonov, Anna Karina, Demetris Christofias, Michel Legrand, David Koch, and Bibi Andersson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Immanuel Wallerstein ranks 811 out of 20,380. Before him are Anna Politkovskaya (1958), Jean Kennedy Smith (1928), Patricia Highsmith (1921), Michael J. Smith (1945), George Peppard (1928), and Andrew Mellon (1855). After him are Quincy Jones (1933), William Sadler (1950), Dennis Ritchie (1941), Stephen Collins (1947), Walt Whitman Rostow (1916), and Robert H. Goddard (1882).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In United States

Among sociologists born in United States, Immanuel Wallerstein ranks 3. Before him are Robert K. Merton (1910), and Talcott Parsons (1902). After him are Seymour Martin Lipset (1922), C. Wright Mills (1916), Robert N. Bellah (1927), Daniel Bell (1919), Harold Garfinkel (1917), Robert E. Park (1864), W. I. Thomas (1863), Herbert Blumer (1900), and Howard S. Becker (1928).

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