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Margaret Archer

1943 - 2023

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Margaret Scotford Archer (20 January 1943 – 21 May 2023) was a British sociologist, who spent most of her academic career at the University of Warwick where she was for many years Professor of Sociology. She was also a professor at l'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. She is best known for coining the term elisionism in her 1995 book Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach. On 14 April 2014, Archer was named by Pope Francis to succeed former Harvard law professor and US Ambassador to the Holy See Mary Ann Glendon as President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, and served in this position until her retirement on 27 March 2019. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Margaret Archer is the 71st most popular sociologist, the 4,522nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,996th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Sociologist.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Margaret Archer ranks 71 out of 79. Before her are Göran Therborn, Loïc Wacquant, Louis Wirth, Anthony D. Smith, Peter Blau, and Theda Skocpol. After her are John Urry, Robert Nisbet, Rodney Stark, Tatyana Zaslavskaya, Boris Kagarlitsky, and Grażyna Gęsicka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Margaret Archer ranks 567. Before her are Foppe de Haan, Warren Farrell, Albert Lee, Hédi Annabi, Francisco Valdés, and Bob Hite. After her are Eduardo Nascimento, Martin Mull, Liu Chao-shiuan, Steven Pressfield, Dan Coats, and Florence Ballard. Among people deceased in 2023, Margaret Archer ranks 442. Before her are Gérard Collomb, Darío Jara Saguier, Elmar Wepper, Lisa Loring, Francesco Maselli, and Ritt Bjerregaard. After her are Sergio Gori, Viktor Mamatov, James Hartle, Agustí Villaronga, Dario Campeotto, and Max Hardcore.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Margaret Archer ranks 4,523 out of 8,785. Before her are Arthur St. Clair (1737), John Fenning (1885), John Francis Davis (1795), Robert Herrick (1591), James Collins (1983), and Thomas Linacre (1460). After her are Ian McElhinney (1948), Ivor Allchurch (1929), Roger Allam (1953), Robert Morison (1620), Michael Crawford (1942), and Sophie Muller (1962).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among sociologists born in United Kingdom, Margaret Archer ranks 6. Before her are Anthony Giddens (1938), T. H. Marshall (1893), Basil Bernstein (1924), Michael Mann (1942), and Anthony D. Smith (1939). After her are John Urry (1946).

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