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Stuart Hall

1932 - 2014

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Stuart Henry McPhail Hall (3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014) was a Jamaican-born British Marxist sociologist, cultural theorist, and political activist. Hall – along with Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams – was one of the founding figures of the school of thought known as British Cultural Studies or the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies. In the 1950s Hall was a founder of the influential journal New Left Review. At Hoggart's invitation, he joined the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) at the University of Birmingham in 1964. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Stuart Hall is the 30th most popular sociologist, the 13th most popular biography from Jamaica (down from 9th in 2019) and the most popular Jamaican Sociologist.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Stuart Hall ranks 30 out of 79. Before him are Peter L. Berger, Saskia Sassen, Ziya Gökalp, Robert N. Bellah, Daniel Bell, and Thomas Luckmann. After him are Juan José Linz, Harold Garfinkel, Ludwig Gumplowicz, Georges Gurvitch, Robert E. Park, and W. I. Thomas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Stuart Hall ranks 123. Before him are Geraldine McEwan, Manuel Puig, Michael Smith, John G. Thompson, Oscar de la Renta, and Meir Kahane. After him are Mustafa Tlass, Dieter Rams, Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, Rodion Shchedrin, Fernando Arrabal, and Iskandar of Johor. Among people deceased in 2014, Stuart Hall ranks 91. Before him are Siegfried Lenz, Gabriel Axel, Jean-Luc Dehaene, Alice Herz-Sommer, Ben Bradlee, and Oscar de la Renta. After him are Gottfried John, Ralph H. Baer, Valeri Kubasov, Christopher Jones, Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, and Jack Bruce.

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In Jamaica

Among people born in Jamaica, Stuart Hall ranks 13 out of 189. Before him are Patrick Allen (1951), Max Romeo (1944), Peter Tosh (1944), Jimmy Cliff (1948), Marcus Garvey (1887), and Violet Brown (1900). After him are Liz Mitchell (1952), Lee "Scratch" Perry (1936), Trevor Berbick (1954), Madge Sinclair (1938), Millie Small (1947), and George Rhoden (1926).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In Jamaica

Among sociologists born in Jamaica, Stuart Hall ranks 1. 

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