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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	Erving Goffman	1,178
2	Robert K. Merton	1,086
3	Talcott Parsons	1,063
4	Charles Cooley	475
5	William Graham Sumner	417
6	Robert E. Park	206
7	W. I. Thomas	196
8	Paul Lazarsfeld	194
9	William Julius Wilson	191
10	Edwin Sutherland	167
11	Seymour Martin Lipset	165
12	Ernest Burgess	165
13	Herbert Blumer	164
14	Edward Alsworth Ross	153
15	Lester Frank Ward	148
16	James Samuel Coleman	146
17	Amitai Etzioni	146
18	Kingsley Davis	114
19	Pitirim Sorokin	113
20	George C. Homans	112
21	Louis Wirth	104
22	Frances Fox Piven	102
23	Herbert J. Gans	94
24	Lewis A. Coser	83
25	Peter Blau	81
26	E. Franklin Frazier	80
27	Michael Burawoy	75
28	Kai T. Erikson	67
29	Neil Smelser	63
30	Alejandro Portes	50
31	Florian Znaniecki	47
32	Douglas Massey	43
33	Albion Woodbury Small	42
34	William Foote Whyte	42
35	William Fielding Ogburn	41
36	Samuel A. Stouffer	38
37	Howard P. Becker	37
38	Everett Hughes	33
39	William A. Gamson	27
40	Howard W. Odum	27
41	Emory S. Bogardus	25
42	Robert Morrison MacIver	23
43	Troy Duster	20
44	Charles A. Ellwood	20
45	Reinhard Bendix	19
46	William H. Sewell	17
47	Franklin Henry Giddings	15
48	George Edgar Vincent	15
49	Edward C. Hayes	11
50	George Elliott Howard	9
51	Frank W. Blackmar	9
52	Jill Quadagno	8
53	Francis Stuart Chapin	less than 5 views
54	William T. Bielby	less than 5 views
55	Ellsworth Faris	less than 5 views

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• American sociologists
• Presidents of learned societies

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