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Manuel Castells

Spanish sociologistborn 1942

Supervised 6 doctoral students at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and Universitat Oberta de Catalunya between 1990 and 2015; Wikidata names Alain Touraine as doctoral advisor, lists 1 doctoral student, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 5 other registers.

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Manuel Castells, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Students6

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Daniel Cohn-Bendit

    born 1945

The line above and below1 step

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 14 people: 13 cited by thesis records, 1 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career14

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.