Academic Ancestry

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Harold Garfinkel

American sociologist1917 to 2011

Wikidata names Talcott Parsons as doctoral advisor, names Max Weber and Talcott Parsons as teachers, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Harold Garfinkel, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors2

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

    Max Weber

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

    Talcott Parsons

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

    Melvin Pollner

    born 1940

The line above and below4 steps

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.

Education and career2

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