# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-perrow
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:07:35.354Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-perrow"
name: "Charles Perrow"
slug: "charles-perrow"
description: "Charles Bryce Perrow, or Chick Perrow was an American sociologist and a leading figure of organizational sociology. He spent most of his career at SUNY Stony Brook and Yale University as a professor of sociology. He authored several books and many articles on organizations, including Normal Accidents, and was primarily concerned with the impact of large organizations on society."
tagline: "American sociologist (1925–2019)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1925-02-09"
deathDate: "2019-11-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.56
  momentum:             2.058823529411765
  historical:           5.683370666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Charles Perrow"
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    title: "Charles Perrow"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Perrow"
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  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Perrow"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Perrow"
    title: "Charles Perrow"
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    title: "Charles Perrow"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump