# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-bloor
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:09:18.786Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-bloor"
name: "David Bloor"
slug: "david-bloor"
description: "David Bloor is a British sociologist. He is a professor in, and a former director of, the Science Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh. He is a key figure in the Edinburgh school and played a major role in the development of the field of science and technology studies. He is best known for advocating the strong programme in the sociology of scientific knowledge, most notably in his book Knowledge and Social Imagery."
tagline: "British sociologist (1942-)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1942-06-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.6
  momentum:             1.213872832369942
  historical:           9.82592
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "大衛·布魯爾"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Bloor"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bloor"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bloor"
    title: "David Bloor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دیوید بلور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bloor"
    title: "David Bloor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bloor"
    title: "David Bloor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bloor"
    title: "David Bloor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bloor"
    title: "David Bloor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BB%D1%83%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4"
    title: "Блур, Дэвид"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Bloor"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump