# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-matza
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:11:48.150Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-matza"
name: "David Matza"
slug: "david-matza"
description: "David Matza was an American sociologist who taught at University of California, Berkeley from 1961."
tagline: "American sociologist and criminologist (1930–2018)"
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: "1930-05-01"
deathDate: "2018-03-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.27
  momentum:             9.754878629224178
  historical:           5.673686666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Matza"
    title: "David Matza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B2%D8%A7"
    title: "ديفيد ماتزا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Matza"
    title: "David Matza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Matza"
    title: "David Matza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Matza"
    title: "David Matza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Matza"
    title: "David Matza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1175548"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump