# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-furedi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:22:05.834Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-furedi"
name: "Frank Furedi"
slug: "frank-furedi"
description: "Frank Furedi is a Hungarian-Canadian academic and emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent. He has studied the sociology of fear, education, therapy culture, sociology of knowledge, and what he calls \"paranoid parenting\"."
tagline: "Hungarian-Canadian sociologist (born 1947)"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1947-05-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             25
  historical:           10.35252266666667
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm2736095"
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    url:       "https://frankfuredi.org/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump