# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harvey-sacks
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:41:11.406Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harvey-sacks"
name: "Harvey Sacks"
slug: "harvey-sacks"
description: "Harvey Sacks was an American sociologist influenced by the ethnomethodology tradition. He pioneered extremely detailed studies of the way people use language in everyday life. Despite his early death in a car crash and the fact that he did not publish widely, he is recognized as the founder of conversation analysis. His work has had significant influence on fields such as linguistics, discourse analysis, and discursive psychology."
tagline: "American sociologist (1935–1975)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1935-07-19"
deathDate: "1975-11-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.53
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.349461333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Harvey Sacks"
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    title: "Harvey Sacks"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Sacks"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Sacks"
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  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Sacks"
    title: "Harvey Sacks"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Sacks"
    title: "Harvey Sacks"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Sacks"
    title: "Harvey Sacks"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q745034"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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