# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/margaret-archer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:12:41.482Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/margaret-archer"
name: "Margaret Archer"
slug: "margaret-archer"
description: "Margaret Scotford Archer was a British sociologist, who spent most of her academic career at the University of Warwick where she was for many years Professor of Sociology. She was also a professor at l'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. She is best known for coining the term elisionism in her 1995 book Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach. On 14 April 2014, Archer was named by Pope Francis to succeed former Harvard law professor and US Ambassador to the Holy See Mary Ann Glendon as President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, and served in this position until her retirement on 27 March 2019."
tagline: "British sociologist (1943–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MargaretSArcher.jpg?width=1200"
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country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1943-01-20"
deathDate: "2023-05-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump