# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/neil-smelser
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:36:45.743Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/neil-smelser"
name: "Neil Smelser"
slug: "neil-smelser"
description: "Neil Joseph Smelser was an American sociologist who served as professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research was on collective behavior, sociological theory, economic sociology, sociology of education, social change, and comparative methods."
tagline: "American sociologist (1930–2017)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1930-07-22"
deathDate: "2017-10-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.712236665172569
  historical:           7.41692
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Neil Smelser"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_J._Smelser"
    title: "Neil J. Smelser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Smelser"
    title: "Neil Smelser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Neil Smelser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ნეილ სმელზერი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BB"
    title: "Смелзер, Нил"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BB_%D0%A1%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Нейл Смелзер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump