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George Herbert Mead

George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) was an American philosopher and social theorist associated with pragmatism and the Unive...

Classical American 20TH Century Self

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Robert K. Merton

Robert K. Merton (1910–2003) was an American sociologist at Columbia University who coined the terms 'role model,' 'self...

American 20TH Century Functionalism Middle Range

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Erving Goffman

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American 20TH Century Stigma Micro Sociology

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James Coleman

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American Education 20TH Century Social Capital

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C. Wright Mills

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American 20TH Century Conflict Power Elite

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Arlie Hochschild

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American 20TH Century Feminist Labor

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William Julius Wilson

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American 20TH Century Urban Race

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Patricia Hill Collins

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American 20TH Century Intersectionality Feminist

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Barrington Moore Jr.

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American 20TH Century Historical Democracy

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Edwin Sutherland

Edwin H. Sutherland was an American sociologist and criminologist whose work helped establish crime as a subject of syst...

American 20TH Century Criminology White Collar Crime

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Henri Lefebvre

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French Space 20TH Century Marxist

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Talcott Parsons

Talcott Parsons (1902–1979) was an American sociologist at Harvard University who built structural functionalism into th...

American 20TH Century Structural Systems Theory

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Harold Garfinkel

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American 20TH Century Phenomenology Micro Sociology

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Theda Skocpol

Theda Skocpol (born 1947) is an American historical sociologist at Harvard University whose States and Social Revolution...

American 20TH Century Historical Revolution

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Howard Becker

Howard S. Becker was an American sociologist whose work examined deviance, occupations, education, artistic production,...

American 20TH Century Labeling Theory Deviance

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Robert E. Park

Robert E. Park was an American sociologist and a central figure in the development of the Chicago School of sociology. A...

American 20TH Century Urban Race

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Manning Marable

Manning Marable was an American historian, sociologist, and scholar of African American politics and history. He taught...

African American American 20TH Century Race

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Lloyd Warner

W. Lloyd Warner was an American anthropologist and sociologist known for applying ethnographic methods to the study of s...

American Community 20TH Century Class

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Lillian Rubin

Lillian B. Rubin (1924–2014) was an American sociologist, psychotherapist, and author associated with the University of...

American Family 20TH Century Working Class

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August Hollingshead

American sociologist (1907-1980) best known for his research on social stratification and community dynamics. His influe...

American Community 20TH Century Mental Health

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