swap_horiz Herbert Blumer Alternatives

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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

9.2 Excellent

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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

9.2 Excellent

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Erving Goffman

Erving Goffman (1922–1982) was a Canadian-American sociologist who founded dramaturgical analysis, portraying everyday s...

American 20TH Century Stigma Micro Sociology

9.2 Excellent

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James Coleman

James S. Coleman was an American sociologist whose research addressed education, inequality, organizations, and rational...

American Education 20TH Century Social Capital

9.2 Excellent

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C. Wright Mills

C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) was an American sociologist known for analyzing power, social structure, and the responsibil...

American 20TH Century Conflict Power Elite

9.1 Excellent

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Arlie Hochschild

Arlie Hochschild (born 1940) is an American sociologist at UC Berkeley who coined the term 'emotional labor' in The Mana...

American 20TH Century Feminist Labor

9.1 Excellent

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William Julius Wilson

William Julius Wilson is an American sociologist known for research on race, employment, urban inequality, and concentra...

American 20TH Century Urban Race

9.1 Excellent

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Patricia Hill Collins

Patricia Hill Collins (born 1948) is an American sociologist who developed intersectionality theory and Black feminist t...

American 20TH Century Intersectionality Feminist

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Barrington Moore Jr.

Barrington Moore Jr. was an American historical sociologist and political scholar known for comparative studies of socia...

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

9.0 Excellent

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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

Harold Garfinkel (1917–2011) was an American sociologist who founded ethnomethodology, studying the tacit methods ordina...

American 20TH Century Phenomenology Micro Sociology

8.9 Great

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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

8.9 Great

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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

8.8 Great

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William Thomas

William Isaac Thomas was an American sociologist whose work examined migration, social behavior, and the ways people int...

American 20TH Century Immigration Chicago School

8.6 Great

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Louis Wirth

Louis Wirth was a German-born American sociologist associated with the Chicago School and the study of urban life, migra...

American 20TH Century Urban Urbanism

8.3 Great

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Everett Hughes

Everett C. Hughes was an American sociologist associated with the Chicago School and the study of symbolic interaction....

American 20TH Century Race Work

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Ernest Burgess

Ernest Watson Burgess (1886-1966) was a Canadian-born American sociologist and a major figure in the Chicago school of s...

American 20TH Century Urban Chicago School

7.9 Good

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Neil Smelser

Neil Smelser (1930–2017) was an American sociologist at UC Berkeley who developed a theory of collective behavior and co...

American 20TH Century Economy Functionalism

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Ralph Turner

American sociologist who made significant contributions to role theory and collective behavior studies. Turner distingui...

American 20TH Century Symbolic Interaction Collective Behavior

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