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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

9.0 Excellent

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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

9.0 Excellent

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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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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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Charles Perrow

Charles Perrow was an American sociologist known for research on organizations, technology, and risk. In Normal Accident...

American 20TH Century Risk Organizations

8.3 Great

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Arthur Stinchcombe

Arthur L. Stinchcombe was an American sociologist known for work on organizations, stratification, economic sociology, a...

American 20TH Century Historical Organizations

8.3 Great

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Mayer Zald

Mayer N. Zald was an American sociologist who lived from 1931 to 2012 and made influential contributions to organization...

American 20TH Century Social Movements Organizations

8.3 Great

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Christine Williams

Christine L. Williams is an American sociologist whose research focuses on gender, work, occupations, and organizations....

American Contemporary Work Gender

7.9 Good

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Verta Taylor

Verta Taylor is an American sociologist whose research addresses social movements, gender, sexuality, and feminist activ...

American Contemporary Feminist Gender

7.9 Good

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Cynthia Fuchs Epstein

Cynthia Fuchs Epstein was an American sociologist known for research on gender, occupations, professional life, and ineq...

American Contemporary Feminist Gender

7.8 Good

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Barrie Thorne

Barrie Thorne is an American sociologist whose research focuses on gender, childhood, families, and everyday social inte...

American Contemporary Feminist Childhood

7.7 Good

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Myra Marx Ferree

Myra Marx Ferree is an American sociologist known for research on gender, feminist movements, organizations, and politic...

American Contemporary Feminist Gender

7.7 Good

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Judith Stacey

Judith Stacey is an American sociologist whose scholarship examines family change, gender, sexuality, and the political...

American Contemporary Family Feminist

7.6 Good