swap_horiz Lillian Rubin 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

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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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

8.9 Great

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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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Howard Becker

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

American 20TH Century Labeling Theory Deviance

8.9 Great

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Erik Olin Wright

Erik Olin Wright was an American sociologist known for analytical Marxist research on class structure and alternatives t...

American 20TH Century Marxist Class

8.6 Great

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Christopher Lasch

Christopher Lasch was an American historian and social critic who wrote about family life, consumer culture, political t...

American Family Culture 20TH Century

7.9 Good

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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

7.6 Good

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Joyce Ladner

Joyce Ladner is an American sociologist and civil rights activist who contributed to the field of Black sociology. She p...

American Family 20TH Century Race

7.2 Good

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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

7.2 Good

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Robert Staples

Robert Staples was an American sociologist whose scholarship focused on Black families, gender relations, masculinity, a...

American Family 20TH Century Race

7.0 Good