swap_horiz Norbert Elias Alternatives

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George Herbert Mead

Associated with American pragmatism and the University of Chicago, George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) studied how communica...

Classical American 20TH Century Self

9.20 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

9.20 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

9.20 Excellent

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Pierre Bourdieu

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French 20TH Century Capital Field Theory

9.20 Excellent

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Niklas Luhmann

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Communication German 20TH Century Systems Theory

9.18 Excellent

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James Coleman

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American Education 20TH Century Social Capital

9.15 Excellent

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Stuart Hall

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20TH Century Identity Race Cultural Studies

9.10 Excellent

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Arlie Hochschild

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American 20TH Century Feminist Labor

9.08 Excellent

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C. Wright Mills

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American 20TH Century Conflict Power Elite

9.05 Excellent

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William Julius Wilson

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American 20TH Century Urban Race

9.05 Excellent

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Paul Lazarsfeld

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9.05 Excellent

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Patricia Hill Collins

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American 20TH Century Intersectionality Feminist

9.03 Excellent

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Barrington Moore Jr.

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American 20TH Century Historical Democracy

9.00 Excellent

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Edwin Sutherland

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American 20TH Century Criminology White Collar Crime

8.95 Great

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Henri Lefebvre

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French Space 20TH Century Marxist

8.95 Great

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Harold Garfinkel

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American 20TH Century Phenomenology Micro Sociology

8.92 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

8.92 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

8.25 Great

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Ralf Dahrendorf

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8.15 Great

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Reinhard Bendix

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American 20TH Century Comparative Historical

7.95 Good