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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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Matthew Desmond

Matthew Desmond is an American sociologist whose research focuses on poverty, housing, eviction, and economic inequality...

American Contemporary Urban Poverty

9.1 Excellent

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Stuart Hall

Stuart Hall was a Jamaican-born British cultural theorist and sociologist whose work examined media, ideology, race, ide...

20TH Century Identity Race Cultural Studies

9.1 Excellent

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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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Elijah Anderson

Elijah Anderson is an American sociologist whose research examines race, inequality, urban life, and the informal rules...

American Contemporary Urban Race

8.8 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

8.2 Great

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Mitchell Duneier

Mitchell Duneier is an American sociologist known for ethnographic research on urban life, race, poverty, and public spa...

American Contemporary Urban Race

8.1 Great

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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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Mary Pattillo

Mary Pattillo is an American sociologist whose research examines race, social class, housing, urban policy, and Black co...

American Contemporary Urban Race

7.9 Good

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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

7.9 Good

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Sudhir Venkatesh

Sudhir Venkatesh is an American sociologist and urban ethnographer whose research has examined poverty, underground econ...

American Contemporary Urban Poverty

7.7 Good

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Reynolds Farley

Reynolds Farley is an American sociologist and demographer known for research on racial inequality, residential segregat...

American 20TH Century Race Segregation

7.7 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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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