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Born June 11, 1922 or November 19, 1982 • Canada
Died November 19, 1982 • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania • (Anniversary in 6 days)
Subjects Of Study frame analysis • social interaction
Gabriel Tarde, c. 1899.
Gabriel Tarde
French sociologist
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Gustav Ratzenhofer
Austrian general and sociologist
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Georg Simmel
German sociologist
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Robert Lynd
American sociologist
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Helen Lynd
American sociologist
W.E.B. Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois
American sociologist, historian, and activist
Robert D. Bullard
Robert D. Bullard
American sociologist and environmental activist
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Mirra Komarovsky
Russian-born sociologist
Andrew Greeley in 1982, wearing a black clerical shirt with a white collar, smiling and looking slightly to the side against a neutral background.
Andrew Greeley
American priest, sociologist, educator, commentator, and author
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Marshall B. Clinard
American sociologist and criminologist
Elsie Clews Parsons.
Elsie Clews Parsons
American anthropologist
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Todd Gitlin
American political activist and author
Balch, Emily Greene
Emily Greene Balch
American political scientist
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Elihu Katz
American sociologist
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James S. Coleman
American sociologist
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Robert K. Merton
American sociologist
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Mary Parker Follett
American sociologist
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Talcott Parsons
American sociologist
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Gresham M. Sykes
American criminologist
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William Julius Wilson
American sociologist