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Also Known As Neil Joseph Smelser
Born July 22, 1930 • Missouri
Died October 2, 2017 (aged 87) • Berkeley • California
Subjects Of Study collective behaviour • personality • social structure
Talcott Parsons
American sociologist
W. I. Thomas
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Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
British philosopher
Gunnar Myrdal in 1974
Gunnar Myrdal
Swedish economist and sociologist
Richard Thurnwald
German ethnologist
Robert Lynd
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Helen Lynd
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Leon Festinger
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Robert D. Bullard
Robert D. Bullard
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Karen Horney
Karen Horney
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Mirra Komarovsky
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Andrew Greeley
Andrew Greeley
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Marshall B. Clinard
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Elsie Clews Parsons.
Elsie Clews Parsons
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Harold Lasswell
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Todd Gitlin
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Balch, Emily Greene
Emily Greene Balch
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Elihu Katz
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James S. Coleman
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Robert K. Merton
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