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Alvin Ward Gouldner

Gouldner, however, was not the first sociologist to be critical of objective knowledge of society; see, for example, Adorno's Negative Dialectics.

Augmentation Research Center

The complex story of the rise and fall of ARC has been documented in a book by sociologist Thierry Bardini.

C. W. M. Hart

Charles William Merton Hart (1905–1976) was a social anthropologist and sociologist best known for his study of the Tiwi people of the Bathurst and Melville Islands (or Tiwi Islands) in north Australia during the 1920s.

Charles Madge

He was the son of Lieut Col. C. A. Madge and Barbara, née Hylton Foster, and the brother of the sociologist John Madge who wrote The Origins of Scientific Sociology.

As a sociologist, he co-founded Mass-Observation with Tom Harrisson in 1937, an endeavour which would occupy more of his time than literature.

Chauvel

Louis Chauvel (born 1967), French sociologist, full professor at Sciences Po

Contentious politics

For example, historical sociologist Charles Tilly argues that the nature of contentious politics changed fairly dramatically with the birth of social movements in 18th-century Europe.

Controversies about Opus Dei

According to Massimo Introvigne, a sociologist and conservative Catholic scholar, these secularist groups could not tolerate what he saw as "a return to religion of the secularized society."

De Stefano 'ndrina

According to the sociologist Pino Arlacchi, the background of the war was the attempt of the De Stefano brothers to turn their accumulated wealth and power to account by claiming contracts for the Gioia Tauro port.

Dick Anthony

James T. Richardson, Springer, 2004, ISBN 978-0-306-47887-1: 127–149 (with Thomas Robbins)

Disclosure and Barring Service

Sociologist Frank Furedi has stated that CRB checks cannot provide a "cast-iron guarantee that children will be safe with a particular adult", and that their use has created an atmosphere of suspicion and is "poisoning" relationships between the generations, with many ordinary parents finding themselves regarded as "potential child abusers".

DuSable Museum of African American History

The DuSable collection includes works from scholar W. E. B. Du Bois, sociologist St. Clair Drake, and poet Langston Hughes.

Ernest Burgess

Ernest Watson Burgess (May 16, 1886 – December 27, 1966) was an urban sociologist born in Tilbury, Ontario.

Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science

Sociologist of religion Anson D. Shupe took in general a positive attitude, and praises Gardner for his humor.

False memory syndrome

Some of the influential figures in the genesis of the theory are forensic psychologist Ralph Underwager, psychologist Elizabeth Loftus and sociologist Richard Ofshe.

Far East of Eden

Most players will note that the series also makes reference to another 'creator', Paul Hieronymus Chada, who is presented as a 19th-century Smithsonian sociologist/historian similar to that of Sigmund Freud or Karl Marx.

Gøsta Esping-Andersen

According to French sociologist, Georges Menahem, Esping-Andersen's "decommodification index" aggregates both qualitative and quantitative variables for ”sets of dimensions” which fluid, and pertain to three very different areas.

Hybridity

Sociologist Jan Nederveen Pieterse highlights these core arguments in a debate that promotes hybridity.

Jeltz

Wyatt F. Jeltz, an African American Oklahoman philanthropist and sociologist

Journal of Agrarian Change

Henry Bernstein and Terence Byres, two of the founding editors, published an article in the first issue on the history of the Journal of Peasant Studies, explaining why a new and less doctrinaire journal was needed.

Koakuma Ageha

Sociologist Shinji Miyadai has described this magazine as a "textbook for hostesses".

Laurence Iannaccone

David Lehman, Rational Choice and the Sociology of Religion, chapter 8 in Bryan S. Turner (ed.) The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion, John Wiley and Sons, 2010, ISBN 1-4051-8852-9

Left-wing fascism

Sociologist Irving Louis Horowitz, in his 1984 book "Winners and Losers", built on Vladimir Lenin's work "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder.

Lord Young

Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington (9 August 1915 – 14 January 2002), British sociologist, social activist and politician who coined the term "meritocracy"

MaDonal

Sociologist George Ritzer sees MaDonal as part of a trend of other countries developing their own regional variations of McDonald’s.

Maurizio Montalbini

Maurizio Montalbini (Senigallia 4 September 1953–Pieve Torina 19 September 2009) was an Italian sociologist and caver who had lived in complete isolation in an underground chamber multiple times since 1986.

MissingNo.

Sociologist William Sims Bainbridge stated that Game Freak created "one of the most popular glitches ever in game history", and cited its creative usage by players.

Mixed-income housing

They draw on the seminal work of sociologist William Julius Wilson and describe the ways that adults serve as role models for children and youth through demonstrating work skills and the value of education.

Neotribalism

French sociologist Michel Maffesoli was perhaps the first to use the term neotribalism in a scholarly context.

Nerstrand, Minnesota

Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), usually characterized as an economist or sociologist, and best known for writing the book The Theory of the Leisure Class (ISBN 0-14-018795-2), lived about a mile northeast of town.

Pagan studies

In 1999, the American sociologist Helen A. Berger of West Chester University published A Community of Witches, a sociological study of the Wiccan and Pagan movement in the north-eastern United States.

Paradigm

Mattei Dogan, a French sociologist, in his article "Paradigms in the Social Sciences," develops Kuhn's original thesis that there are no paradigms at all in the social sciences since the concepts are polysemic, the deliberate mutual ignorance between scholars and the proliferation of schools in these disciplines.

Paul von Lilienfeld

The next day, Thursday, July 22, a paper by Lester F. Ward (not able to attend the conference) on "Pain and Pleasure Economy" was read in the morning, along with another paper by Italian sociologist Achille Loria.

Pitirim Sorokin

Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin (Russian Питири́м Алекса́ндрович Соро́кин; January 21, 1889, Turja north of Syktyvkar, Yarensk uyezd, Vologda Governorate (now Knyazhpogostsky District, Komi), Russian Empire – February 11, 1968, Winchester, Massachusetts) was a Russian American sociologist born in modern-day Komi (Finno-Ugric region of Russia).

Public housing in the United States

American sociologist William Julius Wilson has proposed that concentrating low-income housing in impoverished areas can limit tenants’ access to social opportunity.

Ragin

Charles C. Ragin, an American sociologist and Professor of Sociology and Political Science at the University of Arizona

Reginald Hobhouse

His daughter Emily was an early welfare campaigner and his son Leonard was a liberal political theorist and sociologist.

Ryūsuke Mita

Mita's father is Munesuke Mita, a well-known Japanese sociologist, and his grandfather was Sekisuke Mita

Sally Macintyre

Dame Sally Macintyre DBE FRSE (born 1949) is a Scottish sociologist and scientist.

San Giorgio della Richinvelda

Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician, sociologist, author and professor, assassinated durng the Dutch general election of 2002, buried in the cemetery of the frazione Provesano.

Seagram Building

The Seagram Building's plaza was also the site of a landmark planning study by William H. Whyte, the American sociologist.

South Hadley, Massachusetts

George Herbert Mead (1863–1931) was an American philosopher, sociologist and psychologist, primarily affiliated with the University of Chicago, where he was one of several distinguished pragmatists.

Stephen Murray

Stephen O. Murray (born 1950), American sociologist and anthropologist

The Inevitability of Patriarchy

In Key Issues in Women's Work (2nd ed., 2004), sociologist Catherine Hakim compares four competing theories of male dominance, including Goldberg's theory of patriarchy as well as her own preference theory, and notes the strengths and weaknesses of patriarchy theory.

The Trouble with Atheism

Liddle interviews the intelligent design supporter Steve Fuller, a philosopher, who argues that evolution is the only "scientifically credible basis" for atheism, and anthropologist Jeffrey H. Schwartz, who argues that evolutionary theory cannot account for novelties.

Victor Martin

Victor Martin (Blaton, 19 January 1912 – November 1989) was a Belgian sociologist, alumnus of Louvain Catholic University.

Warmiak

Andrzej Sakson - Polish sociologist specializing in research on Warmiaks

White collar

White Collar: The American Middle Classes, a study of the American middle class by sociologist C. Wright Mills

Wilhelm Heitmeyer

Wilhelm Heitmeyer (born 28 June 1945, Nettelstedt, Lübbecke) is a German academic, sociologist, administrator and Professor of Socialisation at Bielefeld University in Germany.


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