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Herbert Spencer
British philosopher

Henri Tajfel
Polish-born British social psychologist

C. Wright Mills
American sociologist

Frédéric Le Play
French sociologist

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse
British sociologist

Robert Neelly Bellah
American sociologist

Godfrey Wilson
British anthropologist