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Born June 11, 1922 or November 19, 1982 • Canada
Died November 19, 1982 • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Subjects Of Study frame analysis • social interaction
Gabriel Tarde, c. 1899.
Gabriel Tarde
French sociologist
Gustav Ratzenhofer
Austrian general and sociologist
Georg Simmel
German sociologist
Robert Lynd
American sociologist
Helen Lynd
American sociologist
Robert D. Bullard
Robert D. Bullard
American sociologist and environmental activist
Mirra Komarovsky
Russian-born sociologist
Andrew Greeley
Andrew Greeley
American priest, sociologist, educator, commentator, and author
Marshall B. Clinard
American sociologist and criminologist
Elsie Clews Parsons.
Elsie Clews Parsons
American anthropologist
Todd Gitlin
American political activist and author
Balch, Emily Greene
Emily Greene Balch
American political scientist
Elihu Katz
American sociologist
James S. Coleman
American sociologist
Robert K. Merton
American sociologist
Mary Parker Follett
American sociologist
Talcott Parsons
American sociologist
Gresham M. Sykes
American criminologist
William Julius Wilson
American sociologist
David Riesman
American sociologist