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Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1636, was named Harvard College in 1639 in honor of its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, and is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. The colonial legislature of Massachusetts Bay authorized it, and although it was never formally tied to a Protestant denomination it trained Congregational clergy until its curriculum and student body were gradually secularized in the eighteenth century.

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Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
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Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
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William Julius Wilson (Wikipedia)
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William Julius Wilson (born December 20, 1935) is an American sociologist, a professor emeritus at Harvard University, and an author of works on urban sociology, race, and class issues.
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Patricia Hill Collins (Wikipedia)
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She proceeded to earn a Master of Arts degree in Teaching (MAT) in Social Science Education from Harvard University in 1970.
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Afterward, he completed a B.A. in psychology at Harvard University, where he was taught by notable sociologist Talcott Parsons.
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Robert E. Park (Wikipedia)
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Park wanted to dive deeper than the surface of these events and understand the underlying long-term significance of the events. ==== Teaching ==== In 1904, Park began teaching philosophy at Harvard as an assistant professor.
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Ashley Montagu - Wikipedia
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Montagu, who became a naturalized American citizen in 1940, taught and lectured at Harvard, Princeton, Rutgers, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and New York University.
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After leaving Harvard as a lecturer, Thomas gradually withdrew into retirement.
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Pitirim Sorokin (Wikipedia)
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Moving to the United States, he became a professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota in 1924, and, in 1930, he was hired as head of the newly formed department of sociology at Harvard University. == Background == Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin was born on 4 February [O.S. 23 January] 1889, in Turya, a small village in Yarensky Uyezd, Vologda Governorate, Russian Empire (now Knyazhpogostsky District, Komi Republic, Russia), the second son to a Russian father and Komi mother.
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Theda Skocpol (Wikipedia)
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Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University.
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She also received a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Poitiers in 1974. == Academic posts == After being a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, Sassen held various academic positions in and outside the US, such as the Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago.
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James Clifford's completed his PhD at Harvard University in 1977, focusing European intellectual and social history.
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She was a Postdoctoral Fellow for National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) at Harvard University's Laboratory of Human Development, 1979-1980. == Career == Scheper-Hughes' first book, Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland (1979), was a study of madness among bachelor farmers, and won the Margaret Mead Award from the Society for Applied Anthropology in 1980.
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Returning to Harvard, Rosaldo studied social anthropology, receiving his Ph.D. in 1971 for his work in the Philippines on Ilongot social organization. == Career == Rosaldo joined the Stanford University anthropology faculty in 1970.
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Daniel Bell (né Bolotsky; May 10, 1919, January 25, 2011) was an American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor at Harvard University, best known for his contributions to the study of post-industrialism.
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After receiving her undergraduate degree, she began graduate studies at Harvard in social anthropology.
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Wikipedia: Clyde Kluckhohn
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After teaching at the University of New Mexico from 1932 to 1934, he continued graduate work in anthropology at Harvard University where he received his Ph.D. in 1936.
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Lila Abu-Lughod (Wikipedia)
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She obtained her M.A. in 1978 and her Ph.D. in social anthropology in 1984, both from Harvard University. == Career == === Research interests === Abu-Lughod's body of work is grounded in long-term ethnographic research in Egypt.
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Previously, he was a professor of sociology at Princeton University. == Biography == A graduate of Swarthmore College, DiMaggio earned his Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard in 1979.
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Rogers Brubaker (Wikipedia)
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Born in Evanston, Illinois, Brubaker attended Harvard University and the University of Sussex before receiving a PhD from Columbia University in 1990.
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William Foote Whyte (Wikipedia)
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A proponent of participant observation, he lived for four years in an Italian community in Boston while a Junior Fellow at Harvard researching social relations of street gangs in Boston's North End. == Early life == Whyte, from an upper-middle-class background, showed an early interest in writing, economics and social reform.
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Sheila Jasanoff (Wikipedia)
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Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University as a professor of public policy.
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Arthur Kleinman (Wikipedia)
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Arthur Michael Kleinman (born March 11, 1941) is an American psychiatrist, social anthropologist and a professor of medical anthropology, psychiatry and global health and social medicine at Harvard University.
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Barry Wellman (Wikipedia)
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His graduate work was at Harvard University, where he trained with Chad Gordon, Charles Tilly and Harrison White, and also studied with Roger Brown, Cora Du Bois, George Homans, Alex Inkeles, Florence Kluckhohn, Talcott Parsons and Phillip J.
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Michele Lamont (Wikipedia)
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Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Harvard University.
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Herbert Marcuse (Wikipedia)
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He retired after the death of his first wife in 1951. === Post-war career === Marcuse began his teaching career as a political theorist at Columbia University, then continued at Harvard University in 1952.
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Richard Sennett (Wikipedia)
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His intellectual life as an urbanist came into focus during the time he spent as a fellow of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of Harvard and MIT. == Career == Sennett's scholarly writing centers on the development of cities, the nature of work in modern society, and the sociology of culture.
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Robert Putnam (Wikipedia)
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He is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard University John F.
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Claus Offe (Wikipedia)
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He studied between 1969 and 1971 at the University of California at Berkeley on a Harkness fellowship, at Harvard University as a research associate at the Center for West European Studies, and at The New School in Greenwich, New York.
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He was a research professor in history and politics at Harvard University's W.
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Raymond Boudon (Wikipedia)
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And a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and an invited professor notably at Harvard, Oxford University, and the Universities of Geneva, Chicago, and Stockholm.
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Juliet Schor (Wikipedia)
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In 1984, she joined the Department of Economics at Harvard University and throughout her 17 years teaching there, she rose from assistant professor to eventually a senior lecturer in the Department of Economics and the Committee on Degrees in Women's Studies.
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Robert J. Sampson (Wikipedia)
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Flowers University Professor at Harvard University and Director of the Social Sciences Program at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
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Marshall Berman (Wikipedia)
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Berman completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree at Harvard University in 1968.
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Paul A. Baran (Wikipedia)
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In 1939, with the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and just before the Nazi invasion of Poland, Baran emigrated to the U.S. where he enrolled at Harvard and received a master's degree in economics.
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Richard Levins (Wikipedia)
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Until his death, he was a university professor at the Harvard T.H.
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George Novack (Wikipedia)
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George Novack (August 5, 1905, Boston, Massachusetts, July 30, 1992, New York City) was an American Marxist theoretician, editor, and activist. == Biography == Novack attended Harvard University for five years, though without earning a degree, and was on a successful track in the publishing business when the beginning of the Great Depression radicalized him.
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Nancy K. Miller (Wikipedia)
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Miller has been a visiting professor at Harvard University, Hebrew University, and Tel Aviv University, and a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar.
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