The University of California, Berkeley, often called UC Berkeley or Cal, is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. It was founded in 1868, named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher and clergyman George Berkeley, and it is the first land-grant university in the state and the founding campus of the University of California system. It enrolls more than 45,000 students and is organized around fifteen schools of study on one campus, among them the College of Letters and Science, the College of Engineering and the Haas School of Business. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory began as part of the university.
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The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States.
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The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States.
Dorothy E. Smith (Wikipedia)
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They both attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, where she received her Ph.D. in sociology in 1963, nine months after the birth of their second child.
Alfred Kroeber (Wikipedia)
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He was also the first professor appointed to the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Arlie Russell Hochschild (Wikipedia)
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Arlie Russell Hochschild (; born January 15, 1940) is an American professor emerita of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and writer.
Wikipedia: Robert Nisbet
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Robert Alexander Nisbet (; September 30, 1913, September 9, 1996) was an American sociologist, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, vice-chancellor at the University of California, Riverside, and an Albert Schweitzer Professor at Columbia University. == Life == Nisbet was born in Los Angeles in 1913.
Wikipedia: Rodney Stark
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He worked as a journalist for the Oakland Tribune from 1959 until 1961, then pursued graduate work, obtaining his MA in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1965 and his PhD, also from Berkeley, in 1971.
Robert Wuthnow (Wikipedia)
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He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Kansas in 1968 and his Doctor of Philosophy degree in sociology at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975.
Wikipedia: Neil Fligstein
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Neil Fligstein (born May 23, 1951) is an American sociologist, and professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Thomas J. Scheff (Wikipedia)
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He held a BS from the University of Arizona in Physics (1950), and a PhD in sociology from the University of California (Berkeley) (1960).
Betty Friedan (Wikipedia)
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In 1943 she spent a year at the University of California, Berkeley on a fellowship for graduate work in psychology with Erik Erikson.
Alison Kafer (Wikipedia)
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Following her Ph.D. she was an Ed Roberts Fellow in Disability Studies at the University of California, Berkeley from 2006 to 2007.
Andrej Grubačić (Wikipedia)
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He is Affiliated Faculty at the UC Berkeley Center for Social Medicine.
Erik Olin Wright (Wikipedia)
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in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1976 and joined the Department of Sociology at University of Wisconsin-Madison the same year.
Kingsley Davis (Wikipedia)
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from Harvard University and taught at Smith College, Clark University, Pennsylvania State University, Princeton University, Columbia University, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Southern California.
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