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Stein Rokkan

Sociology

Stein Rokkan was a Norwegian political scientist and sociologist, born in 1921. He was the first professor of sociology at the University of Bergen and a principal founder of the discipline of comparative politics, and he founded the multidisciplinary Department of Sociology at the University of Bergen, encompassing sociology, economics and political science, which played a key role in the postwar development of the social sciences in Norway. He died in 1979. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Birth Date
1921-07-04 1
Birth Year
1921 1
Death Date
1979-07-22 1
Death Year
1979 1
Birthplace
Vågan, Norway 1
Death Place
Bergen, Norway 1
Defining Contribution
introduced critical juncture theory 1
Notable Work
Cleavage Structures, Party Systems, and Voter Alignments 1
Connections

Associated With

Rokkan mapped the historical cleavages, center-periphery tensions and nation-building processes that shaped the modern European state system.

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1. Stein Rokkan (Wikipedia)
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  • Lead section
    Stein Rokkan was a Norwegian political scientist and sociologist.
  • Infobox, birth_date
    1921-07-04
  • Infobox, birth_date (year)
    1921-07-04
  • Infobox, death_date
    1979-07-22
  • Infobox, death_date (year)
    1979-07-22
  • Infobox, birth_place
    Vågan, Norway
  • Infobox, death_place
    Bergen, Norway
  • Cleavage Structures section, title
    Cleavage Structures, Party Systems, and Voter Alignments
  • Cleavage Structures section, critical juncture sentence
    introduced critical juncture theory
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