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For his book on inequality he was the co-recipient of the 1974 Best Book in Sociology award from the American Sociological Association. [10] For his book and articles on homelessness, he has received the 1994 Best Book in Sociology and Anthropology from Association of American Publishers, and the 1995 Harry Chapin Media Award.
In his 1959 presidential address "Sociology and Humane Learning" to the Eastern Sociological Society he argued for the role of debate in sociology and the importance of what he referred to as the "theoretic bias" in interpreting social phenomena. Bierstedt was a rationalist, critiquing what he saw as the prevalent empiricism of his time.
Cooley as a young man. Charles Horton Cooley was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on August 17, 1864, to Mary Elizabeth Horton and Thomas M. Cooley.Thomas Cooley was the Supreme Court Judge for the state of Michigan, and he was one of the first three faculty members to found the University of Michigan Law School in 1859.
In his rather long period of formal education, he had never made any academically supervised study of sociology. His work in that field was distinguished by his acumen, his philosophical understanding, and extensive study of the major pioneering works of Durkheim , Levy-Bruhl , Simmel and others in the British Museum Library in London , [ 4 ...
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His most notable book is Philosophical Foundations of the Three Sociologies, published by Routledge and was reviewed in Acta Sociologica in 1979 and in the American Journal of Sociology. [5] [6] In 2007, he received the Stamford Raffles Award given by the Zoological Society of London. [7] Benton has reviewed books for Sage Journals. [8]
Paul Willis (born 1945) is a British social scientist known for his work in sociology and cultural studies. Paul Willis' work is widely read in the fields of sociology, anthropology, and education, his work emphasizing consumer culture, socialization, music, and popular culture.