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Peter Michael Blau (February 7, 1918 – March 12, 2002) was an Austrian and American sociologist and theorist. Born in Vienna, Austria , he immigrated to the United States in 1939. He completed his PhD doctoral thesis with Robert K. Merton at Columbia University in 1952, laying an early theory for the dynamics of bureaucracy.
Peter M. Blau (1918–2002) and Otis Duncan (1921–2004) were the first sociologists to isolate the concept of status attainment. Their initial thesis stated that the lower the level from which a person starts, the greater is the probability that he will be upwardly mobile, simply because many more occupational destinations entail upward mobility for men with low origins than for those with ...
Sewell and his counterparts aimed to contribute to the Blau-Duncan model of status attainment by adding predictor variables. Because the results given by the Blau-Duncan model were based heavily on "structural factors as explanatory variables", the Wisconsin model was created to account for "social-psychological factors on educational and occupational attainment", which in turn, provided more ...
Judith Blau (born April 27, 1942) is an American sociologist and professor emerita of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Most of her academic career has been devoted to teaching and writing about human rights , and she retired to Wellfleet, Massachusetts , where she continues to teach.
Born in Parsons, Kansas to Charles H. Scott and Hildegarde Hewil, Scott received his PhD from the University of Chicago under Peter Blau, [3] and has received honorary doctorates from the Copenhagen School of Business (2000), the Helsinki School of Economics and Business (2001), and Aarhus University in Denmark (2010).
Felicity Blunt. After initially studying to become a barrister like her father, Emily’s older sister Felicity became a literary agent at the U.K. talent agency Curtis Brown.
Young, who is from Florida but now lives in LA, was born to a 15-year-old mother who fostered her love of horror movies, she told VoyageLA in 2021. “I was watching Poltergeist, Pet Sematary and ...
Leah Remini – actress, mother has Austrian Jewish descent [23] [24] Don Rickles – actor and comedian, of Jewish descent; Tanya Roberts (born Victoria Blum), actress; Eli Roth, film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor; Lionel Royce (born Leon Moriz Reiss), actor of stage and screen; Fritzi Scheff – actress; Joseph Schildkraut – actor