• Neil Joseph Smelser (1930–2017) was an American sociologist who served as professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was an...
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    first proposed by Neil Smelser in 1962, which posits that certain conditions are needed for the development of a social movement. Smelser porter considered...
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    (1938), Albert K. Cohen (1955), Richard Cloward, Lloyd Ohlin (1960), Neil Smelser (1963), Robert Agnew (1992), Steven Messner, Richard Rosenfeld (1994)...
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  • psychoanalyst, Menninger Clinic 1949–66 Dr Harold Blum, psychoanalyst Dr Neil Smelser, political theorist and psychoanalyst Fritz Gehagen, psychoanalyst and...
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    See the work of Gustav LeBon, Herbert Blumer, William Kornhauser, and Neil Smelser. Sociologists during the early and middle-1900s thought that movements...
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  • Ernest Burgess, Herbert Blumer, Ralph H. Turner and Lewis Killian, and Neil Smelser to refer to social processes and events which do not reflect existing...
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  • carried the idea into the major work that he co-authored with a student, Neil Smelser, which was published in 1956 as Economy and Society. Within this work...
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  • democratic socialist, then left liberal position. Later he worked with Neil Smelser, Robert N. Bellah, and Leo Lowenthal. Each of whom were on his dissertation...
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  • Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Paul Baltes and Neil Smelser, Eds., London: Elsevier Rafael D. Pangilinan (2009) Against Alienation:...
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  • situation. The second group, composed of academics such as Chalmers Johnson, Neil Smelser, Bob Jessop, Mark Hart, Edward A. Tiryakian, and Mark Hagopian, followed...
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    certain communities. The birth of a social movement needs what sociologist Neil Smelser calls an initiating event: a particular, individual event that will begin...
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  • Problem", International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Neil Smelser and Paul Baltes (eds.), Elsevier Science (2001). Gardner, Martin (1986)...
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    William A. Gamson (1994) Amitai Etzioni (1995) Maureen T. Hallinan (1996) Neil Smelser (1997) Jill Quadagno (1998) Alejandro Portes (1999) Joe Feagin (2000)...
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  • sociologist Neil Smelser and University of California Chancellor and President Clark Kerr in the 1950s or 60s; in the foreword to Kerr's 2001 memoir, Smelser uses...
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  • Multi-culturalism or The Cultural Logic of Multi-national Capitalism is published. Neil Smelser serves as president of the ASA. Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel:...
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    International Affairs David Schwartz, government, University of Pennsylvania Neil Smelser, sociology, UC Berkeley Carl C. Taylor, USDA retired William Taylor,...
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  • William A. Gamson 1994 Amitai Etzioni 1995 Maureen T. Hallinan 1996 Neil Smelser 1997 Jill Quadagno 1998 Alejandro Portes 1999 Joe R. Feagin 2000 Douglas...
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    political scientist Albion Woodbury Small (1854–1926), American sociologist Neil Smelser, American sociologist Adam Smith (1723–1790), Scottish economist and...
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  • William A. Gamson (1994) Amitai Etzioni (1995) Maureen T. Hallinan (1996) Neil Smelser (1997) Jill Quadagno (1998) Alejandro Portes (1999) Joe Feagin (2000)...
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  • ISBN 978-0-88738-760-9 Social Structure and Mobility in Economic Development with Neil J. Smelser (1966), ISBN 978-0-8290-0910-1 "Some Social Requisites of Democracy:...
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  • William A. Gamson (1994) Amitai Etzioni (1995) Maureen T. Hallinan (1996) Neil Smelser (1997) Jill Quadagno (1998) Alejandro Portes (1999) Joe Feagin (2000)...
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  • Citizenship (1964, 1976) Kings or People: Power and the Mandate to Rule (1976) Neil Smelser holds that Bendix's book Nation-Building and Citizenship: Studies of...
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  • International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, ed. Neil Smelser and Paul B. Baltes. Amsterdam: Pergamon Press 2002, available for download...
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    missionary, explorer, ethnographer Matt Murphy, professional wrestler Neil Smelser, sociologist Ramo Stott, stock car driver Richard Webber, federal judge...
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    William A. Gamson (1994) Amitai Etzioni (1995) Maureen T. Hallinan (1996) Neil Smelser (1997) Jill Quadagno (1998) Alejandro Portes (1999) Joe Feagin (2000)...
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  • "Markets as Social Structures" The Handbook of Economic Sociology. Ed. Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg. Princeton University Press. OCLC 29703776, p. 258)...
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    William A. Gamson (1994) Amitai Etzioni (1995) Maureen T. Hallinan (1996) Neil Smelser (1997) Jill Quadagno (1998) Alejandro Portes (1999) Joe Feagin (2000)...
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  • William A. Gamson (1994) Amitai Etzioni (1995) Maureen T. Hallinan (1996) Neil Smelser (1997) Jill Quadagno (1998) Alejandro Portes (1999) Joe Feagin (2000)...
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  • Economics and Sociology of Capitalism, Handbook of Economic Sociology (with Neil Smelser) (1994, 2005, Russell Sage Foundation & Princeton University Press) and...
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    William A. Gamson (1994) Amitai Etzioni (1995) Maureen T. Hallinan (1996) Neil Smelser (1997) Jill Quadagno (1998) Alejandro Portes (1999) Joe Feagin (2000)...
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