biography
pronunciation:
[bloomer]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1900–87)
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| biography:
| Sociologist, born in St Louis, Missouri, USA. He studied at the University of Chicago (PhD), where he taught (1925–52) before joining the University of California, Berkeley (1952–75). He edited the American Journal of Sociology (1940–52). His areas of interest are indicated by his book titles, such as Movies and Conduct (1933), Movies, Delinquency, and Crime (1933), and Industrialization as an Agent of Social Change (1990). |
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