biography
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Smelser, Neil J(oseph)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1930– )
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| biography:
| Sociologist, born in Kahoka, Missouri, USA. He studied at Harvard and Oxford universities and trained as a psychoanalyst, and then taught at the University of California, Berkeley (1958). His works on comparative methodology, economic development, social change, and collective behaviour include Sociology of Economic Life (1963, later revised), Sociological Theory (1976), and Social Paralysis and Social Change (1991). |
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