biography
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| (1916–91)
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| biography:
| Sociologist, born in Berlin, Germany. A 1938 immigrant to the USA, he studied at the University of Chicago, and spent most of his academic career at the University of California, Berkeley, first with the sociology department (1947–61), and then with the political science department (1962–91). He wrote many books on the sociology of industrial society, political sociology, and the German sociologist Max Weber, who was an important influence on his own work. |
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