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Economists |
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* George Akerlof, economist, Nobel Prize
(2001) |
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* Kenneth Arrow, Arrow's impossibility
theorem, Clark Medal (1957), Nobel Prize (1972) |
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* Gary Becker, economist, Clark Medal
(1967), Nobel Prize (1992) |
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* Martin S. Feldstein, economist, Clark
Medal (1977) |
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* Franklin M. Fisher, economist, Clark
Medal (1973) |
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* Robert Fogel, new economic history,
Nobel Prize (1993) |
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* Milton Friedman, monetarist economist,
Clark Medal (1951), Nobel Prize (1976) |
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* Alan Greenspan, chairman of the
Federal Reserve |
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* Zvi Griliches, econometrist, Clark
Medal (1965) |
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* Sanford J. Grossman, economics of
information, Clark Medal (1987) |
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* John Harsanyi, game theorist, Nobel
Prize (1994) |
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* Jerry A. Hausman, econometrist, Clark
Medal (1985) |
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* Robert Heilbroner, leftist economist |
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* Hendrik S. Houthakker, economist,
Clark Medal (1963) |
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* Israel Kirzner, Austrian School
economist |
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* Lawrence Klein, econometric models,
Clark Medal (1959), Nobel Prize (1980) |
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* David M. Kreps, economist, Clark Medal
(1989) |
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* Paul Krugman, economist & journalist,
Clark Medal (1991) |
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* Simon Kuznets, econometrics, Nobel
Prize (1971) |
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* Wassily Leontief, Input-Output method,
Nobel Prize (1973) (Jewish mother) |
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* Steven Levitt, economist, Clark Medal
(2003) |
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* Harry Markowitz, economist, Nobel
Prize (1990) |
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* Robert Merton, Black-Scholes equation,
Nobel Prize (1997) (Jewish father) |
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* Merton Miller, economist, Nobel Prize
(1990) |
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* Ludwig von Mises, Austrian School
economist |
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* Franco Modigliani, economist, Nobel
Prize (1985) |
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* Oskar Morgenstern, game theorist |
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* Marc Leon Nerlove, economist, Clark
Medal (1969) |
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* Matthew Rabin, economist, Clark Medal
(2001) |
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* Murray Rothbard, Austrian School
economist |
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* Jeffrey Sachs, economic shock therapy |
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* Paul Samuelson, economic analysis,
Clark Medal (1947), Nobel Prize (1970) |
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* Andrei Shleifer, economist, Clark
Medal (1999) |
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* Myron Scholes, Black-Scholes equation,
Nobel Prize (1997) |
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* Robert Solow, economic growth, Clark
Medal (1961), Nobel Prize (1987) |
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* Joseph Stiglitz, economist & author,
Clark Medal (1979), Nobel Prize (2001) |
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* Lawrence Summers, economist, Clark
Medal (1993) |
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* Jacob Viner, economist |
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Historians |
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* Herbert Aptheker, Marxist historian |
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* Bernard Bailyn, historian |
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* Daniel Boorstin, historian |
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* Alan Brinkley, historian (half Jewish) |
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* Norman Cantor, medieval historian |
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* Ariel Durant, The Story of
Civilization |
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* Eric Foner, historian |
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* Peter Gay, historian |
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* Oscar Handlin, historian |
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* Raul Hilberg, holocaust historian |
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* Richard Hofstadter, historian (Jewish
father) |
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* Gerda Lerner, feminist historian |
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* Bernard Lewis, historian of Islam |
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* Deborah Lipstadt, Holocaust historian |
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* Erwin Panofsky, art historian |
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* Meyer Schapiro, art historian |
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* Barbara Tuchman, historian |
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* Howard Zinn, leftist historian |
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Linguists |
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* Leonard Bloomfield, linguist |
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* Noam Chomsky, linguist & activist |
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* Joshua Fishman, sociolinguist |
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* Joseph Greenberg, language
classification |
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* Morris Halle, linguist |
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* Zellig Harris, structural linguist |
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* Ray Jackendoff, linguist |
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* Roman Jakobson, Prague School of
linguistics |
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* William Labov, sociolinguist |
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* George Lakoff, sociolinguist |
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* Fred Lukoff, linguist |
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* Edward Sapir, anthropologist-linguist |
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* Morris Swadesh, linguist |
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* Deborah Tannen, sociolinguist |
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* Michael Thomas, language teacher |
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* Max & Uriel Weinreich, linguists |
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Philosophers |
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* Mortimer Adler, philosopher |
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* Paul Benacerraf, philosopher |
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* Max Black, analytic philosopher |
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* Ned Block, philosopher of mind |
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* George Boolos, logician |
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* Stanley Cavell, philosopher |
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* Morris Raphael Cohen, philosopher |
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* Arthur Danto, philosophy of aesthetics |
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* Hubert Dreyfus, critic of cognitivism |
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* Ronald Dworkin, legal philosopher |
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* Herbert Feigl, philosopher of science |
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* Solomon Feferman, logician |
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* Stanley Fish, literary theorist |
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* Jerry Fodor, philosopher of mind |
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* Philipp Frank, logical positivist |
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* Nelson Goodman, new riddle of
induction |
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* Sidney Hook, philosopher |
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* Hans Jonas, philosopher |
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* Walter Kaufmann, philosopher |
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* Saul Kripke, logician |
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* Thomas Kuhn, philosopher of science |
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* Ruth Barcan Marcus, logician |
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* Ernest Nagel, philosopher of science |
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* Thomas Nagel, philosophy of mind |
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* Robert Nozick, libertarianism |
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* Martha Nussbaum, ethics (converted) |
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* Hilary Putnam, functionalism |
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* Ayn Rand, objectivism |
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* Michael Sandel, communitarianism |
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* Leo Strauss, political philosopher |
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* Judith Jarvis Thomson, moral
philosopher |
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Psychologists |
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* Solomon Asch, Gestalt psychologist |
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* Aaron Beck, cognitive behavior theory |
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* Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist |
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* Susan Block, sex therapist |
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* Jerome Bruner, cognitive learning
theorist |
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* Paul Ekman, facial expressions |
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* Erik Erikson, developmental
psychologist |
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* Leon Festinger, Theory of Cognitive
Dissonance |
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* Erich Fromm, psychologist & humanistic
philosopher |
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* Carol Gilligan, psychologist &
ethicist |
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* Irving Janis, social psychologist |
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* Jerome Kagan, child psychologist |
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* Daniel Kahneman, prospect theory,
Nobel Prize (2002) |
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* Lawrence Kohlberg, developmental
psychologist |
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* Elizabeth Loftus, memory psychologist |
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* Abraham Maslow, humanistic
psychologist |
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* Stanley Milgram, small world and
Milgram experiments |
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* Walter Mischel, experimental
psychologist |
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* Hugo Munsterberg, industrial
psychologist |
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* Ulric Neisser, cognitive psychologist
(Jewish father) |
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* Anatol Rapoport, mathematical
psychologist |
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* Fritz Perls, Gestalt therapy |
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* Steven Pinker, psychologist & writer |
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* Theodor Reik, psychoanalyst |
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* David Rosenhan, Rosenhan experiment |
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* Julian Rotter, social psychologist |
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* Stanley Schachter, social psychologist |
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* Martin Seligman, Positive psychologist |
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* Herbert Simon, cognitive psychologist,
Nobel Prize (1978) |
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* Robert Sternberg, intelligence &
creativity |
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* David Wechsler, intelligence testing |
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* George Weinberg, coiner of the word
"homophobia" |
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* Joseph Wolpe, psychiatrist |
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Social and Political Scientists |
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* Theodor Adorno, sociologist &
philosopher (Jewish father) |
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* Hannah Arendt, political theorist |
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* Howard Becker, sociologist |
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* Daniel Bell, sociologist |
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* Reinhard Bendix, sociologist |
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* Sanford Berman, radical librarian |
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* Peter Blau, sociologist |
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* Franz Boas, cultural anthropologist |
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* Kate Bornstein, gender theorist |
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* Judith Butler, queer theorist |
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* Lewis A. Coser, sociologist |
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* Amitai Etzioni, sociologist |
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* Norman Finkelstein, political theorist |
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* Mark Granovetter, sociologist |
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* Marvin Harris, anthropologist |
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* Lenore Jacobson, experimental
sociologist |
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* Evelyn Fox Keller, science & gender
theorist |
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* Irving Kristol, neoconservative |
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* Paul Lazarsfeld, sociologist |
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* Seymour Martin Lipset, political
sociologist |
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* Robert Lowie, anthropologist |
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* Herbert Marcuse, sociologist, New Left
figurehead |
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* Robert King Merton, sociologist |
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* Ashley Montagu, anthropologist |
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* Paul Radin, anthropologist |
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* David Riesman, sociologist |
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* Robert Rosenthal, experimental
sociologist |
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* Marshall Sahlins, anthropologist |
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* David Schneider, cultural
anthropologist |
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* Alfred Schütz, sociologist &
philosopher |
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* Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, queer theorist |
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* Louis Wirth, sociologist |
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* Eric Wolf, anthropologist |
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* Milford H. Wolpoff, physical
anthropologist |
