# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alvin-ward-gouldner
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:49:46.450Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alvin-ward-gouldner"
name: "Alvin Ward Gouldner"
slug: "alvin-ward-gouldner"
description: "Alvin Ward Gouldner was an American sociologist and social theorist. Trained under Robert K. Merton at Columbia University, he began his career in industrial sociology with two studies of a gypsum plant, Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy (1954) and Wildcat Strike (1954), that became foundational texts in the sociology of organizations."
tagline: "Professor of sociology (1920-1980)"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1920-07-29"
deathDate: "1980-12-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump