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Alvin Ward Gouldner

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Professor of sociology (1920-1980)

United StatesAcademicsLived 1920 to 1980 · aged 60
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Alvin Ward Gouldner was an American sociologist and social theorist. Trained under Robert K.

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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.

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United States
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Lived 1920 to 1980 · aged 60
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