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" American sociologist James Q. Wilson encapsulated this argument as the Broken Window Theory, which asserts that relatively minor problems left unattended ( such as litter, graffiti, or public urination by homeless individuals ) send a subliminal message that disorder in general is being tolerated, and as a result, more serious crimes will end up being committed ( the analogy being that a broken window left unrepaired shows an image of general dilapidation ).
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* 1929 – Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist ( b. 1857 )
* 1918 – Gordon Zahn, American sociologist, pacifist, and author ( d. 2007 )
* 1916 – C. Wright Mills American sociologist ( d. 1962 )
* 1902 – Talcott Parsons, American sociologist, ( d. 1979 )
The American sociologist Lester Frank Ward and the English writer G. K. Chesterton were early critics of the philosophy of eugenics.
* 1942 – James Loewen, American sociologist and historian
Herbert Alexander Simon ( June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001 ) was an American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist, and professor — most notably at Carnegie Mellon University — whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, computer science, public administration, economics, management, philosophy of science, sociology, and political science.
* 1937 – Ted Nelson, American sociologist and philosopher
* 1910 – Robert K. Merton, American sociologist ( d. 2003 )
* 1857 – Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist ( d. 1929 )
* 1936 – Jonathan Kozol, American sociologist
In 1937, the American sociologist Read Bain wrote that " technology includes all tools, machines, utensils, weapons, instruments, housing, clothing, communicating and transporting devices and the skills by which we produce and use them.
One example of the clash of intellectual culture and Adorno's methods can be found in Paul Lazarsfeld, the American sociologist for whom Adorno worked in the middle 1930s after fleeing Hitler.
" In the American Monthly Review magazine, Richard York and the sociologist Brett Clark praised the book's thematic concentration, saying that " rather than attempt a grand critique of all ' scientific ' efforts aimed at justifying social inequalities, Gould performs a well-reasoned assessment of the errors underlying a specific set of theories and empirical claims.
Theodor Holm Nelson ( born June 17, 1937 ) is an American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information technology ( IT sociolosopher ).
Political scientists such as French sociologist Maurice Duverger as well as American professor William H. Riker of the University of Rochester and others speculate that there are correlations between voting rules and type of party system.
The United States sociologist Irving Louis Horowitz compared the attraction of Unification teachings for American young people at this time to the hippie and radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s.
* March 20 – C. Wright Mills, American sociologist ( b. 1916 )
* May 11 – Albion Woodbury Small, American sociologist ( d. 1926 )
* Barney Glaser, American sociologist
* Dalton Conley, American sociologist
The American sociologist Lewis A. Coser ( following the German philosopher and sociologist Max Scheler ) defines an apostate to be not just a person who experienced a dramatic change in conviction but “ a man who, even in his new state of belief, is spiritually living not primarily in the content of that faith, in the pursuit of goals appropriate to it, but only in the struggle against the old faith and for the sake of its negation.
The American sociologist David G. Bromley defined the apostate role as follows and distinguished it from the defector and whistleblower roles.
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and James Russell Lowell and Edgar Allan Poe of nineteenth century American letters.
The day passed without incident in spite of the warning of Senator James A. Reed of Missouri: `` Baker, you will have the streets of our American cities running with blood on registration day ''.
This resulted in revisions of the King James Bible in 1881-85 as the English Revised Version and in 1901 as the American Standard Version.
* 1928 – James D. Watson, American geneticist, Nobel laureate
* 1988 – Jessie James, American singer-songwriter
* 1964 – Kent James, American singer-songwriter, actor, and actvist
* 1977 – Pell James, American actress
* 1865 – James Henry Breasted, American archaeologist and historian ( d. 1935 )
* 1921 – J. James Exon, American politician ( d. 2005 )
* 1958 – James Lileks, American columnist
* 1971 – James Kim, American journalist and technology expert ( d. 2006 )
* 1975 – James Carpinello, American actor
* 1924 – James Baldwin, American writer ( d. 1987 )
* 1949 – James Fallows, American journalist
* 1954 – James Charles Kopp, American murderer of Barnett Slepian
* 1951 – Tommy Bolin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Deep Purple, Zephyr, and James Gang ) ( d. 1976 )
* 1954 – James Gleick, American author, journalist, and biographer
* 1966 – James St. James, American club promoter and author
* 1978 – Edgerrin James, American football player
* 1940 – James Tyler, American guitarist, composer, and author ( d. 2010 )
* 1963 – James Hetfield, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Metallica, Spastik Children, and Leather Charm )
* 1726 – James Bowdoin, American politician, 2nd Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1790 )
* 1915 – James Elliott, American track and field coach ( d. 1981 )
* 1946 – Susan Saint James, American actress
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