Alvin W. Gouldner: ο διανοούμενος που πίστευε στον αρματωμένο λόγο

Alvin W. Gouldner and industrial sociology at Columbia University.

Alvin W. Gouldner (1920--1980) was a prolific sociologist of the post-World War II era who spent the early part of his career (the 1950s) in the field of industrial sociology. A case study of Gouldner's early life and career is useful insofar as it intertwines with the development of industrial sociology as a distinct subfield within sociology. Through this analysis we are also better able to u...

Deep Submergence Synergy: Alvin and ABE Explore the Galápagos Rift at 86°W

For over 25 years,hydrothermal vent communities discovered at the Galápagos Rift near 86°W [e.g., Corliss et al., 1979] have provided the foundation of deep-sea vent biology as their study has led to fundamental discoveries of chemoautorophy and novel symbioses in the deep sea [e.g., Cavanaugh et al., 1981]. Since 1979, numerous physiological and geochemical investigations of the Rose Garden ve...

Alvin AuYoung : Research Statement

I am a systems researcher interested in designing, building, deploying and measuring large-scale systems. My primary research interests currently involve the application of economic theory to both fundamental and emerging problems in operating and distributed systems, including, but not limited to resource allocation and congestion pricing. The arrival of large-scale open platforms such as clou...

Social Stratification and Social-Class Analysis

110. S. M. Lipset and E. C. Ladd, Jr., "The Politics of American Sociologists," in Robert K. Merton et al. (eds.), Varieties of Political Expression in Sociology ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972), p. 95. 111. M. Popovich, "What American Sociologists Think about Their Science and Its Problems," American Sociologist 1 (May 1966): 135. 112. Alvin W. Gouldner and J. T. Sprehe, "Sociolog...

John Kagel and Alvin Roth Neuroeconomics