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  1. Columbia University, USA

    Eviatar Zerubavel (associate professor of sociology)

  2. Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada

    Edgar Z. Friedenberg (professor of education)

  3. the University of Houston, USA

    Henry B. Steele (professor of economics)

  4. Social Structural Research, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Robert B. Smith (director)

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  1. Eviatar Zerubavel
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His most recent book is Hidden Rhytnms: Schedules and Calendars in Social Life.

William Julius Wilson is Lucy Flower Professor of Urban Sociology at the University of Chicago and was, in 1981–82, a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California. His most recent book is The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions.

He is the author of several books on various aspects of the socialization process, including The Vanishing Adolescent.

He is the author of The Economics of Synthetic Liquid Fuels from Oil Shalesand the co-author, with James M. Griffin, of Energy Economics and Policy.

editor of the two-volume Handbook of Social Science Methods.

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Zerubavel, E., Wilson, W.J., Friedenberg, E.Z. et al. Books in review. Society 19, 84–95 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02694896

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