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Sociology in the 1990s

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  1. the University of Washington, Seattle

    Howard S. Becker (professor of sociology)

  2. Illinois State University, USA

    William C. Rau (associate professor of sociology)

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Most recently he has been co-editor (with Charles Ragin) of What Is a Case?

He has written extensively on problems of undergraduate education in sociology.

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Becker, H.S., Rau, W.C. Sociology in the 1990s. Soc 30, 70–74 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02719108

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