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I would like to thank Donald N. Levine, Stanford M. Lyman, Guy Oakes and several anonymous reviewers for their advice and insightful comments on the manuscript. Levine especially has been a challenging critic of the essay. While the paper has benefitted greatly from this criticism, the views presented here are the responsibility of the author alone. This reseach was supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, FT-38554-93. Material from the Robert E. Park Papers and Everett C. Hughes Papers is quoted with permission from the University of Chicago Library.

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Jaworski, G.D. Simmel in early American sociology: Translation as social action. Int J Polit Cult Soc 8, 389–417 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02142892

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