Strategies of Theory Construction at Columbia During the 1950
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Introduction This paper's purpose is to describe and criticize the strategies of theory construction presented by the Columbia Department of Sociology's faculty during the 1950s. The Columbia Department was a major center for sociological theory during the 1950s and some of its graduates became important theorists during the last half of the century.
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