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Alvin Gouldner  

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  • Alvin Ward Gouldner (1920–1980) was an American sociologist who made his early and lasting mark in the field of industrial sociology. A few years after graduating from City College of New York, where he received a bachelor of business administration degree in 1941, Gouldner began work on a master's degree in sociology at Columbia University. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Theory; Gouldner, Alvin]

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