Neil Smelser is a University Professor Emeritus of Sociology and former director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. His research has focused on what he calls the "macroscopic social structural level" of collective behavior, including economic sociology, social change, and the sociology of education. cshe.berkeley.edu
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The University of California, Berkeley, Department of Sociology is one of the world's top-ranked centers for sociological research and teaching. Distinctive for its diversity of intellectual and methodological approaches. sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/SMELSER/
