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Gary Stanley Becker (/ ˈ b ɛ k ər /; December 2, 1930 – May 3, 2014) was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. [1] He was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago, and was a leader of the third generation of the Chicago school of economics.
William Graham Sumner. William Graham Sumner (October 30, 1840 – April 12, 1910) was an American clergyman, social scientist, and neoclassical liberal. He taught social sciences at Yale University, where he held the nation's first professorship in sociology and became one of the most influential teachers at any major school.
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (1966), by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, proposes that social groups and individual persons who interact with each other, within a system of social classes, over time create concepts (mental representations) of the actions of each other, and that people become habituated to those concepts, and thus assume ...
James Samuel Coleman. James Samuel Coleman (May 12, 1926 – March 25, 1995) was an American sociologist, theorist, and empirical researcher, based chiefly at the University of Chicago. [1][2] He served as president of the American Sociological Association in 1991–1992. He studied the sociology of education and public policy, and was one of ...
Locke was born on 29 August 1632, in a small thatched cottage by the church in Wrington, Somerset, about 12 miles from Bristol. He was baptised the same day, as both of his parents were Puritans. Locke's father, also named John, was an attorney who served as clerk to the Justices of the Peace in Chew Magna [22] and as a captain of cavalry for ...
t. e. Milton Friedman (/ ˈfriːdmən / ⓘ; July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the complexity of stabilization policy. [4] With George Stigler, Friedman was among ...
Anarchism portal. Politics portal. v. t. e. The historical Gadsden flag is frequently used to represent libertarianism in the U.S. In the United States, libertarianism is a political philosophy promoting individual liberty. [1][2][3][4][5][6] According to common meanings of conservatism and liberalism in the United States, libertarianism has ...
Freedom is the power or right to speak, act and change as one wants without hindrance or restraint. Freedom is often associated with liberty and autonomy in the sense of "giving oneself one's own laws". [1] In one definition, something is "free" if it can change and is not constrained in its present state. Physicists and chemists use the word ...