Correspondence Files, 1948-1987

Scope and content:
This series contains correspondence with colleagues and administrators at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as with other scholars in the field and include: Bert F. Hoselitz, René König, Seymour Martin Lipset, Talcott Parsons, David Rapoport, David Riesman, Stein Rokkan, Guenther Roth, Wolfgang Schluchter, Reinhart Schneider and Edward Shils. The series also contains a number of files dealing with a controvery inside the International Sociological Association (1954-1956), and include correspondence with: Tom Bottomore, T. H. Marshall, Robert C. Angell, Kurt H. Wolff, Nelson Foote, Alfred McClung Lee, Stein Rokkan, and Clark Kerr.
Arrangement:
Arranged alphabetically.

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