Tom R. Burns

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Tom R. Burns

Sociology

#127

World Rank

#175

Historical Rank

#68

USA Rank

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Tom R. Burns's Degrees

• PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
• Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
• Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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Why Is Tom R. Burns Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Tom R. Burns is an American/Swedish sociologist, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Uppsala in Sweden and founder of the Uppsala Theory Circle. Biography He grew up in Arkansas, and was in a Franciscan Monastery for a number of years. As a teenager, he attended Phillips Academy Andover in Massachusetts, before going to Stanford University to study physics and mathematics, where he obtained his BS in physics in 1959. In the years 1959–60 he studied physics and sociology for almost two years at the University of Warsaw, Poland as an exchange student from Stanford. He returned to Stanford, where he obtained his MA in sociology in 1962 and his PhD in Sociology in 1969.

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Tom R. Burns?

Tom R. Burns is affiliated with the following schools:

• University of Oslo
• University of California, Berkeley
• Uppsala University
• University of California, Santa Barbara
• University of Oxford
• University of California, San Diego
• London Metropolitan University
• University of Warsaw
• University of New Hampshire
• St George's, University of London
• University of California, Riverside
• University of Edinburgh
• Stanford University
• Lund University
• University of Aberdeen