David Matza (May 1, 1930 – March 14, 2018) was an American sociologist who taught at

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from 1961.

Life and work

Born in New York, he received his PhD from

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in 1959. His research fields included deviant behavior,

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and

working class The working class is a subset of employees who are compensated with wage or salary-based contracts, whose exact membership varies from definition to definition. Members of the working class rely primarily upon earnings from wage labour. Most c ...

life. He is best known for coauthoring, with Gresham Sykes, techniques of neutralization.

References

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