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Last full accuracy audit: 2026-09-07 · 19 entries checked · 12 flagged · 25 issues confirmed · 12 corrected · 13 still open
Paul Lazarsfeld — The entry states Lazarsfeld married sociologist Marie Jahoda in 1926, but they actually married in 1927.
Paul Lazarsfeld — The entry says he helped John Jenkins translate an introduction to statistics he had written in Vienna (Say It With Figures), but the book 'Say It With Figures' was published later (1956) and was not a translation of a Viennese work; the translation project wa
Peter Blau — Blau did not become professor emeritus at Columbia in 1970; he was a professor there from 1970 to 1988 and became emeritus after that.
Stuart Hall (cultural theorist) — Hall did not win a Rhodes Scholarship; he won a Jamaican government scholarship to attend Merton College, Oxford.
Stuart Hall (cultural theorist) — Hall did not obtain a Master of Arts degree at Oxford; he studied English and received a BA, later converted to an MA by seniority, not a separate MA course.
Norbert Elias — Elias did not work for British intelligence after his internment; he was released and later worked for the British Army's Education Corps and as a researcher, but there is no widely accepted evidence he worked for British intelligence.
Norbert Elias — The claim that Elias co-founded the Group Analytic Society in 1952 is correct, but the entry says he 'trained as a group therapist'—he was primarily a sociologist and did not formally train as a group therapist; he was involved in group analysis as a theorist
Pitirim Sorokin — The claim that Sorokin earned a graduate degree in criminology is misleading; he earned a master's degree in criminal law and a doctorate in sociology.
Pitirim Sorokin — The phrasing 'secretary to Prime Minister Alexander Kerensky' is inaccurate because Kerensky was not Prime Minister at the time of Sorokin's appointment; he became Prime Minister later in 1917.
Ralf Dahrendorf — Dahrendorf's 1956 LSE PhD thesis was titled 'Unskilled Labour in British Industry', not on Karl Marx's theory of justice.
Ralf Dahrendorf — Dahrendorf was sent to a labor camp (Arbeitslager) in Poland in 1944, not a concentration camp (KZ).
Raymond Aron — The entry states Aron received a doctorate in the philosophy of history from the University of Paris in 1930. In fact, he received his doctorate in 1938.
Raymond Aron — The entry claims Sartre failed the agrégation in 1928. In reality, Sartre passed in 1928 (placing first in 1929 after failing in 1927).
Robert D. Putnam — Putnam converted to Judaism in the 1990s, not around the time of his 1963 marriage
Robert D. Putnam — The Open Syllabus Project ranks Putnam around 6th or 7th in political science, not consistently fourth
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