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- 1959-1969 (Creation)
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Records in this series include Spencer's course notes, course papers, notes on Ph.D. oral examination and a copy of her Ph.D. thesis. All these document her undergraduate and graduate education at University of California, Berkeley at a time when Berkeley was not only the top sociology department in the United States but was also the focus of the student and faculty movements for free speech, civil rights as well as anti-Vietnam protests.
Spencer took courses for example with sociologists Herbert Blumer, Wolfram Eberhard and Philip Selznick and Neil Smelser. Renown sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset was her thesis adviser. Other renown academics documented in Spencer's course notes include political scientist Peter Odegard, criminologist Jerome Skolnick, and philosopher John E. Searle.
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