I was awarded a PhD in Sociology with specialties of quantitative research methods, the sociology of science, deviance, and social theory. My dissertation committee consisted of Neil Smelser (chair), Charles Glock, and Reinhold Bendix.
My PhD examining committee consisted of Charles Glock (chair), Paul Feyerabend, Troy Duster, Robert Bellah.
My biography on the Sociology Department web site reads:
Daniel Louis Finnegan (1973)
President, Quality Planning Corporation, San Francisco
The Berkeley Sociology Department gave me the freedom to do almost anything I wanted. I wrote my dissertation on the history of physics, studied statistics and the philosophy of science, and ignored mainstream sociology. Today, I consider myself much more a statistician than a sociologist. Since graduation, I have directed over 200 research projects with total budgets of approximately $75 million.
After completing my PhD I moved to Washington D.C. and served as a Division Director at Applied Management Sciences. In that role I directed public policy studies in disability rights, governmental financial management, and social welfare programs. In 1985 I returned to the Bay Area and founded Quality Planning Corporation. Quality Planning provides technical services to the insurance industry. I took a leave from Quality Planning in 1989 to serve on the US Senate staff assisting with passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. In 1993 I founded Qestrel Claims Management. Qestrel and Quality Planning provide employment for over 150 people.
I have conducted a wide variety of major disability rights related studies for the Senate, the Office for Civil Rights, Department of Labor, National Science Foundation, and the Department of Health and Human Services. Collectively these studies have helped advanced this important movement. I have developed cost management and fraud control systems for the Department of Treasury, Medicare, Medicaid, the Department of Education, Social Security and numerous insurance companies.
Showing true diversity, the Berkeley Sociology Department even produced a capitalist.
Dissertation Title:
Social Foundations of Classical Physics
Dec 9 1978
PhD in Sociology from Berkeley
I was awarded a PhD in Sociology with specialties of quantitative research methods, the sociology of science, deviance, and social theory. My dissertation committee consisted of Neil Smelser (chair), Charles Glock, and Reinhold Bendix.
My PhD examining committee consisted of Charles Glock (chair), Paul Feyerabend, Troy Duster, Robert Bellah.
My biography on the Sociology Department web site reads:
Daniel Louis Finnegan (1973)
Alumni Page
The Berkeley Sociology Department gave me the freedom to do almost anything I wanted. I wrote my dissertation on the history of physics, studied statistics and the philosophy of science, and ignored mainstream sociology. Today, I consider myself much more a statistician than a sociologist. Since graduation, I have directed over 200 research projects with total budgets of approximately $75 million.
After completing my PhD I moved to Washington D.C. and served as a Division Director at Applied Management Sciences. In that role I directed public policy studies in disability rights, governmental financial management, and social welfare programs. In 1985 I returned to the Bay Area and founded Quality Planning Corporation. Quality Planning provides technical services to the insurance industry. I took a leave from Quality Planning in 1989 to serve on the US Senate staff assisting with passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. In 1993 I founded Qestrel Claims Management. Qestrel and Quality Planning provide employment for over 150 people.
I have conducted a wide variety of major disability rights related studies for the Senate, the Office for Civil Rights, Department of Labor, National Science Foundation, and the Department of Health and Human Services. Collectively these studies have helped advanced this important movement. I have developed cost management and fraud control systems for the Department of Treasury, Medicare, Medicaid, the Department of Education, Social Security and numerous insurance companies.
Showing true diversity, the Berkeley Sociology Department even produced a capitalist.
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