Roscoe Hinkle

Roscoe Conkling Hinkle (March 13, 1921 – November 22, 2013 ) was Professor of Sociology at the Ohio State University and a noted analyst of sociological theory with whom many cohorts of graduate students studied theory. He joined the OSU Department of Sociology in 1955 and retired in 1986 as professor emeritus. He was also Professor of Sociology at Temple University during 1964–1970, rejoining the OSU department in 1971. emphasized that "for theoretical analysis to imply or claim that the history of theory is merely the ideas of 'great figures' arranged in chronological sequence is not merely distortion, but in error".