American sociologist Ralph Larkin (born in Los Angeles, California in 1940) often collaborated with Daniel A. Foss (born in the Bronx, New York in 1940), both having received their doctoral degrees in 1969.
Ralph Wild Larkin (born May 27, 1940) is an American sociologist and research consultant. Larkin was born in Los Angeles, California on May 27, 1940, and obtained his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1961. He met fellow sociologist Daniel A. Foss while teaching at Rutgers, and they later partnered in researching social movements. 26 July 1940
Bronx, New York in Sociology in 1969. He went on to study at Brandeis University, where he earned his master's degree in 1962, and his Ph.D. In 1969 he received a Ph.D. in Sociology of Education from the University of California, Los Angeles, and he taught sociology at Rutgers University, Newark in 1973. 
