{{Short description|American sociologist and criminologist (1930–2018)}} '''David Matza''' (May 1, 1930 – March 14, 2018<ref>[http://www.dailycal.org/2018/04/11/pillar-field-sociology-uc-berkeley-professor-emeritus-david-matza-dies-87/ ‘Pillar in the field of sociology’: UC Berkeley professor emeritus David Matza dies at 87]</ref>) was an American sociologist who taught at University of California, Berkeley from 1961.
== Life and work == Born in New York, he received his PhD from Princeton University in 1959. His research fields included deviant behavior, social change, poverty and working class life.<ref>{{cite web|title=David Matza|url=http://sociology.berkeley.edu/professor-emeritus/david-matza|website=sociology.berkeley.edu|publisher=UC Berkeley Sociology Department|access-date=2017-11-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028080317/http://sociology.berkeley.edu/professor-emeritus/david-matza|archive-date=2014-10-28|url-status=dead}}</ref> He is best known for coauthoring, with Gresham Sykes, techniques of neutralization.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Sykes|first1=Gresham M.|last2=Matza|first2=David|authorlink1=Gresham M. Sykes|title=Techniques of neutralization: A theory of delinquency|journal=American Sociological Review|date=1957|volume=22|issue=6|pages=664–670|doi=10.2307/2089195|jstor=2089195}}</ref>
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