Seymour Martin Lipset
American sociologist (1922-2006) · United States · Academics · Died at 84
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Something wrong?Seymour Martin Lipset was an American sociologist and political scientist. His major work was in the fields of political sociology, trade union organization, social stratification, public opinion, and the sociology of intellectual life.
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Charles TillyBoth received W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship award
Renato DulbeccoBoth received honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Howard S. BeckerBoth received W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship award
Peter PiotBoth received honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit BrusselAcademics from the United States 2
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Seymour Martin Lipset was an American sociologist and political scientist. His major work was in the fields of political sociology, trade union organization, social stratification, public opinion, and the sociology of intellectual life. He also wrote extensively about the conditions for democracy in comparative perspective. He was president of both the American Political Science Association (1979-1980) and the American Sociological Association (1992-1993). A socialist in his early life, Lipset later moved to the right, and was considered to be one of the first neoconservatives.
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