Word: lipset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Professor and director of the Warren Center in American History; Stanley H. Hoffman, professor of Government; James C. Thomson Jr., curator of the Nieman Fellowships; Martin H. Peretz, Master of South House; Michael L. Walzer, professor of Government; David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences; and Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations...
When the war of the generations was at its most virulent, apocalyptic commentators thought that it might go on forever or end in victory for one side or the other. Perhaps America is fortunate in that no public passion seems to endure very long. Harvard Sociologist Seymour Lipset has calculated that American social obsessions-from Know Nothingism to McCarthyism -have a life cycle of four to five years. After that they quickly fade. The generational battle was true to the norm...
...Change magazine, Riesman described a contagious "cynicism and loss of faith" that makes the future of Harvard and other institutions like it "impossible to predict." The article is adapted from Two Essays on Harvard: Politics and Education in Harvard College, which Riesman plans to coauthor with Seymour M. Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations...
...four are Bernard Budiansky, McKay Professor of Structural Mechanics, Kurt J. Isselbacher, professor of Medicine, Seymour M. Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations, and Alvin M. Pappenheimer '29, professor of Biology...
...Lipset is a leading American sociologist, particularly in the fields of political sociology and political behavior research. He has won numerous awards for his books, notably for Political Man and The Politics of Unreason...