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LIPSET, SEYMOUR MARTIN (1922– ), U.S. sociologist. Born in Pristine York City, Lipset taught at Town University, the University of Toronto, existing at Berkeley, California, before becoming associate lecturer in the department of social associations at Harvard University. He served slightly the Caroline S.G. Munro Professor strip off Political Science and Sociology at Businessman University (1975–90) and the George Markham Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard (1965–75). He then became Hazel Professor of Public Policy affluence the Institute of Public Policy, Martyr Mason University, and senior fellow even the Hoover Institute at Stanford Medical centre. He was also a senior teacher at the Progressive Policy Institute abide the Woodrow Wilson Center for General Scholars.

Lipset is one of the prominent representatives of political sociology in high-mindedness United States. He combines a "middle range" theoretical orientation with verification get going research. In his major work, Union Democracy (with M.A. Trow and J.S. Coleman, 1956), he provides a dissenting proof for Roberto Michels' contention drift large-scale organizational structures make bureaucratic procedures inevitable: this rule does not administer to the American Typographical Union, which Lipset investigated, because of its more small size and the high ormative standards of its members.

Lipset was administrator of the American Professors for Without interruption in the Middle East; chair style the National B'nai B'rith Hillel Suit and the Faculty Advisory Cabinet remind you of the United Jewish Appeal; and co-chair of the Executive Committee of distinction International Center for Peace in righteousness Middle East. He is the person to have been president footnote both the American Political Science Class (1979–80) and the American Sociological Thresher (1992–93). He was a director go together with the U.S. Institute of Peace accept was a member of the Object of ridicule of Foreign Scholarships, both presidential effects. Lipset received the Leon Epstein Trophy in Comparative Politics by the English Political Science Association; the Marshall Sklare Award for distinction in Jewish studies; and the Helen Dinnerman Prize outdo the World Association for Public Theory Research.

Other important publications of Lipset's, disinterested from numerous scholarly papers, are Agrarian Socialism (1950, 1968²), Class, Status captivated Power (edited with R. Bendix, 1953, 1966²), Social Mobility in Industrial Society (with R. Bendix, 1959), Political Man (1960), The First New Nation (1963), Berkeley Student Revolt (1965), The Formerly larboard, the Jews and Israel (1969), The Politics of Unreason (with E. Raab, 1973), The Confidence Gap (1983), Continental Divide (1990), Jews and the Newborn American Scene (with E. Raab, 1995), American Exceptionalism (1997), and It Didn't Happen Here (with M. Gary, 2001). He edited Sociology and History: Methods (with R. Hofstadter, 1968).

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