Background
Gross, Feliks was born on June 17, 1906 in Cracow, Poland. Son of Adolf and Augusta (Alexander) Gross. came to the United States, 1941.
( The primordial bonds of early societies—common ancestry...)
The primordial bonds of early societies—common ancestry or tribal bonds and territorial or neighborhood bonds—are at the root of early political organization. States based on common tribal or ethnic identity have tended to develop into highly nationalistic states. The civic state, based upon territory, appeared in embryonic form in Athens. It was Rome, however, that made the complete transition, creating a civic state based on an association of free citizens, irrespective of ethnicity. The tribal state in its extreme, often totalitarian, form has led to genocide, holocausts, and ethnic cleansing. The civic or territorial state has developed into modern pluralistic, multiethnic, democratic states with equal rights for diverse groups. This was accomplished by a historical process of separation of ethnicity from citizenship. As Feliks Gross shows, there are many types of civic and tribal states: they do not fit into a single model, but they can be grouped into related families. This important survey of political and social development will be of great interest to students and scholars of political sociology, ethnic studies, and political history.
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( Today, all industrialized states are multinational. How...)
Today, all industrialized states are multinational. However, as Political Sociologist Feliks Gross points out, there remains considerable debate and experimentation on how to organize a multiethnic, democratic, and humane state. Gross examines various types of multiethnic states as well as their early origins and prospects for success. In the past, minorities were usually formed as a consequence of conquest or migration; minorities tended to have an inferior status, subordinated to the ruling, dominant ethnic class. While Athens provides an early example of a state formed by alliance and association, the Romans advanced this concept when they extended to subjected peoples the status by means of citizenship. After the fall of Rome, citizenship continued in Italian and other continental cities. In England, subjectship associated with individual freedom had native roots. The American and French Revolutions revived and created the modern definition of citizenship. Along with Rome, however, only the United States provides an example of a successful multiethnic state of continental dimensions.
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Gross, Feliks was born on June 17, 1906 in Cracow, Poland. Son of Adolf and Augusta (Alexander) Gross. came to the United States, 1941.
Master of Laws, Jagiellonian University, 1930. Doctor of Laws, Jagiellanian University, 1931.
Secretary, general, Center Eastern European Planning Board, 1941-1945;
editor, New Europe and World Reconstrn. journal, New York City, 1942-1945;
professor sociology and anthropology graduate center, Brooklyn College, New York City, 1946-1977;
professor emeritus, Brooklyn College, New York City, since 1977;
resident professor CUNY graduate center, Brooklyn College, New York City, since 1988. Visiting professor New York University, 1945-1968. Visiting professor, director Institute International Affairs, U.Wyo., Laramie, summers 1945-1952.
Visiting professor Woodrow Wilson School Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1951, 54-56, U. Vermont, Burlington, 1957. Senior Fulbright professor of University Rome, 1957-1958, 64-65, 74. Lecturer other European, American universities.
Member research county Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia, since 1966. Visiting professor Columbia University, New York City, 1973. Lecturer U. Florence, 1977, Italian Foreign Office, Rome.
Consultant National Committee on Causes and Preventionof Violence, 1968. President, Taraknath Das Foundation, New York, 1965. Honorary president CUNY Academy Humanities and Sciences, 1985.
Co-founder, board directors Non-Profit Coordinating Committee New York, 1984-1986.
( The primordial bonds of early societies—common ancestry...)
( Today, all industrialized states are multinational. How...)
(Book by Gross, Feliks)
(1974 1st Greenwood. Octav, 280pp., hardcover. Fine in VG DJ.)
Fellow Polish Institute Arts and Sciences (president E-7 1988-1999). Member International League Rights of Man (director 1960-1988), American Sociological Association, Academy Political Science, New York Academy of Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences (foreign), Polish Sociology Society (honorary), Sigma Xi.
Married Priva Baidaff, July 25, 1937. 1 child, Eva Helena Gross Friedman.