Education
He attended public school in Brooklyn, New York and earned his Bachelor of Arts from Harpur College, State University of New York at Binghamton. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy in sociology at University of Chicago.
sociologist university professor
He attended public school in Brooklyn, New York and earned his Bachelor of Arts from Harpur College, State University of New York at Binghamton. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy in sociology at University of Chicago.
He is a distinguished scholar-teacher and professor of sociology at the University of Maryland. He is the founding director of the Center for Research on Military Organization, and is a former president of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, as well as a former editor of the journal Armed Forces & Society. He has also served as president of the District of Columbia Sociological Society and of the Section on Armed Forces and Conflict Resol ution of the International Sociological Association, and chair of the Section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict of the American Sociological Association.
He began his academic career in the Sociology Department at the University of Michigan in 1966, and served as Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Chair of the Department, and Director of the Center for Research on Social Organization. in 1973, he took a leave of absence from Michigan to direct the sociology program at the United States. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences.
David Segal has had an impact on defense policy through research, consultation, and service work, having twice been awarded the Department of the Army Medal for Outstanding Civilian Service in 1989 and In the early years of the all-volunteer force (1973-1975) he directed the army"s sociological research program
In the late 1980s he was a distinguished visiting professor at West Point. in the mid-1990s he was a special assistant for peace operations to the Army Chief of Staff.
Society and Politics. Glenview, Illinois.; Scott, Foresman, 1974.