Education
University at Buffalo, The State University of New New York Columbia University.
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Maurice Stein
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Career
Stein was raised in the Jewish community of Buffalo, New New York After a tour of duty in the Second World War, he earned his Bachelor of Arts at the University of Buffalo, where he led the fieldwork and co-authored the methodological appendix for Alvin West. Gouldner’s famous study, Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy (1954) Stein received his doctorate in sociology from Columbia University in 1958 on the strength of a dissertation which would become a classic in sociology, The Eclipse of Community (1958). Never a conventional sociologist, Stein actively joined in support of sixties student, anti-war, and other later liberation movements, helped found the graduate program in sociology at Brandeis University and later served as chair of the department from 1966-1969, co-authored Blueprint for Counter Education (1970), and served as founding dean of the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts.
These practices are just a few of the highlights of a career that spans fifty years dedicated to higher education.
Achievements
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Stein is co-recipient of the 1987 Robert and Helen Lynd Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed by the American Sociological Association’s Community and Urban Sociology Section, while his pedagogical innovations have been highlighted of late by Harvard University’s Jeffrey Schnapp in Schnapp’s studies in the digital humanities.
Membership
Retired from Brandeis University since 2002, Stein resides with his spouse, Phyllis Stein (née Rosenstein), at their home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is a long-time member of the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement.
