Background
Lenski, Gerhard Emmanuel was born on August 13, 1924 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Gerhard Emmanuel and Christine Katharine (Umhau) Lenski.
(Taking a macrosociological, global approach, Human Societ...)
Taking a macrosociological, global approach, Human Societies offers an introduction to sociology that is truly comparative, cross-cultural, and historical. It compares societies over time and across environments, emphasizing the dynamics of social change. Its clearly developed ecological-evolutionary perspective provides a powerful theoretical framework for understanding the array of social arrangements found in human societies over the past 100,000 years. Since industrial societies are introduced only after this theoretical base has been firmly established and older, simpler, and smaller societies have been examined in detail, students see their own society (and other contemporary societies) in a broader and more meaningful way. By showing how social arrangements are related to the environmental and technological contexts that societies are situated in, Human Societies encourages students to look for the reasons why social arrangements are the way they are, and why they change over time.
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(Power and Privilege seeks to answer the central question ...)
Power and Privilege seeks to answer the central question of the field of social stratification: Who gets what and why? Using a dialectical view of the development of thought in the discipline, Gerhard Lenski describes the outlines of an emerging synthesis of theories. He shows that perspectives as diverse and contradictory as those of Marx, Spencer, Sumner, Veblen, Mosca, Pareto, Sorokin, Parsons, and Dahrendorf are parts of an evolving and systematic body of theory.
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Lenski, Gerhard Emmanuel was born on August 13, 1924 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Gerhard Emmanuel and Christine Katharine (Umhau) Lenski.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale University, 1947; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1950.
Instructor to associate professor, University of Michigan, 1950-1963; professor sociology, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1963-1973; alumni distinguished professor, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1973-1994; professor emeritus, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, since 1994; department chairman sociology, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1969-1972.
(Power and Privilege seeks to answer the central question ...)
(Taking a macrosociological, global approach, Human Societ...)
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Served with United States Army Air Force, 1943-1945. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member American Sociological Association (vice president 1970-1971), Southern Sociological Society (president 1977-1978), Sociological Research Association.
Married Jean Virginia Cappelmann, August 14, 1948. Children: Jean, Robert, Katherine, Richard.