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Lipset, Seymour Martin was born on March 18, 1922 in New York City. Son of Max and Lena (Lippman) Lipset.
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Is America unique? One of our major political analysts explores the deeply held but often inarticulated beliefs that shape the American creed. "American values are quite complex," writes Seymour Martin Lipset, "particularly because of paradoxes within our culture that permit pernicious and beneficial social phenomena to arise simultaneously from the same basic beliefs." Born out of revolution, the United States has always considered itself an exceptional country of citizens unified by an allegiance to a common set of ideals, individualism, anti-statism, populism, and egalitarianism. This ideology, Professor Lipset observes, defines the limits of political debate in the United States and shapes our society. American Exceptionalism explains why socialism has never taken hold in the United States, why Americans are resistant to absolute quotas as a way to integrate blacks and other minorities, and why American religion and foreign policy have a moralistic, crusading streak.
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From Algeria to Zimbabwe, this reference traces the history and development of democracy in Asia and Africa. It explores events - such as the first-ever direct election of an Israeli prime minister - to show the implications for democratic governance in these countries and their regions.
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From the Magna Carta (1215) to the Summit of the Americas Declaration of Principles (1994) this reference traces the growth of democracy in the West. It covers 39 countries and regions, offering information on the history and political state of each.
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“One of the few most important books by an American sociologist to appear in a long time. . . .An impressive and very challenging book.” —Talcott Parsons, Journal of Sociology The United States was the first major colony successfully to revolt against colonial rule. In this sense, it was the first “new nation.” Two broad themes occupy Seymour Martin Lipset’s attention here: the social conditions that make a stable democracy possible, and the extent to which the American experience was representative or exceptional. Mr. Lipset compares early America with today’s emerging nations to discover problems common to them as new nations. He then concentrates on American history in later periods, selecting for discussion as critical cases religious institutions and trade unions. Finally he compares political development in several modern industrialized democracies, including the United States.
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Political activity and student unrest have been recurring phenomena in American universities even after they reached their apogee in the 1960s. In Rebellion in the University, Seymour Martin Lipset reviews that turbulent period and places it in a larger historical perspective. He analyzes the source of student activism, the roles played by the faculty, the spectrum of campus political opinion, and the history of American campus protest. Two decades after this book was first written, the academic community is once more sharply divided over issues of political correctness. The term refers to the efforts by campus advocates of leftist politics to control the content of speech, courses, and appointments, and to impose their views with respect to multiculturalism, minority rights, and feminism. Lipset's new introduction is a major effort to account for this new wave of repressive moralism, to explain the issues involved, to locate sources of support and opposition, and to voice a judgment about the current situation in the American academic community.
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Is America unique? One of our major political analysts explores the deeply held but often inarticulated beliefs that shape the American creed. "American values are quite complex," writes Seymour Martin Lipset, "particularly because of paradoxes within our culture that permit pernicious and beneficial social phenomena to arise simultaneously from the same basic beliefs." Born out of revolution, the United States has always considered itself an exceptional country of citizens unified by an allegiance to a common set of ideals, individualism, anti-statism, populism, and egalitarianism. This ideology, Professor Lipset observes, defines the limits of political debate in the United States and shapes our society. American Exceptionalism explains why socialism has never taken hold in the United States, why Americans are resistant to absolute quotas as a way to integrate blacks and other minorities, and why American religion and foreign policy have a moralistic, crusading streak.
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American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword by Lipset, Seymour Martin ( Author ) Paperback Apr- 1997 Paperback Apr- 17- 1997
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Will American Jews survive their success? Or will the United States' uniquely hospitable environment lead inexorably to their assimilation and loss of cultural identity? This is the conundrum that Seymour Lipset and Earl Raab explore in their wise and learned book about the American Jewish experience. Jews, perhaps more than any ethnic or religious minority that has immigrated to these shores, have benefited from the country's openness, egalitarianism, and social heterogeneity. This unusually good fit, the authors argue, has as much to do with the exceptionalism of the Jewish people as with that of America. But acceptance for all ancestral groups has its downside: integration into the mainstream erodes their defining features, diluting the loyalties that sustain their members. The authors vividly illustrate this paradox as it is experienced by American Jews today--in their high rates of intermarriage, their waning observance of religious rites, their extraordinary academic and professional success, their commitment to liberalism in domestic politics, and their steadfast defense of Israel. Yet Jews view these trends with a sense of foreboding: "We feel very comfortable in America--but anti-Semitism is a serious problem"; "We would be desolate if Israel were lost--but we don't feel as close to that country as we used to"; "More of our youth are seeking some serious form of Jewish affirmation and involvement--but more of them are slipping away from Jewish life." These are the contradictions tormenting American Jews as they struggle anew with the never-dying problem of Jewish continuity. A graceful and immensely readable work, Jews and the New American Scene provides a remarkable range of scholarship, anecdote, and statistical research--the clearest, most up-to-date account available of the dilemma facing American Jews in their third century of citizenship.
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In a careful analysis of the existing literature, the authors marshal an imposing array of evidence in support of their major argument that social mobility is an integral and continuing aspect of the process of industrialization. This classic volume continues to be a basic reference source in the field of occupational mobility.
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Seymour Martin Lipset's highly acclaimed work explores the distinctive character of American and Canadian values and institutions. Lipset draws material from a number of sources: historical accounts, critical interpretations of art, aggregate statistics and survey data, as well as studies of law, religion and government. Drawing a vivid portrait of the two countries, Continental Divide represents some of the best comparative social and political research available.
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Lipset, Seymour Martin was born on March 18, 1922 in New York City. Son of Max and Lena (Lippman) Lipset.
Bachelor of Science, City College of New York, 1943. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1949. Master of Arts (honorary), Harvard University, 1966.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Villanova University, 1973. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Hebrew University, 1981. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Buenos Aires, 1987.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Free University, Brussels, 1990. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Judaism, 1991. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Hebrew Union College, 1993.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Boston Hebrew College, 1993. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Guelph, 1996. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Georgetown University, 1997.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Toronto, 1998.
Lecturer, U. Toronto, 1946-1948;
assistant professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1948-1950;
assistant, then associate professor graduate faculty, Columbia University, 1950-1956;
assistant director Bureau Applied Social Research, Columbia University, 1954-1956;
professor sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1956-1966;
director Institute International Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1962-1966;
visiting professor social relations and government, Harvard University, 1965-1966;
professor government and sociology, Executive Committee Center International Affairs, Harvard University, 1966-1975;
George Markham professor Center International Affairs, Harvard University, 1974-1975;
senior fellow Hoover Institute, Stanford University, since 1975;
professor political science and sociology, Stanford University, 1975-1992;
Caroline Singapore Munro professor, Stanford University, 1981-1992;
Hazel professor public policy, George Mason U., Fairfax, Virginia, since 1990. Henry Ford visiting research professor Yale University, 1960-1961. Paley lecturer Hebrew U.,1973.
Fulbright program 40th Anniversary Distinguished lecturer, 1987. Vis.scholar Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1988-1989. Senior scholar Woodrow Wilson Center, since 1994.
Senior fellow Progressive Polity Institute, since 1992.
( Will American Jews survive their success? Or will the ...)
(In a careful analysis of the existing literature, the aut...)
(The first of two volumes of Seymour Martin Lipsit's major...)
(American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword American Ex...)
(From the Magna Carta (1215) to the Summit of the Americas...)
( Political activity and student unrest have been recurri...)
( Political activity and student unrest have been recurri...)
( Is America unique? One of our major political analysts ...)
( Is America unique? One of our major political analysts ...)
(Seymour Martin Lipset's highly acclaimed work explores th...)
(From Algeria to Zimbabwe, this reference traces the histo...)
( “One of the few most important books by an American soc...)
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(Sociology, Anthropology)
(history of extremism)
(Book by S. M. Lipset)
Member Board Foreign Scholarships, 1968-1971. Board directors Aurora Foundation, 1985-1995, United States Institute Peace, since 1995. National chairman B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation, 1975-1979, chairman national executive committee, 1979-1984.
Associate president American Professors for Peace in the Middle East, 1976-1977, national president, 1977-1981. Co-chairman executive committee International Center Peace in Middle East, 1982-1992. Co-chairman Committee for Effective United Nations Educational, 1976-1981.
Chairman Committee for United Nations Integrity, 1981-1983. Chairman national faculty cabinet United Jewish Appeal, 1981-1984. President Progressive Foundation, 1991-1995.
Fellow National Academy of Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science (vice president 1974-1978, chairman section on economic and social science 1975-1976, 95-96), National Academy Education, American Sociological Association (council 1959-1962, MacIver award 1962, president 1992-1993), Japan Society. Member Sociological Research Association (executive committee 1981-1984, president 1985, lifetime career award 2000), American Political Science Association (council 1975-1977, president 1981-1982, Leon Epstein prize 1989), International Political Science Association (council 1981-1988, vice president 1982-1988), International Society Political Psychology (president 1979-1980), International Sociological Association (chairman committee political sociology 1959-1971), World Association Public Opinion Research (vice president and president-elect 1982-1984, president 1984-1986), American Philosophical Society, Finnish Academy of Sciences (honorary), Paul Lazarsfeld Gesellschaft (social research since 1994), Society for Comparative Research.
Married Elsie Braun, December 26, 1944 (deceased February 1987). Children: David, Daniel, Carola. Married Sydnee Guyer, July 29, 1990.