Research Catalog

Title

Civil society and class politics : essays on the political sociology of Seymour Martin Lipset / Irving Louis Horowitz, editor.

Publication

New Brunswick, (U.S.A.) : Transaction Publishers, c2004.

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Additional Authors

• Horowitz, Irving Louis
• Eastern Sociological Society (U.S.)

Description

vii, 234 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Seymour Martin Lipset's work throughout his career has been stamped by several features : a powerful linkage of research data and social theory innovative views of historical events, and a realization that politics is an activity native to all human beings, voters and non-voters, democratic and non-democratic systems, and advanced and developing economies." "In this special collection of professional comment and personal tribute, some of Lipset's closest colleagues have gathered to review his life work in political sociology. This volume incudes essays on sociology and socialism, the collapse of class politics, political leadership, the perpetuation of inequality across generations, political extremism, religion as a source of polarization, working class authoritarianism, and an examination of civil life in the United States across the century." "This is a specialist volume for social scientists that can be enjoyed by readers outside the field." "This volume was initially presented as a double issues of The American Sociologist."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Lipset, Seymour Martin > Congresses
• Political sociology > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Papers originally presented at a series of invited panels at the 2002 meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

What happened to socialism and does it matter? / Nathan Glazer -- Seymour Martin Lipset: the social uses of anomaly / Irving Louis Horowitz -- Breakdown of class politics / Terry Nichols Clark -- When leadership failed / Richard J. Samuels -- Unequal at the starting line: creating participatory inequalities across generations and among groups / Sidney Verba, Nancy Burns, and Kay Lehman Schlozman -- Political extremism--left, center, and right / Robert B. Smith -- American religion and political polarities / William Schneider -- Lipset and "working-class" authoritarianism / Dick Houtman -- Analysis of U.S. civil society / Marcella Ridlen Ray -- Steady work: an academic memoir / Seymour Martin Lipset.

ISBN

0765808188 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004041243

OCLC

• 54035230
• SCSB-12348952

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library