Robert Alexander Nisbet

Robert Alexander Nisbet (born September 30, 1913 in Los Angeles , † September 9, 1996 in Washington, DC ) was an American sociologist .

Nisbet , who is considered to be conservative, received his doctorate ( Ph.D. ) from the University of California, Berkeley in 1939 and was then a soldier in World War II . In 1953 he went to the University of California, Riverside as a professor and later moved to the University of Arizona in Tucson . After a stint at Columbia University , he went to the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC in 1978 - in 1988, at the suggestion of US President Ronald Reagan , Nisbet took over the honorable Jefferson Lecture in Humanities . In 1972 Nisbet was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1973 to the American Philosophical Society .

Works

The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom (1953).
The Sociological Tradition (1966).
Tradition and Revolt: Historical and Sociological Essays (1968).
Social Change and History: Aspects of the Western Theory of Development (1969).
The Social Bond: An Introduction to the Study of Society (1970).
The Degradation of the Academic Dogma: The University in America, 1945-1970 (1971).
Sociology as an Art Form (1976).
The Social Philosophers: Community and Conflict in Western Thought (1973).
The Sociology of Emile Durkheim (1974).
The Twilight of Authority (1975).
History of the Idea of Progress (1980).
Prejudices: A Philosophical Dictionary (1983).
The Making of Modern Society (1986).
Conservatism: Dream and Reality (1986).
Roosevelt and Stalin: The Failed Courtship (1988) German translation: Roosevelt and Stalin (1990).
The Present Age: Progress and Anarchy in Modern America (1988).
Teachers and Scholars: A Memoir of Berkeley in Depression and War (1992).

^ Member History: Robert A. Nisbet. American Philosophical Society, accessed December 18, 2018 .