Seymour Martin Lipset

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Seymour Martin Lipset (born March 18, 1922 in New York , † December 31, 2006 in Arlington , Virginia ) was an American sociologist and political scientist . He belonged to the New York Intellectuals and is considered one of the first neoconservatives .

Career

Lipset was born in Harlem, New York City, to Russian Jewish immigrants. He graduated from the Jewish City College of New York , where he was on the Trotskyist left. He was a member of the youth organization of the Socialist Party of America , the Trotskyist Young People's Socialist League , of which he eventually became chairman. He received his PhD in sociology from Columbia University in 1949. Lipset left the Socialist Party in 1960 and joined the Democratic Party , where he became active on the right wing. He became "one of the first intellectuals to be called neoconservatives ."

Lipset was a professor at Stanford University (1979-90), Harvard University and George Mason University in Fairfax , Virginia .

research

Seymour Martin Lipset's main research interests were political sociology , trade unions , public opinion , social stratification and comparative research on democracy .

In 1967 he and Stein Rokkan set up the cleavage theory , which is important for party research . In this context he coined the term middle extremism .

The connection between prosperity and democracy, which he demonstrated, is named as the "lipset thesis": With growing prosperity, the chances of democratization increase in a society, "that the more well-to-do a nation, the greater the chances that it will sustain democracy ".

Memberships

Lipset was a member of numerous scientific societies such as the American Philosophical Society , the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1962) and the National Academy of Education . As the only scientist to date, Lipset was President of the American Political Science Association (1979-80) and the American Sociological Association (1992-93).

Works (selection)

Monographs

  • (with Jason M. Lakin): The democratic century , Norman 2004, ISBN 0-8061-3618-9 .
  • The first new nation. The United States in historical and comparative perspective , New Brunswick 2003, ISBN 0-7658-0522-7 .
  • (with David Riesman ): Education and politics at Harvard. Two essays prepared for The Carnegie Commission on Higher Education , New York 1975, ISBN 0-07-010114-0

Essays

Editorships

  • Party systems and voter alignments. Cross-national perspectives , New York 1967.
  • (with Aldo Solari): Elites in Latin America , New York 1967.

Web links

Wikibooks: Seymour Lipset  - learning and teaching materials

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Bloom: Prodigal Sons. The New York Intellectuals and Their World, Oxford University Press: NY / Oxford 1986, p. 40 / p. 341.
  2. ↑ Remembering Seymour Lipset, 'most cited' political scientist
  3. ↑ Political Scientist Seymour Lipset, 84; Studied Democracy and US Culture
  4. ^ Seymour Martin Lipset, Sociologist, Dies at 84
  5. ↑ Seymour Martin Lipset (1959), Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy, in: The American Political Science Review 53/1, 69-105, here 75.
personal data
SURNAME Lipset, Seymour Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH new York
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 2006
Place of death Arlington