Wilbert Ellis Moore
Wilbert Ellis Moore (born October 26, 1914 in Elma , Washington , † December 29, 1987 ) was an American sociologist and 56th President of the American Sociological Association .
Moore studied at Harvard University and was one of Talcott Parsons’s first PhD students, along with Kingsley Davis and Robert K. Merton . Moore became Professor of Sociology at Princeton University in 1951 and moved to the University of Denver in the 1960s , where he taught until his retirement. In 1958 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society and in 1966 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
As early as 1945, together with Kingsley Davis, he developed the Davis-Moore hypothesis , named after them, on the social structure , according to which certain positions are functionally more important than others in every society and require special skills for which only a limited number of individuals are gifted.
Fonts in German translation
- Structural change in society (translated from the American by Wolfgang Schoene), 3rd edition, Munich: Jventa-Verlag, 1973, ISBN 3-7799-0108-0 (1st edition 1967, 2nd edition 1968).
literature
- Kurt B. Mayer: Moore, Wilbert Ellis , in: Wilhelm Bernsdorf / Horst Knospe (eds.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon , Vol. 2, Enke, Stuttgart ² 1984, p. 587.
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| SURNAME | Moore, Wilbert Ellis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elma , Washington |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 29, 1987 |