Fields Sociology Role Professor | Name Neil Smelser | |
Born July 22, 1930 (age 93)
Kahoka, Missouri ( 1930-07-22 ) Institutions University of California-Berkeley Alma mater Harvard University (B.A.)
Oxford University (B.A.)
Harvard University (Ph.D.) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada Known for Economic sociology, Political sociology Books Theory of collective behavior, The Faces of Terrorism, Usable Social Science, Dynamics of the Contemp, Social Change in the Indust Similar People Richard Swedberg, Talcott Parsons, Jeffrey C Alexander, Richard Munch, Seymour Martin Lipset | ||
Education Harvard University (1958) Academic advisors Talcott Parsons | ||
Conversations with history neil smelser
Neil Joseph Smelser (born July 22, 1930, Kahoka, Missouri) is an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was an active researcher from 1958 to 1994. His research has been on collective behavior, sociological theory, economic sociology, sociology of education, social change, and comparative methods. Among many lifetime achievements, Smelser " laid the foundations for economic sociology."
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- Conversations with history neil smelser
- Sociology for UPSC Neil Smelsers Strain Theory Lecture 46
- Education and career
- Contributions
- Publications
- References
Sociology for UPSC : Neil Smelser's - Strain Theory - Lecture 46
Education and career
He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1952 in the Department of Social Relations. From 1952-54, he was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University where he studied economics, philosophy, and politics and was award a B.A.. During his first year of graduate school at the age of 24, he co-authored Economy and Society with Talcott Parsons, first published in 1956. He earned his Ph.D in sociology from Harvard in 1958, and was a junior fellow of the Society of Fellows. He was given tenure a year after graduating from Harvard and joining Berkeley. and, at the age of 31, he was the youngest editor of the American Sociological Review in 1961, just 3 years after coming to Berkeley.
He was the fifth director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences from 1994-2001. He retired in 1994 and is now an emeritus professor.
Contributions
His value added theory (or strain theory) argued that six elements were necessary for a particular kind of collective behaviour to emerge: