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Tributes Personal Reflections on a Century of Social Research
By Irving Horowitz
Copyright 2004
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In one of his final works, Stephen Jay Gould spoke of the human race "as a wildly improbable evolutionary event well within the realm of contingency." Drawing on his personal knowledge of fifty figures from the world of twentieth-century social science, Irving Louis Horowitz offers commentaries drawn from a variety of public occasions to explain one segment of this improbable event. In the... Read more
Preface: A Tribute to Vocation Introduction 1 Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) Juridical Critic of Totalitarianism 2 Raymond Aron (1905-1983) Tribune of the European Intelligentsia 3 Digby Baltzell (1916-1996) Private Paradoxes and Public Losses 4 Ernest Becker (1924-1974) An Appreciation of a Life 5 Herbert Blumer (1900-1987) The Pragmatic Imagination 6 Claude Brown (1937-2002) Going to the Promised Land 7 Morris Raphael Cohen (1880-1947) End of the Classical Liberal Tradition 8 James S. Coleman (1926-1995) Chance, Choice, and Civility 9 W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) Revisiting the Legacy of Atlanta Sociology 10 Daniel J. Elazar (1934-1999) The Covenant Tradition in Politics 11 Hans J. Eysenck (1916-1997) The Liberality of a Social Psychologist 12 Lewis S. Feuer (1912-2002) The Unitary Character of Extremist Ideologies 13 Ronald Fletcher (1921-1992) Defending Scientific Psychology 14 Gino Germani (1911-1979) Sociologist from the Other America 15 Eli Ginzberg (1911-2002) The Economist as a Public Intellectual 16 César Graña (1919-1986) The Culture of Sociology and Sociology of Culture 17 Scott Greer (1922-1996) The Dialectic of the Unique and the Universal 18 Mason W. Gross (1911-1977) Philosophy, Science and the Higher Learning 19 George Caspar Homans (1910-1989) Bringing the Individual Back into a Collective Discipline 20 Laud Humphreys (1932-1988) A Pioneer in the Practice of Fugitive Social Science 21 Jeremiah Kaplan (1926-1993) The Publisher as Social Vanguard 22 Russell Kirk (1918-1994) Revolutionary of the Past 23 Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1926- ) Legitimacy, Force and Morality 24 Milton Konvitz (1908- ) The Moral Bases of Legal Theory 25 Walter Laqueur (1921- ) Tribune of Political Theory 26 Melvin J. Lasky (1920- ) An American Voice of the European Conscience 27 Harold Lasswell (1902-1978) Garrison States and Good Societies 28 Peter Lengyel (1927-1996) The Anti-Bureaucratic Bureaucrat 29 Max Lerner (1902-1992) Journalist as Political Educator 30 Marion J. Levy, Jr. (1918-2002) Modernizing International Relations 31 Seymour Martin Lipset (1941- ) The Social Uses of Anomaly 32 Robert S. Lynd (1892-1970) and Helen Merrell Lynd (1894-1981) The Sociological Couple Par Excellence 33 Joseph B. Maier (1911-2003) Tradition, Modernity and the Last Hurrah of the “Frankfurt School” 34 John D. Martz (1934-1998) North American Latin Americanist 35 Robert K. Merton (1910-2003) Passionate Professional 36 C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) Sociologist of American Stratification 37 Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003) The Last Hurrah of Liberal Sociology 38 Robert A. Nisbet (1913-1996) The Radical Conservative 39 David Riesman (1909-2002) Educating the Middle Class 40 Arnold M. Rose (1918-1968) The Power Structure vs. the Power Elite 41 R.J. Rummel (1932- ) Death by Government 42 Peter Shaw (1936-1995) The Political Vision of a Literary Scholar 43 Kalman H. Silvert (1921-1976) Democracy as Human Rights 44 John Stanley (1937-1998) Historian of Political Ideas 45 Anselm Strauss (1916-1996) Democratizing Social Psychology 46 Thomas Szasz (1920- ) The Politics of Psychiatry and the Ethics of a Psychiatrist 47 Jacob L. Talmon (1916-1980) The Social Vision of Intellectual History 48 Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) Elitist as Populist 49 Aaron Wildavsky (1930-1993) Facts, Policies, Morals 50 Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) and Karl Popper (1902-1994) Poker Players 51 Kurt H. Wolff (1912- ) His Phenomenal World
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Irving Horowitz
