Seymour Martin Lipset's work throughout a long and distinguished
career has been stamped by several features: a powerful linkage of
research data and social theory, innovative views of historical
events, and a realization that politics is an activity native to
all human beings, voters and non-voters, democratic and
non-democratic systems, and advanced and developing economies. He
has earned the right to be called a genuine pioneer in the field
now recognized as political sociology. In this special collection
of professional comment and personal tribute, some of Lipset's
closest colleagues have gathered to review his life work in
political sociology. This volume includes essays on sociology and
socialism, the collapse of class politics, political leadership,
the perpetuation of inequality across generations, political
extremism, religion as a source of polarization, working-class
authoritarianism, and an examination of civil life in the United
States across the century. Among the contributors are Nathan
Glazer, Terry Nichols Clark, Richard J. Samuels, Sidney Verba,
Nancy Burns, Kay Lehman Schlozman, Robert B. Smith, William
Schneider, Dick Houtman, and Marcella Ridlen Ray. The volume is
further graced by two special features: an academic memoir entitled
"Steady Work" written by Lipset, and a full-scale bibliography of
his books, monographs and pamphlets. In short, this is a specialist
volume for social scientists that can be easily enjoyed by readers
outside the field. This volume was initially presented as a double
issue of The American Sociologist. Horowitz was commissioned by the
editor of the journal to serve as special editor for the volume. In
turn, the contributions originated at a series of invited panels at
the Eastern Sociological Society meetings in 2002.
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