Etzioni, Amitai

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ETZIONI, Amitai

ETZIONI, Amitai. American (born Germany), b. 1929. Genres: Sociology. Career: Director, Center for Policy Research, 1968-. Sponsor, The Atlantic Council of the United States, 1964-; Member of the Board, Canadian Peace Research Institute, since 1964; Member, Editorial Board, Administration and Mental Health, since 1972; Member, Governing Council of the American Jewish Congress, and the National Advisory Board of the National Alliance for Safer Cities, since 1973; Member, Advisory Panel of the Population Society, and the International Society for Research in Aggression, 1973-. Instructor to Professor, Columbia University, NYC, 1958-80; Professor, George Washington University, 1980-87, 1989-; Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Professor, Graduate School of Business, Harvard University, 1987-89. Associate Ed., American Sociological Review, 1964-68; Associate Ed. Sociological Abstracts, 1968-71; President, American Sociological Association, 1994-95. Publications: A Diary of a Commando Soldier, 1951; A Comparative Analysis of Complex Organizations, 1961, 1975; (ed.) Complex Organizations: A Sociological Reader, 1961, 3rd ed. 1980; The Hard Way to Peace: A New Strategy, 1962; Winning Without War, 1964; Modern Organizations, 1964; The Moon-Doggie: Domestic and International Implications of the Space Race, 1964; Political Unification: A Comparative Study of Leaders and Forces, 1965; Studies in Social Change, 1966; (ed.) International Political Communities, 1966; The Active Society: A Theory of Societal and Political Processes, 1968; (ed.) Readings on Modern Organizations, 1969; (ed.) The Semi-Professions and Their Organization: Teachers, Nurses, Social Workers, 1969; Demonstration Democracy, 1971; Genetic Fix, 1973; Social Problems, 1976; The Organizational Structure of the Kibbutz, 1980; Capital Corruption: An Assault on American Democracy, 1984; The Moral Dimension, 1988; (ed.) Socio-Economics: Towards a New Synthesis, 1990; The Spirit of Community, 1993; Public Policy in a New Key, 1993; The New Golden Rule, 1997. Address: c/o M. E. Sharpe, Inc, 80 Business Park Dr, Armonk, NY 10504, U.S.A.

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