Seymour Martin Lipset

Seymour Martin Lipset (March 18, 1922–December 31, 2006) was an American political sociologist , senior fellow at the Hoover Institution , and the Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University . His major work was in the fields of political sociology, trade union organization, social stratification, public opinion, and the sociology of intellectual life. He also wrote extensively about the conditions for democracy in comparative perspective.

Seymour Martin Lipset (March 18, 1922 – December 31, 2006) was an American political sociologist , a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University , and the Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University . His major work was in the fields of political sociology, trade union organization, social stratification, public opinion, and the sociology of intellectual life. He also wrote extensively about the conditions for democracy in comparative perspective.

His major work was in the fields of political sociology, trade union organization, social stratification , public opinion, and the sociology of intellectual life. He also wrote extensively about the conditions for democracy in comparative perspective. A socialist in his early life, Lipset later moved to the right, and was often considered a neoconservative . At his death in 2006, The Guardian called him "the leading theorist of democracy and American exceptionalism "; The New York Times said he was "a pre-eminent sociologist, political scientist and incisive theorist of American uniqueness"; and the Washington Post said he was "one of the most influential social scientists of the past half century." Martin, Douglas (January 4, 2007).

American sociologist (1922–2006) Seymour Martin Lipset ( / ˈ l ɪ p s ɪ t / LIP -sit ; March 18, 1922 – December 31, 2006) was an American sociologist and political scientist . He was the president of the American Political Science Association . His major work was in the fields of political sociology, trade union organization, social stratification , public opinion, and the sociology of intellectual life. He also wrote extensively about the conditions for democracy in comparative perspective. A socialist in his early life, Lipset later moved to the right, and was considered to be one of the first neoconservatives . At his death in 2006, The Guardian called him "the leading theorist of democracy and American exceptionalism "; The New York Times said he was "a pre-eminent sociologist, political scientist and incisive theorist of American uniqueness"; and The Washington Post said he was "one of the most influential social scientists of the past half century." Martin, Douglas (January 4, 2007).