Introduction to lipset

To understand the characteristics of a country, being a foreigner seems to be very helpful: who knows the characteristics of the United States better than the French aristocrat alexis de tocqueville? Seymour Martin Lipsett, who died on June 5438+February 3, 2006/Kloc-0, was not a foreigner, and even he was not an immigrant. He was born in the United States, and his parents just immigrated to the United States from Russia for a year. At that time, just a few years after the end of World War I, strict immigration laws had not yet come into effect. Lipsett was born in Harlem, grew up in the Bronx and studied at City College of new york. Lipsett once said that his personal background is similar to that of Colin Powell (former US Secretary of State), except that Powell joined ROTC (Reserve Officers Training Corps) and Lipsett joined the Trotskyite League of Young Socialists. His parents want him to be a dentist, but his interest lies in other aspects-for example, why other Americans don't love socialism as much as his college classmates.

Lipster began to study the uniqueness of American rules or North American rules. His doctoral thesis is also his first book, published in 1950 "Agricultural Socialism", which is about "Social Credit Movement in Saskatchewan, Canada". In his long-term work, he has been paying attention to the changes in Canada, using this former British colony as a testing ground for choosing different roads. He compared the United States and Canada in the book "Continental Divide" published by 1990. Another topic of his early concern was trade union democracy, and he studied the "international typesetting and printing trade union". In Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University, Stanford University, George Mei Sen University, Hoover Institution, Woodrow Wilson Center, Progressive Policy Institute, and American Enterprise Institute, he became the sole head of American political science and American Sociology Association.

Lipsett's classic "Political Man: Social Basis of Politics" was published in 1960, and sold 400,000 copies, becoming a standard textbook. Three years later, the first New Country was published, which analyzed the uniqueness of the United States, including student politics, right-wing extremism, professor politics, public confidence in the system (or lack of public confidence in the system) and the position of Jews in American life. He wrote 2 1 book, edited 25 books and wrote hundreds of academic papers. People quote his works more than any other contemporary political scientist or sociologist. Searching for his name in Amazon Bookstore will return 30 15 results.