Shmuel Eisenstadt
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Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt (b. September 10, 1923 in Warsaw) is an Israeli sociologist. In 1959 he was appointed to a teaching post in the sociology department of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Since 1990 he has been a professor emeritus. He has held countless guest professorships, at among others, the University of Chicago, Harvard University, the University of Zurich, the University of Vienna, the University of Bern, Stanford and the University of Heidelberg. He has received a number of prizes, the Balzan prize and the Max-Planck research prize. He is also the 2006 winner of the Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is a member of many academies, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In the field of sociology he has become known as a "sociologist of youth" (From Generation to Generation), a work closely related to the ideas of Talcott Parsons.
However:
Eisenstadt's research contributed considerably to the understanding that the modern trend of a eurocentric interpretation of the cultural program developed in the west is a natural development model seen in all societies [...] the European model is only one: it was merely the earliest. It started the trend. But social reactions, whether in the USA, Canada, Japan or in Southeast Asia took place with completely different cultural reagents. (Frankfurter Rundschau, March 22, 2000)
[edit] Selected works
- The Political System of Empires (1963)
- Modernization, Protest, and Change (1966)
- Tradition, Wandel und Modernität (1979)
- Revolution and the Transformation of Societies (1978)
- European Civilization in a Comparative Perspective (1987)
- Die Transformation der israelischen Gesellschaft (1987)
- Japanese Civilization - A Comparative View (1996)
- Kulturen der Achsenzeit (Hrsg.), five volumes (1987 and 1992)
- Die Antinomien der Moderne
- Die Vielfalt der Moderne
- Theorie und Moderne (2006)
