Barrington Moore Jr.

Barrington Moore Jr. ( born May 12, 1913 † 21 October 2005) was an American sociologist, historian and political scientist.

In his major work on the origins of democracy or dictatorship in the modern era, he tried to understand how this choice has been made in selected companies typical of this design. What were the developments to democracy, fascist or communist regimes dependent? He looked at specifically the ways in which modern and pre-modern relations of power to industrialization and modernization of the respective agricultural economies and led to the emergence of certain of these forms of government.

Moore had worked as a political analyst for the U.S. government and the OSS during World War II. From 1945 he taught in Chicago and Harvard sociology, from 1951 until his retirement he worked at the Russian Research Center at Harvard University, his first publications were devoted to the Soviet Union. In 1958 he published a book of essays that questioned the methodology of the former American sociology in question.

Barrington Moore was a lifelong friend of an old supervisor with the OSS, Herbert Marcuse.

Works (selection)

  • Soviet Politics - The Dilemma of Power: The Role of Ideas in Social Change, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1950.
  • Terror and Progress, USSR: Some Sources of Change and Stability in the Soviet Dictatorship, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1954.
  • Political Power and Social Theory: Six Studies, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1958, Extended Edition:. Political Power and Social Theory: Seven Studies, Harper & Row, New York, 1965.
  • BM, Robert Paul Wolff, Herbert Marcuse: A Critique of Pure Tolerance ', Beacon Press, Boston, 1965.
  • Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World, Beacon Press, Boston, 1966 ISBN 0807050733. .
  • Reflection of the Causes of Human Misery and on Certain Proposals to Eliminate Them, Beacon Press, Boston, 1972.
  • Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt, ME Sharpe, White Plains, NY, 1978. ISBN 0,333,247,833th
  • Privacy: Studies in Social and Cultural History, ME Sharpe, Armonk, NY, 1983.
  • Authority and Inequality under Capitalism and Socialism ( Tanner Lectures on Human Values ​​), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1987.
  • Moral Aspects of Economic Growth, and Other Essays (The Wilder House Series in Politics, History, and Culture ), Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1993. ISBN 0801433762
  • Moral Purity and Persecution in History, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2000. ISBN 0,691,049,203th

Translations

  • On the History of Political Violence: Three studies, Suhrkamp ( Edition Suhrkamp, No. 187), Frankfurt aM, 1964.
  • BM, Robert Paul Wolff, Herbert Marcuse: Critique of Pure Tolerance, Suhrkamp ( Edition Suhrkamp, No. 181), Frankfurt aM, 1966.
  • Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt aM, 1969 ISBN. 3-518-27654-9.
  • Injustice, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1982. ISBN 3518282921st
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