Nathan Glazer
Nathan Glazer ( born February 25, 1923 in New York ) is an American sociologist, neoconservative and co-editor of the journal The Public Interest, as well as a freelance writer for The New Republic.
Life
Nathan Glazer was as the seventh and youngest child of Louis ( a tailor ) and Tillie (born Zacharevich ) Glazer born in New York City. He grew up in an Orthodox Jewish and socialist environment. On September 26, 1943, he married Ruth Slotkin, with whom he had three daughters (Sarah, Sophie and Elizabeth ), before in 1958 he again got a divorce from her. His second wife, Sulochana Raghavan ( a scientist ), he married on October 5, 1963. Since 1940 he studied at the City College of New York, which was attended by many New York Jewish intellectuals, with a focus on history. During this time he joined the Zionist student organization and soon became the editor of its national magazine Avukah Student Action. This activity influenced him greatly and brought him closer to the intellectual left, whereupon he made his major field of study for sociology shifted by a depression in business and public administration, and so in January 1944, graduated in there. Already in 1942, he began studying at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in the spring of 1944 with the master. With the fear of no other places to receiving offers he declined a scholarship of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. He worked in the next 20 years, only now and then to his doctor of philosophy and often looked for smaller jobs as a newspaper writer, making it, at the end of his doctor was a well-known intellectuals in 1962 already.
After he had declined the scholarship he went to New York to return in the journal Contemporary to hire what was published by the American Jewish Committee. There he remained until 1953 and then became editorial adviser at the American publisher Anchor Books. When he left this in 1957 he then worked in many different positions (sociology teacher, author and editorial advisor at Random House Publishing). His teaching ranged from the University of California - Berkeley ( 1957-58 ), the Bennington College ( Bennington, Vermont, from 1958 to 1959 ) to Smith College ( Northampton, Massachusetts, 1959-1960 ). After he had traveled to Japan one years he took a position in the Department of Housing and Urban Development ( the Ministry of Public Works of the United States) in as an expert on urban sociology. In 1969, he accepted a professorship in education and social structure at Harvard University.
Performance
Mainly Glazer is known for his studies in the relations between different ethnic groups, and its urban research. His first two books (along with David Riesman ) The Lonely Crowd ( 1950) and Faces in the Crowd (1952 ) have become in their influence of greater academic interest. With the book, Beyond the Melting Pot (1963 ) that he authored with Daniel P. Moynihan, he criticized the concept of the cultural melting pot America as the various ethnic groups generally retained their identities and not completely aufgingen him of American culture. Despite this finding, it represents the statement that the assimilation should remain the primary goal of American culture. Furthermore, there is a documentary with Nathan Glazer. He shows Irving Howe, Daniel Bell, Nathan Glazer and Irving Kristol from their common beginnings in the cafeteria of the City Colleges, about her role as left activists bishin to their current positions.
Writings (selection )
- The Lonely Crowd ( with David Riesman ). New Haven 1950
- Faces In The Crowd ( with David Riesman ). New Haven 1952
- American Judaism. Chicago 1957
- The Social Basis of American Communism. 1961
- Beyond The Melting Pot ( with Daniel P. Moynihan ). Cambridge 1963
- Cities in Trouble. Chicago 1970
- Afirmative Discrimination. Cambridge 1976
- The Limits of Social Policy. Cambridge 1989