Stein Rokkan

Stein Rokkan ( born July 4, 1921 in Vågan, Norway, † July 22, 1979 in Bergen ) was a co-founder of the area of Social Sciences at the University of Bergen, Norway. He was appointed professor of sociology. Its main task was the establishment of the Institute of Comparative Politics.

Career

From 1939 he studied at the University of Oslo Philology with the focus on French. The Second World War, he had to interrupt his studies. He put it away in 1945 and ended it with a thesis on David Hume. After that, he was a research assistant to Arne Næss dekke oaths. In the framework of the UNESCO project Democracy worked and he lived from 1948 to 1950 in Paris. With Richard McKeon, he published the study Democracy in a World of tension that emerged from the UNESCO project. Rokkan 1951 went back to Norway and founded the International Social Science Bulletin, the current International Social Science Journal. The focus of his work is to develop a macro model of the political development of Europe, which explains the diversity of European societies from their history, the disjunctions of state-building, nation-building and democratization constitute crucial explanatory factors. The Scandinavian perspective from the periphery of the old continent opens up surprising insights into often overlooked developments. The hitherto scattered on individual works findings were reconstructed by Peter Flora and compiled into a plant. To date significant influence of the work of the cleavage theory, Rokkan has developed together with Seymour Martin Lipset.

Activity

  • President of International Political Science Association ( IPSA ) ( 1970-1973 )
  • Vice -president for International Sociological Association (ISA ) (1966-1970 )
  • Chairman of the European Consortium for Political Research ( ECPR ) ( 1970-1976 )
  • President of the International Social Science Council, associated with UNESCO (1973-1977)
  • Chairman of Nordisk Forbund for Statskundskab (1975-1976)
  • Professional leader Norvegian Social Science Data ( NSSD ) Services ( 1975-1979 )
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