biography
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| lived:
| (1923– )
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| biography:
| Sociologist, born in New York City, New York, USA. A faculty member at Harvard's Graduate School of Education (1968), he wrote widely on contemporary American society, at first from a Zionist and Socialist perspective, and after the 1960s as a neo-conservative. His books include the classics The Lonely Crowd (with David Riesman, 1950) and Beyond the Melting Pot (co-authored 1963, later revised) and a controversial work opposing affirmative action, Affirmative Discrimination (1976, later revised). |
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