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Edward Shils

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#222

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PhD Sociology University of Chicago
Bachelors Sociology University of Pennsylvania

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According to Wikipedia, Edward Albert Shils was a Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and in Sociology at the University of Chicago and an influential sociologist. He was known for his research on the role of intellectuals and their relations to power and public policy. His work was honored in 1983 when he was awarded the Balzan Prize. In 1979, he was selected by the National Council on the Humanities to give the Jefferson Lecture, the highest award given by the U.S. federal government for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities.

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Edward Shils's Published Works

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Toward a General Theory of Action (1952) (2899)
Working papers in the theory of action (1981) (536)
Center and periphery : essays in macrosociology (1975) (385)
Charisma, Order, and Status (1965) (367)
The Virtue of Civil Society (1991) (283)
Types of Power and Status (1939) (226)
Center And Periphery (1975) (208)
Political Development in the New States (1960) (157)
PART 2. Values, Motives, and Systems of Action (1951) (153)
The Intellectuals and the Powers, and Other Essays (1972) (139)
The torment of secrecy : the background and consequences of American security policies (1957) (136)
The virtue of civility : selected essays on liberalism, tradition, and civil society (1997) (99)
Privacy: Its Constitution and Vicissitudes (1966) (97)
Tradition, Ecology, and Institution in the History of Sociology. (1970) (95)
The Intellectuals in the Political Development of the New States (1960) (84)
Nation, Nationality, Nationalism and Civil Society (1995) (76)
The Intellectuals and the Powers: Some Perspectives for Comparative Analysis (1958) (65)
The present state of American sociology (1948) (63)
The power of the state and the dignity of the academic calling in imperial Germany (1973) (62)
The intellectual between tradition and modernity : the Indian situation (1962) (62)
The Concentration and Dispersion of Charisma: Their Bearing on Economic Policy in Underdeveloped Countries (1958) (60)
The calling of sociology and other essays on the pursuit of learning (1981) (44)
Culture and Its Creators: Essays in Honor of Edward Shils (1977) (35)
The Virtue Of Civility (1997) (35)
The academic ethos under strain (1975) (32)
Remembering the University of Chicago : teachers, scientists, and scholars (1993) (30)
Academic freedom and permanent tenure (1995) (24)
The Scientific Community: Thoughts After Hamburg (1954) (23)
The order of learning in the United States from 1865 to 1920: The ascendancy of the universities (1978) (21)
Do we still need academic freedom? (1994) (19)
Indian students in Britain : a survey of their adjustment and attitudes (1964) (17)
Reflections on tradition, centre and periphery and the universal validity of science: The significance of the life of S. Ramanujan (1991) (16)
The modern university and liberal democracy (1989) (15)
The academic profession in India (1969) (14)
Professor Mills on the Calling of Sociology (1961) (12)
The sociology of Robert E. Park (1996) (10)
Knowledge and the Sociology of Knowledge (1982) (9)
Cambridge women : twelve portraits (1996) (8)
Government and universities in the United States (1979) (8)
The service of society and the advancement of learning in the twenty-first century (1992) (8)
Points of departure: The idea of the university: Obstacles and opportunities in contemporary societies (1992) (8)
Joseph Ben-David: A memoir (1987) (8)
The American private university (1973) (8)
On the Tradition of Intellectuals: Authority and Antinomianism According To Michael Polanyi (1995) (7)
Portraits: A Gallery of Intellectuals (1997) (6)
Intellectuals and Their Discontents. (1976) (6)
Scientific Development in the New States (1961) (6)
A Note on Governmental Research on Attitudes and Morale (1941) (6)
The Victorian Achievement of Sir Henry Maine: Henry Sumner Maine in the tradition of the analysis of society (1991) (5)
The British Universities in tribulation (1994) (5)
America's Paper Curtain (1952) (5)
The Intellectuals, Public Opinion, and Economic Development (1957) (5)
A Critique of Planning—The Society for Freedom in Science (1947) (5)
History, Truth, Liberty: Selected Writings of Raymond Aron (1985) (4)
The Legislator and His Environment (1951) (4)
Universities in the service of truth and utility (1991) (4)
The profession of science. (1968) (4)
The Traditions of Intellectual Life: Their Conditions of Existence and Growth in Contemporary Societies (1960) (4)
Freedom and Influence: Observations on the Scientists' Movement in the United States (1957) (4)
Security and Science Sacrificed to Loyalty (1955) (4)
The universities, the social sciences, and liberal democracy (1992) (4)
The morality of scientists (1985) (3)
The Intellectuals and the Powers and Other Essays. (1973) (3)
Points of departure: The situation of the universities in the twenty-first century (1992) (3)
3. A Psychological Model (1951) (3)
Tradition (1971) (3)
A Profile of the Military Deserter (1977) (3)
OBSERVATIONS ON THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY (1963) (3)
The Higher Learning at Chicago@@@Robert M. Hutchins: Portrait of an Educator.@@@Hutchins' University: A Memoir of the University of Chicago, 1929-1950.@@@Remembering the University of Chicago: Teachers, Scientists, and Scholars. (1992) (2)
Center and Periphery: Essays in Macrosociology. Selected Papers of Edward Shils Vol. 2. (1977) (2)
Selected papers of Edward Shils (1970) (2)
15. Toward a Modern Intellectual Community (1965) (2)
Two Patterns of Publicity, Privacy, and Secrecy (1956) (2)
The implantation of universities: reflections on a theme of Ashby * (1968) (2)
THE STUDY OF UNIVERSITIES: I. THE NEED FOR DISCIPLINED ENQUIRY (1961) (1)
Robert M. Hutchins: Portrait of an Educator.@@@Hutchins' University: A Memoir of the University of Chicago, 1929-1950.@@@Remembering the University of Chicago: Teachers, Scientists, and Scholars. (1993) (1)
Military and Political Consequences of Atomic Energy: Some Views on Blackett's Book (1949) (1)
Privacy in Modern Industrial Society (1979) (1)
American policy and the Soviet ruling group. (1947) (1)
The Meaning of Marx: A Symposium.Bertrand Russell , John Dewey , Morris Cohen , Sidney Hook , Sherwood EddyDialectical Materialism: The Theoretical Foundation of Marxism-Leninism.V. Adoratsky (1936) (1)
Scientists, Administrators, and Politicians: The Report of the Riehlman Committee (1954) (1)
Tertiary sector of the science industry (1980) (1)
British Atomic Energy Act Debate (1947) (1)
An Introduction to Dialectical Materialism: The Marxist World-View. (1936) (1)
Stanford and Berlin: The Spheres of Politics and Intellect. (1972) (1)
Political Development in the New States (II) (1960) (1)
Volume Information (1970) (0)
The Bolshevik Elite: An Analysis of a Legend (1951) (0)
The Literature of Sociology, 1934, II (1935) (0)
Book reviews (1980) (0)
A Slippery Slope (1954) (0)
The House of Lords Debates International Control (1948) (0)
CSS volume 9 issue 4 Cover and Back matter (1967) (0)
Comment: Social science as centrality (1975) (0)
Book Reviews (1956) (0)
In Praise of Tradition@@@Tradition. (1982) (0)
Book reviews (1970) (0)
A useful distinction between two concepts of Liberalism (1994) (0)
Jews and Christians in a Pluralistic World (1992) (0)
V. Sources of change in the character and functions of universities (1974) (0)
New Hands for the Science Industry (1981) (0)
The Atomic Bomb and The Veto on Sanctions (1947) (0)
The Next Phase of the International Control Discussions (1948) (0)
Etika akademis / Edward Shils; penerjemah, A. Agus Nugroho (1993) (0)
The Intellectuals and the Future (1967) (0)
Notices of Books (1976) (0)
Volume Information (1965) (0)
Book reviews (1970) (0)
Comments on Parsons’s “Simmel and the methodological problems of formal sociology” (1998) (0)
On the Spirit and Form of Our Intellectual Institutions (1982) (0)
News of Social Research in England (1945) (0)

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