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According to Wikipedia, Morris Janowitz was an American sociologist and professor who made major contributions to sociological theory, the study of prejudice, urban issues, and patriotism. He was one of the founders of military sociology and made major contributions, along with Samuel P. Huntington, to the establishment of contemporary civil-military relations. He was a professor of sociology at the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago and held a five-year chairmanship of the Sociology Department at University of Chicago. He was the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. Janowitz was the vice-president of the American Sociological Association, receiving their Career of Distinguished Scholarship award, and a fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Association. Janowitz also founded the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, as well as the journal Armed Forces & Society. He was an early founder of the field of military sociology. His students, such as David R. Segal, Mady Segal, and James Burk are prominent and influential military sociologists.

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Community Attachment in Mass Society (1974) (1702)
The Professional Soldier: A Social and Political Portrait (1960) (909)
Cohesion and Disintegration in the Wehrmacht in World War II (1948) (793)
The Professional Soldier (1960) (366)
Sociological Theory and Social Control (1975) (351)
The Community Press In An Urban Setting (1952) (347)
Professional Models in Journalism: The Gatekeeper and the Advocate (1975) (233)
The military in the political development of new nations : an essay in comparative analysis (1964) (233)
Military Institutions and Coercion in the Developing Nations (1977) (175)
On social control and collective behavior : selected papers (1967) (153)
Sociology and the military establishment (1959) (138)
The community press in an urban setting : the social elements of urbanism (1967) (135)
Social control of the welfare state (1976) (132)
Social Change and Prejudice (1964) (113)
Reader in public opinion and communication (1953) (108)
Military Institutions and Citizenship in Western Societies (1976) (100)
Dynamics Of Prejudice (1950) (96)
The effects of leadership (1961) (79)
The Reconstruction of Patriotism: Education for Civic Consciousness (1983) (68)
Observations on the Sociology of Citizenship: Obligations and Rights (1980) (67)
Authoritarianism and Political Behavior (1953) (63)
Black Sociologists: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (1975) (61)
The last half-century : societal change and politics in America (1979) (60)
Changing Patterns of Organizational Authority: The Military Establishment (1959) (58)
W. I. Thomas on Social Organization and Social Personality. (1970) (55)
On morality and society : selected writings (1973) (52)
Professionalization of Sociology (1972) (50)
On social organization and social control (1991) (50)
Sociology and its publics : the forms and fates of disciplinary organization (1993) (49)
Dynamics of Prejudice; A Psychological and Sociological Study of Veterans (1950) (44)
HAROLD D. LASSWELL'S CONTRIBUTION TO CONTENT ANALYSIS (1968) (40)
Military elites and the study of war (1957) (37)
A Psychological Warfare Casebook (1958) (36)
On social organization and social personality : selected papers (1967) (36)
Institution Building in Urban Education (1969) (36)
The All-Volunteer Military as a “Sociopolitical” Problem (1975) (36)
Five Years of the All-Volunteer Force: 1973-1978 (1979) (33)
The New Black Sociology: Reflections on the "'Insiders' and 'Outsiders' Controversy" (1974) (32)
Political Behavior: A Reader in Theory and Research. (1957) (31)
The New Military: Changing Patterns of Organization. (1970) (29)
Community political systems (1961) (29)
Racial Composition in the All-Volunteer Force (1974) (28)
Military Institutions and Coercion in the Developing Nations. (1978) (27)
Social control of escalated riots (1968) (26)
Content Analysis and the Study of Sociopolitical Change. (1976) (26)
From Institutional to Occupational (1977) (24)
Ethnic Tolerance: A Function of Social and Personal Control (1949) (24)
German Reactions to Nazi Atrocities (1946) (24)
The new military : changing patterns of organization (1965) (24)
THE RELIABILITY OF A CONTENT ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE (1943) (22)
A Sociological Perspective on Wallerstein (1977) (21)
Social Stratification and Mobility in West Germany (1958) (21)
The Last Half-Century (1978) (18)
Political Conflict Essays in Political Sociology (1970) (18)
The Bureaucrat and the Public: A Study of Informational Perspectives (1957) (17)
Social change and prejudice, including Dynamics of prejudice (1964) (17)
The Political Education of Soldiers. (1984) (16)
The Social Demography of the All-Volunteer Armed Force (1973) (16)
The Index of Political Predisposition in the 1948 Election (1952) (16)
The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations (1997) (15)
Reader in Public Opinion and Mass Communication (1981) (15)
The Political education of soldiers (1987) (13)
W. I. Thomas: On Social Organization and Social Personality: Selected Papers. (1967) (13)
The Imagery of the Urban Community Press (1951) (13)
Effective Institutions for Juvenile Delinquents: A Research Statement (1959) (13)
Toward a Redefinition of Military Strategy in International Relations (1974) (13)
Military conflict : essays in the institutional analysis of war and peace (1978) (13)
Civil-Military Relations: Regional Perspectives (1981) (12)
Studies of German youth. (1946) (12)
Armed Forces and Society (1974) (12)
The Ineffective Soldier. (1960) (11)
Social Cleavage and Party Affiliation: Germany, Great Britain, and the United States (1967) (11)
ARMED FORCES AND SOCIETY: A WORLD PERSPECTIVE (1968) (9)
American democracy and military service (1967) (9)
Public Administration and the Public-Perspectives Toward Government in a Metropolitan Community. (1959) (9)
Reactions to Fascist Propaganda—A Pilot Study (1950) (9)
TRENDS IN WEHRMACHT MORALE (1946) (9)
Anthropology and the Social Sciences (1963) (8)
On military ideology (1971) (8)
Volunteer Armed Forces and Military Purpose (1972) (8)
Social Stratification and the Comparative Analysis of Elites (1956) (8)
Book Review:The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting. Daniel Bell (1974) (6)
Consequences of Social Science Research on the U.S. Military (1982) (6)
How People Vote: A Study of Electoral Behaviour in Greenwich@@@Competitive Pressure and Democratic Consent@@@Group Differences in Attitudes and Votes@@@When Labor Votes (1957) (6)
4 The Social Ecology of Citizenship (1978) (5)
The Prestige of Public Employment: 1929 and 1954 (1956) (5)
National Service and the Welfare-Warfare State (1983) (5)
Armed Forces in Western Europe: Uniformity and Diversity (1965) (5)
Collective Behavior and Conflict Converging Theoretical Perspectives (1964) (5)
COMMUNITY POWER AND “POLICY SCIENCE” RESEARCH (1962) (4)
MASS PERSUASION AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (1961) (4)
Political Conflict: Essays in Political Sociology. (1972) (4)
The Last Half-Century: Societal Change and Politics in America (1980) (4)
Toward a New Patriotism: Educating for Civic Consciousness. (1985) (3)
The Systematic Analysis of Political Biography (1954) (3)
Group Differences in Attitudes and Votes.@@@Competitive Pressure and Democratic Consent. (1957) (3)
THE TECHNIQUE OF PROPAGANDA FOR REACTION: GERALD L. K. SMITH'S RADIO SPEECHES (1944) (3)
Sociology and Its Publics: The Forms and Fates of Disciplinary Organization. (1994) (3)
Community Political Systems. (1961) (2)
Some observations on the ideology of professional psychologists. (1954) (2)
Book Review:A German Community Under American Occupation, Marburg, 1945-52. John Gimbel (1961) (2)
The Forgotten Paradigm?@@@The Last Half-Century: Societal Change and Politics in America. (1980) (2)
Racial composition of the volunteer armed forces (1975) (2)
The Authoritarian Personality.@@@Dynamics of Prejudice: A Psychological and Sociological Study of Veterans.@@@Anti-Semitism and Emotional Disorder. (1950) (2)
Public Perspectives on Social Security (1956) (2)
Book Review:Strategic Psychological Operations and American Foreign Policy Robert T. Holt, Robert W. van de Velde (1961) (2)
Book Review:German Rearmament and Atomic War: The Views of German Military and Political Leaders. Hans Speier (1958) (1)
The New Class?Edited by B. Bruce-Briggs. New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1979. 229 pp. $16.95 (1980) (1)
How Shall the School for the Model Cities Program Be Organized? Policy Paper, No. 9. (1967) (1)
Political Sociology and Policy Research (1974) (1)
Control Yourself!@@@The Last Half-Century: Societal Change and Politics in America. (1980) (1)
The U.S. forces and the zero draft: Introduction (1973) (1)
: Common Frontiers of the Social Sciences: The Interrelations of History, Economics, and Sociology (1958) (1)
RESIDUATED ALGEBRAIC STRUCTURES (1972) (1)
The Good Citizen—A Threatened Species? (1988) (1)
Attitudes and Prejudice (1970) (1)
Young John Dewey: An Essay in American Intellectual History.Neil Coughlan (1978) (1)
Shadow and Act.Ralph Ellison (1965) (1)
Black Sociologists in White America@@@Black Sociologists: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. (1977) (1)
Television in the Lives of Our Children. Wilbur Schramm, Jack Lyle, and Edwin B. Parker. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1961. vii + 324 pp. Illus. $6 (1961) (1)
1943: The Victory That Never Was.John Grigg (1981) (0)
Book Review:Public Opinion and Political Dynamics. Marbury Bladen Ogle, Jr. (1951) (0)
Modular studies in sociology (1971) (0)
Letter to the Editor (1977) (0)
Mass Society and the Extension of Welfare: 1960-1970.@@@Social Control of the Welfare State. (1978) (0)
Book Review:Of Time, Work and Leisure. Sebastian de Grazia (1964) (0)
Attitudes and Action: The Politics of Influence@@@Community Political Systems (1962) (0)
Book Review:Social Science and Political Theory. W. G. Runciman (1965) (0)
Book Review:European Beliefs Regarding the United States: A Survey Under the Direction of Henry Lee Munson. Common Council for American Unity (1950) (0)
American democracy and military service (1967) (0)
Book Review:Changing Patterns of Military Politics. Samuel P. Huntington (1962) (0)
Urban Sociology Reconstructed (1964) (0)
The Sociology of Talcott Parsons.@@@The Theories of Talcott Parsons: The Social Relations of Action.@@@Talcott Parsons: On Institutions and Social Evolution-Selected Writings. (1984) (0)
Book Review:Modernization and the Structure of Societies: A Setting for International Affairs. Marion J. Levy, Jr. (1966) (0)
Militarism, USA by Donovan James A.. (New York: Charles Scribner's 1970, 265 pp. $6.95.) (1971) (0)
Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait. By Bendix Reinhard. (Garden City, New York: Doubleday. 1960. Pp. 480. $5.75.) (1960) (0)
Book Review:Reflections on the Causes of Human Misery and Upon Certain Proposals to Eliminate Them. Barrington Moore, Jr. (1974) (0)
Book Review:Leadership and Isolation: A Study of Personality in Interpersonal Relations. Helen Hall Jennings (1951) (0)
The Impact of Educational Television. Wilbur Schramm, Ed. University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1960. 247 pp. $5 (1961) (0)
Book Review: Air War and Emotional Stress: Psychological Studies of Bombing and Civilian Defense (1953) (0)
Comment (1976) (0)
Trends in Social Sciences. Donald P. Ray, Ed. Philosophical Library, New York, 1961. 169 pp. $4.75 (1962) (0)
Review Symposium (1970) (0)
Essay-Review: Urban Sociology Reconstructed: The Emerging City . Scott Greer. (1964) (0)
A Confusing Search for Clarity@@@The Last Half-Century: Societal Change and Politics in America. (1980) (0)
Book Review:Tensions Affecting International Understanding: A Survey of Research. Otto Klineberg (1951) (0)
Structure and Process in Modern Socities. Talcott Parsons. Free Press, Glencoe, Ill., 1960. 334 pp. $6 (1960) (0)
Theoretical Problems: Trends in Social Sciences . Donald P. Ray, Ed. Philosophical Library, New York, 1961. 169 pp. $4.75, (1962) (0)
Youth and National Service (1971) (0)
The Policy Proposals: “A Negotiated Stalemate” (1965) (0)
GENERAL AND THEORETICAL: Mass Communications Seminar. Hortense Powdermaker (1955) (0)
The new military : changing patterns of organization : research studies (1967) (0)
Social Attitudes and Opinions. (1953) (0)
Proceedings of the Research Symposium on The Consequences and Limits of Military Intervention Held at Chicago University, Illinois on June 17-19, 1976 (1976) (0)
Preface (1968) (0)
National Service: A Third Alternative? (1971) (0)
Mobility Subjective Deprivation and Ethnic Hostility (1980) (0)
Public Administration and the Public. Perspectives toward Government in a Metropolitan Community (1959) (0)
Power as a Social Concept. (1957) (0)
The future of NATO (1971) (0)
COORDINATIZING BAER SEMIGROUPS (1972) (0)
Editor's Note (1982) (0)
Soldiers, Scholars, Liberals (1957) (0)
Social Surveys and Social Action.Mark Abrams (1952) (0)
People-Changing Institutions: The Transformed Schools (1970) (0)
ALTERNATIVES TO THE SURVEY—CONTENT ANALYSIS (1975) (0)
Reader in public opinion and communication : Public opinion andcommunication (Variant.) (1966) (0)
Economics and Social Sciences. (Book Reviews: Communist China and Asia: Challenge to American Policy; People, Jobs and Economic Development. A case history of Puerto Rico supplemented by recent Mexican experiences) (1960) (0)

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