Vytautas Kavolis

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Vytautas Kavolis is affiliated with the following schools: Tufts University, Vilnius University, University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Chicago, Vytautas Magnus University, Harvard University

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#893

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PhD Sociology Vilnius University

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According to Wikipedia, Vytautas Kavolis was a Lithuanian sociologist, literary critic, and culture historian. Biography Kavolis was born in Kaunas. With his parents, Kavolis left Lithuania in the wake of the Soviet occupation in 1944, living first in West Germany and then in the United States. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Chicago, receiving his master's degree and doctorate from Harvard University. He then taught at Tufts University and Dickinson College, where he was the head of the sociology department. He was Charles A. Dana Professor of Comparative Civilizations and Professor of Sociology at Dickinson from 1964 until his sudden death in 1996. During this time he also served as a visiting professor at The New School in New York City and at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas. He founded and edited the Lithuanian-American journal Metmenys, was a board member of several Lithuanian-American organizations, and the main ideologist of .

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Vytautas Kavolis's Published Works

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Cannibals and Kings: The Origins of Cultures. (1979) (44)
The sociology of art and literature (1970) (35)
Post-Modern Man: Psychocultural Responses to Social Trends (1970) (33)
Artistic Expression: A Sociological Analysis (1969) (27)
Economic Correlates of Artistic Creativity (1964) (20)
Contemporary Moral Cultures and “The Return of the Sacred” (1988) (14)
History of Consciousness and Civilization Analysis (1987) (13)
Community dynamics and artistic creativity. (1966) (12)
Cannibals and Kings: The Origins of Cultures.By Marvin Harris. New York: Random House, 1977. 205 pp. $10.00 (1979) (12)
Civilization Analysis As a Sociology of Culture (1985) (10)
Moral Cultures and Moral Logics (1977) (8)
Designs of selfhood (1984) (8)
History on art's side (1972) (7)
Women Writers in Exile (1992) (7)
Hermeneutic Philosophy and the Sociology of Art: An Approach to Some of the Epistemological Problems of the Sociology of Knowledge and the Sociology of Art and Literature (1975) (6)
Art in Society: Studies in Style, Culture and Aesthetics (1979) (5)
On the Structures of Consciousness (1974) (5)
The Value-Orientations Theory of Artistic Style (1965) (5)
No Place of Grace: Anti-modernism and the Transformation of American Culture 1880–1920, by T. J. Jackson Lears. New York: Pantheon Books, 1981, xx + 375 pp. $18.50 (1982) (4)
History on Art's Side: Social Dynamics in Artistic Efflorescences. (1973) (4)
The Instutitional Structure of Cultural Services. (1973) (3)
Art Content and Social Involvement (1964) (3)
Comparative perspectives on social problems (1969) (3)
A role theory of artistic interest. (1963) (3)
Artistic Preferences of Urban Social Classes (1965) (2)
Art Content and Economic Reality (1965) (2)
An Alternative Postmodernity. (1972) (2)
Social Movements and Civilizational Processes (1982) (2)
Nelson's Legacy of Comparative Studies (1985) (1)
2 – Models of Rebellion (1982) (1)
Models of Rebellion: An Essay in Civilization-Analysis (1979) (1)
Abstract Expressionism and Puritanism (1963) (1)
Civilizations East and West: A Memorial Volume for Benjamin Nelson (1985) (1)
AESTHETIC STRUCTURES IN CIVILIZATIONAL ANALYSIS (1977) (1)
Economic Conditions and Art Styles (1964) (1)
History on Art's Side: Social Dynamics in Efflorescences. (1974) (0)
The Possibilities of an American Artistic Efflorescene. (1970) (0)
Notes on Post Industrial Culture. (1974) (0)
ROBERT A. NISBET. Social Change and History: Aspects of the Western Theory of Development. Pp. x, 335. New York: Oxford University Press, 1969. $6.75 (1969) (0)
The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act, by Fredric Jameson. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1981, 305 pp. $19.50 (1982) (0)
From the editors (1984) (0)
Romanticism and Taoism: The Planes of Cultural Organization (1980) (0)
Sex norms, emotionality and artistic creativity: psychohistorical explorations. (1971) (0)
THE SOCIOLOGY OF ART AND LITERATURE. Edited by Milton C. Albrecht, James H. Barnett, and Mason Griff. New York: Praeger, 1970. 752 pp. $15.00 (1971) (0)
Aesthetic Education in Civilizational Perspective. (1975) (0)
Role differentiation and style preferences. (1966) (0)

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