Subdivision
| • | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | [X] |
| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Georges Balandier | | | Institution: | Universite Rene Descartes & l' Ecole des Hautes | | | Year Elected: | 1976 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1920 | | | Death Date: | October 5, 2016 | | | | | | |
A comparative anthropologist in the great French tradition, Georges Balandier was born in France in 1920. He completed his doctoral studies at the Sorbonne in 1946, became a professor of sociology there in 1962. Through UNESCO and similar agencies, he was a leading international figure in comparative structural studies. The author of important works such as Sociologie Actuelle de l'Afrique Noire and Sens et Puissance, Dr. Balandier was the recipient of the Chevalier des Palmes Academiques and the Medaille du Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, among other awards. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1976. He died October 5, 2016, at age 95 in Paris, France. | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Leo A. Goodman | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 1976 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1928 | | | Death Date: | December 22, 2020 | | | | | | |
Leo Goodman was a statistician and sociologist who has developed important statistical methods for quantitative research in the social sciences, particularly in sociology. His contributions to mathematical demography have significantly improved analyses of population growth by generalizing classical theories and broadening the range of variables. Born in New York City in 1928, Dr. Goodman holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University, and honorary D.Sc. degrees from the University of Michigan and Syracuse University. From 1950-86 he served on the faculty of the University of Chicago before moving to the University of California, Berkeley, as Class of 1938 Professor. The author of approximately 150 papers and four books, Dr. Goodman is a member of the National Academy of Sciences andthe American Academy of Arts & Sciences and has received honors including the American Statistical Association's Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Medal and the Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award presented by the American Sociological Association. His recent research has focused on the further development of statistical methods that bring the same kind of rigor to the analysis of qualitative/categorical data that has been available in the analysis of quantitative data. He died on December 22, 2020. | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. Neil J. Smelser | | | Institution: | Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences | | | Year Elected: | 1976 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1930 | | | Death Date: | October 2, 2017 | | | | | | |
Neil Smelser was born in 1930 in Kahoka, Missouri, and spent his youth in Phoenix, Arizona. He received his B.A. from Harvard College in 1952, a second B.A. from Oxford University in 1954 (M.A., 1959), and a Ph.D. at Harvard in 1958. He was a member of the department of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1958-94 and Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences from 1994-2001. He published extensively in the fields of social theory, social change, economic sociology, social movements, the sociology of education, and psychoanalysis (he trained in psychoanalysis at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, graduating in 1971). He was elected President of the American Sociological Association in 1996, and was also a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. Neil Smelser died October 2, 2017, at the age of 87. | |
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