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| | 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: | M. Michel Crozier | | | Institution: | Center for the Sociology of Organizations | | | Year Elected: | 1975 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1922 | | | Death Date: | May 24, 2013 | | | | | | |
French sociologist Michel Crozier was founder and director of the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations in Paris. One of the world's leading authorities on modern social organization and a critical analyst of bureaucracy, Dr. Crozier became a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in 1999. He was also an officer of the Légion d'honneur and a commander of the Ordre National du Mérite as well as a laureate of the Prix Tocqueville. His major works include The Bureaucratic Phenomenon (1963), The World of the Office Worker (1965), The Crisis of Democracy (1975), Strategies for Change: The Future of French Society (1979) and The Trouble with America (1980), all of which have been translated into English. He was elected an international member of the American Philosophical Society in 1975. Michel Crozier died May 24, 2013, at the age of 90 in Paris, France. | |
| 3 | Name: | Lord Ralf Dahrendorf | | | Institution: | House of Lords | | | Year Elected: | 1977 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1929 | | | Death Date: | June 17, 2009 | | | | | | |
An outstanding figure in sociological theory, Lord Dahrendorf is also noted for his abilities as an academic statesman and scholarly administrator. Born in Hamburg, Germany in 1929, he studied at Hamburg University, becoming a doctor of philosophy and classics in 1956. He served as professor of sociology at Hamburg, Tübingen and Konstanz between 1957 and 1969, when he became a member of the German Parliament. In 1970 he became a Commissioner in the European Commission in Brussels. With the exception of another stint in Konstanz as professor of social science from 1984-86, he has spent much of his time in the United Kingdom since 1974, when he was appointed director of the London School of Economics. He subsequently became a governor of the school in 1986 and from 1987-97 served as warden of St. Anthony's College at Oxford University. Having adopted British nationality in 1988, Lord Dahrendorf was granted a life peerage and was created Baron Dahrendorf of Clare Market in the City of Westminster by Queen Elizabeth II in 1993. He sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher. | |
| 4 | Name: | Dr. Jorge Durand | | | Institution: | Princeton University; University of Guadalajara | | | Year Elected: | 2005 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1949 | | | | | | |
Jorge Durand is a Visiting Professor at Princeton University, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Guadalajara, México, and Co-Director, with Douglas S. Massey, of the Mexican Migration Project and the Latin American Migration Project sponsored by Princeton University and the University of Guadalajara. He is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a member of the American Philosophical Society. He was educated at the Universidad Iberoamericana (BA), El Colegio de Michoacán (MA), and the University of Toulouse - Le Mirail, France (Ph.D.). He is the author of La ciudad invade al ejido (1983) and Los obreros de Río Grande (1985). He has studied and written about Mexican migration to the United States for the last 20 years. His publications in this field include: Return to Aztlan (1987); Más allá de la línea (1984); Miracles on the Border (1995); Migrations mexicaines aux Etats-Unis (1995); La experiencia migrante (2000); Beyond Smoke and Mirrors (2002); and Clandestinos. Migración mexicana en los albores del siglo XX (2003). | |
| 5 | Name: | Dr. Shmuel Eisenstadt | | | Institution: | Hebrew University | | | Year Elected: | 1973 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1923 | | | Death Date: | September 2, 2010 | | | | | | |
Israeli sociologist Shmuel Eisenstadt was the Rose Isaacs Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and worked at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. A truly international scholar, he applied in his work a comparative-studies approach to Jewish, Japanese, and European cultures. Known worldwide as a synthesizer and a bridge-builder to other disciplines, Prof. Eisenstadt coined the concept of "multiple modernities", according to which each civilization has its own strengths and weaknesses between which there can develop strong contestations. This concept is antithetical to that of a clash of civilizations. The author of works including Modernization, Protest and Change (1966), The Protestant Ethic and Change (1968) and Tradition, Change and Modernity (1992), Explorations in Jewish Historical Experience: The Civilizational Dimension (2004). Prof. Eisenstadt was also the editor of Multiple Modernities (2002). A member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences, he held a Ph. D. from the Hebrew University and was recognized with awards including the Balzan Prize, the Max Planck research prize and the Holberg International Memorial Prize for 2006. S. N. Eisenstadt died on September 2, 2010, at the age of 87, at home in Jerusalem. | |
| 6 | Name: | Sir Raymond W. Firth | | | Institution: | University of London | | | Year Elected: | 1965 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1901 | | | Death Date: | February 22, 2002 | | | | |
| 7 | Name: | Dr. Ron Lesthaeghe | | | Institution: | Vrije Universiteit, Brussels | | | Year Elected: | 2014 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1945 | | | | | | |
Ron J. Lesthaeghe (born 1945) earned his license degree (1967) and his PhD (1970) in the Social Sciences at the University of Ghent, and obtained his MA in Sociology (1968) from Brown University. He has been a research associate at the Office of Population Research at Princeton University (1971-73), and worked for the Population Council as regional representative for West and Central Africa (1975-76). Since 1971 he has been lecturer and then professor of Demography and Social Science Methodology at the Free University of Brussels (VUB). From 1988 to 1991 he was Dean of the faculty of economics, sociology and political science at that university. Emeritus at the VUB since 2005.
He has been awarded visiting professorships at the Institut des Sciences Politiques de Paris (Colson Chair, 1989-93), the Université Catholique de Louvain (Leclercq Chair, 1996-97), at the University of Antwerp (Belgian Franqui Chair, 1999-2000), and at Harvard University (Erasmus Chair, 2001-02). He is a member of both the Belgian and the Dutch Academies of Science. Served on the Fachbeirat of the Max Planck Institut für Demografie in Rostock, Germany (1999-2004). In 2003 he received the Irene Taueber Award of the Population Association of America (PAA) and the Office of Population Research of Princeton University. Ranked 10th among the most influential demographers in the period 1950-2000 by 637 colleagues responding in CICRED demographers survey (Chasteland et al., 2004). Recipient in 2005 of the quinquenial Ernest-John Solvay Prize of the FWO (highest Belgian Natl. Science Foundation award in the social sciences and humanities). Received the 2008 Life Time Award from the International Union of the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). Visiting Professor at the Departments of Sociology/Population Studies Centers of the Universities of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and of California (Irvine).
Since 2010, Ron has been a regular visitor at the Centre d'Estudis Demografics (CED) at the Autonoma university in Barcelona, where he has been collaborating on the project concerning the rise of unmarried cohabitation in the Americas. In 2014, he was elected as foreign member of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, and of the US National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C. (Class 53 - Social & Political Sciences).
Most of his research has been in the various sub-fields of demography: historical, social and economic, and mainly covering populations of Europe and of sub-Saharan Africa. He has also done research in the fields of cultural change in Europe and of ethnic minorities studies. His published work includes books on "The decline of Belgian Fertility" (1977, Princeton Univ. Press), "Child-spacing in Tropical Africa" (1981, Academic Press), "Production and Reproduction in Sub-Sahara Africa" (1989, University of California Press), "Communities and Generations - Turkish and Moroccan Populations in Belgium" (2000,VUB-Press). He edited "Meaning and Choice: Values Orientations and Life Course Decisions" which brings together the results of longitudinal surveys conducted in the US and Western Europe (2002, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, The Hague). He is also editor and co-author of a number of books in Dutch such as: "Demografische Alternatieven voor België" (De Sikkel, 1979), "Diversiteit in Sociale Verandering - Turkse en Marokkaanse Vrouwen in België", (1997, VUB-Press), and "Eerst Optellen, dan Delen - Demografie, Economie en Sociale Zekerheid" (Garant, 1998). | |
| 8 | Name: | Professor Claude Levi-Strauss | | | Institution: | Collège de France | | | Year Elected: | 1960 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1908 | | | Death Date: | October 30, 2009 | | | | | | |
French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss is best known for his development of structural anthropology. Born in Brussels in 1908, he studied law and philosophy at the Sorbonne, and after a few years of teaching secondary school, in 1935 he became part of a French cultural mission to Brazil during which he served as a visiting professor at the University of Sao Paulo. During this time he carried out his first ethnographic fieldwork, conducting periodic research forays into the Mato Grosso and the Amazon rainforest, studying the indigineous Guaycuru and Bororo tribes and living among them for a while. Several years later, he returned to study the Nambikwara and Tupi-Kawahib societies, an experience that cemented Lévi-Strauss's professional identity as an anthropologist. He returned to France in 1939 but moved soon after to New York City to escape the Nazis. The war years in New York were formative for Lévi-Strauss in several ways, as his relationship with Roman Jakobson helped shape his theoretical outlook, and he was also exposed to the American anthropology espoused by Franz Boas. Levi-Strauss returned to Paris in 1948, receiving his doctorate from the Sorbonne and submitting both a "major" and a "minor" thesis: The Family and Social Life of the Nambikwara Indians and The Elementary Structures of Kinship. The latter was soon published and instantly came to be regarded as one of the most important works of anthropological kinship. Examining the logical structures that underlay relationships rather than their contents, Levi-Strauss argued that kinship was based on the alliance between two families that formed when women from one group married men from the other. Simone de Beauvoir gave the work a favorable review and saw it as an important statement on the position of women in non-Western cultures. Throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s, Lévi-Strauss continued to publish and became involved with the administration of the CNRS and the Musee de l'Homme before finally becoming chair of fifth section of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, which he renamed "Comparative Religion of Non-Literate Peoples". While Lévi-Strauss was well-known in academic circles, it was in 1955 that he became one of France's best known intellectuals by publishing Tristes Tropiques. Essentially a travel novel, the book detailed his time as a French expatriate throughout the 1930s, combining exquisitely beautiful prose, dazzling philosophical meditation and ethnographic analysis of Amazonian peoples. In 1959 Lévi-Strauss was named to a chair in Social Anthropology at the Collège de France, and at roughly the same time he published Structural Anthropology, a collection of essays which provided both examples and programmatic statements about structuralism. At the same time as he was laying the groundwork for an intellectual program, he began a series of institutions for establishing anthropology as a discipline in France, including the Laboratory for Social Anthropology where new students could be trained, and a new journal, l'Homme, for publishing the results of their research. In 1962 Lévi-Strauss published what is for many people his most important work, La Pensée Sauvage, which concerns primitive thought, forms of thought we all use. The first half of the book lays out Lévi-Strauss's theory of culture and mind, while the second half expands this account into a theory of history and social change. This part of the book engaged Lévi-Strauss in a heated debate with Jean-Paul Sartre over the nature of human freedom. Now a world-wide celebrity, Lévi-Strauss spent the second half of the 1960s working on his master project, a four-volume study called Mythologiques. In it, Lévi-Strauss took a single myth from the tip of South America and followed all of its variations from group to group up through Central America and eventually into the Arctic Circle, thus tracing the myth's spread from one end of the American continent to the other. He accomplished this in a typically structuralist way, examining the underlying structure of relationships between the elements of the story rather than by focusing on the content of the story itself. After completing the final volume of Mythologique in 1971 Lévi-Strauss was elected to the Academie Française, France's highest honor for an intellectual, in 1973. He was also a member of other notable academies, including the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He has received the Erasmus Prize and the Meister-Eckhart-Prize for Philosophy and was a recipient of the Grand-croix de la Legion d'honneur. Claude Lévi-Strauss died in Paris on October 30, 2009, at age 100. He was Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France. | |
| 9 | Name: | Dr. Massimo Livi-Bacci | | | Institution: | University of Florence | | | Year Elected: | 2004 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1936 | | | | | | |
Massimo Livi-Bacci is a leading demographic historian. He has written the fundamental demographic histories of both Italy and Portugal, using province-level records of vital statistics and censuses. In The Population of Europe: A History he has produced a masterful synthesis of European demographic history, one that emphasizes the exogenous role of disease. His Concise History of World Population encapsulates the vast sweep of human demographic history in a graceful way that does justice to the subject's complexity. Dr. Livi-Bacci has contributed important analytic papers on the social reaction to mortality crises in Italy, the demographic response to Columbus' arrival in Hispaniola, and other subjects. Since 1984 he has been Professor of Demography, Faculty of Political Science "Cesare Alfieri," at the University of Florence. | |
| 10 | Name: | Ms. Ida Nicolaisen | | | Institution: | Nordic Institute of Asian Studies & Carlsberg Foundation's Nomad Research Project | | | Year Elected: | 1999 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1940 | | | | | | |
Ida Nicolaisen is one of the most distinguished social anthropologists in Denmark today. In addition to her scientific studies, she is active in promoting environmental research in developing countries. The work for which she is best known relates to Malaysia. She has conducted fieldwork among the Punan Bah, in Sarawak, heads the Carlsberg Foundation's Nomad Research Project, and took the initiative in the building of a traditional sewn longboat by a Punan Bah man at the Viking Ship Museum in Denmark, as well as the erection of two remarkable totem poles at the National Museum. In addition to Malaysia, she has done fieldwork in the Philippines, Greenland, Niger, Chad, and Norway, and speaks many foreign languages, including Punan Bah. She is the editor of the multivolumed Danish Nomad Research publications. Her contributions are classical and have earned her an international reputation. Dr. Nicolaisen was the first woman to give the Annual Celebration at the University of Copenhagen (after 510 years). She is a Knight of the Order of Danneburg (Denmark), a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Arts and Sciences and Senior Research Fellow at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. | |
| 11 | Name: | Dr. Mysore N. Srinivas | | | Institution: | National Institute of Advanced Studies | | | Year Elected: | 1974 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1916 | | | Death Date: | 11/30/99 | | | | |
| 12 | Name: | Sir Anthony Wrigley | | | Institution: | The British Academy; University of Cambridge; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge | | | Year Elected: | 2001 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1931 | | | Death Date: | February 24. 2022 | | | | | | |
E.A. Wrigley (Sir Tony) was president of the British Academy from 1997-2001. Educated at Cambridge University, he was awarded a Ph.D. degree in 1957. Initially working in the field of geography, he is now best characterized as a historical demographer, a discipline that combines geography with economic history. In 1965, he co-founded the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, serving as its co-director from 1974-94. During this time, he also held single year appointments at both the Institute for Advanced Study and Johns Hopkins University. Sir Tony has held chairs in Population Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Studies and in Economic History at Cambridge. During this period, he published, along with R.S. Schofield, the exhaustive study, The Population History of England, 1541-1871 (1981). He also served as co-editor of an eight volume collection entitled The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus. From 1988-94, he served as a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford and as president of Manchester College. He left both posts in 1994 to become Master of Corpus Christi College, a position he held until 2000. Sir Tony has been awarded the title of Knight Bachelor (1996) for his services to historical demography as well as the 1997 Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society. | |
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