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Edward Shils

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Gender Male
Death28 years ago
Date of birth July 1,1910
Zodiac sign Cancer
Born Springfield
Massachusetts
United States
Date of died January 23,1995
DiedChicago
Illinois
United States
Influenced Saul Bellow
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Sociologist
Education University of Pennsylvania
Awards Jefferson Lecture
Influences Talcott Parsons
Max Weber
Louis Wirth
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Center and periphery
intellectuals and the powers, and other essays
Portraits: A Gallery of Intellectuals
The calling of education
The academic ethic
The Virtue of Civility: Selected Essays on Liberalism, Tradition, and Civil Society
The Order of Learning: Essays on the Contemporary University
A Fragment of a Sociological Autobiography: The History of My Pursuit of a Few Ideas
Political development in the new states
The Intellectual Between Tradition and Modernity: The Indian Situation
The Study of the Primary Group
Criteria for Scientific Development: Public Policy and National Goals: A Selection of Articles from Minerva
Max Weber on the Methodology of the Social Sciences
Universities in the Service of Truth and Utility
Tradition
The constitution of society
The torment of secrecy
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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.

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