Neil Joseph Smelser was an American sociologist who served as professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.
13 Facts About Neil Smelser
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Neil Smelser was an active researcher from 1958 to 1994.
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Neil Smelser's research was on collective behavior, sociological theory, economic sociology, sociology of education, social change, and comparative methods.
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Neil Smelser was born in Kahoka, Missouri, on July 22,1930.
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Neil Smelser received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1952 in the Department of Social Relations.
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Neil Smelser earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree in sociology from Harvard in 1958, and was a junior fellow of the Society of Fellows.
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Neil Smelser was given tenure a year after graduating from Harvard and joining Berkeley.
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Neil Smelser was the fifth director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences from 1994 to 2001.
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Neil Smelser retired in 1994 when he became an emeritus professor and died in Berkeley on October 2,2017.
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Over his career, Neil Smelser received many prestigious awards and prizes.
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Neil Smelser's value added theory argued that six elements were necessary for a particular kind of collective behavior to emerge:.
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Neil Smelser was a proponent of economic sociology, an interdisciplinary field that links sociology and economics.
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Neil Smelser wrote some important early works on the comparative method in the social sciences.