17 Facts About Stein Rokkan

Stein Rokkan was a Norwegian political scientist and sociologist.

Stein Rokkan was the first professor of sociology at the University of Bergen and a principal founder of the discipline of comparative politics.

Stein Rokkan founded the multidisciplinary Department of Sociology at the University of Bergen, which encompassed sociology, economics and political science and which had a key role in the postwar development of the social sciences in Norway.

Stein Rokkan was born on the Lofoten archipelago in the far north of Norway and raised in the nearby town of Narvik.

Stein Rokkan's studies were interrupted in 1943 when the German occupation closed the University of Oslo and he returned to the university after the liberation in 1945.

Stein Rokkan then turned to empirical research, and studied at Columbia University, Chicago and the London School of Economics between 1949 and 1951.

Stein Rokkan subsequently worked at the Norwegian Institute for Social Research from 1951 until 1957, and moved to Bergen in 1958, where he worked at the Chr.

Stein Rokkan held a permanent appointment as visiting professor at Yale University.

Stein Rokkan co-founded, with Shmuel Eisenstadt, Morris Janowitz, and Seymour Martin Lipset, the Committee on Political Sociology of the International Sociological Association in 1960 and served as its secretary from 1960 to 1970.

Stein Rokkan was vice-president of the International Sociological Association from 1966 to 1970; president of the International Political Science Association from 1970 to 1973; chairman and co-founder of the European Consortium for Political Research ; and president of the International Social Science Council, which was founded by UNESCO, from 1973 to 1977.

Stein Rokkan was a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, an international member of the American Philosophical Society, and a member of the Finnish and Norwegian Academies of Sciences.

Stein Rokkan received honorary degrees from the University of Uppsala in 1970, the University of Helsinki in 1971, and the University of Geneva and the University of Aarhus in 1979.

In more general terms, Lipset and Stein Rokkan's model has three components:.

Stein Rokkan influenced thinking about cleavage, comparative history, party systems and Catalan nationalism, among other topics.

Stein Rokkan helped launch a research tradition on critical junctures.

Stein Rokkan was the creator of a series of models for state and nation formations in Europe.

Stein Rokkan is known as a pioneer of using computer technology in the social sciences.