Neil Joseph Smelser (1930–2017) was an American sociologist who served as professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was an active researcher from 1958 to …

Neil Smelser was an American sociologist noted for his work on the application of sociological theory to the study of economic institutions, collective behaviour, social change, and …

Oct 12, 2017 · Neil Smelser, a distinguished sociologist and higher education leader who navigated the swells of student uprisings during the exhilarating and tumultuous 1960s, died …

Neil J. Smelser (1930-2017) served as the 88th President of the American Sociological Association. His Presidential Address, entitled “The Rational and the Ambivalent in the Social …

This theory was developed by Neil Smelser and he proposed six determinants responsible for the development of a social movement. These six conditions, he believed, helped to give rise to …

Oct 2, 2017 · Neil Smelser passed away on Monday, October 2, at the age of 87. He was one of the most distinguished sociologists to have walked the earth. Educated at Harvard and Oxford, …

May 17, 2012 · That motto (“I break in order to reveal”) aptly fits Neil Smelser’s classic Theory of Collective Behavior —a book that radically broke with conventional treatments of collective …

Nov 16, 2017 · Celebrated for his work on sociological theory as applied to economic institutions, collective behavior, social change, and personality, Smelser is widely credited as a …

Over nearly six decades of scholarly activity, Smelser distinguished himself in the discipline of sociology, and more generally in the social and behavioral sciences. He was a prolific author …

Smelser refers to the structural characteristics of societies that serve to permit or inhibit episodes of particular kinds of collective behaviour. Crossley suggests that this is the aspect of social …