Sociologist, born in Cologne, W Germany. Raised in Palestine, he emigrated to the USA in 1957. He taught at Columbia (195880), then at George Washington University, and wrote prolifically for both scholarly and popular audiences, often on organizational analysis. His books include A Comparative Analysis of Complex Organizations (1961) and The Moral Dimension (1988).
Career
Having fled to Palestine from Nazi Germany in the 1930s, Etzioni studied with Martin Buber at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He was a professor of sociology at Columbia University for twenty years, serving as chair of the department for part of his time there. In 1980 he was named the first University Professor at The George Washington University, where he currently serves as the director of the Insititute for Communitarian Policy Studies.
Etzioni is the author of 24 books, many of which have been translated into numerous languages. Among his most influential are The Active Society (1969), The Moral Dimension (1988), The Spirit of Community (1993), The New Golden Rule (1996), and The Limits of Privacy (1999). His most recent books, How Patriotic is the Patriot Act: Freedom Versus Security In the Age of Terrorism and From Empire to Community: A New Approach to International Relations were published in 2004.
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