Amitai Etzioni

Amitai Etzioni
אמיתי עציוני
Born
Werner Falk

(1929-01-04)4 January 1929
Died31 May 2023(2023-05-31) (aged 94)
Spouses
  • Chava Horowitz
    (m. 1953; div. 1964)
  • Minerva Morales
    (m. 1965; died 1985)
  • Patricia Kellogg
    (m. 1992)
Children5
Academic background
EducationHebrew University of Jerusalem (BA, MA)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Doctoral advisorSeymour Martin Lipset
Academic work
InstitutionsGeorge Washington University
Harvard Business School
Columbia University
Notable ideasSocioeconomics, communitarianism

Amitai Etzioni (/ˈæmɪt ˌɛtsiˈni/;[1]Werner Falk; 4 January 1929 – 31 May 2023) was a German-born Israeli-American sociologist, best known for his work on socioeconomics and communitarianism. He founded the Communitarian Network, a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to supporting the moral, social, and political foundations of society. He established the network to disseminate the movement's ideas. His writings argue for a carefully crafted balance between individual rights and social responsibilities, and between autonomy and order, in social structure. In 2001, he was named among the top 100 American intellectuals, as measured by academic citations, in Richard Posner's book, Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline.

Etzioni was the Director of the Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies at The George Washington University, where he also served as a professor of International Affairs.

  1. ^ Interview with Amitai Etzioni. BBC World News.