Nathan Glazer

Nathan Glazer
Born(1923-02-25)February 25, 1923
New York City, New York, U.S.
DiedJanuary 19, 2019(2019-01-19) (aged 95)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Spouses
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(m. 1942; div. 1957)​
  • Sulochana Raghavan
Children3
Academic background
EducationCity College of New York
University of Pennsylvania
Columbia University
Academic advisorsRobert K. Merton, Paul Lazarsfeld[1]
Academic work
DisciplineSociology
Doctoral studentsMustafa Emirbayer

Nathan Glazer (February 25, 1923 – January 19, 2019) was an American sociologist who taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and for several decades at Harvard University.[2][3][4] He was a co-editor of the now-defunct policy journal The Public Interest.[5][6]

Known for books such as Beyond the Melting Pot which deal with race and ethnicity, Glazer is critical of some of the Great Society programs of the mid-1960s.

He was often considered neoconservative in his thinking on domestic policy,[7][8][9] but remained a Democrat.[3] He described himself as "indifferent" to the neoconservative label with which he is most associated and remarked that it was an appellation not of his choosing.[4][9]

  1. ^ Jumonville, Neil (1990). Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Postwar America. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 87. ISBN 0520068580.
  2. ^ Gewen, Barry (January 19, 2019). "Nathan Glazer, Urban Sociologist and Outspoken Intellectual, Dies at 95". The New York Times. New York. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
  3. ^ a b Margolick, David (January 3, 1998). "How a Marxist Hotbed Eased Right; Recalling New York's Intellectual Life as Contact Sport". The New York Times. Retrieved February 4, 2010.
  4. ^ a b Traub, James (June 28, 1998). "Nathan Glazer Changes His Mind, Again". The New York Times. Retrieved February 4, 2010.
  5. ^ Dorman, Joseph. "Finding My Way to the Alcoves". PBS. Retrieved February 4, 2010.
  6. ^ Rothstein, Edward (May 9, 2005). "Mission Accomplished, a Journal Folds". The New York Times. Retrieved February 4, 2010.
  7. ^ Lind, Michael (September 22, 2009). "Intellectual conservatism, RIP". Salon.com. Retrieved February 4, 2010.
  8. ^ Brooks, David (Winter 1997). "The Essential Neoconservative Reader". The Public Interest. Archived from the original on December 14, 2019. Retrieved February 4, 2010.
  9. ^ a b Glazer, Nathan (October 22, 2009). "The Interested Man". The New Republic. Retrieved February 4, 2010.