Samuel Z. Klausner, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Professor Emeritus of Sociology Associate, Middle East Center

 

Mail to: 113 McNeil Building
University of Pennsylvania, Sociology Department
3718 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6298

Email: sklausne@mail.sas.upenn.edu

Brief CV: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~sklausne/brieftxt.html

Full CV: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~sklausne/samCV.html

Education:

1947  B.S., Mathematics, New York University

1950 M.A., Psychology, Columbia University

1951 Ed.D, Psychology, Columbia University

1963 Ph.D., Sociology, Columbia University

Research:

  • Sociology of Religion
  • Sociological Theory
  • International Law and Relations
  • Historical Sociology
  • Sociology of Culture
  • Middle Eastern Studies

Selected Publications:

Eskimo Capitalists: Oil, Politics and Alcohol (with Edward F. Foulks). Totawa, New Jersey: Allanheld, Osmun, 1982.

The Nationalization of the Social Sciences (with Victor Lidz). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987.

Succeeding in Corporate America: The Experience of Jewish MBAs. New York: The American Jewish Committee, 1989.

"E. Digby Baltzell: Moral Rhetoric and Research Methodology," Sociological Theory, 16:2, July, 149-171.

"l'qrat teoria shel hamarat dat hamonit v'yisuma l'havanat hitnatsrut yuhudei artsot habrit, (Towards a Theory of Mass Religious Conversion and its Appplication in the Undersanding of the Conversion of American Jews to Christianity). sotsiologia yisraelit, 1:1, 135-161 (Responses, 162-168).

Gat, Moshe. The Jewish Exodus from Iraq 1948-51. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass & Co., 1997 Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 19, 180-185.

Pipes, Daniel. The Hidden Hand: Middle East Fears of Conspiracy. New York: St. Martins Press, 1996, Review Essay in Jewish Quarterly Review, LXXXIX, Nos. 3-4 (January-April), 407-413.

"Apostasy," in Reader's Guide to Judaism. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999

“Reply to Abbott.” Sociological Theory, 17: March, 108-111. 1999.

 

 

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