There will be a memorial service held in honor of Professor
Barrington Moore, Professor Emeritus of Government, on Tuesday,
November 1, from 5-7 pm at the Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland
St., Lower Level
conference room, followed by a reception.
Barrington Moore, the renowned American sociologist and
political scientist who taught at Harvard from 1951 until 1979, died at
his home in Cambridge on September 16th. Moore was the author of a
number of books on historical sociology that focus on Soviet society.
Based at
the Russian Research
Center at Harvard and in the
Government Department, he published Soviet Politics: The Dilemma of
Power
(1950) and Terror and Progress: USSR
(1954), both of which established the foundations of a political
sociology of
Soviet power. His best-known work is Social Origins of Dictatorship
and
Democracy (1966), a masterpiece of comparative methodology that
uses
both
Marxian and Weberian analysis and inspired similar studies in the
sociology of
historical processes. His other writings include Political Power
and
Social
Theory (1958), Reflections on the Causes of Human Misery
(1973), and
Injustice
(1978).
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