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Amitai Etzioni | |
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אמיתי עציוני | |
Born | Werner Falk 4 January 1929 |
Died | 31 May 2023 Washington, D.C., U.S. | (aged 94)
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Children | 5 |
Academic background | |
Education | Hebrew University of Jerusalem (BA, MA) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
Doctoral advisor | Seymour Martin Lipset |
Academic work | |
Institutions | George Washington University Harvard Business School Columbia University |
Notable ideas | Socioeconomics, communitarianism |
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Amitai Etzioni (/ˈæmɪtaɪ ˌɛtsiˈoʊni/;[1] né 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.