In the field of sociology he became known as a "sociologist of youth" (after a term in From Generation to Generation, a work closely related to the ideas of Talcott Parsons). However:
Eisenstadt's research contributed considerably to the understanding that the modern trend of a eurocentric interpretation of the cultural program developed in the west is a natural development model seen in all societies ... the European model is only one: it was merely the earliest. It started the trend. But social reactions, whether in the USA, Canada, Japan or in Southeast Asia took place with completely different cultural reagents. (Frankfurter Rundschau, March 22, 2000)
Eisenstadt was born in 1923 in Warsaw, Poland. In the early 1930s his widowed mother took him to Jerusalem and he was educated in Palestine from the age of 12. In 1940, Eisenstadt studied at the Hebrew University where he received his M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology.[2] After the 1947–48 school year, he went back to Jerusalem to be an assistant lecturer in Martin Buber's department under whom he had written his master's thesis. Eisenstadt stayed at the Hebrew University and began teaching there, served as the Chairman of the Department of Sociology from 1950 to 1969, and also served as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities for a few years.[2]
Eisenstadt contributed to the understanding of cultures and civilizations. As a social scientist, "Eisenstadt has focused on the interplay between cultural and structural processes of change and on inherent tensions and antinomies rather than on uniform process of development"[3] Eisenstadt researched broad themes of social change, modernities and civilizations.[3] One of his arguments is that "fundamentalism is not a traditional but a modern phenomenon".[3]
Eisenstadt summed up his views by saying "I try to understand what was the historical experience of the great civilizations...to try to understand the major dynamics of these civilizations and how they became modern societies, how they modernize and how they develop different cultural programs of modernity".[4]
In honor of Eisenstadt's contributions to sociology Erik Cohen, Moshe Lissak, and Uri Almagor compiled the book, Comparative Social Dynamics: Essays in Honor of S.N Eisenstadt.[5] The contributions of this book were written by Eisenstadt's former students and colleagues at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The articles relate to Eisenstadt's major themes in the study of cultures, modernization, and social and political change. Eisenstadt's work touches many different fields of sociology, time periods and cultures and the editors felt the leading concept of Eisenstadt's work was social dynamics.
Honorsedit
The McIver Prize of the American Sociological Association in 1964;
The Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2006 from the Norwegian Parliament. This prize awarded Eisenstadt for outstanding scholarly work in the fields of the arts and humanities, social sciences, law and theology;
An honorary doctorate from Warsaw University in 2005;
An Honorary Degree from Harvard University.
Eisenstadt was a member of: Israeli Academy of Sciences, Honorary Foreign Members of the American Philosophical Society, Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences in the U.S., Honorary Foreign Member at the Academy of Arts and Sciences, Honorary Foreign Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics and Political Sciences.
In 2010 a festschrift, Collective Identities, States and Globalization; Essays in honour of S.N. Eisenstadt was published in Eisenstadt's honor.
Selected worksedit
The Political System of Empires (1963)
Modernization, Protest, and Change (1966)
Revolution and the Transformation of Societies (1978)
Tradition, Wandel und Modernität (1979)
Patrons, Clients and Friends: Interpersonal Relations and the Structure of Trust in Society, with Luis Roniger (1984)
European Civilization in a Comparative Perspective (1987)
Die Transformation der israelischen Gesellschaft (1987)
Kulturen der Achsenzeit (Hrsg.), five volumes (1987 and 1992)
^"Israel Prize Official Site – Recipients in 1973 (in Hebrew)".
Further readingedit
Erik Cohen, Moshe Lissak and Uri Almagor (eds.), 1985 Comparative Social Dynamics", Essays in honor of S.N. Eisenstadt; Westview Press, Boulder and London,.
Klaus Plake und Wolfgang K. Schulz (eds.), 1993 Entillusionierung als Programm: Beitrage zur Soziologie von Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, Deutscher Studien Verlag, Weinheim.
Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Yitzhak Sternberg (eds.) 2005. Comparing Modernities: Pluralism versus Homogenity; essays in homage to Shmuel N. Eisenstadt. Brill: Leiden.
Benjamin Z. Kedar, Ilana Friedrich Silber and Adam Klin-Oron, eds., Dynamics of Continuity, Patterns of Change: Between World History and Comparative Historical Sociology. In Memory of Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt (Jerusalem, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and The Van Leer Institute, 2017), 290 pp.
עורכים: חנה הרצוג, טל כוכבי, שמשון צלניקר ; 2007 דורות, מרחבים, זהויות: מבטים עכשוויים על חברה ותרבות בישראל: לשמואל נח אייזנשטדט בהגיעו לגבורות. מכון ון ליר בירושלים והוצאת הקיבוץ המאוחד.
Weil, S. 2010 [Last Interview 'On Multiple Modernities, Civilizations and Ancient Judaism: an Interview with Prof. S.N. Eisenstadt'], European Societies 12 (4): 451-465.</ref>
Gerhard Preyer, Michael Sussman (eds.), 2016 Varieties of Multiple Modernities New Research Design, Leiden. Brill.
November 28, 2023
shmuel, eisenstadt, shmuel, noah, eisenstadt, hebrew, שמואל, נח, אייזנשטדט, september, 1923, warsaw, september, 2010, jerusalem, israeli, sociologist, writer, 1959, appointed, teaching, post, sociology, department, hebrew, university, jerusalem, from, 1990, un. Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt Hebrew שמואל נח אייזנשטדט 10 September 1923 Warsaw 2 September 2010 Jerusalem 1 was an Israeli sociologist and writer In 1959 he was appointed to a teaching post in the sociology department of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem From 1990 until his death in September 2010 he was professor emeritus He held countless guest professorships at the University of Chicago Harvard University the University of Zurich the University of Vienna the University of Bern Stanford and the University of Heidelberg among others Eisenstadt received a number of prizes including the Balzan prize and the Max Planck research prize He was also the 2006 winner of the Holberg International Memorial Prize He was a member of many academies including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Advisory Editors Council of the Social Evolution amp History Journal His daughter Irit Meir was a noted scholar of Israeli sign language Eisenstadt March 2008 In the field of sociology he became known as a sociologist of youth after a term in From Generation to Generation a work closely related to the ideas of Talcott Parsons However Eisenstadt s research contributed considerably to the understanding that the modern trend of a eurocentric interpretation of the cultural program developed in the west is a natural development model seen in all societies the European model is only one it was merely the earliest It started the trend But social reactions whether in the USA Canada Japan or in Southeast Asia took place with completely different cultural reagents Frankfurter Rundschau March 22 2000 Contents 1 Background and education 2 Honors 3 Selected works 4 See also 5 References 6 Further readingBackground and education editEisenstadt was born in 1923 in Warsaw Poland In the early 1930s his widowed mother took him to Jerusalem and he was educated in Palestine from the age of 12 In 1940 Eisenstadt studied at the Hebrew University where he received his M A and Ph D in sociology 2 After the 1947 48 school year he went back to Jerusalem to be an assistant lecturer in Martin Buber s department under whom he had written his master s thesis Eisenstadt stayed at the Hebrew University and began teaching there served as the Chairman of the Department of Sociology from 1950 to 1969 and also served as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities for a few years 2 Eisenstadt contributed to the understanding of cultures and civilizations As a social scientist Eisenstadt has focused on the interplay between cultural and structural processes of change and on inherent tensions and antinomies rather than on uniform process of development 3 Eisenstadt researched broad themes of social change modernities and civilizations 3 One of his arguments is that fundamentalism is not a traditional but a modern phenomenon 3 Eisenstadt summed up his views by saying I try to understand what was the historical experience of the great civilizations to try to understand the major dynamics of these civilizations and how they became modern societies how they modernize and how they develop different cultural programs of modernity 4 In honor of Eisenstadt s contributions to sociology Erik Cohen Moshe Lissak and Uri Almagor compiled the book Comparative Social Dynamics Essays in Honor of S N Eisenstadt 5 The contributions of this book were written by Eisenstadt s former students and colleagues at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem The articles relate to Eisenstadt s major themes in the study of cultures modernization and social and political change Eisenstadt s work touches many different fields of sociology time periods and cultures and the editors felt the leading concept of Eisenstadt s work was social dynamics Honors editThe McIver Prize of the American Sociological Association in 1964 The Rothschild Prize in Social Sciences in 1970 The Israel Prize in social sciences in 1973 6 The International Balzan Prize in 1988 The Max Planck Award for Social Sciences in 1994 The Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences in 2001 The Humboldt Research Award in 2002 The EMET Prize in Sociology in 2005 2 The Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2006 from the Norwegian Parliament This prize awarded Eisenstadt for outstanding scholarly work in the fields of the arts and humanities social sciences law and theology An honorary doctorate from Warsaw University in 2005 An Honorary Degree from Harvard University Eisenstadt was a member of Israeli Academy of Sciences Honorary Foreign Members of the American Philosophical Society Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences in the U S Honorary Foreign Member at the Academy of Arts and Sciences Honorary Foreign Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics and Political Sciences In 2010 a festschrift Collective Identities States and Globalization Essays in honour of S N Eisenstadt was published in Eisenstadt s honor Selected works editThe Political System of Empires 1963 Modernization Protest and Change 1966 Revolution and the Transformation of Societies 1978 Tradition Wandel und Modernitat 1979 Patrons Clients and Friends Interpersonal Relations and the Structure of Trust in Society with Luis Roniger 1984 European Civilization in a Comparative Perspective 1987 Die Transformation der israelischen Gesellschaft 1987 Kulturen der Achsenzeit Hrsg five volumes 1987 and 1992 Japanese Civilization A Comparative View 1996 Die Antinomien der Moderne Die Vielfalt der Moderne Theorie und Moderne 2006 See also editList of Israel Prize recipientsReferences edit Israel Prize laureate Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt dies at 87 a b c Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt Lebenslauf a b c Wittrock Bjorn Presentation of Shmuel N Eisenstadt Norwegian 2006 14 to Receive Honorary Degrees The Harvard Crimson 10 June 1993 Westview Press 1985 Israel Prize Official Site Recipients in 1973 in Hebrew Further reading editErik Cohen Moshe Lissak and Uri Almagor eds 1985 Comparative Social Dynamics Essays in honor of S N Eisenstadt Westview Press Boulder and London Klaus Plake und Wolfgang K Schulz eds 1993 Entillusionierung als Programm Beitrage zur Soziologie von Shmuel N Eisenstadt Deutscher Studien Verlag Weinheim Eliezer Ben Rafael and Yitzhak Sternberg eds 2005 Comparing Modernities Pluralism versus Homogenity essays in homage to Shmuel N Eisenstadt Brill Leiden Benjamin Z Kedar Ilana Friedrich Silber and Adam Klin Oron eds Dynamics of Continuity Patterns of Change Between World History and Comparative Historical Sociology In Memory of Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt Jerusalem Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and The Van Leer Institute 2017 290 pp עורכים חנה הרצוג טל כוכבי שמשון צלניקר 2007 דורות מרחבים זהויות מבטים עכשוויים על חברה ותרבות בישראל לשמואל נח אייזנשטדט בהגיעו לגבורות מכון ון ליר בירושלים והוצאת הקיבוץ המאוחד Weil S 2010 Last Interview On Multiple Modernities Civilizations and Ancient Judaism an Interview with Prof S N Eisenstadt European Societies 12 4 451 465 lt ref gt Gerhard Preyer Michael Sussman eds 2016 Varieties of Multiple Modernities New Research Design Leiden Brill Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Shmuel Eisenstadt amp oldid 1182672794, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
