Neil Joseph Smelser (1930–2017) was an American sociologist who served as professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was an...

first proposed by Neil Smelser in 1962, which posits that certain conditions are needed for the development of a social movement. Smelser porter considered...

(1938), Albert K. Cohen (1955), Richard Cloward, Lloyd Ohlin (1960), Neil Smelser (1963), Robert Agnew (1992), Steven Messner, Richard Rosenfeld (1994)...

psychoanalyst, Menninger Clinic 1949–66 Dr Harold Blum, psychoanalyst Dr Neil Smelser, political theorist and psychoanalyst Fritz Gehagen, psychoanalyst and...

See the work of Gustav LeBon, Herbert Blumer, William Kornhauser, and Neil Smelser. Sociologists during the early and middle-1900s thought that movements...

Ernest Burgess, Herbert Blumer, Ralph H. Turner and Lewis Killian, and Neil Smelser to refer to social processes and events which do not reflect existing...

democratic socialist, then left liberal position. Later he worked with Neil Smelser, Robert N. Bellah, and Leo Lowenthal. Each of whom were on his dissertation...

carried the idea into the major work that he co-authored with a student, Neil Smelser, which was published in 1956 as Economy and Society. Within this work...

Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Paul Baltes and Neil Smelser, Eds., London: Elsevier Rafael D. Pangilinan (2009) Against Alienation:...

certain communities. The birth of a social movement needs what sociologist Neil Smelser calls an initiating event: a particular, individual event that will begin...