Shils, Edward (1910–95)
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2015
Keywords
Atomic bomb, Authoritarian personality, Center and periphery, Charisma, Consensus, Frank Knight, India, Intellectuals, Karl Mannheim, Military sociology, New nations, Primary groups, Sociology of knowledge, Talcott Parsons, Tradition, Wehrmacht
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.61284-9
Abstract
Edward Shils was a prominent American sociologist and social theorist who spent much of his career in Britain. He was the translator of Karl Mannheim and collaborator with Talcott Parsons. His own social theory concentrated on the relation of primary groups and intellectuals to the center of society, which he conceived of in terms of its charismatic character. Unlike Parsons, he was especially concerned with the conflicts between the social attachments of people, and especially with those involving the transcendental. These conflicts were the basis of his account of intellectuals and their response to their own society.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Shils, Edward (1910–95), in J. D. Wright (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (2nd Ed.), Elsevier, p. 884-888
Scholar Commons Citation
Turner, Stephen and Grosby, Steven, "Shils, Edward (1910–95)" (2015). Philosophy Faculty Publications. 71.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/phi_facpub/71
