Shils, Edward
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2017
Keywords
center and periphery, charisma, Parsons, Talcott, primary groups, tradition
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118430873.est0344
Abstract
Edward Shils (1910–1995) was a transatlantic intellectual with deep roots in American sociology, especially C. H. Cooley and his teacher Robert Park. He was deeply engaged with European literature and German sociological thinking, and was a major translator of Karl Mannheim and Max Weber. He was also closely associated with Michael Polanyi and opposed to the left. His core social theory involved the relation between primary groups and the charismatic center of society. He emphasized the significance and centrality to human social life of personal primary group attachments, and criticized notions of mass society, the lonely crowd, and the authoritarian personality.
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Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Shils, Edward, in B. S. Turner, C. Kyung-Sup, C. Fuchs, P. Kivisto, W. Outhwaite & J. M. Ryan (Eds.), The Wiley‐Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory, John Wiley & Sons
Scholar Commons Citation
Turner, Stephen, "Shils, Edward" (2017). Philosophy Faculty Publications. 78.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/phi_facpub/78
