Robert Morrison MacIver
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Robert Morrison MacIver (April 17, 1882 - June 15, 1970), was a U.S. (Scottish-born) sociologist.
[edit] Life
Born in North Beach Street, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, to Donald Maciver, a general merchant and tweed manufacturer, and Christina Maciver (ne Morrison) he graduated from the Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford. On 14 August, 1911 he was married to Elizabeth Marion Peterkin in the Palace Hotel, Union Street, Aberdeen (the bans having been registered through Trinity Congregational Church, Aberdeen). At this point Maciver was a University Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen. This was followed by a brief period at Edinburgh, before becoming chair of sociology at Columbia University, 1929-1950. In his - rather long - period of formal education he had never read sociology. In 1940 he was to be elected President of the American Sociological Association.
His works centred around the State and Community.
[edit] Works
- Community, (1928)
- Society 1st Edition (textbook), (1931)
- Society 2nd Edition (textbook), (1937)
- The Web of Government, (1947)
- Society 3rd Edition (textbook), With Charles Page, (1949)
[edit] Sources
Entry in: A Dictionary of Sociology, George Marshall (Ed.), 1998, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-280081-7
