Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1929, Jan. 4 | Born Werner Falk, Cologne, Germany |
| 1936 | Fled Nazi Germany to Athens, Greece |
| 1937 | Immigrated to Haifa in then-British Mandate Palestine (now Israel) |
| 1946-1950 | Fought in the Palmach |
| 1951 | Married Nina Weiss (divorced 1952) |
| 1953 | Married Eva Horowitz (divorced 1965) |
| 1954 | B.A., Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel |
| 1956 | M.A., sociology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel |
| 1958 | Ph.D., sociology, University of California, Berkeley, Calif. |
| 1958-1980 | Professor, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
| 1961 | Published A Comparative Analysis of Complex Organizations. Holt, Rinehart and Winston |
| 1961-1970 | Senior staff member, Bureau of Applied Social Research, Columbia University, New York, N.Y; assistant director (1969-1970) |
| 1965 | Married Minerva Morales (died 1985) |
| 1968 | Founded Center for Policy Research Published The Active Society: A Theory of Societal and Political Processes. Free Press |
| 1969-1978 | Chair, Department of Sociology, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
| 1973 | Published Genetic Fix: The Next Technological Revolution. Macmillan |
| 1975 | Published Social Problems. Prentice-Hall |
| 1978-1979 | Guest scholar, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. |
| 1979-1980 | Senior advisor to Richard Harden, special assistant to President Jimmy Carter |
| 1980-2021 | University Professor, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. |
| 1982 | Published An Immodest Agenda: Rebuilding America Before the Twenty-First Century. New Press |
| 1984 | Published Capital Corruption: The New Attack on American Democracy. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |
| 1987-1989 | Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Professorship (visiting professor), Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University |
| 1988 | Published The Moral Dimension: Toward a New Economics. Free Press |
| 1989 | Founder and first president, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics |
| 1991-2004 | Editor, The Responsive Community: Rights and Responsibilities (journal) |
| 1992 | Married Patricia Kellogg |
| 1993 | Published The Spirit of Community: The Reinvention of American Society. Simon & Schuster |
| 1994 | Founded the Communitarian Network at The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. |
| 1994-1995 | President, the American Sociological Association |
| 1995 | Founded the Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies at The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. |
| 1996 | Published The New Golden Rule: Community and Morality in a Democratic Society. Basic Books |
| 1999 | Published The Limits of Privacy. Basic Books |
| 2003 | Published My Brother's Keeper: A Memoir and a Message. Rowman & Littlefield |
| 2004 | Published How Patriotic is the Patriot Act?: Freedom Versus Security in the Age of Terrorism. Routledge |
| 2009 | Published New Common Ground: A New America, a New World. Potomac Books |
| 2019 | Published Reclaiming Patriotism. University of Virginia Press |
| 2023, May 31 | Died, Washington, D.C. |