Robert A. Nisbet
Robert A. Nisbet was an American sociologist who served as a professor at UC Berkeley, Vice-Chancellor at UC Riverside, and the Albert Schweitzer Professor at Columbia University.
After World War II military service, he founded Berkeley's Sociology Department in 1953.
He later worked at the University of Arizona and the American Enterprise Institute, delivering the 1988 Jefferson Lecture in Humanities at President Reagan's request.
A follower of Emile Durkheim, Nisbet began as a political liberal but later embraced philosophical conservatism.
His seminal work argued that modern social science's individualism overlooked humanity's need for community in resisting state centralization.
