Consensus and Conflict By Seymour Martin Lipset

Consensus and Conflict nonfiction articles

Seymour Martin Lipset was an American political sociologist a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University His major work was in the fields of political sociology trade union organization social stratification public opinion and the sociology of intellectual life He also wrote extensively about the conditions for democracy in comparative perspective. Consensus and conflictcraft 2 The first of two volumes of Seymour Martin Lipsit s major papers deals with social and political conflict and to a lesser extent the way in which value systems and political institutions maintain order and consensus Together these papers expound Lipset s thesis that although all complex societies are characterized by a high degree of internal tension and conflict consensual institutions and values are necessary conditions for their persistence Consensus and Conflict