Theda Skocpol

Barrington Moore Jr. was an American political sociologist. He is famous for his Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World , a comparative study of modernization in Britain, France, the United States, China, Japan and India, and a... philosophical history of totalitarianism. His many other works include Reflections on the Causes of Human Misery and an analysis of rebellion, Injustice: the Social Basis of Obedience and Revolt . He graduated from Williams College, Massachusetts, where he got a thorough education in Latin and Greek and in history. He also became interested in political science, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. In 1941, Moore obtained his Ph.D. in sociology from Yale University. He worked as a policy analyst for the government, in the OSS and at the Department of Justice. He met Herbert Marcuse, a lifelong friend, and also his future wife, Elizabeth Ito, at the OSS. His wife died in 1992. They had no children. His academic career began in 1945 at the University of Chicago, in 1948 he went to Harvard University, joining the Russian Research Center in 1951.
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