Reinhard Bendix

Reinhard Bendix (February 25, 1916-February 28, 1991) was an accomplished sociologist born in Berlin, Germany. As a teenager, he briefly belonged to Neu Beginnen and Hashomer Hatzair, groups that resisted the Nazis. In 1938 he emigrated to the United States. He received his B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and subsequently taught there from 1943 to 1946. He then taught for a year in the Sociology Department of the University of Colorado before moving to the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1947 where he remained for the rest of his career.

Books

• Work and Authority in Industry, (1956)
• Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait, (1960)
• Nation-Building & Citizenship: Studies of Our Changing Social Order, (1964)
• Kings or People: Power and the Mandate to Rule, (1978)
• Force, Fate and Freedom, (1984)
• From Berlin to Berkeley, (1986)
• Embattled Reason, Vol. 1, (1988)
• Embattled Reason, Vol. 2, (1989)
• Unsettled Affinities, (1993 posth.)