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Caminando por la Historia Intelectual de Seymour Martin Lipset

Jesús Velasco

January 2001

Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE)

Abstract

This essay analyzes the life and work of one of the mot distinguished American sociologists of the twentieth century, Seymour Martin Lipset. The essay evaluates two fundamental themes in Lipset's work, his analysis of democracy and anti-democracy and his thoughts on American exceptionalism. The paper concludes with some lessons derived from Lipset's work and life for Mexico and Mexican academics.

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