GLAZER, NATHAN

GLAZER, NATHAN (1923– ), U.S. sociologist. Born in New York, Glazer attended the City College of New York, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University, where he received his Ph.D. in sociology. He was a member of the editorial staff of Commentary (1945–53) and worked in publishing at Doubleday and Random House. He was an urban sociologist with the Housing and Home Finance Administration in Washington, D.C., and a lecturer and instructor at the universities of Chicago and California and at Bennington and Smith Colleges. From 1963 to 1968 he was professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. Glazer then went to Harvard in 1968 as professor of sociology and education. In 1969 he became a fellow of the American Academy. In 1983 he taught in India as Distinguished Fulbright Lecturer. He also served on the United States Board of Foreign Scholarships (1984–89), which supervises the Fulbright Program, with special responsibility for South Asia. In 1993 he became professor emeritus of sociology and education at Harvard and subsequently became engaged in a research project on Indian federalism and democracy and studied Indian government policy affecting minority groups. Glazer, who has written extensively on issues of ethnicity and race in American society, is co-editor of The Public Interest magazine and a contributing editor at The New Republic. Glazer published numerous papers and articles on housing problems and on problems of American ethnic groups, including papers on the specific problems of American Jews; the latter appeared chiefly in Commentary. He wrote and also contributed the article "Social Characteristics of American Jews" to Jews: Their History, Culture and Religion 1694–1735 (vol. 2 (19603), ed. by L. Finkelstein). He co-authored The Lonely Crowd (with David Riesman and Reuel Denney, 1950); Faces in the Crowd (with Riesman, 1952), and The Social Basis of American Communism (with Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 1961). He also wrote American Judaism (1957); Beyond the Melting Pot (1963), an analysis of the persistence of ethnic groups – African-Americans, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish – in the New York metropolitan area; Remembering the Answers (1970); Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality & Public Policy (1975); and We Are All Multiculturalists Now (1998). He co-edited Conflicting Images: India and the United States with his wife, Sulochana Raghavan Glazer (1990). -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Contemporary Authors, 5–6 (1963), 179–80. ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: M. Miller and S. Gilmore (eds.), Revolution at Berkeley: The Crisis in American Education (1965); P. Steinfels, The Neo-Conservatives (1979). (Werner J. Cahnman / Ruth Beloff (2nd ed.)