Edward Shils

101 papers receiving 5.8k citations

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Toward a General Theory of Action1951202619762001195119521954195119754008001.2k

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Edward Shils
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  • Sociology and Political Science 3.7k
  • Political Science and International Relations 1.5k
  • Social Psychology 1.1k
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 766
  • Education 606
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All Works

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Science and Scientists in the Public Arena
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The virtue of civility : selected essays on liberalism, tradition, and civil society
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Cambridge women : twelve portraits
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Universities in the service of truth and utility
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Remembering the University of Chicago : teachers, scientists, and scholars
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Literature and society
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The Academic Ethos.
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The Sociology of literature
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Intellectuals and Their Discontents.
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Tradition, Ecology, and Institution in the History of Sociology.
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Selected papers of Edward Shils
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Criteria for scientific development : public policy and national goals : a selection of articles from Minerva
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About Edward Shils

Edward Shils is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Law and General Social Sciences, having authored 118 papers that have together received 7.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory (5 papers), Critical Theory and Philosophy (5 papers) and Political Philosophy and Ethics (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Sociology and Political Science (3.7k citations), Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (766 citations) and Communication (457 citations). Edward Shils has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Thailand. Frequent co-authors include Talcott Parsons, Max Weber, Max Rheinstein, Robert F. Bales, Guy E. Swanson, Henry Finch, Henry A. Murray, Samuel A. Stouffer, Clyde Kluckhohn and Richard C. Sheldon. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and American Sociological Review.

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