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Stein Rokkan

Sociology

Stein Rokkan was a Norwegian political scientist and sociologist, born in 1921. He was the first professor of sociology at the University of Bergen and a principal founder of the discipline of comparative politics, and he founded the multidisciplinary Department of Sociology at the University of Bergen, encompassing sociology, economics and political science, which played a key role in the postwar development of the social sciences in Norway. He died in 1979. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Birth Date
1921-07-04 1
Birth Year
1921 1
Death Date
1979-07-22 1
Death Year
1979 1
Birthplace
Vågan, Norway 1
Death Place
Bergen, Norway 1
Defining Contribution
introduced critical juncture theory 1
Notable Work
Cleavage Structures, Party Systems, and Voter Alignments 1
Connections

Associated With

Columbia University, Institutions and Social Structures
Source Stein Rokkan (Wikipedia)
Stanford University, Institutions and Social Structures
Source Stein Rokkan (Wikipedia)
Yale University, Institutions and Social Structures
Source Stein Rokkan (Wikipedia)

Practices Studied

The State, Institutions and Social Structures

Rokkan mapped the historical cleavages, center-periphery tensions and nation-building processes that shaped the modern European state system.

In the Other Atlases

Nationality

Norway

Also in Geography Atlas: the nationality of this subject.

Sources
1. Stein Rokkan (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Lead section
    Stein Rokkan was a Norwegian political scientist and sociologist.
  • Infobox, birth_date
    1921-07-04
  • Infobox, birth_date (year)
    1921-07-04
  • Infobox, death_date
    1979-07-22
  • Infobox, death_date (year)
    1979-07-22
  • Infobox, birth_place
    Vågan, Norway
  • Infobox, death_place
    Bergen, Norway
  • Cleavage Structures section, title
    Cleavage Structures, Party Systems, and Voter Alignments
  • Cleavage Structures section, critical juncture sentence
    introduced critical juncture theory
  • Associated With: Columbia University, Article text
    In the United States, Rokkan was a Rockefeller Foundation fellow at Columbia and Chicago from 1948 to 1950.
  • Associated With: Yale University, Article text
    He also held a permanent appointment as visiting professor at Yale University.
  • Associated With: Stanford University, Article text
    Over the years Rokkan was three times a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and a visiting professor at various universities (Manchester, Stanford, Geneva, the London School of Economics, the Instituts d'études politiques in Paris.
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Wikidata: Stein Rokkan
Wikidata Q319704, class allow-list match, case-insensitive label variant (w-bbfill-smallsix2-0926/resolve_ci.ps1)View the Source
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