Robert Morrison MacIver

Robert Morrison MacIver (1882 to 1970) was a Scottish-born sociologist and political scientist. Born in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis, he was educated at the universities of Edinburgh and Oxford, lectured at the University of Aberdeen from 1907, and in 1915 moved to the University of Toronto, where he headed the department of political science from 1922 to 1927. From 1927 he taught at Barnard College and Columbia University, where he held a chair of political science and sociology until 1950. He was elected the thirtieth president of the American Sociological Society in 1940 and later served as president and then chancellor of The New School for Social Research. His books include Community (1917), The Modern State (1926) and Society, a textbook that went through several editions.