Reinhard Bendix
Overview
Sociology
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Born in Berlin, Germany, he briefly belonged to Neu beginnen and Hashomer Hatzair
Hashomer Hatzair
Hashomer Hatzair is a Socialist–Zionist youth movement founded in 1913 in Galicia, Austria-Hungary, and was also the name of the group's political party in the Yishuv in the pre-1948 British Mandate of Palestine...
, groups that resisted the Nazis. In 1938 he emigrated to the United States. He received his B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
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, and subsequently taught there from 1943 to 1946. He then taught for a year in the Sociology Department of the University of Colorado
University of Colorado at Boulder
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before moving to the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
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in 1947 where he remained for the rest of his career.
In 1969 Bendix was elected President of the American Sociological Association
American Sociological Association
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