Nathan glazer biography

Nathan Glazer was recognized as one of America’s most important sociologists, social science researchers, and social commentators. He taught for several decades at Harvard University and, before that, at the University of California at Berkeley.

Glazer was born in 1923 and was raised in Harlem and in the Bronx, New York.

Nathan glazer biography

He grew up in a lower- middle-class Jewish immigrant family. While at New York’s City College he became part of a group of radicals who ate together at the school cafeteria in an enclosed upstairs spot called Alcove 1. Others in his set were the political intellectual Irving Kristol, literary critic Irving Howe, and Glazer’s future Harvard faculty colleague, the sociologist Daniel Bell.

The group was sympathetic to Marxism, but antagonistic toward Stalinism and aware of the enormity of the crimes committed by the Soviet government.

Glazer attended graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University, where he received his doctorate in sociolog