Shmuel Eisenstadt

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Honors

• The McIver Prize of the American Sociological Association in 1964;
• The Rothschild Prize in Social Sciences in 1970;
• The Israel Prize in social sciences in 1973;
• The International Balzan Prize in 1988;
• The Max Planck Award for Social Sciences in 1994;
• The Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences in 2001;
• The Humboldt Research Award in 2002;
• The EMET Prize in Sociology in 2005;
• The Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2006 from the Norwegian Parliament. This prize awarded Eisenstadt for outstanding scholarly work in the fields of the arts and humanities, social sciences, law and theology;
• An honorary doctorate from Warsaw University in 2005;
• An Honorary Degree from Harvard University.

Eisenstadt is a member of: Israeli Academy of Sciences, Honorary Foreign Members of the American Philosophical Society, Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences in the U.s., Honorary Foreign Member at the Academy of Arts and Sciences, Honorary Foreign Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics and Political Sciences.

In 2010 a festschrift, Collective Identities, States and Globalization; Essays in honour of S.N. Eisenstadt was published in Eisenstadt's honor.

Selected works

• The Political System of Empires (1963)
• Modernization, Protest, and Change (1966)
• Revolution and the Transformation of Societies (1978)
• Tradition, Wandel und Modernität (1979)
• Patrons, Clients and Friends: Interpersonal Relations and the Structure of Trust in Society, with Luis Roniger (1984)
• European Civilization in a Comparative Perspective (1987)
• Die Transformation der israelischen Gesellschaft (1987)
• Kulturen der Achsenzeit (Hrsg.), five volumes (1987 and 1992)
• Japanese Civilization – A Comparative View (1996)
• Die Antinomien der Moderne
• Die Vielfalt der Moderne
• Theorie und Moderne (2006)

See also

• List of Israel Prize recipients

• Last Interview.