Philip Selznick

Philip Selznick (1919-2010) taught generations of law and sociology students as a professor of sociology and jurisprudence & social policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He was founding chair of Berkeley's Center for the Study of Law and Society. In addition to this work, his other influential books include TVA and the Grass Roots; Leadership in Administration; The Organizational Weapon; Law and Society in Transition (with Nonet); The Moral Commonwealth; The Communitarian...See more

Philip Selznick (1919-2010) taught generations of law and sociology students as a professor of sociology and jurisprudence & social policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He was founding chair of Berkeley's Center for the Study of Law and Society. In addition to this work, his other influential books include TVA and the Grass Roots; Leadership in Administration; The Organizational Weapon; Law and Society in Transition (with Nonet); The Moral Commonwealth; The Communitarian Persuasion; and, in 2008, A Humanist Science. See less