Birnbaum, Norman (Personal Name)

His Sociology and religion, 1969.

Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 7/21/26; Ph.D., Harvard)

Washington post WWW site, viewed Jan. 7, 2019 (Norman Birnbaum, a left-wing sociologist and journalist who championed progressive causes on both sides of the Atlantic, helping establish the New Left Review in Britain and serving as a veteran member of the editorial board at the Nation, died Jan. 4 [2019] at a Washington hospital. He was 92. A longtime professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he applied a socialist lens to the study of American society, Dr. Birnbaum was credited with introducing sociology to the undergraduate curriculums at the University of Oxford and Amherst College in the 1950s and '60s, a period in which he also helped lay the intellectual foundations of the New Left political movement. Norman Birnbaum was born in Manhattan on July 21, 1926. He graduated from Williams College in 1947, and at Harvard University he worked as a teaching assistant alongside Henry Kissinger, receiving a master's degree in 1951 and a doctorate in 1958. Dr. Birnbaum was a professor at the London School of Economics, Oxford, the New School and Amherst before joining Georgetown in 1979, where he taught until retiring in 2001)