A scholar of collective behavior, including economic sociology, social change, and the sociology of education, Smelser is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and former director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at University of California Berkeley. As a scholar-in-residence at the Kluge Center Smelser worked on his book “The Odyssey Experience.” Read announcement
Lectures
“Why Terrorist Ideologies Are So Powerful”
November 29, 2006