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705: 260:, where he became professor of Social Science from 1927 to 1936. He was subsequently named Lieber Professor of Political Science and Sociology at Columbia University and taught there from 1929 to 1950. He was president, beginning in 1963 until 1965, and then chancellor of 736: 498:
Curriculum vitae provided by MacIver to the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches in 1950, in box 428.11.01.1 of the archives of the World Council of Churches in Geneva, Switzerland (
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where he was Professor of Political Science and later Head of Department from 1922 to 1927. MacIver was
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manufacturer, and Christina MacIver (née Morrison). His father was a
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The Road to Peace and to Moral Democracy: An Encyclopedia of Peace
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As a Tale That Is Told: The Autobiography of R. M. MacIver
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from 1917 to 1918. In 1927 he accepted an invitation from
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The New Encyclopædia Britannica (1974), Micropædia Vol. 6
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The Pursuit of Happiness A Philosophy For Modern Living
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(1 April 1914). 451:Life: Its Dimensions and its Bounds 457:The Challenge of The Passing Years 445:The Nations and the United Nations 55:Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 25: 747:American Sociological Association 204:, while resident as a student in 321:Community: A Sociological Study 105: 625:Obituary by Mirra Komarovsky, 610:Obituary by Mirra Komarovsky, 373:2nd Edition (textbook), (1937) 355:1st Edition (textbook), (1931) 277:American Philosophical Society 1: 522:(15th ed.). p. 449. 281:American Sociological Society 172:(M.A. 1903; D.Ph. 1915), the 168:He received degrees from the 1554:Columbia University faculty 328:Labor in the Changing World 1590: 685:Gourevitch, Boris (1955). 335:Elements of Social Science 236:in 1915 for a post at the 488:A Dictionary of Sociology 279:. 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Index

Robert M. MacIver
New York City
University of Edinburgh
sociologist
political scientist
Stornoway
Isle of Lewis
Scotland
merchant
tweed
Calvinist
University of Edinburgh
University of Oxford
Columbia University
sociology
Durkheim
Levy-Bruhl
Simmel
British Museum
London
Oxford
university Lecturer
Political Science
sociology
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen
University of Toronto
vice chairman
Canada War Labor Board
Barnard College

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