Pierre L. van den Berghe

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Pierre L. van den Berghe (born 1933) is professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Washington, where he has worked since 1965. Born in the Congo to Belgian parents, and spending World War II in occupied Belgium, he was an early witness to ethnic conflict and racism, which eventually led him to become a leading authority on ethnic relations. He has conducted field work in South Africa, Mexico, Guatemala, Iran, Lebanon, Nigeria, Peru, and Israel. A student of Talcott Parsons at Harvard (receiving the Ph.D. in 1960), he nevertheless had little interest in structural functionalism and was one of the first proponents of sociobiological approaches to social phenomena.^[1]

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^ (van den Berghe 1990)

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Van den Berghe, Pierre L. 1990. "From the Popocatetepl to the Limpopo." pages 410-431 in Bennett M. Berger, editor, Authors of Their Own Lives: Intellectual Autobiographies by Twenty American Sociologists. University of California Press.

[edit] Selected work

Van den Berghe, Pierre L. 1979. Human Family Systems: An Evolutionary View. New York: Elsevier.
---. 1972. Intergroup Relations: Sociological Perspectives. New York: Basic Books.
---. 1970. Academic Gamesmanship; How to Make a Ph.D. Pay. London: Abelard-Schuman.
---. 1964. Caneville; the Social Structure of a South African Town. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press.
---. 1975. Man in Society: A Biosocial View. New York: Elsevier.
---. 1981. The Ethnic Phenomenon. New York: Elsevier.
---. 1973. Age and Sex in Human Societies: A Biosocial Perspective. Belmont, Calif: Wadsworth Pub. Co.
---. 1965. Africa: Social Problems of Change and Conflict. San Francisco: Chandler Pub. Co.
---. 1977. Inequality in the Peruvian Andes: Class and Ethnicity in Cuzco. Columbia: University of Missouri Press.