Lipset, Seymour Martin (1922- )

US social scientist. He wrote and edited many important works on class structure, elites, and comparative politics, most notably Agrarian Socialism (1950), Class, Status and Power (1953) and Political Man (1960). Lipset was born in New York City. His distinguished career in academia and public policy included faculty appointments at the University of California, Berkeley (1956-66), Harvard University (1965-75), and Stanford University's Hoover Institution (1975-92).