Amitai Etzioni, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Amitai Etzioni

German-Israeli immigrant to the United States, sociologist and political theorist of communitarianism

Date of Birth: 04-Jan-1929

Place of Birth: Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Profession: university teacher, sociologist

Nationality: United States, Israel

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Amitai Etzioni (; born Werner Falk, January 4, 1929) is a German-born American sociologist, best known for his work on socioeconomics and communitarianism.
He founded the Communitarian Network, a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to supporting the moral, social, and political foundations of society.
He was called the “guru” of the communitarian movement in the early 1990s, and he established the Communitarian Network to disseminate the movement's ideas.
His writings emphasize the importance of having a carefully-crafted balance between individual rights and social responsibilities, and between autonomy and order, in all societies.
In 2001, Etzioni was named among the top 100 American intellectuals, as measured by academic citations, in Richard Posner's book, Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline.
Etzioni is currently the Director of the Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies at The George Washington University, where he also serves as a University Professor and professor of International Affairs.
His most recent book, called Reclaiming Patriotism, was published by University of Virginia Press in September 2019.