Biography
John Murray Cuddihy received three M.A.s: two from Columbia University
and a third from the New School In Social Research in New York City.
He took a Ph.D. in Sociology at Rutgers with a dissertation later published
as The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Levi-Strauss and the Jewish
Struggle with Modernity. No Offense: Civil Religion and Protestant Taste
was published in 1978. His research interests: the sociology of knowledge,
the sociology of intellectuals, the overlap of sociology with anthropology,
the variable 'prestige", Bourdieu's concept of "cultural capital". He
has taught courses in sociological theory, sociology of religion, and
the sociology of diaspora Jewry. He is a member of the doctoral faculty
at the Graduate School and University Center of The City University
of New York (GSUC).
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