Victor Lidz

Victor Lidz was taught by Talcott Parsons at Harvard and after graduation in 1962 entered the Department of Social Relations at Harvard to continue his studies in sociological theory. He was Parsons' research assistant from 1963 to 1968 and in the 1970s he taught seminars on new developments in the theory of social action with Parsons at the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania. Lidz received his doctorate from Harvard in 1976. He is presently Associate Professor and...See more

Victor Lidz was taught by Talcott Parsons at Harvard and after graduation in 1962 entered the Department of Social Relations at Harvard to continue his studies in sociological theory. He was Parsons' research assistant from 1963 to 1968 and in the 1970s he taught seminars on new developments in the theory of social action with Parsons at the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania. Lidz received his doctorate from Harvard in 1976. He is presently Associate Professor and Director of Programs for Addictive Disorders at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, USA. He has published both with Parsons and on Parsons' work, including After Parsons: A Theory of Social Action for the Twenty-First Century co-edited with Renee C. Fox and Harold J. Bershady and the chapter on Parsons for The Blackwell Companion to Major Classical Social Theorists edited by George Ritzer. See less