Herbert Gans

Herbert Julius Gans was a German-born American sociologist, born on May 7, 1927, and died on April 21, 2025, who taught at Columbia University from 1971 to 2007. He came to the United States in 1940 as a refugee from Nazi Germany and sometimes described his scholarly work as an immigrant's attempt to understand America. He trained in sociology at the University of Chicago, studying with David Riesman and Everett Hughes, and in social planning at the University of Pennsylvania, and he served as the seventy ninth president of the American Sociological Association in 1988.