Morris Ginsberg

Morris Ginsberg (May 14, 1889 - August 31, 1970) was a Litvak-British sociologist. He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1942 to 1943. Ginsberg helped draft the UNESCO 1950 statement titled The Race Question. Author of a thesis on Malebranche, Morris Ginsberg became the founding chairman of the British Sociological Association in 1951 and its first President (1955–1957).

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