Jr. Levy, Marion J.

Marion Joseph Levy Jr. (1918–2002) was an American sociologist and the Musgrave Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University, where he taught from 1947 until his retirement in 1989. Renowned for his work on modernization theory, structural-functionalism, and family structures in Chinese and Japanese societies, he authored or contributed to 15 books, including the influential 'Levy's Laws of the Disillusionment of the True Liberal.' He earned his doctorate from Harvard University and passed away from complications of Parkinson's disease.