Harry F. Dahms

[6] Dahms obtained his master's degree in sociology, economics, and statistics in 1986 from the University of Konstanz, Germany, where he worked with Ralf Dahrendorf as research and teaching assistant and attended several seminars by Albrecht Wellmer.

Dahms obtained his PhD in sociology in 1993 at The New School for Social Research in New York; the title of his dissertation was "The Entrepreneur in Western Capitalism: Schumpeter's Theory of Economic Development."

Dahms also enrolled in seminars taught by Richard Bernstein, Robert Heilbroner, Agnes Heller, Eric Hobsbawm, Guy Oakes, and Claus Offe.

[7] Dahms' research and teaching pertains to the tensions in the modern age between economic change, on the one hand, and politics, culture and society, on the other.

These force-fields are fraught with many different types of friction that maintains social stability by devising mechanisms designed to contain the destructive power of proliferating contradictions.