| 165th | Top sociologists |
| 32nd | Top Social Democratic Party of Germany members |
| Question 1: Michels, from a wealthy German family, studied in ________, in Paris (at the Sorbonne), and at universities in Munich, Leipzig (1897), Halle (1898), and Turin. | |||
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| Question 2: He became a Socialist while teaching at the University of Marburg, and became active in the radical wing of the ________; he left the party in 1907. | |||
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| Question 3: Michels criticized ________'s materialistic determinism; his socialism was more empirical, borrowing from Werner Sombart's historical methods. | |||
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| Question 4: In Italy he associated with Italian revolutionary syndicalism (it:sindacalismo rivoluzionario) a leftist branch of the ________ (Psi). | |||
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| Question 5: Translated as ________: A Study of Borderland Questions (Walter Scott, George Allen & Unwin, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914); republished with a new introduction by Terry R. | |||
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| Question 6: He is best known for his book Political Parties, which contains a description of the "iron law of oligarchy." He was a student of ________, a friend and disciple of Werner Sombart and Achille Loria. | |||
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| Question 7: Michels was considered a brilliant pupil of ________. | |||
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| Question 8: Politically, he moved from the Social Democratic Party of Germany, to the Italian Socialist Party, adhering to the Italian revolutionary syndicalist wing and later to ________, which he saw as a more democratic form of socialism. | |||
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| Question 9: "Robert Michels And the "Iron Law of Oligarchy"," chapter 12 of Revolution and Counterrevolution: Change and Persistence in Social Structures by ________ | |||
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| Question 10: In 1914 Michels became a professor of economics at the ________, where he taught until 1926. | |||
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