Edward Shils

Edward Shils, född 1 juli 1910 i Chicago, USA, död 23 januari 1995 i Chicago, var en amerikansk sociolog. Han var professor vid University of Chicago. Han var författare till Tradition.

Priser och utmärkelser

• 1983 – Balzanpriset

Publikationer

• Toward a General Theory of Action (med Talcott Parsons, 1952)
• The Torment of Secrecy: The Background & Consequences Of American Security Policies (Chicago: Dee 1956)
• The Intellectual Between Tradition and Modernity: The Indian Situation (1961)
• Theories of Society: Foundations of Modern Sociological Theory, Two Volumes in One, med Jesse R. Pitts, Talcott Parsons (redaktör), & Kaspar D. Naegele, New York: The Free Press (1961)
• The Calling of Sociology, and Other Essays on the Pursuit of Learning (1980)
• Tradition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981)
• On the Constitution of Society (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982)
• The Academic Ethic (1984).
• Portraits: A Gallery of Intellectuals. Edited by Joseph Epstein (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997)