and antinomies rather than on uniform process of development" Eisenstadt researched broad themes of social change, modernities and civilizations. One of his arguments is that "fundamentalism is not a traditional but a modern phenomenon". Eisenstadt summed up his views by saying "I try to understand what was the historical experience of the great civilizations...to try to understand the major dynamics of these civilizations and how they became modern societies, how they modernize and how they develop different cultural programs of modernity". In honor of Eisenstadt's contributions to sociology Erik Cohen, Moshe Lissak, and Uri Almagor compiled the book, Comparative Social Dynamics: Essays in Honor of S.N Eisenstadt. The contributions of this book were written by Eisenstadt's former students and colleagues at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The articles relate to Eisenstadt's major themes in the study of cultures, modernization, and social and political change. Eisenstadt's work touches many different fields of sociology, time periods and cultures and the editors felt the leading concept of Eisenstadt's work was social dynamics. Honors The McIver Prize of the American Sociological Association in 1964; The Rothschild Prize in Social Sciences in 1970; The Israel Prize in social sciences in 1973; The International Balzan Prize in 1988; The Max Planck Award for Social Sciences in 1994; The Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences in 2001; The Humboldt Research Award in 2002; The EMET Prize in Sociology in 2005; The Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2006 from the Norwegian Parliament. This prize awarded Eisenstadt for outstanding scholarly work in the fields of the arts and humanities, social sciences, law and theology; An honorary doctorate from Warsaw University in 2005; An Honorary Degree from Harvard University. Eisenstadt is a member of: Israeli Academy of Sciences, Honorary Foreign Members of the American Philosophical Society, Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences in the U.s., Honorary Foreign Member at the Academy of Arts and Sciences, Honorary Foreign Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. In 2010 a festschrift, Collective Identities, States and Globalization; Essays in honour of S.N. Eisenstadt was published in Eisenstadt's honor. Selected works The Political System of Empires (1963) Modernization, Protest, and Change (1966) Revolution and the Transformation of Societies (1978) Tradition, Wandel und Modernität (1979) Patrons, Clients