Barrington Moore Jr.  was an American political sociologist. His academic career began in 1945 at the University of Chicago, in 1948 he went to Harvard University, joining the Russian Research Center in 1951. He was emerited in 1979.

• 1: Anthropological Perspectives; 2: Public and Private in Classical Athens; 3: Privacy, Prophecy, and Politics in the Old Testament; 4: Ancient Chinese Conceptions of Public and Private; 5: Some Implications and Inquiries