Thursday, October 20, 2011

OFF TO DC

Tomorrow morning at the crack of dawn I will fly up to Washington to see my sister and my son, Tobias, who is coming down from Philly for the day. When I return, I will launch a new mini-tutorial, this time on Max Weber's classic monograph, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. I checked, and sure enough, the text is online, if anyone would like to read it along with my mini-tutorial. I strongly recommend doing so. The work is one of the great classic texts of Sociology [before that discipline lost its way in a maze of superficial opinion surveys.]
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3 comments:

  1. RobOctober 20, 2011 at 2:48 PM

    Hi Prof. Woolf,

    I'd be very much interested if you'd dedicate a post to expanding a bit on that last comment about the state of the discipline of sociology; it's intriguing.

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  2. Robert Paul WolffOctober 20, 2011 at 3:51 PM

    OK. Maybe not 'til I get back from DC, but I will say something. It might be worth a lengthy post, not just some snarky comments.

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  3. formerly a wage slaveOctober 22, 2011 at 5:50 PM

    I just thought I'd mention two sociologists who are an exception to the rule you mention:
    Loic Wacquant
    http://loicwacquant.net/

    and
    Michael Dawson
    http://www.consumertrap.com/

    If you don't already know their work, it might be something of a pleasure to know about it...
    Best Wishes,
    MarkL

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