Letter from the Editor, Winter 2002
Lisa MacDougall,
University of Saskatchewan
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The Popularity of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: An analysis of Historical Trends of ScholarshipShane Gannon, M.A. Candidate
Department of Sociology,
University of Western OntarioAbstract:
Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is a canonical text of sociology. This paper examines why this text occupies such an important role in the discipline. In order to investigate this problem, the works of various scholars are examined, and their interpretations of Weber are analysed. From these conceptions of Weber’s text, it is demonstrated that the interest in Weber is due to certain factors. First of all, the ambiguity of the content of Weber’s treatise allows it to be applied in several historically contingent debates that consume the field of sociology. Secondly, Weber’s argument functions as an alternative to ‘vulgar Marxism’ that embodies many of the Western values of the period, as well as the multi-causal methodology that has come to be esteemed in the discipline of sociology. Finally, Weber’s composition provides a much-needed ‘founding father’ for the relatively nascent social science. Through this study, it is demonstrated that the content of academia must be understood within the context of its practice, interpretation, and historical environment.
Mona Gleason, Normalizing the Ideal:
Psychology, Schooling, and the Family in Postwar Canada
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999Review by Sean Mills,
McGill University_________
Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837
Yale University Press, 1992Review by Jameel Hampton,
Queen's University
UNDERSTANDING CRUELTY: FROM DANTE TO RORTY
Giorgio Baruchello, Ph.D Dissertation
Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph
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