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Readings of sociologist Emile Durkheim, political philosopher John StuartMill and economist Adam Smith will be condensed ormodified to allow time for the new section,Vichniac said...
...More specifically, West is concerned with linguistic and rhetorical practices which create worldwide conceptions of identity. He challenges his reader to refuse blind acceptance of racial categories. Before classifying individuals or groups of individuals as "Black" or "White" or "Hispanic," we should "go back to Marx and Weber and Durkheim and Du Bois and Simone de Beauvoir and other historical sociologists who are concerned about providing an account of...rhetorical enactments." In other words, we must question the origins of certain racial and racist constructions before we condemn/define/evaluate people in accordance with them. West is interested in the history...
Those of us who are no longer innocent little freshpersons have lost the chance to have a happy, peaceful edifying Harvard career that would prepare us well for pretentious social functions. We realize now that no one talks about Durkheim over drinks, or about Bohr at baseball games, but it's too late...
...Social Studies: They are terrifyingly high-powered, and they have created a center within which intellectual life flourishes. The idea that my Social Studies colleagues could not manage without sociologists among them is laughable: The knowledge they have--to cite a single example--of great sociological thinkers such as Durkheim and Weber is exemplary...
WHILE it is important that we not forget to understand Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Smith, their respective life-worlds, and the ways in which their ideas have influenced past and present thinkers, it is intellectually questionable, and pedagogically unsound, to neglect the views of the best contemporary inheritors of this tradition, which is what is taught in any good sociology department such...