Word: weberian
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...Freud and Foucault, Mill and Beauvoir. Indeed, students read not just critics of, say, imperialism and capitalism, but also its defenders (i.e., Mill and Hayek.) Social Studies presents its students with conflicting theoretical approaches amongst which they must choose. Regardless of whether they find psychoanalytic, post-structuralist, Marxist, or Weberian theory more compelling, all students are welcome in Social Studies...
...resisted the appeal of high-paying positions in law. The reality, though, is that Obama’s message appears to have the capacity to transcend racial bias where Alan Keyes or Al Sharpton’s have failed; he may just have a bit more of that Weberian charisma than Hillary Clinton. He certainly has more than Walter Mondale, next to whom John Kerry gains a sudden, electric appeal...
...rate, to leave the field of Weberian social science and to return to comedy, I would argue that the great comedies are the ones that still make us laugh, even though years or decades have gone by since they've been made or since we've seen them. They're the ones we still discuss, the ones that bring a smile to our faces under the most trying conditions. And sometimes, the best can even make us cry, like Pagl--Pagli--that Italian clown. You know the one I mean. (You'll know whether you're a devotee of high...
...worst. Almost randomly, King inserts short paragraphs alluding to Levi-Strauss's Elementary Structures of Kinship to back up his thesis on incest as repetition. King is not afraid, unfortunately, to make sweeping one-line statements about Freud's memory theories or characterize, without explaining, Cash as the "Weberian ideal type." King incessantly refers to these sociological and psychological giants with college freshman zeal: proud of his discovery that Freud applies to everything, King vows to include a key passage in every chapter. This irritating intention begins in the introductory chapter, where King announces self-importantly his summation...
...representing two conflicting groups, each rationalizing in the Weberian sense," I scratched on a yellow legal pad, my nail-bitten fingers grapsping the last of eight sharpened Ticonderoga No. 2 pencils. "Jesus," I said to myself, "how the hell did I get in such a prison...