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Teachers College • Columbia University

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Wiki Work
Max Horkheimer (1895-1973)
Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1963)
Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1950)
Karl Polanyi (1886-1964)
Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979)
C. Wright Mills (1916-1962)
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006)
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
Roland Barthes (1915-1980)
Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991)
Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)
Jrgen Habermas (1929- )
Fredric Jameson (1934- )
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Communication Theory
Social thought, mapping a context
Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)
Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936)
Georg Simmel (1858-1918)
Max Weber (1864-1920)
Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929)
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
John Dewey (1859-1952)
George Herbert Mead (1863-1931)
Max Scheler (1874-1928)
Georg Lukacs (1885-1971)
Ernst Bloch (1885-1977)
Karl Mannheim (1893-1947)
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)

Robbie McClintock and Frank Moretti, Instructors

  • Office hours:
    • McClintock (322 Thompson Hall): Wednesdays, 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. and Thursdays, 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. (Schedule slot with Neemisha Martin @ 212 678 3344 or nmartin@tc.edu)
    • Moretti (603 Lewisohn Hall): By appointment (Schedule time with Teresa Gonzales @ 212 854 1692 or teresa@columbia.edu)

Max Weber (1864-1920)

Discussion reading

  • Max Weber. Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology(1922). 2. vols. Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich, eds., Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. Vol. 1, chapter 1: "Basic Sociological Terms," pp. 3-62. Electronic Reserve. $49.95.
  • Max Weber. From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills, trans. New York: Oxford University Press, 1946, 1958. "Politics as a Vocation," pp. 77-128; Electronic Reserve "Science as a Vocation," pp. 129-56; Electronic Reserve $31.00.

Supplemental resources

  • Max Weber. The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism and Other Writings(1905). Part I: "The Problem," pp. 1-66. Electronic Reserve. $16.00.
  • Werner J. Cahnman. "Tönnies and Weber," in Cahnman, ed., Ferdinand Tönnies: A New Evaluation -- Essays and Documents. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1973, pp. 257-283.   Electronic Reserve.
  • Marianne Weber. Max Weber: A Biography. Harry Zohn, trans., New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1988. This is a quite extraordinary intellectual biography of Weber by his wife, who was an intellectual presence in her own right.
  • Dirk Käsler. Max Weber: An Introduction to his Life and Work. Philippa Hurd, trans., Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1989. Not the most recent of the many, many books on Weber, but still a very useful orientation to the study of his work.






























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