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Every Tuesday in the fall of 1960, a group of six students gathered in the living room of Winthrop resident tutor Robert P. Wolff ’54. There, along with Sociology Professor Barrington Moore, they would discuss the likes of Marx, Freud, de Tocqueville, Nietzsche, and Durkheim...
...academia was a 19th century idea,” Wolff said. “The notion that sociology was separate from history or history was separate from politics or economics would have struck the people of the 19th century as nuts. Marx wouldn’t have thought that. Durkheim wouldn’t have thought that...
...himself studied not psychology but history and literature when he was at Harvard; indeed, it may be the literary quality of many psychological findings that makes them go down so smooth for a meaning-hungry public. In my tutorial this year, Freud was sandwiched as a social thinker between Durkheim and Beauvoir—but really, my section leader told us, the Germans read him as poetry...
MUMBAI, INDIA—As soon as I entered the salon, I took out my copy of “Marx, Durkheim, Weber: Foundations of Modern Social Thought.” I scanned the first page nervously as I waited for the receptionist to call my name. “Modern social theory first emerged during the period of the ‘great transformation’...” the introduction began...
...relentlessly demanding student body. We live in crowded dorm rooms, we eat in communal dining halls, we participate in extracurricular activities to an almost unfathomable degree, and, when we’re not doing all that, we’re in sections with other people arguing about Durkheim or extracting DNA from strawberries. There is a strange pressure on top of all of this to “be social”—to go to the right parties, join the right clubs, make the right friends. At Harvard, we are aggressively social and we are never alone...