Word: weber
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First, the quotation--"We are graduating government majors who have not read Freud or Weber,"-- (whether or not it was meant as a criticism) gave factual evidence to my contention that the department was neglecting the approaches of political science making use of the insights of psychology and sociology. A reader would interpret the statement as a criticism only if he felt that such approaches were significant enough to merit attention in the Government Department...
Second, I was startled to find myself accused of having called Freud and Weber behaviorists. Since behaviorists make such extensive use of their work, however, I do think that it is necessary to read Weber and Freud to have any understanding of behaviorism...
...Horne's article about the Gov. Department raies different issues that he has falled to distinguish. One, what I mentioned as a reason for the social studies program (the study of Freud or Weber) is not necessarily a criticism of the Gov. Dept--merely a suggestion that there are various ways of studying society and polity...
This concern was well summarized by Professor Stanley Hoffmann's recent statement justifying the Social Studies program: "We are graduating government majors with no knowledge of Freud or Weber...." Harvard is one of few major universities of which this can be said. Elsewhere, approaches to political science have been broadened to utilize the tools of such behavioral sciences as psychology and sociology...
Kettleson, too, did a fine job with the music, though I wish his voice had been stronger. Weber sung less brilliantly, but played with more convincing gusto. Randolph Lindel (Sveglioto) and Martin Wishnatsky (Giovinetto) performed their sneeze-yawn duet with suitable enthusiasm...