George Becker
Biographic Data
| ID | 120432 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Becker |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Becker |
| SIGNATURE | BECKER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1947 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Challenging Merton's Protestantism-Science Hypothesis: The Historical Impact of Sacerdotal Celibacy on German Science and Scholarship
Denominational differences in the number of scientists produced in Germany during the period 1550 to 1900 are linked to the historical impact of Catholic celibate and Protestant noncelibate clergy households. Protestant leadership in science is largely attributable to the development of a new social mobility pattern among descendants of their clergy that enhanced the pastorate's ability to convey cultural and social capital to their marrying offs…
The Continuing Path of Distortion: The Protestant Ethic and Max Weber’s School Enrolment Statistics
Things are not always as they seem. A cursory examination of a table of statistics cited in the Weber thesis appears to reveal striking differences in the educational 'preferences' of Catholics and Protestants. Careful scrutiny, however, on a number of grounds, especially in light of the importance that Weber attaches to these statistics in the articulation of his thesis, reveals that not only are the statistics seriously compromised by errors an…
Reply to Stephen Kalberg
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Schools of Asceticism: Ideology and Organization in Medieval Religious Communities
Educational "Preference" of German Protestants and Catholics: The Politics behind Educational Specialization
Replication and Reanalysis of Offenbacher's School Enrollment Study: Implications for the Weber and Merton Theses
Martin Offenbacher's statistical study comparing the school enrollment of German Protestants to Catholica plays a significant role in the articulation of the Weber and Merton theses. The current study provides an overdue correction of obvious flaws in Offenbacher's data. There follows a subsequent reassessment of that recalculated data indicating a now diminished difference between Catholic and Protestant school 'preference.' Any remaining dispar…
The merton thesis: Oetinger and German Pietism, a significant negative case
Who Has the Youth, Has the Future: The Campaign to Save Young Workers in Imperial Germany
Pietism's Confrontation with Enlightenment Rationalism: An Examination of the Relation between Ascetic Protestantism and Science
George Becker, Pietism's Confrontation with Enlightenment Rationalism: An Examination of the Relation between Ascetic Protestantism and Science, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Jun., 1991), pp. 139-158
A History of Marriage Systems
The Mythmakers: Intellectuals and the Intelligentsia in Perspective
Mohan The Role of the Intellectual in Revolutionary Institutions, by William C. Martin The End of the Old Polish Intelligentsia, by Aleksander Gella The Third World and Developmentalism: Technology, Morality, and the Role of the Intellectual, by Jay Weinstein Selected Bibliography Index About the Contributors
The Knowledge Elite and the Failure of Prophecy
The Fallacy of the Received Word: A Reexamination of Merton's Pietism-Science Thesis
Pietism and Science: A Critique of Robert K. Merton's Hypothesis
The rapid rise of Western science over the past four centuries has been attributed by many scholars to the effect of ascetic Protestantism. Robert K. Merton claims for German Pietism an important role in this relationship. An examination of Merton's argument exposes important problem in his research. This investigation of sources either misinterpreted or ignored by Merton not only calls into question his conclusion concerning the relationship bet…
Frederic Le Play: On Family, Work, and Social Change
The Mad Genius Controversy
Eminent Personalities: Psychosocial Analysis of the Famous
Cultural Conceptions and Mental Illness: A Comparison of Germany and America.John Marshall Townsend
Comment on Lenski's "History and Social Change"
The Concept of Cultural Systems: A Key to Understanding Tribes and Nations. Leslie A. White
The Mad Genius Controversy: A Study in the Sociology of Deviance
Henry James and the French Novel: A Study in Inspiration
Albion W. Tourgee
T. S. Stribling: Pattern in Black and White
OF the three contemporary novelists whose work constitutes a broad panoramic picture of the South, T. S. Stribling is the one most rooted in daily actuality. On one side of him stands William Faulkner, who in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech went on record as approving griefs over grievances for literary treatment, a stand already indicated by the intricate artistry of his works and their preoccupation with eternal human problems. Solid and subs…
Replication and Reanalysis of Offenbacher's School Enrollment Study: Implications for the Weber and Merton Theses
Martin Offenbacher's statistical study comparing the school enrollment of German Protestants to Catholica plays a significant role in the articulation of the Weber and Merton theses. The current study provides an overdue correction of obvious flaws in Offenbacher's data. There follows a subsequent reassessment of that recalculated data indicating a now diminished difference between Catholic and Protestant school 'preference.' Any remaining dispar…
Pietism and Science: A Critique of Robert K. Merton's Hypothesis
The rapid rise of Western science over the past four centuries has been attributed by many scholars to the effect of ascetic Protestantism. Robert K. Merton claims for German Pietism an important role in this relationship. An examination of Merton's argument exposes important problem in his research. This investigation of sources either misinterpreted or ignored by Merton not only calls into question his conclusion concerning the relationship bet…
Educational "Preference" of German Protestants and Catholics: The Politics behind Educational Specialization
Pietism's Confrontation with Enlightenment Rationalism: An Examination of the Relation between Ascetic Protestantism and Science
George Becker, Pietism's Confrontation with Enlightenment Rationalism: An Examination of the Relation between Ascetic Protestantism and Science, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Jun., 1991), pp. 139-158
The Continuing Path of Distortion: The Protestant Ethic and Max Weber’s School Enrolment Statistics
Things are not always as they seem. A cursory examination of a table of statistics cited in the Weber thesis appears to reveal striking differences in the educational 'preferences' of Catholics and Protestants. Careful scrutiny, however, on a number of grounds, especially in light of the importance that Weber attaches to these statistics in the articulation of his thesis, reveals that not only are the statistics seriously compromised by errors an…
Challenging Merton's Protestantism-Science Hypothesis: The Historical Impact of Sacerdotal Celibacy on German Science and Scholarship
Denominational differences in the number of scientists produced in Germany during the period 1550 to 1900 are linked to the historical impact of Catholic celibate and Protestant noncelibate clergy households. Protestant leadership in science is largely attributable to the development of a new social mobility pattern among descendants of their clergy that enhanced the pastorate's ability to convey cultural and social capital to their marrying offs…
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
The merton thesis: Oetinger and German Pietism, a significant negative case
The Mad Genius Controversy: A Study in the Sociology of Deviance
Albion W. Tourgee: Pioneer in Social Criticism
The Great Forest
Men of Good Hope
T. S. Stribling: Pattern in Black and White
OF the three contemporary novelists whose work constitutes a broad panoramic picture of the South, T. S. Stribling is the one most rooted in daily actuality. On one side of him stands William Faulkner, who in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech went on record as approving griefs over grievances for literary treatment, a stand already indicated by the intricate artistry of his works and their preoccupation with eternal human problems. Solid and subs…
Albion W. Tourgee
Henry James and the French Novel: A Study in Inspiration
Comment on Lenski's "History and Social Change"
The Concept of Cultural Systems: A Key to Understanding Tribes and Nations. Leslie A. White
The Mad Genius Controversy: A Study in the Sociology of Deviance
The Mad Genius Controversy
Eminent Personalities: Psychosocial Analysis of the Famous
Cultural Conceptions and Mental Illness: A Comparison of Germany and America.John Marshall Townsend
Frederic Le Play: On Family, Work, and Social Change
Pietism and Science: A Critique of Robert K. Merton's Hypothesis
The rapid rise of Western science over the past four centuries has been attributed by many scholars to the effect of ascetic Protestantism. Robert K. Merton claims for German Pietism an important role in this relationship. An examination of Merton's argument exposes important problem in his research. This investigation of sources either misinterpreted or ignored by Merton not only calls into question his conclusion concerning the relationship bet…
The Fallacy of the Received Word: A Reexamination of Merton's Pietism-Science Thesis
The Knowledge Elite and the Failure of Prophecy
A History of Marriage Systems
The Mythmakers: Intellectuals and the Intelligentsia in Perspective
Mohan The Role of the Intellectual in Revolutionary Institutions, by William C. Martin The End of the Old Polish Intelligentsia, by Aleksander Gella The Third World and Developmentalism: Technology, Morality, and the Role of the Intellectual, by Jay Weinstein Selected Bibliography Index About the Contributors
Pietism's Confrontation with Enlightenment Rationalism: An Examination of the Relation between Ascetic Protestantism and Science
George Becker, Pietism's Confrontation with Enlightenment Rationalism: An Examination of the Relation between Ascetic Protestantism and Science, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Jun., 1991), pp. 139-158
The merton thesis: Oetinger and German Pietism, a significant negative case
Who Has the Youth, Has the Future: The Campaign to Save Young Workers in Imperial Germany
Replication and Reanalysis of Offenbacher's School Enrollment Study: Implications for the Weber and Merton Theses
Martin Offenbacher's statistical study comparing the school enrollment of German Protestants to Catholica plays a significant role in the articulation of the Weber and Merton theses. The current study provides an overdue correction of obvious flaws in Offenbacher's data. There follows a subsequent reassessment of that recalculated data indicating a now diminished difference between Catholic and Protestant school 'preference.' Any remaining dispar…
Schools of Asceticism: Ideology and Organization in Medieval Religious Communities
Educational "Preference" of German Protestants and Catholics: The Politics behind Educational Specialization
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Sociology (18 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · History (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · German (7 works) · Religious studies (7 works) · Art (6 works)