H T Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 143233 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H T Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | H T |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON H T |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0536-2046 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1912 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Causality of Freedom: Max Weber and the Practical Activation of Schutz’s Postulate of Adequacy
Max Weber's Idea of Social Science in an Age of Formal Rationalization
This essay argues that Max Weber was supremely ambivalent about the role formal rationality played as a dominant factor in/of modern Western civilization, and that this ambivalence conditioned significantly how consistently pessimistic he really was about the sense and meaning of the social, economic, political and legal phenomena, events and processes he studied, particularly anything related to rationalization and the de-enchantment or demystif…
Adequacy’ as a Goal in Social Research Practice: Classical Formulations and Contemporary Issues
Popper’s Conception of Scientific Discovery and Its Relation to the Community of Science
Sheldon Wolin: From Oberlin to Berkeley and Beyond
It was during the fall of 1965 that I first encountered Professor Sheldon Wolin in Berkeley. Having graduated from a then-obscure liberal arts college in the Northwest in 1964, and then having spent a subsequent year as a caseworker for the San Diego County Welfare Department in my hometown, I had no idea what to expect at Berkeley. Although I had taken quite a bit of political theory as an undergraduate, in no way was I prepared for Mr. Wolin or…
Bureaucratic Competence as an Essential Factor in Cross-Cultural/Multicultural Program Evaluations
While we may all agree in principle that both implementers and evaluators should be culturally sensitive and ethical as well as instrumentally effective in their work practices, we often ignore the extent to which these practice goals may conflict with one another in achieving bureaucratic competence, particularly in a multicultural society. Reconciling them requires us to acknowledge the indispensable role of responsible program evaluation in th…
Communication, Deprivation and Mobilization: Notes on the Achievement of Communicative Action and Related Difficulties
Preliminary Material
Reading Max Weber: Critical Theory and the Limits of Sociology
Science, Technology, and Innovation: Reflections on Capital and Common Sense
Index of Subjects
Functional Rationality and ‘Sense of Function’: Critical Comments on an Ideological Distortion
Critical Theory in America, 1938–1978: A Case of Intellectual Innovation and its Reception
Essential Process of Modernity: A Critical Analysis of Social Science Research Practices and an Alternative
Critical Theory and Social Science: Episodes in a Changing Problematic from Adorno to Habermas
Time, Space and Value: Recovering the Public Sphere
Index of Names
The Ambivalence of Reason: Max Weber’s Analysis of Western Modernity
Technocracy as Late Capitalist Ideology: Between Spectre and Myth
Use Value and Substantive Rationality: Marx and Weber on Dichotomization in Modern Social Theory
Use Value and Substantive Rationality in the Work of Marx and Weber
Two particularly important dichotomies for anyone studying modern social theory are Marx's distinction between use values and exchange values and Weber's distinction between substantive and formal rationality. Indeed, it might be argued that in these dichotomies lies a basis for understanding core elements of several of their most central arguments concerning capitalism as one of the three or four key institutions of/in modernity. In this article…
Rationality and Capitalism in Max Weber's Analysis of Western Modernity
Time, Space and Value: Recovering the Public Sphere
The author argues that capitalism's preference for exchange values over use values is reflected in the dominance of temporal concerns over spatial concerns in all western countries. This is partly a function of equating time with paid labour and space with unpaid work. Conceptually, this preference is evident in the empirical credibility given to dichotomies that proceed from the seminal distinction between human beings and nature. These include …
The challenge to participatory democracy in an emerging supranational Europe
(1998). The challenge to participatory democracy in an emerging supranational Europe. The European Legacy: Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 86-95
Institutional Complementarity and Canadian Identity
No small country can depend for its existence on the loyalty of itscapitalists.(Grant 1985, 69)IntroductionIn defending the idea and practice of institutional complementarity with theUnited States, I do not wish to appear to share the U.S. preoccupation withidentity, destiny, and mission which has been a hallmark of U.S. politics andhistory at least since its inception.11 am interested instead in ferreting out anexplanation for Canada's persisten…
Rationality and Decision in Administrative Science
La science des administrations et la théorie des organisations sont deux secteurs des sciences sociales particulièrement affectés par les problèmes inhérents à la conception positiviste de la connaissance de l'univers social. Le statut relatif de la théorie et de la méthode, l'interrelation que l'on présume exister entre les deux, et les postulats selon lesquels on peut « appliquer » la connaissance des phénomènes sociaux en vue d'améliorer la co…
Time, Space and Value: Recovering the Public Sphere
The author argues that capitalism's preference for exchange values over use values is reflected in the dominance of temporal concerns over spatial concerns in all western countries. This is partly a function of equating time with paid labour and space with unpaid work. Conceptually, this preference is evident in the empirical credibility given to dichotomies that proceed from the seminal distinction between human beings and nature. These include …
Adequacy’ as a Goal in Social Research Practice: Classical Formulations and Contemporary Issues
Critical theory's critique of social science: Episodes in a changing problematic from adorno to habermas, part I
1986). Critical theory's critique of social science: Episodes in a changing problematic from Adorno to Habermas, Part II. History of European Ideas: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 287-302
The dismal science of organization reconsidered
Reading Max Weber: The Limits of Sociology
Max Weber is often cited as an enigmatic figure because of the tension between scholarship and politics which his entire adult life allegedly manifested. Others prefer a psychoanalytic reduction, concerned as they are with discrediting his pessimistic version of the future of western civilization. But few have been interested in bringing to light the clear tension in his scholarly work between sociological theory and social theorizing. In what fo…
Continentalism and Canadian Higher Education
The historical argument does not enjoin a return to the beginning of things, but rather an intelligent appreciation of what things are coming to. THORSTEIN VEBLEN I In the short space of two years, my initial interest in the prof essionaliza-tion of academic life, particularly as it has taken place in the social sciences, has made me increasingly aware of a homogenizing process at work in Canada tending to make of North America a single society o…
Sheldon Wolin: From Oberlin to Berkeley and Beyond
It was during the fall of 1965 that I first encountered Professor Sheldon Wolin in Berkeley. Having graduated from a then-obscure liberal arts college in the Northwest in 1964, and then having spent a subsequent year as a caseworker for the San Diego County Welfare Department in my hometown, I had no idea what to expect at Berkeley. Although I had taken quite a bit of political theory as an undergraduate, in no way was I prepared for Mr. Wolin or…
Use Value and Substantive Rationality in the Work of Marx and Weber
Two particularly important dichotomies for anyone studying modern social theory are Marx's distinction between use values and exchange values and Weber's distinction between substantive and formal rationality. Indeed, it might be argued that in these dichotomies lies a basis for understanding core elements of several of their most central arguments concerning capitalism as one of the three or four key institutions of/in modernity. In this article…
Rationality and Capitalism in Max Weber's Analysis of Western Modernity
Space and place as convergent sources of political identity
Political Management: Redefining the Public Sphere
Critical theory's critique of social science: Episodes in a changing problematic from Adorno to Habermas, Part II
Response to Ray
The Poverty of Sociology: Society' as Concept and Object in Sociological Theory
Attitudes Toward Science: Canadian and American Scientists
Proclamation by the President of the United States of America Regarding Disturbances in Mexico March 2, 1912
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Proclamation by the President of the United States of America Regarding the Report of Arms, Etc., to Mexico March 14, 1912
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Continentalism and Canadian Higher Education
The historical argument does not enjoin a return to the beginning of things, but rather an intelligent appreciation of what things are coming to. THORSTEIN VEBLEN I In the short space of two years, my initial interest in the prof essionaliza-tion of academic life, particularly as it has taken place in the social sciences, has made me increasingly aware of a homogenizing process at work in Canada tending to make of North America a single society o…
The dismal science of organization reconsidered
Rationality and Decision in Administrative Science
La science des administrations et la théorie des organisations sont deux secteurs des sciences sociales particulièrement affectés par les problèmes inhérents à la conception positiviste de la connaissance de l'univers social. Le statut relatif de la théorie et de la méthode, l'interrelation que l'on présume exister entre les deux, et les postulats selon lesquels on peut « appliquer » la connaissance des phénomènes sociaux en vue d'améliorer la co…
Reading Max Weber: The Limits of Sociology
Max Weber is often cited as an enigmatic figure because of the tension between scholarship and politics which his entire adult life allegedly manifested. Others prefer a psychoanalytic reduction, concerned as they are with discrediting his pessimistic version of the future of western civilization. But few have been interested in bringing to light the clear tension in his scholarly work between sociological theory and social theorizing. In what fo…
Human Goals and Science Policy
Attitudes Toward Science: Canadian and American Scientists
The Poverty of Sociology: Society' as Concept and Object in Sociological Theory
"The American Ideology" as the Dominant Paradigm in Sociological Theory
Response to Ray
Response to Ray, II
Philosophy and Ideology in Hume's Political Thought. David Miller
Technology and/as/or the Future
Political Management: Redefining the Public Sphere
Tradition and Innovation: The Idea of Civilization as Culture and its Significance
Critical theory's critique of social science: Episodes in a changing problematic from Adorno to Habermas, Part II
Critical theory's critique of social science: Episodes in a changing problematic from adorno to habermas, part I
1986). Critical theory's critique of social science: Episodes in a changing problematic from Adorno to Habermas, Part II. History of European Ideas: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 287-302
Against epistemology
Notes on the achievement of communicative behavior and related difficulties
John D. Lewis
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Political Management: Redefining the Public Sphere
Sex and Gender: Making Cultural Sense of Civilization
This book shows how different a focus on gender is from one on sex, whether in scholarly thinking, professional activity or public policy-making. It indicates how incorrect contemporary renditions of the difference between them is, provides an explanation of this tension and difference based on the critical analysis of key institutions, and shows the serious consequences of this confusion for women in particular across a wide range of institution…
The counter revolutionary function of the social sciences in advanced industrial societies: A post revolutionary analysis and a revolutionary alternative
(1989). The counter revolutionary function of the social sciences in advanced industrial societies: A post revolutionary analysis and a revolutionary alternative. History of European Ideas: Vol. 11, No. 1-6, pp. 467-477
Creative marginality. Innovation at the intersection of the social sciences
Sociology (39 works) · Political science (36 works) · Philosophy (34 works) · Epistemology (28 works) · Law (26 works) · Philosophy (18 works) · Politics (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Social science (15 works) · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory (14 works)