The Roles and Influence of Political Intellectuals
Tawney vs Sidney Webb
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5634308 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John A Hall (0000-0001-8845-4311) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 351 |
| Publication date | 1977-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/589999 |
| OpenAlex | W2328703951 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
paper is concerned with analysing the apparent orthodoxy that reforming intellectuals in Europe can be 'involved' in labour movements, that this will benefit their thought, and that (often unstated but nonetheless crucial) they will consequently gain some sort of political influence. This can best be done by treating the different approaches of Tawney and Sidney Webb as ideal type roles adopted by those political intellectuals who have been concerned with relations with the labour movement; this will enable us to suggest that the picture is more complicated than is allowed, to specify its element of truth, and to note that one role for the political intellectual may be preferred, perhaps morally, and certainly as likely to lead to greater political influence. Two limitations of the paper must be stressed. No attempt is made to establish a fixed definition of an intellectual. Secondly, the isolation/ involvement dichotomy is applied only to intellectuals linked to the labour movement; an analysis of figures such as Keynes and Beveridge presents different problems. - 2nd paragraph
Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Political Economy and Marxism
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1989 - 2006 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |