SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Pierre Trudeau, Canadian Auto Workers, Ideal Type
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A biographical sketch (helps us understand their pov and why they wrote things they wrote) Father (trained in law worked as lawyer, he treated his wife: mother (religious, a protestant, specifically a calvinist in the demonination) In 1893 he married marianne (second cousin, not close relative: marianne was leader of german feminist movement, as leader, she struggled to help secure the vote for women (played imp role in that vote for women) Tragedy and collapse: a family dispute occurred. The catalyst was the guilt and remorse he felt about his father(cid:495)s death. (e didn(cid:495)t do anything to cause it, but he felt a heavy weight. One suggestions says he was stressed & overworked. Another suggests mental illness ran thru his fam. Recovered from his collapse in 1903 (6 years after: weber never fully recovered from his mental illness, though (cid:523)it cont(cid:495)d thru/o his life, but recovered enough so he could function)