WDW101Y1 Lecture : WDW300 March 15 2012.docx

• School: UTSG
• Department: Woodsworth College Courses
• Course: WDW101Y1
• Professor: William Watson

Document Summary

Papers- can send outlines/drafts for up to a week. Paper is an argument, should be able to summarize in one or two sentences. Does not need long intro, come to point, explain problem/summarize answer, summarize how intend to prove answer. Respond to question; originality and interest, use of evidence; interesting to people outside the class. Bureaucracy have own interests, structures and to extent structure social reality, culture and history help create economic/social systems. Weber"s pessimism about modernity, democracy anticipates foucault; changes in the law and domination. Not much room for democracy to make much of a difference; prime minister as face alone, people under him as important. Weber argues bar association/legal profession formed earlier than others and so canada based on medieval common law. Marx; everything reflects economic base; legal profession does not explain any historical outcome, whereas for weber, traditional way of organizing powers, path dependency; institutions have own cultures and path dependency, how political decisions get made.