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‘Hobhouse twice removed’: John Porter and the LSE years*
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De l'automne 1946 au printemps 1949, John Porter recu sa seule formation professionelle en sociologie à l'écoale supérieure d'études commerciales et science politique de Londres (London School of Economics and Political Science). Une revue de ses notes et travaux d'étudiant, de ses notes d'enseignement du collège Carleton, ainsi que de ses écrits plus récents, tant publicés que non‐publiés, indiquent que Porter fût influenceé beaucoup moins par le style élitiste et paternaliste associéà la sociologie et à la politique fabianniste qu'il est généralement suggéré. L'influence intellectuelle la plus importante qu'il ait reçu durant sa période de formation fût la sociologie libéraliste de l'Etat providence et la sociologie humaniste, consensuelliste, évolutionnaire, rationaliste et empiriste de L.T. Hobhouse.From the fall of 1946 to the spring of 1949 John Porter received his only formal training in sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. A review of his student course notes and essays, early lecture notes from Carleton College, and his later published and unpublished writings indicates that Porter was much less influenced by the elitist, paternalistic Fabian style of sociology and politics than has generally been appreciated. The most important intellectual influence on him during this formative period was the welfare state liberalism and humanistic, consensualist, evolutionary, rationalist and empirical sociology of L.T. Hobhouse.
Title: ‘Hobhouse twice removed’: John Porter and the LSE years*
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De l'automne 1946 au printemps 1949, John Porter recu sa seule formation professionelle en sociologie à l'écoale supérieure d'études commerciales et science politique de Londres (London School of Economics and Political Science).
Une revue de ses notes et travaux d'étudiant, de ses notes d'enseignement du collège Carleton, ainsi que de ses écrits plus récents, tant publicés que non‐publiés, indiquent que Porter fût influenceé beaucoup moins par le style élitiste et paternaliste associéà la sociologie et à la politique fabianniste qu'il est généralement suggéré.
L'influence intellectuelle la plus importante qu'il ait reçu durant sa période de formation fût la sociologie libéraliste de l'Etat providence et la sociologie humaniste, consensuelliste, évolutionnaire, rationaliste et empiriste de L.
T.
Hobhouse.
From the fall of 1946 to the spring of 1949 John Porter received his only formal training in sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
A review of his student course notes and essays, early lecture notes from Carleton College, and his later published and unpublished writings indicates that Porter was much less influenced by the elitist, paternalistic Fabian style of sociology and politics than has generally been appreciated.
The most important intellectual influence on him during this formative period was the welfare state liberalism and humanistic, consensualist, evolutionary, rationalist and empirical sociology of L.
T.
Hobhouse.
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