L’épistémologie de Carl Dawson
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L’épistémologie de Carl Dawson
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The author notes that professor Carl Addington Dawson (1887-1964), founder in 1925 of Canada's first Department of Sociology at McGill University, provides an excellent focus for examining the discipline's theories. The sociology in which Dawson was trained — the Chicago School — had strong affinities with Canadian social gospel traditions. While studying at the University of Chicago's Divinity School, Dawson encounted modernist ideas which prompted his turn towards social science. The author explains that Dawson's PhD thesis, titled "The Social Nature of Knowledge", showed that all knowledge had social origins: even fact-finding reflected the decision of individuals to agree on certain points. The author argues that in studying human society, Dawson was guided by human ecology theory, which influenced the research that his McGill students and colleagues undertook on Montreal communities and beyond. Dawson served as Chair of McGill's Department of Sociology until 1954.
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Cahiers de recherche sociologique
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No. 39
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181-204
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2003
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fr
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Shore, Marlene. “L’épistémologie de Carl Dawson.” Cahiers de recherche sociologique No. 39 (2003): 181–204. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/crs/2003-n39-crs1517673/1002382ar.pdf.
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