Family as Vocation; Work as Mission

Sociology as a Vocation

What does it mean to live for sociology, today? In attempting to answer this question I return to Max Weber’s famous lectures delivered toward the end of his life—one on science as a vocation and the other on politics as a vocation. He presented ‘‘Science as a Vocation’’ in November 1917 toward the end of World War I and the more pessimistic ‘‘Politics as a Vocation’’ in January 1919 after Germ...

Psychoanalysis as a Vocation

POlitical theOry as a VOcatiOn

The purpose of this paper is to sketch some of the implications, prospective and retrospective, of the primacy of method in the present study of politics and to do it by way of a contrast, which is deliberately heightened, but hopefully not caricatured, between the vocation of the “methodist”1 and the vocation of the theorist. My discussion will be centered around the kinds of activity involved...

Occupational medicine as a vocation.

Is Enough as good as a Feast ? Examining the Relationship between Workaholism and Work - Family ( WFC ) / Family - Work ( FWC ) Conflict

Nowadays, people combine work and family roles more than they used to do before. Workaholics spend large amounts of time at work, work excessively hard, and become obsessed with work. Workaholism can be conceptualized as an addiction like alcoholism. But, what happens to workaholics’ family when they live with work not with them? Workaholics will neglect their family life under the works in the...