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FREUD, WEBER, DURKHEIM: A PHILOSOPHICAL
FOUNDATION FOR WRITING IN THE HUMANITIES
AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Karen B. LeFevre and T. J. Larkin
American colleges and universities are currently being in-
fluenced by a movement broadly referred to as "writing across
the curriculum." Its proponents investigate the close relation-
ship between writing and thinking, and emphasize the idea that
in all disciplines, writing can contribute significantly to learning
by aiding memory, promoting synthesis of ideas, and improving
reading ability. Important to this movement is the view that the
act of writing allows all of us, teachers and students alike, not
only to communicate ideas to others, but also to discover and
create ideas in the first place.
The contemporary writing across the curriculum move-
ment parallels an intellectual development in various disci-
plines of the humanities and social sciences, one that encourages
an exchange of lines of inquiry that have been traditionally re-
stricted to specific fields. Writing, in fact, not only parallels but
also promotes interdisciplinary investigations when it is inte-
grated with principal lines of inquiry. If writing is a mode of
thinking, then the use of writing to explore basic approaches to
inquiry in the human sciences should simultaneously develop
the types of thinking characteristic of the disciplines studied.
To investigate the connections between writing and lines
of inquiry across disciplines, we propose in this essay a con-
tinuum of lines of inquiry applicable to many of the human
sciences. We begin by considering briefly the present status of
disciplines in the human sciences, with a view toward suggest-
ing the need for a scheme that goes beneath the surface of in-
stitutionalized boundaries to get at fundamental modes of think-
ing about human action. Next, we describe our continuum,
illustrating its three lines of inquiry by discussing the approaches
of three major social thinkers: Sigmund Freud, Max Weber, and
Emile Durkheim. Finally, we suggest briefly how this con-
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