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The second paragraph of my previous post was not to suggest that either
Blaut or Schell were espousing such views. Clearly Blaut is not, and he is
to be commended for his antiracist stance. The paragraph was to point the
falsity of racial supremacy and innate rationality, which can go
hand-in-hand. It is in this respect that I think Blaut's argument is
useful. The connection does exist. I am just not convinced that the
linkage is intrinsic. And the critique of Weber is not that he explicitly
arguing that individuals are rational in the way Homans, behaviorists, and
rational choice theorists do. Rather that Weber's explanations hold this
view implicitly and tend towards this explanation.
Andy