social science production (was: Dark Sides of 'Solidarity'?)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Rakesh wrote:
>It seemed to me that such human capital explanations
>take hold only because skilled (ha, ha) professionals understand their
>greater income as a sign of moral superiority (especially vis a vis
>blacks, one suspects), as their reward for having had the foresight to
>have deferred present consumption to enjoy their standing in the worlds.
>Senior adapted to the world of the petty bourgeoisie.

While economists and business majors produce + reproduce human capital
explanations, sociologists and public policy types maintain the underclass
thoery, and they reinforce each other nicely. Efficiency through
ideological division of labor!

Yoshie