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[Rakesh Bhandari]

> patriarchy?  can you see it, taste it, touch it, fuck it?  i'm with bhaskar
> here:  the social sciences [and i consider psych a social science] "create"
> their objects of investigation.  nay, ALL sciences create their object of
> investigation. indeed, the edifice of that "social institution" we call

Um, Kelley, would you kindly check to see whether Bhaskar is this kind of 
radical social constructionist; doesn't he insist on the distinction
between transitive and intransitive aspects of social life? And by the
way all coercion is obviously not conceptual in nature. And the positing
of *unobservable* explanatory mechanisms or entities does not necessarily
or obviously at least commit one to anti realism or radical social
constructivism. And I don't think it's history or social transformation
per se that for Bhaskar  makes the social sciences open in a way
that natural scientific experiments are not. Your characterisations of
others' positions seems to remain rife with error.  I didn't read
much further into this single 20K post, Kelley, where you go on to discuss
Freud, infantile dependence and a host of other topics. 

Nice to have you back,

Rakesh