Exploitation of academics (was reparations)

[Kelley Walker]

At 10:54 PM 3/20/01 -0500, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>Dennis Breslin says:
>>
>>The resort to functionalism is a tad premature.  While there are
>>programs
>>out there actively recruiting wannabees, my experience at UConn and
>>the rumor/whine mill over the years has the opposite operating.  Since
>>the low point in the early 80s, faculty in sociology have been
>>realistic,to put it mildly, about the career prospects of their 
>>students.  The
>>programs keep admitting wannabees in part because no one seriously
>>wants to eliminate graduate programs or because graduate work is
>>valued in terms other than economic reward - that medieval
>>apppreciation for scholarship that is oblivious to the spectre
>>of starvation.  I don't think the labor discipline thing is at
>>work.  That would require some real world expertise and finesse
>>that I find lacking among academics.
>
>Labor discipline is not so much intentions of the departmental powers that 
>be as an effect of the expansion of higher education without a 
>corresponding growth in funding for it, I think.

but this IS a form of functionalist explanation!  no intentions on the part 
of individuals need be involved at all. i thought we covered this recently!?

kelley