Norms of the Sociological Profession (was Re: Medieval Institutions)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>>Kelley Walker wrote:
>>>
>>>   the upper middle
>>>  class professionalizing process
>>
>>'Nuf said. Nothing very interesting can follow this grotesque concept.
>>
>>Carrol
>
>of course not! that's why karl marx repeatedly used the concept in 
>several works, among which:
>Karl Marx
>WAGE-LABOR AND CAPITAL
>Chapter 9
>EFFECT OF CAPITALIST COMPETITION ON THE CAPITALIST CLASS,
>THE MIDDLE CLASS, AND THE WORKING CLASS
>
>it's a term of description meant to address a segment of the working 
>class, carrol. had i typed simply, the "professional segment of the 
>working class" you would have read it.  grow the fuck up.

Kelley, instead of getting mad, why not consider a possibility that 
your allegiance to Max Weber & his likes may be (among other things) 
an integral part of your socialization as a sociologist -- adopting 
Weberspeak as a part of *moral* norms of your profession, so to 
speak, rather than just a part of the body of theoretical knowledge 
whose mastery you must demonstrate as a professional -- since 
socialization is the topic of your post?

It's probably an implicit professional assumption that it is "a 
combination of moral & theoretical errors" for a properly socialized 
sociologist not to *think like Weber*.

Yoshie