[lbo-talk] dixor

[Kelley]

At 02:11 PM 10/6/03 -0400, Brian Siano wrote:
>Kelley wrote:
>
>>Frankly, when people say that _anything_ is "socially constructed," I 
>>suspect that people are simply using quasi-technical terms to look 
>>sophisticated.
>>
>>do you have an alternative phrase that would make it more acceptable to you?
>
>Like I said: it'd help to define what it is you're _talking_ about before 
>we start assigning phrases to it.

well, if you're interested, i'd sit down and start reading about idealism, 
then phenomenology. then read about the emergence of the strand of 
sociological thought known as "social constructionism."

let's get together for lunch in 2006 and talk about it all.

kelley