[lbo-talk] Societal

[Devine, James]

I wrote:
> > Value, as I see it, represents a tool -- a method of
> > abstraction -- for cutting through the fetishized fog, to
> > reveal the societal nature of capitalism as a whole. (It's
> > a tool of _sociological_ analysis.)
>             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

"no Onan" writes:
> If we are to continue using the rather blecherous neologism
> 'societal' instead of the perfectly serviceable 'social',
> should not the above named discipline then be ca;;ed
> _societology_ ?  just wondering...

I don't see what's wrong with "societal." The problem with "social" is that it has more than one meaning. So sometimes I use "societal." 

Jim D.