------------------------ Jim Devine jdevine at lmu.edu & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
> -----Original Message-----
> From: budge [mailto:budge at el-pleasant.org]
> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 1:29 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Societal
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> On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 at 12:51pm Devine, James wrote:
> >
> > 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."
>
> well i've noticed this word started out being used by people
> to squeamish to use the word 'social' because it sounds to
> much like socialism or some other kind of lefty nonsense
> they don't want to be associated with. this was coming out
> of mainstream media and rightists. but now i've seen it
> kind of catch on everywhere and even my dear friend (the
> sociologist) kelley used it today. and although my
> suggestion for renaming sociology was tongue-in-cheek, I'm
> wondering how the meaning of the word 'social' could be
> misunderstood in the same paragraph that the word
> 'sociology' is used?
>
> i'm curious, when did you start using the word?
>
>
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