it wasn't just the department, since the major texts we used discussed the issues described below.
what was the name/authors of that infamous article published in the 70s or 80s, about the 110 different meansings of culture? anyone remember?
shag
At 04:50 PM 7/13/2008, B. wrote:
>[From Gabriel Abend's "The Meaning of 'Theory,"
>_Sociological Theory_, Vol. 26, No. 2, June, 2008.
>Abend speaks specifically about sociologists but the
>ideas imo could apply to any of the social sciences
>(just replace "sociologists" below with
>"anthropologists" or "economists" and I suspect the
>result would be much the same). Also, errors in
>paraphrasing are mine, not Abend's. The abstract of
>Abend's piece is here with a link to the whole thing
>that you may have to pay for:
>http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120088937/abstract
> -B.]
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>"[S]uppose that A, B, and C are three sociologists,
>and they engage in a discussion about the question,
>'how should theory be judged?' Now, when A speaks of
>'theory' she mainly thinks of an ongoing dialogue with
>some classic texts. When B speaks of 'theory' she
>mainly thinks of the construction of propositions of
>the form 'if p then q.' And when C speaks of 'theory'
>she mainly thinks of the development of lexica and
>schemata with which to talk about the social world.
>Not surprisingly, A, B, and C find it impossible to
>come to an agreement about the question under
>discussion. Yet the most reasonable interpretation of
>this situation is not that A, B, and C have a
>substantive disagreement about how theory should be
>judged, but rather that they are talking about
>different things. That they are indeed talking about
>different things should not be obscured by the fact
>that they happen to use the same English word ...."
...
>-B.
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>Miles Jackson wrote:
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>"Could you paraphrase? I'm curious."
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