"Structuration, I say. And again, structuration. Structuration, mates.
Structuration, that's the ticket!"
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:20:29 -0500 Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> writes:
> Jim: "Well, that's what I always suspect when I hear that
> a child of a celebrity has earned an advanced degree,
> especially at a prestigious institution.
> I always think that they either plagiarized the thing
> or they hired somebody else to do the work for them.
>
>
Also, as Richard Seymour has been pointing out on his blog, Anthony Giddens, who use to be a pretty respectable, and respected academic, was not only (as we all know) hobnobbing with Tony Blair but also was hanging out (and advising) the elder Gadaffy too. I guess that sort of thing must be more fun (and far more lucrative) than writing tomes on Max Weber or Talcott Parsons.
Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math
> [WS:] I think the problem is with institutions, not individuals.
> They are
> supposed to be checking those things. My master's thesis manuscript
> at the
> San Jose State University - basically a notch above a trade school -
> was
> sent back to me for a revision by a university reviewer for an
> incorrect
> application of a statistical method - nothing intentional or major
> but they
> caught that nonetheless. So clearly, a top ranking school faculty
> can tell
> bullshit when they see it. The problem is, however, that they often
> look
> the other way and not necessarily only when funding or celebrities
> are
> involved. I heard stories of department chairs putting informal
> pressure on
> the faculty to "go easy" on students for reasons having more to do
> with
> maintaining certain number of bodies in the department than sucking
> up to
> funders or celebrities. Universities, especially prestigious ones,
> are
> first dispensaries of expensive credentials and only second
> institutions of
> higher learning.
>
> Wojtek
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