Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 07:25:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Geo Maher <geomaher-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: Academia....


I would certainly think that the social viewpoint has
something to do with the relative lefty-ness of
sociologists. However, we shouldn't overestimate the
effectiveness of their resistance, as I have known
many sociologists, particularly of the postmodern
mold, who fall into a sort of ivory tower mentality
that seems to declaw any left-wing tendencies that
they might have.

geo

--- Michael Handelman <mhandelman1-AT-yahoo.com> wrote:
> This may be overly idealist of me, but do you think
> one of the reason for sociology seems to be to the
> left of Poli Sci and Economics, has something to do
> with the fact that because sociology deals with the
> study of groups and society, it tends to be
> *somewhat*
> innoculated to Bourgeois ideology regarding the
> individual (Thatcher's "There is no such thing as
> society" seems to be about as pure Bourgeois
> ideology
> as one can get, and this ideology seems extremely
> antithetical to sociology).
> 

===="Look for me in the whirlwind - dare to struggle, dare to win"
========================George J. Ciccariello Maher IV
St. John's College
Cambridge
CB2 1TP
United Kingdom

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