Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 14:49:09 -0400 From: N Miller <nmiller-AT-trincoll.edu> Subject: Re: NY Times article on Riesman Hiro Saito wrote: > Indeed, I suspect that sociology professors in the 60s and 70s (when the New > Left movemet was still predominant in the US) would not get this kind of > questions--academic disciplines seem always situated within larger political > and cultural fields. Don't bet on it, Hiro. Parents were asking me that when I began teaching in 1948 and never once stopped. Sociology has never enjoyed much prestige in Britain or the United States, particularly at Oxbridge or among the Ivies. A long and fascinating story actually, something a sociologist like yourself might want to investigate. Norman Miller ********************************************************************** Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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