Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 21:37:31 -0500 From: Deborah W Kilgore <dkilgore-AT-iastate.edu> Subject: Re: NY Times article on Riesman At 04:43 PM 5/19/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Extremely interesting link. In it, Patterson not only gives a nice capsule >summary of Reisman's career, but points to some very troubling voids in >the American cultural scene, and some even more troubling ways in which >these voids, created by the abandonment of academic social thinkers, are >being fulfilled by the likes of Limbaugh, Schlessinger (a.k.a. Dr Laura), >Oprah, and the rest. Patterson ignores a vibrant community of feminist sociologists who are public intellectuals engaging in the exact kinds of thinking and research that he imagines died with the old white guys. Feminist public intellectuals have also "[given] the nation a vocabulary" with which to discuss the issues of the age: date rape, wife battering, the glass ceiling, the second shift, sexual harrassment, the matrix of domination, etc. etc. etc. American women go completely unnoticed in Patterson's old fashioned analysis. Thank goodness his analysis is not representative of the everyday life of the field of sociology. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Deborah Kilgore, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Iowa State University N232 Lagomarcino Hall Ames, IA 50011-3195 (515) 294-9121, dkilgore-AT-iastate.edu ********************************************************************** 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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