File spoon-archives/bourdieu.archive/bourdieu_2002/bourdieu.0205, message 44


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.



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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



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