Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:28:28 EDT
Subject: Re: [HAB:] Social pathology as a public health issue


 
In a message dated 7/25/2004 2:51:51 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
coherings-AT-yahoo.com writes:

Just  yesterday, I read
a fascinating article about how American success 


In the latest issue of Constellations, May 2004, I believe, is an article  
about P. Bourdieu (1st article).  It just seems to me that Bourdieu senses  a 
serious problem with American dominance as well as with the neoconservative  
policies of his socialist government as well as with our republicanism.   
American social issues are not the same as French, but does he not have a sense  of 
the underlying problem.  I am not convinced, though I welcome your  defense of 
social services as it does offer relief, by your notion of the  'medicine' of 
education.  Bourdieu also found problematic the  'authoritarian dominance in 
pedagogical relations' which can easily be  analogized to his frequent studies 
of the administration of the educational  system which 'gatekeeps' on 
socioeconomic classes: gatekeeping those who are  excluded from college, from graduate 
school, etc...  In Habermas' theory,  these seem to me like illegitimate 
norms.  And when it comes to the  administration of the hierarchy of education, 
this barely scrapes the  surface.  
 
Fred Welfare


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