From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Mar 3 05:06:11 1996 Date: Sun, 03 Mar 96 07:11:13 EST From: "T R. Young" <34LPF6T@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Organization: Central Michigan University Subject: Marxist Social Theory: Part I To: GRADUATE STUDENTS IN SOCIOLOGY The next series of mini-lectures will be on Marx. We will begin with his critique of capitalism and carry on to evaluate his work from the point of view of conservatives, feminists, postmodernists and end by an overview of his work for progressive scholarship and critical theory for the 21st Century. Most people turn off their minds when they hear the word, Marx. So if you are going to use or teach any of the following, is it a good idea and a fair treatment to begin with a list of the many positive contributions of capitalism; indeed, Marx listed them in the Manifesto although not many marxists read that part too closely. Let's begin: A. Positivities of Capitalism: 1. Capitalism is the most productive economic system found in human history. Of the five great economic systems human beings have invented/developed, capitalism is by far the most helpful to the health, welfare and dignity of human beings....so far. 2. Capitalism is the most flexible economic system ever invented: it can move capital and labor to meet demand faster than any of the previous economic systems which it replaced. 3. Capitalism has improved the knowledge system; it has a built-in drive for ever better understanding in physics, biology, psych- ology and, yes, critical sociology. Other economic systems set tight and punitive limits on information and critic; capitalism [not particular capitalists] requires timely, accurate, relevant and useful knowledge. 4. Capitalism tends to destroy the ancient forms of privilege and oppression. In its quest for new labor markets, capitalism destroy patriarchy and its monopoly over high status jobs. In its quest for new commodity markets, capitalism ignores ethnic, racial and national boundaries and the ancient emnities they bring. In its quest for supplies of raw materials, capitalism goes everywhere, invests everywhere and explores everywhere. 5. Capitalism has generated the best communications system of any of its previous competitors. Capitalists in Brussels needed timely information and used passenger pidgeons from other european cities. In France, Napoleon set up semaphore stations to transmit information quickly from the coast. An Italian, Marconi applied electronics to communications problems and invented the telegraph. American, English, Germans and Japanese have added telephones, television, computer technology and now, satelites over which are transmitted billions of business trans- actions daily. 6. Science itself came to age in the mere 300 years of industrial capitalism; study of metals for tools and ships, study of plants for food and clothing, study of stars for shipping and flying, study of physiology for medicines and healing, study of people for learning, fighting, and working...all have propelled science and technology within a capitalist system. 7. Of the five great systems: hunting and gathering, farming and herding, slavery, and feudalism, capitalism alone requires free- dom. tribal societies, agrarian societies, feudal and slave societies confined thought and action to reproduce existing forms of politic, marriage, law, religion and morality. Capitalism casts each person alone into a constantly changing world to make his/her own way...usually on merit but always in terms of her/his own labor power. Freedom of thought, freedom of travel, freedom of investment, freedom to buy and to sell whatever the market demands; this is the essence of a capitalist economy. 9. Capitalism is the most radical economic system ever invented: Other systems have a built-in logic to remain the same century after century. Capitalism creates ever new products; ever new machinery; ever new business; ever new markets; ever new ideas and ever new social relations. The half-life of information in a capitalist society is short indeed. 10. Capitalism requires peace. Nationalism requires warfare on behalf of local capitalists, to be sure. Competition between workers and owners fuels strikes and much violence, to be sure. Monopolies over scarce jobs encourages racism and sexist politics...to be sure. But these wars, struggles and angry politics are not endemic to capitalism; they are the unhappy twins of the old and the new economics. By itself, capitalism wants peace on land, sea and in the air. By itself, capitalism want peace in the factory, classroom and shop. By itself, cap- italism wants violence, murder, and robbery off the streets. Capitalism requires complete honesty on the part of workers, managers, customers and suppliers. By itself, capitalism requires children be fed, dressed, taught, and trained to be honest, loyal and productive citizens. I know this accolade in praise of capitalism will not set will with a lot of graduate students; I know that I have not been balanced nor even fair to the data in many respects. But have patience. I am building a lecture for you to use in your classroom. You must start where the students are. You must honor what they can see all about themselves. You must resonate with their parents and other teachers have taught them or you will not teach...and you job is to teach. Next week, I will lay out some 20 or so negativities of capitalism. When you present them to your own students, it would be a good idea to put them in a table so they could see them side by side. As you are adults, you can tolerate a bit of deferred gratification; a little suspense; a smidgen of bias and a lack of closure. The next mini-lecture will be on Thursday morn; I go to Chicago over Spring Break to visit one of my GTA's from Colorado, Ted Manley and his most delightful wife, Helen. He and Helen are just returned from a stint of teaching in England...and a tour of Europe with their kids. I'm eager to see them again. Until Thursday, think of other positivities of capitalism and let me know about them if you think I've missed any. TRYoung T.R.YOUNG@CMICH.EDU From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Mar 3 11:39:17 1996 From: michael carley Subject: Re: Marxist Social Theory: Part I To: 34LPF6T@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU (T R. Young) Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 11:38:15 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <960303.080136.EST.34LPF6T@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> from "T R. Young" at Mar 3, 96 07:11:13 am T.R. It seems to me that you've missed one of the most often discussed positives of capitalism. --Its efficiency. By constantly working to reduce costs, capitalists are always coming up with more efficient ways to make and sell their products. There is a sort of contradiction in this logic however, because as market efficiency is increased, societal efficiency decreases. Capitalism fails miserably in efficiently meeting the needs of the people. Consider health care for example. The U.S., arguably the most capitalist nation on the planet, has as Bob Dole put it, "the best health care system in the world." This is true, but we deny that care to a large portion of our citizens. This is the contradiction, mike **************************************************************************** * Michael Carley | If I have seen farther than others, it * * Department of Sociology | is because I was standing on the * * Stanford University | shoulders of giants.--Isaac Newton * * Stanford CA 94305-2047 | * * (415) 497-7526 | If I have not seen as far as others, it * * mcarley@leland.stanford.edu | is because giants were standing on my * * shoulders.--Hal Abelson * **************************************************************************** From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Mar 3 17:31:27 1996 Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 17:22:52 -0800 To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU From: devonj@ucla.edu (Devon Johnson) Hello Everyone, I am interested in joining some discussion groups/lists in the following areas: crime and criminal justice and race and ethnicity. Does anyone know of any good ones? Feel free to respond to my email address or to socgrad. Thanks! Devon Johnson UCLA From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Mar 3 20:23:47 1996 From: XCHUFF@ccvax.fullerton.edu Date: Sun, 03 Mar 1996 20:24:41 -0800 (PST) Subject: Requesting help on newspapers... To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Fellow Socgraders: I was wondering if anyone out there was aware of any resource that would give a list of the most conservative and liberal newspapers in the U.S. If you happen to have this information or know of a way of getting it, I would appreciate any feedback. Thanks in advance! Todd Huff California State University, Fullerton From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Mar 4 11:39:08 1996 Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 14:37:07 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS - 6TH IN'L CONF ON APPLIED and BUSINESS DEMOGRAPHY (fwd) FYI; note the April 2nd deadline for a 1 page abstract. - Jim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Cassell jwcassell@UNC.EDU Institute for Research in Social Science Phone: 919-962-0782 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Fax: 919-962-4777 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3355 USA ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 10:19:08 -0500 From: Prof K.V. Rao Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS - 6TH IN'L CONF ON APPLIED and BUSINESS DEMOGRAPHY Dear Colleagues, Please find enclosed our first call for papers for the 6th International Conference on Applied and Business Demography. Please pass this message to others who might not be on this mailing list but interested in or using demographics in their studies. Thanks for your help in spreading the word about our conference and opportunity to present research. Sincerely, K.V. Rao adconf96@bgsuvax.bgsu.edu [the conference e-mail address where the abstracts should be sent] ps: You donot not need to signoff from this mailing list and your e-mail id will be automatically deleted from the information network after the mail is distributed. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLIED AND BUSINESS DEMOGRAPHY SEPTEMBER 19-21, 1996, OLSCAMP CONFERENCE CENTER BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY BOWLING GREEN, OH 43403, USA ORGANIZING COMM: K. V. Rao, Chair Members: Hallie J. Kintner, USA, Mohan Singh, Singapore Ronald Prevost, USA Peter Morrison, USA Thomas Burch, Canada David Swanson, USA Linda Gage, USA Zeng Yi, P R of China Jerry Wicks, USA Jonathan L. Entin, USA K.S. Murty, USA Shaomin Li, USA Lou Pol, USA Filomena Racioppi,Italy P. Ramachandran, India ******************************************************** Sponsored by: Population Studies and Applied Demography Program, Dept of Sociology,BGSU Applied and Business Demography, Population Association of America Canadian Population Society and endorsed by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population ******************************************************************** The Sixth International Conference on Applied and Business Demography will be held from September 19-21, 1996, Bowling Green, Ohio. The conference will have paper sessions, poster sessions, demonstration of software, panel discussions, workshops, and an area for exhibition of books, computer software etc. Session and workshop proposals and individual paper abstracts are invited on any topics/areas that use demographics in their study. Selected papers will be published in the proceedings volume following the conference. Some areas specifically identified for the 1996 conference include: Demographic analysis of retirement plans, spatial analysis, emerging consumer markets, internet resources, GIS Technology, training needs, population estimates and projections, demonstration of software, merging traditional and non-traditional data sources, immigration (legal and illegal), health care reform and minority health, demographic studies and research in HBCUs, aging populations, mortality, morbidity issues, Demographic analysis for human resource management, and Demographics and credit institutes. Please send one page abstract of your proposed presentation by April 2, 1996 to: K.V. Rao, Conference Director, Department of Sociology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403. Tel: 419 372 7240, Fax: 419 372 8306,e-mail: adconf96@bgsuvax.bgsu.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------- ABSTRACT FORM FOR PRESENTATION AT THE 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLIED AND BUSINESS DEMOGRAPHY - SEPTEMBER 19-21, 1996 BOWLING GREEN, OH 43403 PLEASE COMPLETE THE FORM AND MAIL TO: ADCONF96@BGSUVAX.BGSU.EDU Name: ___________________________________________________________ Title of Paper __________________________________________________ Organizational Affiliation: _____________________________________ Mailing Address: ________________________________________________ City/State/Country_______________________________________________ Electronic Mail Address: ________________________________________ Telephone: ___________________ FAX: _________________________ DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACT/PAPER IS April 2, 1996 ABSTRACT: (ONE PAGE) --------------- From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Mar 4 16:43:06 1996 Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 19:37:29 -0500 To: gertsba@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu, alf13@grove.ufl.edu, pink@grove.ufl.edu, maguire.9@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu, schultgm@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu, blackann@bobcat.ent.ohiou.edu, acumag@aol.com, socgrad@UCSD.EDU, weckman@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu, jkennedy@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu, tjc@ohstsoca.sbs.ohio-state.edu, tcurry@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu, jma@ohstsoca.sbs.ohio-state.edu From: avigorit@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Anthony J. Vigorito) Subject: Fwd:College by Dave Barry >"COLLEGE" > > >by Dave Barry > >Many of you young persons out there are seriously thinking about going to >college. (That is, of course, a lie. The only things you young persons >think seriously about are loud music and sex. Trust me: these are >closely related to college.) College is basically a bunch of rooms where >you sit for roughly two thousand hours and try to memorize things. The >two thousand hours are spread out over four years; you spend the rest of >the time sleeping and trying to get dates. Basically, you learn two kinds >of things in college: > >* Things you will need to know in later life (two hours). Thess include >how to make collect telephone calls and get beer and crepe-paper stains >your of you pajamas. > >* Things you will not need to know in later life (1,998 hours). These are >the things you learn in classes whose names end in ology, osophy, istry, >ics, and so on. The idea is, you memorize these things, then write them >down in little exam books, then forget them. If you fail to forget them, >you become a professor and have to stay in college for the rest of your >life. It's very difficult to forget everything. For example, when I was >in college, I had to memorize -- don't ask me why -- the names of three >metaphysical poets other than John Donne. I have managed to forget one of >them, but I still remember that the other two were named Vaughan and >Crashaw. Sometimes, when I'm trying to remember something important like >whether my wife told me to get tuna packed in oil or tuna packed in water, >Vaughan and Crashaw just pop up in my mind, right there in the >supermarket. It's a terrible wast of brain cells. > >After you've been in college for a year or so, you're supposed to choose a >major, which is the subject you intend to memorize and forget the most >things about. Here is a very important piece of advice: Be sure to >choose a major that does not involve Known Facts and Right Answers. This >means you must *not* major in mathematics, physics, biology, or chemistry, >because theses subjects involve actual facts. If, for example, you major >in mathematics, you're going to wander into class one day and the >professor will say: "Define the cosine integer of the quadrant of a >rhomboid binary axis, and extrapolate your result to five significant >vertices." If you don't come up with *exactly* the answer the professor >has in mind, you fail. The same is true of chemistry: if you write in >your exam book that carbon and hydrogen combine to form oak, your >professor will flunk you. He wants you to come up with the same answer he >and all the other chemists have agreed on. Scientists are extremely >snotty about this. > >So you should major in subjects like English, philosophy, psychology, and >sociology -- subjects in which nobody really understands what anybody else >is talking about, and which involve virtually no actual facts. I attended >classes in all these subjects, so I'll give you a quick overview of each: > >ENGLISH: This involves writing papers about long books you have read >little snippets of just before class. Here is a tip on how to get good >grades on your English papers: Never say anything about a book that >anybody with any common sense would say. For example, suppose you are >studying Moby-Dick. Anybody with any common sense would say that >Moby-Dick is a big white whale, since the characters in the book refer to >it as a big white whale roughly eleven thousand times. So in *your* >paper, *you* say Moby-Dick is actually the Republic of Ireland. Your >professor, who is sick to death of reading papers and never like Moby-Dick >anyway, will think you are enormously creative. If you can regularly come >up with lunatic interpretations of simple stories, you should major in >English. > >PHILOSOPHY: Basically, this involves sitting in a room and deciding there >is no such thing as reality and then going to lunch. You should major in >philosophy if you plan to take a lot of drugs. > >PSYCHOLOGY: This involves talking about rats and dreams. Psychologists >are *obsessed* with rats and dreams. I once spent an entire semester >training a rat to punch little buttons in a certain sequence, then >training my roommate to do the same thing. The rat learned much faster. >My roommate is now a doctor. If you like rats or dreams, and above all, >if you dream about rats, you should major in psychology. > >SOCIOLOGY: For sheer lack of intelligibility, sociology is far and away >the number one subject. I sat through hundreds of hours of sociology >courses, and read gobs of sociology writing, and I never once heard or >read a coherent statement. This is because sociologists want to be >considered scientists, so they spend most of their time translating >simple, obvious observations into scientific-sounding code. If you plan >to major in sociology, you'll have to learn to do the same thing. For >example, suppose you have observed that children cry when they fall down. >You should write: "Methodological observation of the sociometrical >behavioral tendencies of prematurated isolates indicates that a casual >relationship exists between groundward tropism and lachrimatory, or >'crying,' behavior forms." If you can keep this up for fifty or sixty >pages, you will get a large government grant. > From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Mar 6 02:12:33 1996 Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 02:10:54 -0800 To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU From: Jerry Blaz Subject: fwd re: tenure >Univ of Minnesota admin trying to end >tenure nationwide > >>From "Erwin Marquit" >Date 21 Feb 1996 21:02:46 GMT >Newsgroups misc.activism.progressive >Message-ID <4gg19m$are@news.missouri.edu> > >University of Minnesota President Niels Hasslemo and the university's >Board of Regents are launching a serious campaign to end tenure not >only at the University, but nationally as well. The threat to tenure >nationwide is serious enough to warrant strong protests to the the >president and the Board of Regents (address for both: Morill Hall, >Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455) from all over the country >by individual faculty, faculty organizations, and professional >societies. > >At its December meeting, the Board of Regents set May 1996 as a >deadline to effect changes in the tenure code in order that they may >be put into effect in the fall. President Hasselmo in a letter of >November 20, 1995 to Regents Chair Thomas R. Reagan wrote: "Tenure >imposes rigidities of lack of flexibility... It is assumed that the >proportion of faculty who are tenured must decrease." Hasselmo not >only proposed reduction of the number of tenured faculty (apparently >to under 50% of the faculty), but also proposed a redefinition of >tenure that would make it possible to eliminate faculty by dissolution >of their departments (by shifting the place of tenure from the >university as a whole to one's department) or to force individual >faculty to leave by reduction of their salaries (in Hasselmo's words: >"partial decoupling of compensation from tenure"). > >President Hasselmo and the Regents initiated these moves and set a >schedule for their implementation without meaningful consultation with >the faculty, seriously undermining the institution of faculty >governance. The Regents have the power to abolish tenure with or >without Senate concurrence and recent statements by some adminstrators >and regents indicate the intention to do so. This is why faculty >collective bargaining to save tenure is on the agenda today. Aware >that tenured is honored at all research universities and at >essentially all other public institutions of higher learning, >President Hasselmo also recommended that the Regents initiate a >national discussion on tenure, which one can only interpret as a >recommendation for dismantling tenure nationwide. > >To defend themselves from this threat, a faculty union has was formed >this month, the University Faculty Alliance (UFA). The UFA is now >soliiciting signatures on authorization statements for >collective-bargaining reprentation. If sufficient numbers of >signatures are obtained, the union can request a cease and desist >order from the state Bureau of Mediation Services to prevent changes >in the conditions of employment until a collective-bargaining >representation election is held. The adminstration is attempting to >counter this faculty reaction by a widespread disinformation campaign >in the local media that no serious changes are being contemplated for >the present, despite the fact that at its February meeting, the >Regents did not even discuss rescinding its decision to act on tenure >changes at its mid-May meeting. > >Please circulate this news was widely as possible > >Erwin Marquit >School of Physics and Astronomy >116 Church Street SE >University of Minnesota >Minneapolis, MN 55455-0112 > >(612) 922-7993 > > Jerry Blaz/The BOOKie Joint 7246 Reseda Blvd. Reseda, CA 91335 (818)345-2983/(818)343-1055 ffdog@earthlink.net Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a good book. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read. G. 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Enter and WIN the GRAND PRIZE in our TRIVIA RAFFLE!!! From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Mar 6 12:48:44 1996 Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 15:46:24 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: Article in response to Putnam (fwd) Thought some of you might be interested in this paper. - Jim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Cassell jwcassell@UNC.EDU Institute for Research in Social Science Phone: 919-962-0782 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Fax: 919-962-4777 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3355 USA ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 12:35:00 -0500 From: Agreel@aol.com To: POR@gibbs.oit.unc.edu Subject: Article in response to Putnam I have a new web site -- WWW.agreeley.com -- on which I have posted posted an article about volunteering which is also a strong critique of Robert Putnam's argument about the "strange disappearance of civic America. I'd appreciate comments. A .Greeley. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Mar 7 06:03:38 1996 Date: Thu, 07 Mar 96 08:04:23 EST From: "T R. Young" <34LPF6T@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Organization: Central Michigan University Subject: The Immiseration Thesis To: GRADUATE STUDENTS IN SOCIOLOGY In the last mini-lecture on a marxist critique of capitalism, I listed some of the more positive effects of capitalism on a number of most important human needs and human concerns. These positivities, taken as a group, comprise the EMBOURGEOISMENT Thesis. Most economists, political scientists and, yes, sociologists in the USA tend to accept the embourgeosiment thesis...things are getting better and better for more and more people as capitalist extends to all domains of life and to all parts of the world. There is much to be said for the E. Thesis taking the world as a whole and looking at the effects of capitalism over the past 300 years...compared to all other previous political economies: hunting/gathering; farming/herding; slavery; feudality, and colonialist forms of the above, capitalism looks very, very good. And, too, in the discussion of the negativities of capitalism below, one must never forget these accomplishments...the freedoms of the market, of politics, of religion and the improvements in housing, food, education, transport, communications--all driven by capitalism-- are most helpful to the human project. Yet there are problems...in this mini-lecture, I will list and explain some of the more common negative aspects of capitalism found in the literature...in following lectures, I will help you think about alternatives to both unfettered capitalism and overly-fettered socialism. 1. Capitalism tends to disemploy people. In all previous economic systems, everyone worked from an early age---except a tiny elite. Capitalists in a quest for both profits and effficiency, try to lower costs and increase production. There are three general costs; costs of capital, costs of raw materials and labor costs. The first two involve other capitalists and tend to be protected...only labor costs are reducible in a free labor market. There are several ways to do this: a. use ever better, ever more efficient machines...this takes more and more technical knowledge...and works well. b. get more productive labor out of existing workers by a whole series of tactics not the least of which is the speed-up. c. turn to marginalized peoples; use ancient systems of exclusion to obtain cheaper labor...women, children, 3rd world workers and other marginalized workers...prisoners, 'retarded,' etc. d. use state power to prevent workers' union/organizing. e. use temps, contract laborers or best of all, none at all. The best of all possible worlds, for each capitalist, taken one at time is to automate every element of production and eliminate all paid labor entirely... The result of this 'tendential law' of capitalism as marxists put it, is an ever growing 'surplus population.' Note that people are not surplus to their families, to their religions, to the human project; they are simply surplus to the labor needs of the efficient capitalist. 2. Capitalism tends to economic crisis. There are three such cycles of ups and downs in the short history of capitalism...and a lot of controv- ersy about whether they exist or not...data are mixed. The three are: a. Kondratieff curves...cycles of boom and bust which come along about every 30-50 years...in US history, 1830, 1873, 1893, and 1930 mark these great depressions...[there were two 'great ditches' in the Wizard of Oz...the depressions of 1873 and 1893...Baum lived throught both and went bankrupt in the second...lots more in the book]. b. Kutznet's cycles of about 15 years and c. mini-cycles of from 3-5 years' duration. Keynesian economic theory was supposed to solve this problem of capitalism...Pres. Nixon said, 'We are all keynesians now.' But in recent years, the ability of the state to moderate depressions is under heavy critique...costs too much...deficit grows and grows. 3. Capitalism tends to promote the five kinds of crime I set forth for you in an earlier mini-lecture: a. Street crime grows as the surplus population tries to 're-unite production and distribution' in theft, burglary, robbery, arson, and various con games. b. White collar crimes grows as managers and professional seek to attain middle class status and keep it in the face of: 1) divorce, 2) competition, 3) depressions, 4) other fiscal problems not excluding a status panic which developes prior to retirement...in a capitalist system, each must look after one's own future...the middle class can steal from clients and employ- ers...can use the trust of their positions to build portfolio. c. Corporate crime grows: 1) during economic crises, 2) to evade state regulations, 3) to force out competitors, 4) to corner markets, 5) to obtain cheaper, faster labor, 6) to gain access to raw materials, 6) to control the political process. d. Organized crime grows: the surplus labor force can sell drugs, sex, stolen goods and hire out as enforcers or arsonists in order to reunite prod/dist. Liberal capitalism turns every thing into a commodity to sell on the open market...drugs, sex, gaming, arms, whatever is forbidden by the religious sensibility of the general population. e. Political crime grows at the state tries to protect the capital- ist class from workers, customers and foreign capitalists. The capitalist state invades other countries in order to get raw mater- ials [Desert Storm was more about oil than about freedom or about Iranian aggressors]...or to gain access to markets...WWI and WWII were probably more about markets and raw materials than about democracy and social justice...ask the Germans and Japanese. 5. Another way to think of the immiseration thesis and the points above is in the tendency of capitalists to 'externalize' costs. Costs can be lowered by having the state pay for the education of workers; having the state or women take care of the injured/crippled workers; having the state pay for infra-structure [roads, sewers, bridges, docks, etc]. Costs can be externalized to the future by deficit spending or by environmental pollution. If you or I were capitalists, we would do the same thing...I would anyway. 6. Capitalism tends to create layer after layer of 'false needs.' In order to expand markets, it is useful to use psychology, sociology, mass media and the drama of sex and violence to create a demand for 'surplus production.' Marx spoke of this as the 'realization problem.' Since the is ever more production with ever fewer workers to buy it up, goods accumulate...there are several solutions to the problem of surplus production...but advertizing and the generation of 'false' needs is important...almost 200 billion dollars were spent last year to 'colonize consciousness.' There are several more 'tendential laws' of capitalism in the litera- ture...I will continue this mini-lecture next week and go on to more encouraging topics after that...all this looks hopeless but hang in-- there will be better days...if we are good and wise enough. TRYoung T.R.YOUNG@CMICH.EDU From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Mar 7 06:12:28 1996 Date: Thu, 07 Mar 96 09:02:59 EST From: "T R. Young" <34LPF6T@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Organization: Central Michigan University Subject: The Red Feather Award To: GRADUATE STUDENTS IN SOCIOLOGY I am pleased to announce the first six winners of the Red Feather Award for Progressive Scholarship. Each has recieved a letter with copy to Departmental Chairs acknowledging their contributions to emancipatory knowledge processes and each has/will recieve a plaque honoring their achievement. There were 13 nominees; those awarded were: James Yarbrough Melissa Herman Brian Ault Marino Bruce Jacquline Johnson and Vincent Roscigno My very sincere congratulations to them...I was greatly delighted to make the award on behalf of the Committee. A new round starts now...do send in your own work for consideration or nominate a fellow grad student for the Award with a one page summary of their work for Committee review. Send to: TR Young The Red Feather Institute 8085 Essex, Weidman, Mi., 48893 T.R.YOUNG@CMICH.EDU From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Mar 7 15:15:51 1996 Date: Thu, 07 Mar 96 16:58:02 CDT From: Laurie Bates Subject: Request for info To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Hello| I'm an undergraduate sociology student who has applied to graduate school for the fall, and I'm hoping that someone on this list can give me some information--either firsthand or gossip--about a few of the schools I've applied to. I'd like to know more about the professors, the general atmosphere, and whatever you think is important at the University of Maryland- College Park, the University of Missouri-Columbia, and North Carolina State University. Please e-mail me personally at the address below. Thanks for any information you can provide. Laurie Bates cms0067@uwf.cc.uwf.edu From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Mar 7 17:56:15 1996 Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 17:56:06 -0800 (PST) From: "G.W." Subject: icpsr To: SOCGRAD@UCSD.EDU Help... About a week ago I was able access ICPSR holdings through netscape. Now when I click on ICPSR holdings, absolutely NOTHING HAPPENS. Has the University of Michigan removed this information through their server, or something. Has their URL address changed? If so what has it changed to. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks to anyone that can direct me. Greg From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Fri Mar 8 06:19:37 1996 Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 09:18:13 -0500 (EST) From: "Melvin J. J D'Souza" To: "G.W." Subject: Re: icpsr In-Reply-To: <01I22DQMYK0200IXX7@ccvax.fullerton.edu> When I looked up ICPSR holdings last week, I noticed that they have a new home page at http://icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR. Best. Melvin From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Fri Mar 8 06:48:22 1996 From: SOC_MKL@HAL.LAMAR.EDU Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 8:42:23 -0600 (CST) To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU unsubscribe From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Fri Mar 8 06:48:51 1996 From: SOC_MKL@HAL.LAMAR.EDU Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 8:44:14 -0600 (CST) To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: unsubscribe From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Fri Mar 8 06:50:08 1996 Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 09:48:50 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Cassell To: "G.W." Subject: Re: icpsr In-Reply-To: <01I22DQMYK0200IXX7@ccvax.fullerton.edu> On Thu, 7 Mar 1996, G.W. wrote: > > Help... > > About a week ago I was able access ICPSR holdings through netscape. > Now when I click on ICPSR holdings, absolutely NOTHING HAPPENS. > Has the University of Michigan removed this information through their > server, or something. > > Has their URL address changed? > If so what has it changed to. > > Any information would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks to anyone that can direct me. > > > Greg > I just accessed their homepage at http://www.icpsr.umich.edu Looks like they've rearranged things, but I *am* able to search the archival holdings. You need to scroll down the page to find these options, but this is a definite improvment over their previous search. BTW, ICPSR maintains this server, not the U. of Michigan Computing Center. Best, Jim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Cassell jwcassell@UNC.EDU Institute for Research in Social Science Phone: 919-962-0782 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Fax: 919-962-4777 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3355 USA From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Fri Mar 8 12:31:27 1996 Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 12:28:10 -0800 (PST) From: Laura Miller To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: how to unsubscribe Too much email in your life? If you want to unsubscribe from Socgrad, send a message to: listserv@ucsd.edu and in the body of your message, type: unsub socgrad Remember to send the message to listserv, NOT to Socgrad itself. Any problems or questions can be directed to lmiller@ucsd.edu From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Mar 11 20:43:43 1996 Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 22:42:34 -0600 (CST) From: Kim P Hansen To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: Request for information Hello out there! I'm a student at the University of North Dakota. I was hoping that someone at any of the three graduate schools I'm considering would share their impressions of them. Your thoughts, good or bad, about the programs, the location, the faculty, or whatever would be very much appreciated. The three schools I'm interested in getting graduate students' impressions of are New York University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and University of California-San Diego. You should probably just respond to my personal e-mail address... (We don't want to start any disagreements, do we?) Oh, and if there are any professors lurking in this forum: Your comments are more than welcome, too... Thanks! Kim Hansen kihansen@badlands.nodak.edu And for those whose mailbox I've encumbered and time I have wasted, a quote from Peter Berger: "...sociology is the dismal science par excellence of our time, an intrinsically debunking discipline that should be most congenial to nihilists, cynics, and other fit subjects for police surveillance." (A Rumor of Angels, 1969) Feel better? From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue Mar 12 09:31:57 1996 Date: Tue, 12 Mar 96 12:22:12 EST From: "T R. Young" <34LPF6T@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Organization: Central Michigan University Subject: The Red Feather Dictionary of Critical Sociology (fwd) To: GRADUATE STUDENTS IN SOCIOLOGY The 3rd Edition of the Red Feather Dictionary of critical, marxist, feminist, and postmodern concepts is now on-line. Exam copies are available free to faculty. Personal copies are free to any graduate student in any discipline. Until hard copies are available, faculty may download copies for students at $3.00/copy. There are some 300 pages with over 1.2 mega bytes so be prepared...or...the RFI will accept orders of 10 or more for the dictionary on disk in WP51. There are two ways to access your exam/free copy of the Dictionary: 1. Gopher: gopher csf.colorado.edu select: progressive sociology select: Authors select: Young.TR select: dictionary-of-critical-social-science 2. Web Browsers: http://csf.colorado.edu/psn select: authors select: Young.TR select: dictionary-of-critical-social-science Its guaranteed to engross, infuriate, intrigue and educate every student and most faculty...or your money back... TRYoung PS: Pauline Vaillancourt-Rosenau kindly allowed me to use her 'How to Speak Postmodern' as basis for many of the pomo terms...Bruce Arrigo added many more. Then too, there are many concepts on Chaos/Complexity theory. TRY T.R.YOUNG@CMICH.EDU T.R.YOUNG@CMICH.EDU From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue Mar 12 15:47:12 1996 Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 17:37:38 -0600 (CST) From: VALERIE VINSON Subject: lists for medical soc and/or aging To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU To any one who may read this, I would like to know if anyone know of a list for medical sociology and/or a list that deals with aging. I am aware of the fact that there is a web site for aging but I do not have that address. If you can help me please forward the message directly to me or post it on this list. My address is vvinson@cwis.unomaha.edu Thanks in advance for the help. Valerie Valerie Vinson GTA University of NE-Omaha Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology ASH 184 Omaha, NE 68182 From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Mar 13 08:40:55 1996 (PMDF V4.3-10 #10451) id <01I2AEIE684W8XT347@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU>; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 11:38:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 11:38:43 -0500 (EST) From: SCOTT BLAKE Subject: vironmental Action Alert! To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU From: BINAH::AGIGIAN 13-MAR-1996 11:12:22.47 To: BINAH::BLAKE CC: Subj: URGENT ACTION ALERT (Nukes vote in DC!) From: IN%"freethep@Essential.ORG" 12-MAR-1996 20:52:36.23 CC: Subj: URGENT ACTION ALERT Return-path: id <01I29JJX1D008X3H51@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU>; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 20:52:33 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 20:48:03 -0500 (EST) From: Free the Planet! Subject: URGENT ACTION ALERT Reply-to: freethep@Essential.ORG Originator: ftp-list@essential.org URGENT URGENT URGENT URGENT URGENT URGENT URGENT - Free The Planet! ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS ACTION ALERT - - please forward - Once again our federal government is making decisions which will dramatically effect the environment. We can either choose to have high level radioactive nuclear waste move across US roads and highways for 30 years - or choose not to. We can either save endangered species - or choose not to. Voice your opinion TODAY - TODAY - TODAY - TODAY!!!!! Two environmental issues to be voted on in the next few days: 1. Stop nuclear waste from moving through 43 states Nuclear Waste Transportation: Vote against S. 1271 - vote could happen on Tues. or Wed. - 2. Save Endangered Species ESA Moratorium. Vote yes on the Reid amendment to House Resolution (H.R.) 3019 - vote could happen on Tues. or Wed. - If you don't get this until Thur. continue to call. There is a chance the bills will not be voted on until then. Capital Switchboard (202)224-3121. (US Senate and House) CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE: ask your Representative to oppose For the pay-phones and to save $ use #s to Congress, compliments of the Wise Use front groups: 800-962-3524 & 800-972-4524 To subscribe to Free The Planet! action alerts and updates send a message to listproc@essential.org which reads: subscribe ftp-list . Next line: subscribe ftp-action . Leave the subject line blank. To unsubscribe, do the same using: unsubscribe ftp-list. 1. Stop nuclear waste from moving through 43 states **opening your roads and railways to radioactive waste transportation - never mind safety *never mind states' rights* never mind the problem** Both S 1271 and HR 1020 may move in March. S 1271: the Senate Energy Committee has a "mark up" - a session when the Committee takes action to amend and vote on legislation- scheduled for March 13. HR 1020: industry trade press is reporting that, pending adjustments, the bill may move with the House '97 Budget Resolution this month. CALL YOUR SENATOR: within the next week voice opposition to S 1271, the radioactive waste transportation bill, and support S 544, sponsored by Senator Richard Bryant (D- NV) which would instead establish a comprehensive Independent Review of US radioactive waste policy. Specific targets include: Bingamen, Brown, Coats, DeWine, Ford, Frist, Hatch, Lieberman, Lugar, Shelby, Simon, Stevens, Thompson, Dodd, Domenici, Gorton, Hutchinson, Jeffords, McCain, Moseley-Brawn, murkowski, Nunn, Nickles, Ashcroft, Boxer, Bradley, Feingold, Feinstein, kennedy, Lautenberg, Leahy, roth, Sarbanes. S 1271 and HR 1020 open major rural and urban roads to the transportation of high level radioactive waste, from 109 nuclear plants to an interim ("temporary") storage site in Nevada. This site would be exempt from current safety standards, and risks the possibility of becoming a permanent dump site; meanwhile, the perspective, permanent storage site in Yucca Mountain, Nevada, already failed initial EPA safety standards, which were consequently rejected by Congress in 1992. These bills, rather than solve the radioactive waste storage problem, add another active site to the list. They are flagrant violations of states' rights. And, they hastily put a US public which already opposes the proliferation of nuclear power, at unnecessary risk. S 1271 & HR 1020: - expose 3/4 of the US population in 43 states to the threats of radioactive waste transportation. - prohibit the EPA from monitoring radiation releases, as required under current law; instead, set an exposure standard of 1 cancer death for every 286 individuals exposed. - exempt site selection, license application, and construction from the Environmental Impact Statement required by the National Environmental Policy Act. - safety tests on shipment casks will be done only by computer models, and heat standards are below the burning temperature of diesel fuel; Each large train cask contains the long-lived radiological equivalent of 200 Hiroshima bombs; there have been six major railroad derailments in the last month. - the Department of Energy expects 15 truck accidents yearly; over 15,000 shipments could be made over the next 30 years. - Section 501 (of HR 1020) preempts any state and local requirements that are "inconsistent," "duplicative," "an obstacle to accomplishing this Act," or which make carrying out this Act "impossible." ****************************************************** DEDICATED ANTI-NUCLEAR STUDENTS & CITIZENS NEEDED: If anyone is interested in long term organizing on this issue, people are getting their towns/cities/counties to pass resolutions opposing this legislation and declaring themselves "nuclear-free zones", i.e. Philadelphia, PA, Santa Barbara County, CA, etc. A small coalition of local merchants and one city council member is often all it takes, i.e. real-estate agencies, tourist reliant businesses, etc. For more info. call FTP! (202)547-3656, or NIRS (Nuclear Information & Resource Service) (202)328-0002 ****************************************************** 2. ESA Moratorium. Vote yes on House Resolution (H.R.) 3019 HELP END THE ESA LISTING MORATORIUM! TELL YOUR SENATORS TO VOTE YES ON THE REID AMENDMENT TO H.R. 3019! Hundreds of imperiled fish, wildlife and plant species have been denied essential ESA protections since April 1995, when Congress passed a moratorium on listing new species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Although moratorium supporters claimed that their listing moratorium would end last fall, the moratorium has been extended due to the budget crisis and is now included in H.R. 3019 (the Omnibus Appropriations bill). In response, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) is introducing an amendment to H.R. 3019, to be voted on March 12 or so, that would repeal the moratorium. The Reid amendment will be supported by Senator Chafee (R-RI) who will speak in favor of it on the floor. This gives us a fighting chance at picking up some Republican votes and a slim chance at winning this thing. The Listing Moratorium Must be Lifted - Here's Why: Over 500 Species Are Dangerously Close to Extinction. Due to the listing moratorium, more than 500 species facing extinction threats are being denied a final listing. Over 240 of these species have formally been proposed for listing, and roughly 270 species have been determined to be candidates for protection. Here are just a few of the imperiled animals and plants being denied ESA protection: the Atlantic and Coho Salmon, the Big Horn Sheep in Baja, CA, the Koala Bear, the Florida Black Bear, and a hundred Hawaiian and Californian plants. The Long-Term, Harmful Effects of the Moratorium. In a recent internal memo, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service stressed that the effects of this moratorium would not be temporary: "Elimination of the listing program will mean that species which would have been listed as threatened will continue to decline, and may become endangered and are more likely to become extinct. Species which would have been listed as endangered will continue to decline and many will likely disappear altogether." A recent survey by the National Institutes of Health shows that 79 percent of the 150 most frequently-prescribed medicines were derived from natural sources. In 1993, U.S. pharmaceutical companies earned $79 billion in revenues from sales of medicines. Potential Loss of Life-Sustaining Ecosystems. Each of the species that are left vulnerable to extinction threats due to the moratorium may be needed to support the ecosystems on which we rely for our jobs, food supply, and quality of life. A Costly "Head in the Sand" Approach. Although moratorium advocates claim to want ESA reform, the listing moratorium will do nothing to achieve any of the reforms that they purport to seek. Rather than promoting reform, the moratorium simply increases the ultimate cost and difficulty of species recovery. A Back-Door Approach to Weakening the ESA. The proposal to continue the listing moratorium has been attached to a lengthy and complex appropriations bill, without any hearings or public debate. Moratorium supporters apparently recognize that there is strong public opposition to weakening the ESA, and would prefer to enact this disastrous policy in secrecy. Time is of the essence -- the Senate will vote soon Free the Planet! || Contact us at: A million voices rising || 202-547-3656 or up for the environment. || freetheplanet@essential.org From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Mar 13 09:59:19 1996 Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 11:50:15 -0600 (CST) From: nick mcree To: SCOTT BLAKE Subject: Re: vironmental Action Alert! In-Reply-To: <01I2AEIE6HS28XT347@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU> Re: the environmental action alert... I find it interesting that whenever a proposal to truck "hazardous" nuclear waste on interstate freeways (such as the rubber gloves that x-ray technicians in hospitals use) people go ballistic. The fact that tens of thousands of trucks carry gasoline, propane, and other volatile fuels through heavily-traveled city road networks each year "sparks" nary a peep of concern. I think this discrepancy reinforces the notion that people are notoriously bad at assessing risk. -------------------------------- Nick McRee Department of Sociology 336 Burdine Hall The University of Texas--Austin Austin, Texas 78712-1088 Phone: (512) 471-1122 Fax: (512) 471-1748 From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Mar 13 10:03:55 1996 Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 11:52:55 -0600 To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU From: cbrown@siu.edu (Charles M. Brown) Subject: Midwest Meetings Does anyone need a roomate for the Midwest Meetings in April? I have a room already reserved, but would like to find someone to share it. The person that was supposed to room with me had to back out. You can contact me at my private address If your interested. Thanks. Chuck Brown (cbrown@siu.edu) From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Fri Mar 15 20:20:14 1996 Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 20:20:44 -0800 (PST) From: "G.W." Subject: 199 To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU this mainly applies to people in california. A friend of my parents is trying to get the word out. Vote NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO on proposition 199. A ballot initiative which... phases out local rent control laws on mobilehomes. Prohibits new state and local local rent control on mobilehomes. Provides limited private sector rent subsidy(HA HA) for low-income, mobilehome tenants. Proponents of this bill would have you believe that this bill helps those with low income. In actuality it doesn't according to people that live in mobilehome parks. Most mobilehome parks house elderly people on fixed incomes. Don't let this bill pass. again this is mainly aimed at voters in California. thanks. GREG From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Mar 24 06:07:11 1996 Date: Sun, 24 Mar 96 07:26:26 EST From: "T R. Young" <34LPF6T@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Organization: Central Michigan University Subject: Marxian Theory of Alienation To: GRADUATE STUDENTS IN SOCIOLOGY A marxian theory of alienation fits within a larger, structural social psychology. Indeed, Marx is the only theorist in the field who created a distinctly sociological social psychology upon which to ground a theory of alienation. Other entries in the field, not to be set aside in favor of sociology by any means, include a physiological approach which locates alienation in chemical imbalances, physical handicaps, genetic failings. Psychologistic social psycho- logies, themselves most interesting, find the sources of misery, anger, anxiety, hopelessness and apathy in internal dynamics of the sort put forth by Freud: fixation at earlier modes of psycho-sexual functioning. Socio-biologists, again not to be scorned out of hand, see all human discourse as struggle for domination, territory, sexual access and genetic survival. For most people for most of history, alienation was, and is, separation from God and from god-given rules for social organization; hierarchy, patriarchy, piety, humility, self-subserviance to community and to tribe. For Hegel and his followers, alienation was defined and measured by the gap between objective knowledge and subjective understanding. If we only understood the larger laws of history and society, we would organized ourselves to fit within them and thus end the thousand forms of pain and problem. For Hegel...indeed for all of modern science since, the solution to alienation was a rational/rationalized knowledge process in which order and compliance were based on natural law. There is a theory of the state and of a fascist state at that in Hegel since the state was the repository of what small rationality was possible among fallible human creatures. Marx, opposing Hegel and rejecting religious theories of alienation inspired a line of enquiry into the social sources of alienation; into the processes by which false consciousness arose and defeated human emancipation; into the ideological hegemony of the ling classes and the part played by law, religion, the media, the university, and by social theory itself. Without canonizing Marx nor by forgetting the many positive elements changes in social psychology brought into being by the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, let's take a look at some basic ideas in a distinctly marxian theory of alienation. 1. Human beings create themselves as 'species being' by appro- priating nature. In such appropriation of nature, the ancient problems of life are met and defeated: poverty, hunge illness and the various calamities of nature: flood, drought, famine, pestilence and such. 2. The means by which nature is appropriated is critical to a solution of alienation. These are the forms of economic life. For Marx, a distinctly human mode of production had two parts: a) the technical means of production and, b) the social means of distribution. The end of alienation required a rational, scientifically driven technology...to its everlasting credit, saith the good Marx, capitalism provides an ever improving of pro- duction. For most of human history, the sources of alienation resided limitations of production. Now, in a capitalist economy, the sources of alienation shift to... The means of distribution. A fatal flaw in capitalism is the private appropriation of the wealth produced by social labor. deed, all wealth is produced by cooperative labor...the labor theory of value is based upon a technical division of labor in which all parts are equally necessary; equally import- ant to both the production and the consumption of wealth. Think about it...what modern factory, mill, mine, shop or store could run without a larger societal base which provides socialized workers, basic infra-structure [roads, harbors, water/sewage systems, schools, fire/police protection and so on. These are social goods and cannot be excluded from the forms nor from the costs of production. Think too, of the consumption of wealth; how can one enjoy food, music, dance, theatre, art or literature alone... the notion of the single consuming individual is a nonsense notion most congenial to commodity capitalism but unknown in actual social life. Both production and consumption are quintessential social forms of behavior and cannot be reduced to the act of the solitary individual. Mead, years later, would put it in a more politically correct form: mind, self and society are twinborn. One cannot be a parent, a worker, a Baptist or a professor all by oneself...the capitalist/protestant model of self is a fictive entity helpful only to the process of controlling the labor market or avoiding the cost of social goods. 2. The means of production, in capitalism, creates much unnecessary alienation. In order to control the labor process and thus the extraction of 'surplus' value, investment and the division of profits, the capitalist organization of work becomes a major source of alienation. The sub-division of labor. For Marx, human beings become human beings by creative labor. Capitalism converts labor into alienated work: a. By de-skilling the worker, s/he becomes a mere machine and is alienated from one's own self...work becomes a drugery and a thing to do and have done rather than an affirmation of one's essential human capacity to convert raw nature into the essentials for social life. This contains a very romanticized and highly focussed theory of human nature...but still it has merit as a critique of capitalist labor markets and labor processes. Capitalism takes control of the very core of self: the status- role of 'worker' is now owned by the capitalist and the worker can be turned out of the status-role of a productive human being. That did not happen in primitive communism; nor in slavery, nor in feudalism nor should it happen in modern society. The very core of self is surgically removed when people are fired; when corporations are 'down-sized,' when capital is shifted to 3rd world, low waged countries or when productivity increases such that ever fewer workers are needed. In most other theories of alienation, dis-employment and the failure to do productive labor is reduced to psychological factors such as lazness, sloth, stupidity or failure to prepare oneself. Or to genes, race, gender or other physiological factor. b. A second source of alienation is loss of control over the product/wealth produced by a superior mode of production...even in its degraded form set in place by capitalist policy. In setting the price of labor at survival/subsistence levels [for whatever good reason], the worker loses control over the wealth s/he produces and thus is unable to convert one form of wealth into that required for a decent social life; to build family life, to sustain friendship, to enter into the cultural life of a community or to provide for the exigencies of life; accident, ill-health, old age and such. c. Capitalism separates workers from each other. Indeed, each worker becomes class enemy to every other worker...they have to compete for the job; compete for wage increment, compete for for promotion and compete for job security when plants 'down-size.' Capitalism plays white workers off against black; it uses gender politics to hire women and reduce labor costs; it threatens workers in one country with workers in another. It reduces the structure of self to the private, self-serving individual and thus destroys community while it encourages both racism and gender conflict. d. Marx talks of a fourth form of alienation...lose of ones' own sense and sensibility. In any elitist system, those at the bottom have to set aside their own preceptions, judgments, and feelings in deference to those 'in authority.' Think about what happens to students as they enter the classroom of the authoritarian professor. These bright, lively, funny, and knowledgeable people become quiet, sullen, dull and too often, servile. When one sells one's labor power, it no longer belongs to her/him. The very idea of a labor market commodifies art, craft, skill, love, hate, joy, despair and turns them over to managers, foremen, supervisors, public relations people...to the Boss. One is required to think, act, speak, feel and not-feel as the rules dictate; as policy requires; as the logic of hierarchy dictates. Think of the young people who work at McDonald's...they are told what to say and what to feel and how to act...they must go through a set of pre- scripted activities and are evaluated by a supervisor in terms of how well they embody the scripts given to them by the managers. 3. Marx, in his sociology of knowledge, said that the ruling ideas of an age are the ideas of the ruling class. This means that slaves take on the ideas which sustain slavery; peasants internalize the ideas which give title, knee and appropation to the squire, earl, baron or prince. This means that workers tend to accept the idea that wealth should be controlled by private persons, that economic inequality is essential for progress, that the labor market is a fact of life, that all goods and services should be commodified; access to law, access to health, access to food, shelter and clothing as well as to the arts and education should be privatized and bought via the commodity market. Think of Bill Buckley and his support of commodification of drugs...corporate liberals think that everything should be commodified; sex, narcotics, jobs, justice, and knowledge itself. Odd that so many conservative workers should join with corporate liberals to support privatized accumulation and reject the socialization of the costs of production/distribution of essential goods and services. Much of the dispute between Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Forbes makes visible this oddity. Mr. Dole tries to avoid ideological purity and stress his technical skills at 'getting things done.' But in the end, Mr. Dole with go with the corporate liberals and try to integrate the USA into globalized commodity/labor/capital markets. 4. Meadian social psychology is good theory for small town, communities in which there is an honest effort at uniting mind, self and society. Goffman is good for massified, bureucratized commodified segments of society in which deceit, fraud, image and impression is used for privatized purpose. Marx is good, very good for conflict situations in wpower, wer wealth and status is used to shape and pre-shape the consciousness of worker, customer, voter and artist. If we want a full, rounded social psychology, we have to join Marx, Mead, Marcuse, Fromm, Cooley, Goffman, Bourdieu, Foucault, Merleau-Ponty and a hundred other most excellent social psychologists not excluding Gramsci, E.P.Thompson and Habermas. Nor, until we have a much better research capacity, may we set aside physiology, socio-biology, reductionist psychology or historical psychology... There is much to do in the 21st century to build a decent social psychology. Whatever happens, as long as capitalism and elitist hierarchy exists, Marxian social psychology will continue to have a place in every syllabus of every class in every graduate program in every university in every country. Is that true of your program?? Next week I'll be at MSS in Chicago to see my good friend Barbara Heyl installed as president of MSS...then, following that, I will be back to give a bit of a tutorial on market socialism and the effort to put limits on the commodification of labor and the sub-division of the labor process. 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It has created the best knowledge system and requires even better. 6. It requires more freedom in more domains of life than.... In the second of the series, I began to list the more negative features not made visible in the self-knowledge of capitalist theory. In the 3rd of the series, I will carry on with this critique; but do keep in mind the contradictory nature of this most dynamics economic system. Part Three: Negativities [Con't]: 7. Capitalism tends to degrade the work process: a. A technical division of labor is instituted in order to increase output; the assumption [arguable] is that the more specialized a worker becomes, the more expert and competent s/he becomes. b. A Social division of labor is instituted in order to: 1) control the work process on management terms 2) control the nature of the good or service produced [by them selves, workers might not produce dangerous/polluting goods. 3) control the rate of capital investment...[workers might well decide to allocate more to wages than to profits and capital. 4) control the location of investment...[workers tend to retain capital investment in the home community...capitalists prefer to move to regions with lower labor costs, lower taxes, fewer restrictions and lower transport costs. 8. Capitalism requires ever expanding layers of unproductive workers: a. managers to control unruly workers b. public relations to colonize consciousness of workers, customers, voters and clergy. c. Advertizing specialists to generate ever expanding layers of desire and demand. d. lawyers to deal with criminal and civil suits. e. salespersons to help dispose of 'surplus' production. f. security guards to watch workers, customers, competitors and lower management...[upper management does not point private security at themselves or the corporation per se]. 9. Capitalism tends to destroy community: a. 'Universal Being' becomes reduced from tribe and extended family to the single individual and/or the corporation itself. b. The stratification of wealth tends to create urban enclaves separate and often hostile to each other. c. Investment decisions often require the abandonment of cities, towns and nations. d. Common needs are abandoned as economic crisis lowers wages, the tax base and corporate giving. e. Wealthy people flee to protected enclaves as amenities of the inner city deteriorate. 10. Capitalism tends to destroy the family: 1. Firms require workers to move from region to region leaving behind brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, grand- parents, cousins and other members of extended family. 2. The structure of self becomes reduced to a highly privatized worker/consumer reluctant to share with either family or community. 3. Children become economic liabilities as childhood/education is expanded from puberty to age 20, 30 and beyond...and as the consciousness of children is colonized to demand more and more goods and services. 4. As real wages decline, more and more parents go to work for wage labor leaving young children alone in cities far from sibs, parents and grandparents. 5. Human sexuality becomes alienated from family and from gender as more and more advertizements invest sexual desire into cars, clothing, beverages and other commodities. 10. Capitalism tends to locate moral agency at the top levels of bureau, firm, state or other hierarchal form of social organi- zation. Workers, students, soldiers, patients, and inmates must surrender moral agency to rule, policy, regulation, commands, orders, or other administrative fiat. Theories and measures of morality which focus upon the single individual thus distort and misplace moral responsibility for much of the mischief which accrues from corporate activity. In Part 4 of this series, I will continue with a critique of capitalism but do keep in mind that, in a marxist philsophy of science, causality is much less deterministic than is taught by the critics of marxist theory [and by many of its proponents]. These are the 'tendential' laws of capitalism; not the inevitable results of every capitalist firm or political economy. In future mini-lectures, I will discuss those Parallel Economic Systems which mediate capitalism and change its causal tendencies drama- tically. TR Young T.R.YOUNG@CMICH.EDU From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Mar 18 00:17:00 1996 Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 00:15:55 -0800 (PST) From: Karen Lee To: socgrad@weber.ucsd.edu, socgrad@UCSD.EDU, Chris Paul , David Mann , James Snyder , Jill Ryan , Mary Jo Johnson , Jennifer Rayman , kgrubbs@UCSD.EDU, jdutson@UCSD.EDU Subject: (Fwd) Just for fun!! (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 13:36:30 PST8PDT From: Theresa Desuyo To: klee@weber.ucsd.edu Subject: (Fwd) Just for fun!! (fwd) >TOP TEN SUBTLE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GRAD SCHOOL AND HELL: > >10. It doesn't rain in Hell. >9. Everyone has heard of Hell. >8. It's a lot more fun getting into Hell. >7. You can't fail out of Hell. >6. At least you can sleep in Hell. >5. Hell is forever; grad school just seems like it. >4. People smile in Hell. >3. You only have to sell your soul to go to Hell. >2. There are hot men and women in Hell. >1. You wouldn't tell a friend to go to grad school. > ----------------------------------------------------------- From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Mar 18 05:32:36 1996 Date: Mon, 18 Mar 96 07:00:35 EST From: "T R. Young" <34LPF6T@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Organization: Central Michigan University Subject: Immiseration Thesis...Conclusion To: GRADUATE STUDENTS IN SOCIOLOGY When one weighs the positive moments of a free market system and individual accumulations of wealth, status and power, along side of the more negative moments, one is forced to go outside the logics of the system to invent a political economy which retains some of the more helpful features while minimizing its more harmful effects. In this sequel to the Sunday posting, I will conclude with the marxist critique of capitalism and try to give a fair appraisal of the Immiseration Thesis as we head into the 21st Century. From there I will go to a marxian theory of Alienation, on to an overview of Market Socialism and conclude this series with an overall appraisal of Marxian Social Theory. The Immiseration thesis is particularly important to those who study social problems and the shape of social insitutions in that a basic tenet of marxian theory is that the political economy shapes both material and cultural patterns of social life. If that is true; and if the Immiseration Thesis has any significant truth value, then both social theory and social policy must include--along with feminist, Afro-American and other conflict theory--the impact of class on the fate and fortune of billions of people. On to the chase: 1. Capitalism tends to concentrate wealth...or the rich get richer and the poor get prison. This thesis in marxist theory holds that some portion of the 'surplus' value of labor extracted from the production and distribution of goods and services is used to eliminate competition and/or to expand market share. The story goes that dollar by dollar, pound by pound, mark by mark and yen by yen, rich firms gather the wealth into ever fewer firms. Big companies buy up or drive out small companies. The data are impressive; Eitzen and his colleagues have listed the transformation of the market from dozens of firms in the same line to just a few: cereals, transport, steel, chemicals, pharma- ceuticals, electronics and electrical goods as well as retail outlets...the effects of Walmart on Main Street has been the topic of many articles and books. The list goes on. However, if one takes only American workers and only the Golden Years of American Capitalism [1945-1975], the Embourgeoisement Thesis looks very good. These are the years that most academics came of age. These are the years in which federal funds for graduate study and vast expansion of the educational system led most economists, political scientists, historians, and yes, Socio- logists to select the Embourgeoisement Thesis as the better thesis. It well may be the case that, over the past 400 years of industrial capitalism, and over a more global view, the Embourgeoisement Thesis has important truth value. Compared to feudal, slave, and tribal economies of the 16th centuries, capitalism looks good. People are living longer; they are better educated; they live in better housing and they have a much wider. much more encompassing sense of self and society. Yet the question remains: can we do better; can we extract the features more helpful to the human project without immiserating billions of people around the world in the doing? Since we have not yet reached the end of history, the question remains for your generation to consider. 2. Capitalism tends to despoil the land and pollute the atmosphere. In the effort to increase demand, production, and profits, cap- italist firms mine the ores, pump the petroleum and saturate the land with pesticides, fungicides, and growth hormones. In order to reduce costs, 'waste' materials are dumped into the rivers, lakes, seas and oceans. Noxious fumes and carbon di-oxides are let loose in the very air we breathe. Solid wastes are left for others to clear and clean. Pollution despoils the very environment upon which all life depends. 3. The Capitalist State tends to grow and grow. In order to solve the two major problems of a capitalist economy, more and more people and funds are removed from productive labor and from private hands and put into the state sector. a. The Realization Problem. In order to help capitalist firms realize profit, the state guarantees markets and raw materials even if it means war with other capitalism nations. WWI and WWII as well as Desert Storm and a hundred other 'police' actions produced a huge and growing military economy. In order to help private firms realize profit, the state builds the roads, docks, railways, and airports; it builds and sub- sidizes power plants; it provides the streets, sewage, and police protection at public expense; it trains the workers and retrains the dis-employed. b. The Legitimacy Problem. In order to maintain the legitimacy of capitalism and the capitalist state itself, more and more private funds are appropriated by the capitalist state to feed the hungry; house the homeless; heal the broken bodies and repair the wounded souls of those left behind in the ever increasing marginalized peoples. Both political neces- sity and bare human compassion require these expenses. 3. The Fiscal Crisis of the Capitalist State. Keynesian economic theory holds that the fiscal crisis of the capitalist economy recorded as kondratieff cycles, can be moderated by the capitalist state pumping money into the system in bad times and taking money out of the system in good times. Supply Side and Demand Side economics are the concepts used to argue who should get the money the state puts into the economy: capitalists or workers. Today the argument is who should pay back the monies borrowed by the state to pump money in: the answer is the Middle Classes; the poor don't have surplus funds and the rich need theirs for, it is said, to re-invest in high tech. In the 1996 presidential campaign, the middle classes are rebelling against carrying the costs of capitalism. They want supply side help from the state and, in a mean-spirited and highly privatized morality, are willing to leave the surplus population to their own devices and desires. The costs of managing the surplus population [surplus to the capitalist labor market...not surplus to the human project] mean that Welfare, prisons, and other total institutions proliferate. All these contribute to the fiscal crisis; more and more spending along with a smaller and smaller tax base as well as a middle class upper working class tax rebellion encoded in the campaigns of Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Forbes, Mr. Dole and Mr. Keyes. Mr. Buchanan adds cultural warfare on the marginalized to his campaign as part of the prepatory psychological warfare to the dumping of the 'surplus' population. 4. Today the 3rd World which bears much of the costs of a globalized capitalist system: a. Foods, raw materials, profits and skilled workers are imported to the richest capitalist countries from the 100 or so poorer capitalist and pre-capitalist countries. b. Dangerous drugs and other products are sold abroad when consumer protection laws forbid the sale at home. c. Corporations dump toxic wastes in the 3rd world and/or move polluting factories to 'friendly' countries. d. Both the C.I.A. and the State Department try to subvert workers movements in the 3rd world...in order to help American Capital obtain cheap labor...and move jobs from US cities. e. The US Military and its 280 odd bases around the world maintain the false peace of global inequality in order to facilitate the movement of goods, employees, profits and raw materials --especially oil--to and from 3rd world countries. Tax payers in the USA, paralysed by appeals to patriotism...pay these costs with small protest. f. Corporate firms and secret agencies subvert the political process in a great many 3rd world countries. Noam Chomsky and Ed Herman have documented the US connection to 3rd World Fascism as have several defectors from the CIA. There are, in the literature, a good deal more critique of capital- ism and, every day the literature expands as more and more insiders and progressive scholars study, report, and write about the real- politik of the global economy. This brief listing gives those of you who may not have marxist scholars on the faculty, some idea of what you would be learning if you had one or two. In conclusion to this part on the Immiseration Thesis, I want to say, with Marx, that Capitalism has done much to help defeat the ancient enemies of human beings; drought, pestilence, famine, and the effects of natural catastrophe...it promises to do more if it can be harnessed to the general good; if it can be made to carry its own costs; if a way to redistribute wealth is found which does not divide and degrade. Some would argue and I would not object too strongly, that it would not then be capitalist...but sometimes I think we are too much the prisoner of words and not yet wise enough to consider the varieties before us. Next time, a look at Market Socialism and its effort to include the positive features of capitalism and contain its more negative effects...and thus build a better and more equitable society. TRY T.R.YOUNG@CMICH.EDU From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Mar 18 11:42:49 1996 Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 12:39:28 -0700 (MST) From: AMY LEISENRING To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: Graduate programs I am currently working on my master's degree in Sociology and am starting to look at PhD programs. I am most interested in a fairly competitive program that has an emphasis on sex and gender and/or strong ties to a Women's Studies program. Is anyone in a program they really like that meet these requirements? I would really appreciate any information/feedback. Thanks a lot!! Amy Leisenring New Mexico State University aleisenr@nmsu.edu From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue Mar 19 18:33:11 1996 Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 22:30:24 +0500 To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU From: jjanosko@vt.edu (Jeff Janosko) Subject: (Fwd) URGENT!!! VIRUS!!! >X-Sender: edwardsj@mail.vt.edu >Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 14:42:57 -0500 >Reply-To: "JOHN N. EDWARDS" >Sender: VPI&SU SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT LISTSERV >From: "JOHN N. EDWARDS" >Subject: (Fwd) URGENT!!! VIRUS!!! > >>X-Sender: akirby@mail.vt.edu >>Mime-Version: 1.0 >>Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 12:57:16 +0500 >>Reply-To: Arts and Sciences INFORMATION LIST >>Sender: Arts and Sciences INFORMATION LIST >>From: Adelene Kirby >>Subject: (Fwd) URGENT!!! VIRUS!!! >> >>>From: "Thomas Bell" >>>To: akirby, stout >>>Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 08:43:29 EST >>>Subject: (Fwd) URGENT!!! VIRUS!!! >>>Priority: normal >>> >>>The following came to one of our faculty. It looks legit. Share it >>>as you deem appropriate. >>> ---Tom >>> >>>------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- >>>Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 08:07:50 -0600 >>>From: srm@cco.caltech.edu (Seth Marder) >>>Subject: URGENT!!! VIRUS!!! >>> >>>>>Subject: URGENT!!! VIRUS!!! >>>>>Author: Enrique Yaffar at CCMHO13 >>>>>Date: 3/11/96 10:38 AM >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Killer Internet E-mail Virus, BEWARE!!!!! >>>>> >>>>> SUBJECT: VIRUSES--IMPORTANT PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY There is a >>>>> >>>>>computer virus that is being sent across the Internet. If you receive an >>>>> >>>>>e-mail message with the subject line "Good Times", DO NOT read the >>>>> >>>>>message, DELETE it immediately. Please read the messages below. >>>>> >>>>>Some miscreant is sending e-mail under the title "Good Times" nationwide, >>>>> >>>>>if you get anything like this, DON'T DOWN LOAD THE FILE! It has a virus >>>>> >>>>>that rewrites your hard drive, obliterating anything on it. >>>>> >>>>> Please be careful and forward this mail to anyone you care about. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>*********************************************************************** ***** >>>>> >>>>> WARNING!!!!!!! INTERNET VIRUS >>>>> >>>>>*********************************************************************** ***** >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>The FCC released a warning last Wednesday concerning a matter of major >>>>> >>>>>importance to any regular user of the Internet. Apparently a new computer >>>>> >>>>>virus has been engineered by a user of AMERICA ON LINE that is unparalleled >>>>> >>>>>in its destructive capability. Other more well-known viruses such as >>>>> >>>>>"Stoned", "Airwolf" and "Michaelangelo" pale in comparison to the prospects >>>>> >>>>>of this newest creation by a warped mentality. What makes this virus so >>>>> >>>>>terrifying, said the FCC, is the fact that no program needs to be exchanged >>>>> >>>>>for a new computer to be infected. It can be spread through the existing >>>>> >>>>>e-mail systems of the Internet. Once a Computer is infected, one of several >>>>> >>>>>things can happen. If the computer contains a hard drive, that will most >>>>> >>>>>likely be destroyed. If the program is not stopped, the computer's >>>>>processor >>>>> >>>>>will be placed in an nth-complexity infinite binary loop -which can severely >>>>> >>>>>damage the processor if left running that way too long. >>>>> >>>>> Unfortunately, most novice computer users will not realize what is >>>>> >>>>>happening until it is far too late. Luckily, there is one sure means of >>>>> >>>>>detecting what is now known as the "Good Times" virus. It always travels to >>>>> >>>>>new computers the same way in a text e-mail message with the subject line >>>>> >>>>>reading "Good Times". Avoiding infection is easy once the file has been >>>>> >>>>>received simply by NOT READING IT! The act of loading the file into the mail >>>>> >>>>>server's ASCII buffer causes the "Good Times" mainline program to initialize >>>>> >>>>>and execute. The program is highly intelligent- it will send copies of >>>>>itself >>>>> >>>>>to everyone whose e-mail address is contained in a receive-mail file or a >>>>> >>>>>sent-mail file, if it can find one. It will then proceed to trash the >>computer >>>>> >>>>>it is running on. The bottom line there is - if you receive a file with the >>>>> >>>>>subject line "Good Times", delete it immediately! Do not read it" Rest >>>>> >>>>>assured that whoever's name was on the "From" line was surely struck by the >>>>> >>>>>virus. Warn your friends and local system users of this newest threat to the >>>>> >>>>>Internet! It could save them a lot of time and money. >>>>> >>>>> Could you pass this along to your global mailing list as well? >>>>> >>>>>________________________________ >>>>>Debabrata Goswami (Debu) >>>>>Brookhaven National Laboratory >>>>>Chemistry Department >>>>>Building 555A >>>>>Upton, NY 11973-5000 >>>>> >>>>>Internet: debu@bnl.gov >>>>>Tel. (516) 344-4360 (office) >>>>> (516) 821-0304 (home) >>>>>FAX: (516) 344-5815 (office) >>>>>_______________________________ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>Joseph W. Perry >>>>jwp@cco.caltech.edu >>>>(818)354-5794 >>>>(818)393-1904 FAX >>>> >>>>Jet Propulsion Laboratory >>>>California Institute of Technology >>>>4800 Oak Grove Dr. >>>>Mail Stop 67-201 >>>>Pasadena, CA 91109 >>>> >>> >>>Seth Marder >>>Member of the Technical Staff (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) >>>Member of the Beckman Institute (Caltech) >>> >>>SRM@ cco.caltech.edu >>>Phone 818-395-2829 office >>>Phone 818-395-2715 lab >>>FAX 818-449-4159 >>> >>>139-74 >>>Beckman Institute >>>California Institute of Technology >>>Pasadena, CA 91125 >>>USA >>> >>> >>> >> > >JOHN N. EDWARDS >PROFESSOR AND HEAD >DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY >BLACKSBURG, VA 24061-0137 >(540) 231-6878 > From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue Mar 19 19:17:11 1996 Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 19:13:36 -0800 To: jjanosko@vt.edu (Jeff Janosko), socgrad@UCSD.EDU From: lichter@nicco.sscnet.ucla.edu (Michael I. Lichter) Subject: Re: (Fwd) URGENT!!! VIRUS!!! (Good Times are Here Again!) It's amazing how many times the so-called "good times" so-called virus thing has cycled around the net. It's not a virus, it's not in current circulation, and it only affected people on AOL (if anyone). It's not precisely an urban legend because (as far as I can tell) there really was a "mail bomb" on AOL that took advantage of the way their mailer works to mess up people's accounts. At this point it need not concern anybody, except as an object for social analysis. Michael -- Michael Lichter UCLA Department of Sociology From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue Mar 19 19:37:06 1996 (PMDF V4.3-10 #10451) id <01I2JF4MRZI88XG09C@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU>; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 22:33:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 22:32:13 -0500 From: "Scott S. Blake" Subject: "Good Times Virus" Hoax To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Source: http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/notes/Notes04c.shtml THE "Good Times" VIRUS IS AN URBAN LEGEND In the early part of December, CIAC started to receive information requests about a supposed "virus" which could be contracted via America OnLine, simply by reading a message. The following is the message that CIAC received: Here is some important information. Beware of a file called Goodtimes. Happy Chanukah everyone, and be careful out there. There is a virus on America Online being sent by E-Mail. If you get anything called "Good Times", DON'T read it or download it. It is a virus that will erase your hard drive. Forward this to all your friends. It may help them a lot. THIS IS A HOAX. Upon investigation, CIAC has determined that this message originated from both a user of America Online and a student at a university at approximately the same time, and it was meant to be a hoax. CIAC has also seen other variations of this hoax, the main one is that any electronic mail message with the subject line of "xxx-1" will infect your computer. This rumor has been spreading very widely. This spread is due mainly to the fact that many people have seen a message with "Good Times" in the header. They delete the message without reading it, thus believing that they have saved themselves from being attacked. These first-hand reports give a false sense of credibility to the alert message. There has been one confirmation of a person who received a message with "xxx-1" in the header, but an empty message body. Then, (in a panic, because he had heard the alert), he checked his PC for viruses (the first time he checked his machine in months) and found a pre-existing virus on his machine. He incorrectly came to the conclusion that the E-mail message gave him the virus (this particular virus could NOT POSSIBLY have spread via an E-mail message). This person then spread his alert. As of this date, there are no known viruses which can infect merely through reading a mail message. For a virus to spread some program must be executed. Reading a mail message does not execute the mail message. Yes, Trojans have been found as executable attachments to mail messages, the most notorious being the IBM VM Christmas Card Trojan of 1987, also the TERM MODULE Worm (reference CIAC Bulletin B-7) and the GAME2 MODULE Worm (CIAC Bulletin B-12). But this is not the case for this particular "virus" alert. If you encounter this message being distributed on any mailing lists, simply ignore it or send a follow-up message stating that this is a false rumor. Karyn Pichnarczyk CIAC Team ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott S. Blake Graduate Student (Sociology), Information Systems Coordinator (Division of Student Affairs), President (Graduate Student Association), Network Administrator/Senior Consultant (HomePort Consulting Services) blake@brandeis.edu|blake@homeport.org | http://www.homeport.org/~blake/ Finger blake@binah.cc.brandeis.edu for PGP Public Key From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Mar 20 07:35:04 1996 Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 09:33:28 -0600 (CST) From: Melissa To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: Ain't we luck we got'em... Good Times is a joke but you're not the only one who has fallen for it. However, you're the only guys that have mentioned it within the last six months. It seems AOL and IBM thought it was real also! That's a pretty good hack if you ask me! melissa -- KATHODE RAY MUSIC -- Radio promotion for independent bands and artists. Email info@kathoderay.org or http://kathoderay.org for details. From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Mar 20 20:22:10 1996 Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 20:16:53 -0800 (PST) From: Karen Lee To: Miscellaneous Mailing List -- Andrea and Bryon Wischstadt , Audra Loyal , Elizabeth Jennings , Carolyn Hsu , Chris Paul , David Ravetch , David Mann , Don Liversedge <100046.3641@compuserve.com>, Ezra Antonio , "Falk v. Kriegsheim" , Mike Gonzales , James Snyder , Jane Norris , Jarvis Mak , Jean Hotta , Jen Cheng <70004.2216@compuserve.com>, Jill Ryan , Jolana Vonfabian , Julie Sugino , Lloys Frates , Mary Jo Johnson , Francisco Martinez , "Patrick O'Neill" , Ray and Kris Lozano , Jennifer Rayman , Rebekah Sobel , ROBERT TYSON , Sandi Peterson , Shelby Maddux , Orientation Network -- Laura Abeyta-Paulus , Andy Van Horn , Audie Caceres , Brooke Henderson , Bruce Barbee , Chris Spreitzer , Denette Boyd , Eunice Cabacungan , Jim Kim , Josie Lee , Lisa Raigosa , Lisa Kim , Lovell Sevilla , Mary Gonzalez Howard , Matt Weathers , Michael Chandler , Mike Casillas , Molly Shen , Oanh Vu , Chris Rhodes , Roxanne Neal , Steve Callaghan , Theresa Desuyo , Tim Ramirez , Tina Wong , Tom Camp , Tracee Snider , Vanessa Stamp-Thomas , socgrad@weber.ucsd.edu, socgrad@UCSD.EDU, "Family Mailing List -- Yvonne, Steve, Gene and Kai Mak" <73543.1364@compuserve.com>, Daddy and Mommy <73631.1506@compuserve.com>, Audrey Lee , cssa@UCSD.EDU, -- Lawrence Bobo , Lisa Catanzarite , Steve Cornell , Yen Espiritu , Harvey Goldman , Jeff Haydu , Martha Lampland , John Lie , Victor Nee , Rae Blumberg , William Roy , Philip Yang , Yung Chen Subject: bone marrow donor needed...please pass on please ask around and forward on...something more useful than bad jokes to use the internet for. Karen > > >Friends, >My twelve year old sister has Leukemia and needs a bone marrow >transplant to survive, but has no blood-related siblings. Her name is >Karen, and she is 1/2 Korean and 1/2 North American (European >descendants). Finding out whether or not one is an appropriate donor >requires only a blood test. All expenses for the donor will of course >be paid. If you are or know anyone who is of like origin, please email me >as soon as possible at . I would also appreciate >your sharing this message with the people you know. Karen's doctors are >searching through the registered donor list, and haven't had much >luck. >Our best bet is to find someone who is not yet registered as a donor. >I welcome any suggestions you have, and appreciate your concern. > >Thank you, >Mike > >'`~^~`'`~^~`'`~^~`'`~^~`'`~^~`'`~^~`'`~^~`'`~^~`'`~^~`'` >I know the Spades are the swords of a solider, I know the Clubs are >weapons of war, I know that Diamonds mean money for this art, but that's >not the shape of my Heart. > Sting >'`~^~`'`~^~`'`~^~`'`~^~`'`~^~`'`~^~`'`~^~`'`~^~`'`~^~`'` > "To all the pple touched by madness..." From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Mar 25 11:04:10 1996 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 14:01:27 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: Position Available, Fall Semester (fwd) FYI ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Cassell jwcassell@UNC.EDU Institute for Research in Social Science Phone: 919-962-0782 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Fax: 919-962-4777 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3355 USA ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 12:34:22 -0600 (CST) From: C. Prendergast To: teachsoc@maple.lemoyne.edu Subject: Position Available, Fall Semester Dear TeachSoc Folks: We have a leave-replacement position open at Illinois Wesleyan University for this Fall. The teaching load is three courses, two sections of Social Problems and a 300-level course on Marriage and Family. Assistant Professor level. Salary Competitive. Illinois Wesleyan, an equal opportunity employer, enrolls 1850 students, of which 25-30 can be expected to enroll in the above classes. Send CV and names of references by April 15 to: Chris Prendergast, Acting Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL 61702-2900, tel (309) 556-3088, fax (309) 556-3411. Please note that I will be interviewing candidates at the Midwest Sociological Society meetings in Chicago on April 3-4. Interested persons should try to meet with me for a brief interview, if possible. Chris Prendergast From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Mon Mar 25 18:33:16 1996 From: Tanenbaum E J Date: Tue, 26 Mar 96 02:25:13 GMT To: ABSLST-L%CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU@seralph6.essex.ac.uk, ANSS-L%UCI.EDU@seralph6.essex.ac.uk, CUSSNET%STAT.COM@seralph6.essex.ac.uk, ERAM%bradford.ac.uk@seralph6.essex.ac.uk, FAMLYSCI%UKCC.UKY.EDU@seralph6.essex.ac.uk, MARXISM%WORLD.STD.COM@seralph6.essex.ac.uk, METHODS%VM.ITS.RPI.EDU@seralph6.essex.ac.uk, NIATRN-L%LIST.NIH.GOV@seralph6.essex.ac.uk, RURSOC-L%UKCC.UKY.EDU@seralph6.essex.ac.uk, SOCGRAD%UCSD.EDU@seralph6.essex.ac.uk, SOCIOLOGY%THINK.NET@seralph6.essex.ac.uk, SOCIAL-THEORY%M@seralph6.essex.ac.uk Subject: Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis & Collection The 29'th annual Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis & Collection takes place between 6 July - 17 August, 1996. During these six weeks, the Essex Summer School will run about 30 two-week courses at introductory, intermediate and advance levels. Courses are offered on regression (cross-section and time-series), dimensional analysis, contingency table analysis, survey design, survey sampling and analysis, multi-level analysis, data visualisation, linear structural equations, interviewing techniques, content analysis, event history analysis, correspondence analysis, rational choice models and discourse analysis (among others). Besides these, two two-week 'data confrontation workshops' will focus on the Eurobarometer suite of surveys and the British Household Panel Study. For further information please contact: The Organising Secretary 29'th Essex Summer School University of Essex Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK (e-mail: sum_sch@essex.ac.uk fax: [UK] 1206-873598 [International] 44-1206-873598 telephone: [UK] 01206-872502 [International] 44-1206-872502) or see our WWW home page on URL: http://www.essex.ac.uk/social-science-methodology-school/ From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue Mar 26 07:18:33 1996 Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 09:11:06 -0600 To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU From: cbrown@siu.edu (Charles M. Brown) Subject: Popular culture listserv Hello all: I have recently heard about a cultural studies listserv, but don't know the address or formal name. Is anyone out there aware of any cultural studies or popular culture listservs? I would appreciate any help that you could give me. Thanks. Qapla' Chuck- ????????????????????????????????????????? ?? Charles M. Brown ?? "In this last of meeting places ?? Department of Sociology ?? We grope together ?? Southern Illinois University ?? And avoid speech ?? Carbondale, IL 62901 ?? Gathered on this beach ?? (618) 453-2494 ?? of the tumid river" ?? e-mail (cbrown@siu.edu) ?? T.S. Eliot/The Hollow Men ?? WWW: http://www.siu.edu/~socio/ ?? ????????????????????????????????????????? From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Tue Mar 26 08:50:21 1996 Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 08:47:11 -0800 To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU From: lucy de fabrizio Chuck: Peter Montgomery, an English professor, runs a Popular Culture list out of Camosun College, Victoria, BC, CANADA. To subscribe, send SUBSCRIBE POPCULT YOURNAME in the message body, with a blank subject line, to LISTPROC@CAMOSUN.BC.CA Douglas Aoki 2575 Le Conte Avenue, Apt. 1 Berkeley, CA 94709 (510) 843-7873 From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Mar 27 10:07:08 1996 Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 13:03:24 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: Student Paper Competition (fwd) FYI - Jim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Cassell jwcassell@UNC.EDU Institute for Research in Social Science Phone: 919-962-0782 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Fax: 919-962-4777 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3355 USA ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 13:01:07 -0800 From: Earl Babbie Subject: Student Paper Competition ANNOUNCEMENT The Sociology and Computers section of the American Sociological Association announces a student paper/software competition. The awards committee will consider research papers on topics subsumed by the section's name, innovative uses of existing computer software, or designs and implementations of new software. Three copies of submissions should be sent by June 1, 1996 to the committee's chair, William E. Feinberg, Department of Sociology, Post Office Box 210378, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0378; Fred Halley and Edward Brent will also serve on the committee. Submissions involving new or existing software should include detailed descriptions of the projects and -- if possible -- copies of the software. +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Earl Babbie ][ BABBIE@NEXUS.CHAPMAN.EDU ][ CIS:76424,156 | | Chapman University, Orange CA 92666 ][ Voice: 714-997-6565 | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Mar 27 10:32:01 1996 From: pdupouy@zeus.ucab.edu.ve (Paola Antonella Dupouy Rivero) Subject: Ocio To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 13:57:21 -0400 (AST) Hello: I'm doing a work about Sociology of Ocio (youngs and Free Time). If you can help me, I would appreciate any information that you could give me. Thanks a lot! Paola Dupouy Caracas - Venezuela E-m:pdupouy@zeus.ucab.edu.ve Fax: 58-2-9879642 From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Wed Mar 27 21:03:04 1996 Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 22:59:42 -0600 (CST) From: "MELINDA A. FAUCHER " To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU subscribe socgrad Melinda Faucher From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Mar 28 11:16:54 1996 Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 14:12:04 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: Religion and the Fine Arts (fwd) Thought some of you might be interested in this. -- Jim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Cassell jwcassell@UNC.EDU Institute for Research in Social Science Phone: 919-962-0782 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Fax: 919-962-4777 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3355 USA ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 12:53:36 -0500 From: Agreel@aol.com To: POR@GIBBS.OIT.UNC.EDU Subject: Religion and the Fine Arts If anyone is interested, I have posted on my home page a small article on religion and the fine arts based on the 1993 culture module in the GSS. In it I puruse my theory of religion as experience, image, and story as I laid it out in in "Religion as Poetry." I'd appreciate reactions. Graphs will probably be up by tomorrow. agreel From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Fri Mar 29 04:42:38 1996 Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 07:36:49 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Cassell To: Laurel Ann Duchowny Subject: Re: Religion and the Fine Arts (fwd) In-Reply-To: On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, Laurel Ann Duchowny wrote: > I am interested in this paper but there's no homepage address listed. > Thanks, > Laurie Duchowny > SUNY Stony Brook Sorry about that--I didn't notice the URL wasn't included. It is WWW.agreeley.com Best, Jim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Cassell jwcassell@UNC.EDU Institute for Research in Social Science Phone: 919-962-0782 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Fax: 919-962-4777 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3355 USA From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Mar 31 05:56:06 1996 Date: Sun, 31 Mar 96 07:29:56 EST From: "T R. Young" <34LPF6T@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Organization: Central Michigan University Subject: Work, Labor and Praxis: Market Socialism Redux To: GRADUATE STUDENTS IN SOCIOLOGY The Sociology of Work is center point of marxian social theory. It begins with an observation that capitalism tends to commodify 'all that is sacred.' Then in a switch from empirical generalization, Marx switches over to a more political mode of social theory; he argues that capitalism should/must/will be replaced by a different mode of production. The new mode of producttion centers around the concept of 'praxis.' In this continuation of the series on Marxian theory, I will try to explain what is going on and what progressive sociologists may do usefully, in both the study of the labor process and in evaluation of experimental forms of work and labor. There are three 'factors of production' which are at issue: Labor, Capital, and, goods and services. We will focus on the marxian critique of the commodification of labor first. A. Commodification of the Labor Process. One of the stronger points of critique of capitalism made by Marxists then and now center around the process of commodification. In the most simple terms possible, commodification means transforming the goods and services needed to produce social life and human culture into market commodities to be bought and sold by whomever has the price. A major problem arises when a significant portion of a society does not have the price...the question arises what are those who have resources do about those who don't; how do those who don't have the resources to buy the necessities of life going to get them. The solution in capitalist terms is simply to go on the labor market and sell your labor to whomever will buy it...each person is to prepare his/her labor skills and compete freely with every other person for positions open on the job market. Marxists/socialists point out that capitalism has a tendency to produce more and more with fewer and fewer workers. Indeed, that is one of the major advantages of capitalism...it continues to seek to improve the Means of Production in order to reduce labor costs and to increase market share. This tendency produces an ever growing 'surplus' population. From the point of view of the capitalist, this is good since it provides a 'reserve army of the unemployed' which tends to drive down the costs of labor [and increase profits]. From the point of view of those unemployed, this is not good since it 'separates production and distribution.' Indeed, capitalism is the only economic system in human history in which production is for profit rather than for human use. In primitive communal societies, all production was direct family/tribal/societal use. Even in slavery and feudalism, slavemasters and feudal lords could not withhold goods and services within the logics of those systems. Only capitalism creates a surplus population...surplus to the labor process...this is the first and major form of alienation in marxian theory since, for Marx, labor is the heart and soul of the process by which human beings become human. B. Praxis and the Labor Process. Marx argued that one becomes 'species being' in the process of 'appropriating nature' and converting raw materials into cultural goods. This means that the social identity of the productive laborer [sawyer, wheel- wright, sailor, goldsmith, shepherd and such] is central to the core of self. Many argue that there are other important social identities which should be considered in any theory of alienation: religious identities, familial, ethnic and gender to name those social identities which, in my own opinion, are at least of equa importance to 'species being.' Another form of alienation centers around the many forms of cultural goods which, according to Marx, should not be commodified: basic material resources [food, shelter, health care and such], political culture [law, governance, and economic decisions about investment and distribution] as well as ideolog- ical culture: art, music, science, religion and theater. The concept of Praxis is an old and honorable one. In classical Greek social philosophy which Marx inherited, Techne had to do with the regulation of farm and household [ecos-onomy] affairs. It was the province of slaves and women [don't blame me; blame Socrates, Plato and Aristotle]. Praxis had to do with wisdom and judgment and dealt with those problems unresolvable by mere technical knowledge; Praxis was the province of men...men of genius such as...well, Socrates, Aristotle and Plato...and me. Theoria was the province of the gods and had to do with the larger, invisible principles of nature and society [our word, hypothesis means 'below-visibility].' Marx reunited techne, praxis and theory by arguing that all three should be the province of every human being...rather than a social a social division of knowledge/labor/being, Marx held that some of the product of the economy should be 'socialized' to help every one become 'species being' in this meaning of the term. Praxis became the unification of theory and techne in marxian social psychology. This is arguable but still it is the heart of marxian theory from which all else flows. D. Capital. For Marx, not even capital should be commodified. In a famous passage, Marx quotes Shakespeare about capital. There is a soliloquy in in which Shakespeare/Marx voices their opinion of un-socialized wealth. I don't have it in front of me but it goes something like: Gold, yellow, gleaming precious gold; This is it that plucks the pillow from the heads of stout men. This is it that gives title, knee and approbation to the knave. This is it that refreshes the hoar leper to the April Day again. Yellow, precious glittering gold, I will make thee do thy right nature. There are several serious social/political problems when capital is held in private hands. 1. It tends to be concentrated in ever fewer hands...economic inequality seems to be a feature of a capitalist political economy. 2. Low profit lines are abandoned. Child care, medical services for the elderly, education and the arts are neglected in a market system even if they are profitable...when profits else- where are higher. 3. Dangerous or degrading goods and services are produced when there is a market for them; some street drugs, sexuality of men, women and children, cigarettes, guns and such are procured and sold to whomever has the price. 4. The political process becomes commodified and sold to whomever has the resources to pay; Steve Forbes can buy his way into politics; Bill Clinton can sell his office to special interest groups...such as lawyers. E. Market Socialism. Given the failures of central planning and the socialization of all three factors of production in the USSR and elsewhere, there has been a renewed interest in a form of socialism which allows a limited market in capital as well as goods and services. Labor is excluded from free market dynamics in that work is essential not only for buying things but for its social psychological benefits mentioned above. There are some interesting versions of market socialism around. In the USA, John Roemer and Dave Schweickart are drawing the most interest. References below. The Radical Philosophy Association recently sponsored a Symposium on the work of Schweickart. The highlights of the Schweikart plan are: 1. All firms above a given size would be funded by the state. This socializes capital to some extent. Size is also not speciified. Some say firms with 20 or fewer workers can be privatized; some say 300 workers...very important question since those workers have no reliable connection to either production or distribution of essential goods. And exploit- ation...a nasty word in marxian theory...can still occur. 2. Each firm would pay a use tax on the monies provided by the state. This is really a standardized form of interest. lots of problems when the state sets interests rates; more when banking cartels do so. 3. Each firm would be worker managed. There are lots of advan- tages to worker owned and operated firms; higher quality, less waste, better maintenance, less worker turn-over or absenteeism and higher profits. A problem arises since solidarity begins and ends within the shop, plant, mill, store or factory. Customers and competing worker-owned firms become class enemy. 4. Each firm would buy and sell its products/services on the market. Thus both capital and labor is, to great extent, socialized, but goods and services still commodified. Those who do not cannot work are thus excluded from life's necessities. And a free market in some goods/services might still degrade. 5. Each firm would set aside funds to replace/rebuild/expand. Why would workers decide to reduce income now for future productive capacity??? Good question...the state would have to monitor such reserve funds...lots of problems accrue. 6. Of the net income left after use tax and set-asides, workers would decide how to share out the rest. Lots of room for jealousy, politicing, connivance and such but it is their problem not that of the capitalist or the state. There remains lots of problems to be worked out about just what should be socialized; how much labor, capital, and goods should be freed to market dynamics; how would collective/community needs/goods be met [roads, schools, police, fire protection and such]. There remains a tension between democracy, social justice, and individual liberties not well resolved...perhaps unresolbable. There is always the problem of corruption in state and private sectors. But as Michael Howard/UMaine said in his critique of Schweickart, his form of market socialism is democratic, it's feminist, it's green, it's pro-labor and it's a lot more democratic than wage labor. Whatever the case, we have not yet reached the End of History and the 'Final Triumph' of capitalism. We still have a long way to go before we solve the problems of being and praxis; of individualism and community; of enterprize and job security. Since our generation has failed to do so, your generation has challenges and opportunities to do better. Good luck to you and your generation in the effort. You have a lot to do and a lot to build on. TR Young T.R.YOUNG@CMICH.EDU From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Mar 31 07:14:00 1996 Date: Sun, 31 Mar 96 10:04:11 EST From: "T R. Young" <34LPF6T@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Organization: Central Michigan University Subject: Market Socialism: Basic & Current References To: GRADUATE STUDENTS IN SOCIOLOGY There are several references which those of you interested in Economic Sociology, Sociology of Work and/or the Political Economy of Market Socialism at which one might take a good look: I forgot to append them in the earlier post. But you can down- load them more easily this way. Have fun. Bardham, P.K., and John Roemer. 1993. Market Socialism: The Current Debate. Oxford University Press. Kenworthy, Lane. What kind of Economic System: A Leftist Guide. in Socialist Review, April-June: pp. 102-124. [I found this to be a very useful overview of both the forms of capitalism and the forms of socialism...18 of one and four of another if memory serves. Roemer, John. 1994. A Future for Socialism. Harvard University Press. Schweickart, David. 1996. Against Capitalism. Cambridge U. Press. [The title really should be 'Since Capitalism has so many problems, Let Us think about Market Socialism.]' Laski, Brus and Kazimierz. 1989. From Marx to Market. Clarendon Press. All these are helpful background references...and they lead one in several directions to other basic and earlier work. TRY T.R.YOUNG@CMICH.EDU From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Mar 31 19:50:09 1996 From: michael carley Subject: Internet references To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 19:47:13 +4000 (PST) Does anyone have any experience citing documents found on the internet in their papers? Specifically, I am citing gophers and Web items. Has anyone run accross an established format for doing this? Thanks, mike *************************************************************************** * Michael Carley | You should never wear your best * * Department of Sociology | trousers when you go out to fight for * * Stanford University | freedom and liberty.--Henrick Ibson * * Stanford CA 94305-2047 | * * (415) 497-7526 | Sorry, but my karma just ran over * * mcarley@leland.stanford.edu | your dogma. * * | * *************************************************************************** From list-relay@UCSD.EDU Sun Mar 31 21:07:32 1996 Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 21:05:37 -0800 (PST) From: Laura Miller To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Subject: Re: Internet references I haven't looked at any of these myself, but there are a few online guides to electronic citations. They are: A Brief Citation Guide for Internet Sources in History and the Humanities gopher://h-net.msu.edu:70/00/lists/H-AFRICA/internet-cit Bibliographic Formats for Citing Electronic Information http://www.uvm.edu/~xli/reference/estyles.html MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/mla.html Laura Miller lmiller@ucsd.edu