From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Tue Sep 1 05:35:31 1998 Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 07:35:32 -0400 (EDT) From: James Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: new resource for job seekers (fwd) FYI; note also that the ASA Employment Bulletin is avaiable from the ASA Homepage (http://www.asanet.org). James ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/cassell/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 21:00:37 -0400 From: David Campbell To: H-GRAD@H-NET.MSU.EDU Subject: new resource for job seekers THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION LAUNCHES "CAREER NETWORK" The definitive list of academic career resources and job openings on the Web can now be found at http://chronicle.com/jobs The Chronicle of Higher Education this week has started Career Network, an on-line career service that can be found at http://chronicle.com/jobs. Career Network is the definitive place on the Web for academic job seekers to find career counseling, news about the job market, and the largest listing of higher-education jobs in the world. This week, 1,480 job openings are being announced. Other features of the site include: --News about the college and university job market, as reported by The Chronicle ’s editorial staff. --Two new advice columns on finding a job. One, Ms. Mentor, is a witty and savvy look at working in academe. This week, she discusses what to do when you are not the favorite of your dissertation adviser. The other is Career Talk, with nuts-and-bolts advice on how to apply for a job in higher education. This week's column discusses how to create a Web site that will help your job search. Both columns are interactive. --First-person diaries of job seekers, detailing the highs and lows of pursuing a job in academe. --An extensive resources section with dozens of links to other on-line sources of career information, plus a listing of books for the academic job seeker. --Hundreds and hundreds of jobs in all areas of higher education, including faculty and research positions in the humanities, social sciences, professional fields, and science and technology; administrative positions; executive positions; and posts outside academe. The Chronicle of Higher Education is the leading publication covering academe and intellectual life. Its award-winning staff produces a weekly print edition and a Web site updated daily for more than 95,000 subscribers. The Career Network is a free service available to all. ********************************************************** Visit the H-GRAD Website at http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~grad ********************************************************** From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Wed Sep 2 05:09:48 1998 Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 07:09:45 -0400 (EDT) From: James Cassell To: Southern Sociological Society Network , Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: International Conference on Revitalizing Cities: Louisville, Kentucky (fwd) FYI - James ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/cassell/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 18:58:16 -0400 From: John I. Gilderbloom To: Comurb_r21@email.rutgers.edu Subject: International Conference on Revitalizing Cities: Louisville, Kentucky On October 15-17, Louisville, Kentucky will be the site for one of the most exciting conferences on learning what works to repair our inner cities. We have lined up some of speakers that will have direct experience in rebuilding cities. We have four tracks: housing, sustainable development, crime prevention and urban design. We have just learned that Andrew Cuomo is looking probable for the conference as a speaker. To get more details, visit our web site: http://www.louisville.edu/org/sun/conference If you want to see how I have spent over 3 million dollars in federal money over the past five years visit my web site at: http://www.louisville.edu/org/sun We also have a new cyber magazine called Sustain that I edit. If you want to come to Cuba during Thanksgiving or Christmas, please visit my other web site at: http://www.iglou.com/conferences Adios Amigos and Amigas!!! From DAVIDSON@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU Wed Sep 2 14:10:26 1998 Date: Wed, 02 Sep 98 16:08:22 EDT From: Alan Davidson Subject: nationwide faculty trends To: socgrad@CSF.COLORADO.EDU ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 07:31:39 -0700 Reply-To: Graduate Studies Discussion Forum Sender: Graduate Studies Discussion Forum From: Scott Kerlin Subject: nationwide faculty trends (fwd) To: AERA-GSL@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU Source: The Review, American Federation of Teachers newsletter, Fall 1998 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FULL-TIME TENURED FACULTY BECOMING AN ENDANGERED SPECIES ON MANY CAMPUSES Between 1970 and 1995, the number of full-time faculty grew by only 49 percent, while part-time faculty grew by 266 percent over the same period. At this rate, says a new report released by the AFT, part-timers will overtake full-timers on college campuses in three years. On many campuses--especially at community colleges--they already are the majority. The affect of this erosion on the profession and on academic quality is the subject of a cover story in the September issue of AFT On Campus. The report, called "The Vanishing Professor", chronicles the efforts of some unions to fight the trend through legislation and bargaining. The report is available on the AFT web site at www.aft.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Best Wishes, -=MW=- MSCD.edu From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Fri Sep 4 05:02:03 1998 Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 07:01:59 -0400 (EDT) From: James Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion , Economic Sociology List , Southern Sociological Society Network Subject: Fwd: Fw: The International Scope Review (fwd) FYI; please direct all questions to Patrick Hunout (patrick.hunout@skynet.be). James ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/cassell/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 04 Sep 98 09:33:57 +0200 (CET) From: Varnai Gabor To: Urban and Regional Planners Network , comurb_r21@email.rutgers.edu Subject: Fwd: Fw: The International Scope Review Date: Thu, 03 Sep 98 18:26:03 CET From: Patrick Hunout To: european-sociologist Subject: Fw: The International Scope Review Dear colleagues, Would it be possible to post the following notice in your discussion list ? ' A new electronic journal, The International Scope Review, will be launched in April 1999. The Review will conform to the best international standards. Its editorial board will be tripartite : American, European and Asian. It will focus on on three fields : 1) Economic Policies, Management and Capital-Labour Relationships, 2) Interethnic Relationships, 3) Interpersonal Relationships. By crossing the approaches to these three fields, the Review will offer a unique perspective on contemporary changes in our societies. The review will be edited by Dr Patrick Hunout, CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), France, who is currently setting up the editorial team. Colleagues who are interested in participating in the editorial board can address Dr Hunout at patrick.hunout@skynet.be' thank you very much in advance. Patrick HUNOUT From tr@tryoung.com Sat Sep 5 05:06:51 1998 (usr-mtp-38.sensible-net.com [208.18.226.38]) by H50.sensible-net.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 07:03:15 -0400 To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: fyi >Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 16:53:59 -0500 >Reply-To: sssitalk@sun.soci.niu.edu >Originator: sssitalk@sun.soci.niu.edu >Sender: sssitalk@sun.soci.niu.edu >From: Jon >Subject: >X-Comment: SSSI--The Discussion List for the SSSI > >Friends- > >I trust that all of your semesters are under way >and going well. I would like to take a moment of your >time to remind you of the student discussion list sponsered by >SSSI, INTERACT. > >INTERACT is a list which is meant to foster discourse >between students of sociology and Interactionism, >and is also meant to be a place where informal "mentoring" >can occur. the list is primarily meant to be a place >where students can meet to discuss topics that have arisen in their classes, >and as a place where they can meet other students as well as >professionals (apparently that's us :-). > >I would like invite all of you to subscribe to the list, and encourage >you to use it in your teaching by suggesting that your students subscribe >as well. I will be asking all of my classes to join, and hope to >spark interaction between all of my students using this electronic >medium. I do this for two reasons. First, I want my students >to get a feel for what other students around the globe >are engaging in their studies, and, secondly, I want to help them >to become comfortable with Internet technologies. > >To subscribe send this message: >subscribe interact YOUR NAME >to: >listproc@sun.soci.niu.edu > >I hope to "see" you there. > >In Solidarity, >Jon > >Dr. Jonathon S. Epstein >Department of Sociology >University of Southern Indiana >Evansville, Indiana 47712 > >"Don't ask me, >I'm just improvising >the illusion of harmless flight" > Rush > TR Young, 8085 Essex Weidman, Mi., 48893 Email: tr@tryoung.com From tr@tryoung.com Sun Sep 6 07:09:27 1998 (usr-mtp-59.sensible-net.com [208.18.226.59]) by H50.sensible-net.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 09:05:48 -0400 To: social-class@listserv.uic.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: Research for the 21st Century teachsoc@maple.lemoyne.edu Almost 20 years ago, in October, 1979, the Red Feather Insitute published a piece of Research by the late Shirley Cereseto. It was, in my opinion and remains, one of the most challenging comparisons of socialist and capitalist effects of health, education, and inequality ever published. The title of the article is: No. 056 CRITICAL DIMENSIONS IN DEVELOPMENT THEORY:  A TEST OF FOUR INEQUALITY MODELS by SHIRLEY CERESETO, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY AT LONG BEACH, October 1979 The text of the article is now on-line at: http://www.tryoung.com/archives/056cereseto.htm In the article, Shirley used data from Western sources to compare Population theory, Capitalist/Development Theory, Dependency Theory and Marxist Mode of Production Theory. A more recent version of the article, along with the Tables not included in the text version, can be found under the title, Socialism, Capitalism, and Inequality," by Shirley Cereseto, in the Insurgent Sociologist 11 (2) Spring 1982. The more significant findings of the research are laid out in a Note I wrote in 1979 when the article first appeared: ********* EDITOR's NOTE. This study is one of the most important studies ever.made. It provides the best data available from official Western sources to test conflicting claims about which economic system is the best to deal with problems of ignorance, hunger, disease, death and human misery. The results are clear: 1. Socialist countries, as a group, do much better on all measures of social justice than do capitalist countries with the same resource base. 2. Socialist countries, as a group, do better than ALL capitalist countries, taken as a group, whatever the stage of economic growth. 3. Socialist countries do better than rich capitalist countries on: a. equality of income distribution, b. employment of women, and c. control of inflation. 4. Socialist countries do as well as wealthy capitalist countries in reducing death rates and reducing birth rates. Demographic Transition Theory is valid only in Market economies. 5. Economic growth is better in the socialist model and income inequality reduced more than in the capitalist system. 6. The capitalist system increases the gap between rich and poor nations which trade together while the socialist system reduces the gap between rich and poor socialist societies. 7. Marxian theory is better to account for the data distributions found than are the other major theories in the literature. 8. Each system, socialist and capitalist, has its own laws of growth and development. The population model, the dependency model and the "development" model adequately predict the relations between poverty and other variables in the capitalist societies but not in socialist societies. They are those theories of the middle range to which American sociologists are so partial and which are so misleading. This paper suggests that it is time to give socialism a very serious consideration if health, education, gender equality and population control are to be realized in the foreseeable future. The mass starvation, growing squalor and savage repression in poor capitalist nations is far too high a price to pay for the wealth and privileges of class and political elites for any moral person to support. Increase in concentration of wealth does not produce a better life for all as capitalist economists have argued for decades. Capitalism is not the best way to get basic goods to people. Political repression of dissidents continues to be a serious problem in most countries of the world, in socialist as well as capitalist nations--a problem which people everywhere should struggle to correct. However the central question is whether socialism will improve the human project in each society faster with its distortions and pathologies than will capitalism. These data support the socialist solution. ******* Addendum: The comments above were made before the collapse of the Soviet Bloc. Today, they are of even more interest for those working for a good and decent society. The fact that the USSR failed to evolve to democratic socialism or that a few newly industrialized countries are taking part of the global market does not alter the significance of the Cereseto article. Of more interest than the collapse of bureaucratic socialism is the great crises besetting those dozen or so ex-socialist countries who now try and fail to push their way into a globalized market economy. Even developed capitalist countries have trouble making it in such a competitive market...not to mention the great costs to workers everywhere; to consumers everywhere; to the environment everywhere and to those future generations which will have to pay for these costs in currencies unknown and unknowable in these times. TRYoung, Director The Red Feather Institute TR Young, 8085 Essex Weidman, Mi., 48893 Email: tr@tryoung.com From aaustin@utkux.utcc.utk.edu Sun Sep 6 09:15:51 1998 Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 11:15:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Wayne Austin To: Sociology Graduate Students -- International Subject: Re: Research for the 21st Century In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980906090548.009419d0@tryoung.com> TR Young, Thanks so much for publishing this. As you know, some weeks ago, I sent to this list my synopsis of Ceresto's article in the Insurgent Sociologist. You had requested that I scan that article, but I regret that I have had no timely access to a scanner. Michael Parenti, in his 1997 book Blackshirts and Reds, summed up the reality Ceresto exposes by pointing out that the slogan that "socialism doesn't work" overlooks the fact that it did. The reaction to Ceresto's work is instructive. First is its relative obscurity. This is to be expected in a capitalist society and shows again the way "dirty truths" are systematically purged from popular consciousness. Second, Ceresto's argument was critiqued by the left immediately, by Paul Sweezy, Chris Dunn-Chase, and James Petras - real heavyweights. Paul Sweezy's critique was positive and fair. Dunn-Chase, a world-systems theorist, disagreed with what I think is the most important theoretical point of Ceresto's article, namely that her work demonstrates that socialist countries composed a socialist world-system with a distinct developmental logic and *not* an aggregate of state capitalist societies embedded in a capitalist world-system. It is Ceresto's excellent argument that convinced me that the state capitalist thesis and the world-system argument in this regard are in error. Reading Dunn-Chase's critique I hear a scholar defending his position rather than fairly evaluating another position. I cannot say much for Petras' argument except that it is either incoherent or irrelevant (I find some of Petras' work very important, but on other occasions...). Ceresto had a chance to respond to these critiques and did so well. Socialism does work. The left needs to not only show how capitalism is a failure and immoral, but also needs to advocate socialism as a better and moral way to organize our lives. Ceresto's work, as well as Parenti's recent defense of the Soviet Union, shows us the positive basis for our advocacy of socialism. Thanks TRY! Andy On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, T R Young wrote: > Almost 20 years ago, in October, 1979, the Red Feather Insitute published a > piece of Research by the late Shirley Cereseto. It was, in my opinion and > remains, one of the most challenging comparisons of socialist and > capitalist effects of health, education, and inequality ever published. > The title of the article is: > > No. 056 CRITICAL DIMENSIONS IN DEVELOPMENT THEORY:  A TEST OF FOUR > INEQUALITY MODELS by SHIRLEY CERESETO, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY > AT LONG BEACH, October 1979 > > The text of the article is now on-line at: > > http://www.tryoung.com/archives/056cereseto.htm > > In the article, Shirley used data from Western sources to compare > Population theory, Capitalist/Development Theory, Dependency Theory > and Marxist Mode of Production Theory. > > A more recent version of the article, along with the Tables not included > in the text version, can be found under the title, Socialism, Capitalism, > and Inequality," by Shirley Cereseto, in the Insurgent Sociologist 11 (2) > Spring 1982. > > The more significant findings of the research are laid out in a Note > I wrote in 1979 when the article first appeared: > > ********* > EDITOR's NOTE. This study is one of the most important studies > ever.made. It provides the best data available from official > Western sources to test conflicting claims about which economic > system is the best to deal with problems of ignorance, hunger, > disease, death and human misery. The results are clear: > 1. Socialist countries, as a group, do much better on all > measures of social justice than do capitalist countries > with the same resource base. > 2. Socialist countries, as a group, do better than > ALL capitalist countries, taken as a group, whatever the > stage of economic growth. > 3. Socialist countries do better than rich capitalist > countries on: > a. equality of income distribution, > b. employment of women, and > c. control of inflation. > 4. Socialist countries do as well as wealthy capitalist > countries in reducing death rates and reducing birth > rates. Demographic Transition Theory is valid only in Market > economies. > 5. Economic growth is better in the socialist model and > income inequality reduced more than in the capitalist > system. > 6. The capitalist system increases the gap between rich > and poor nations which trade together while the > socialist system reduces the gap between rich and poor > socialist societies. > 7. Marxian theory is better to account for the data > distributions found than are the other major theories > in the literature. > 8. Each system, socialist and capitalist, has its own laws of > growth and development. The population model, the > dependency model and the "development" model adequately > predict the relations between poverty and other variables in > the capitalist societies but not in socialist societies. > They are those theories of the middle range to which > American sociologists are so partial and which are so > misleading. > > This paper suggests that it is time to give socialism a very serious > consideration if health, education, gender equality and population > control are to be realized in the foreseeable future. The mass > starvation, growing squalor and savage repression in poor capitalist > nations is far too high a price to pay for the wealth and privileges > of class and political elites for any moral person to support. > Increase in concentration of wealth does not produce a better life for > all as capitalist economists have argued for decades. > Capitalism is not the best way to get basic goods to people. > Political repression of dissidents continues to be a serious problem > in most countries of the world, in socialist as well as capitalist > nations--a problem which people everywhere should struggle to correct. > However the central question is whether socialism will improve the > human project in each society faster with its distortions and > pathologies than will capitalism. These data support the socialist > solution. > > ******* > Addendum: The comments above were made before the collapse of the Soviet > Bloc. Today, they are of even more interest for those working for a good > and decent society. The fact that the USSR failed to evolve to democratic > socialism or that a few newly industrialized countries are taking part of > the global market does not alter the significance of the Cereseto article. > > Of more interest than the collapse of bureaucratic socialism is the great > crises besetting those dozen or so ex-socialist countries who now try and > fail to push their way into a globalized market economy. Even developed > capitalist countries have trouble making it in such a competitive > market...not to mention the great costs to workers everywhere; to > consumers everywhere; to the environment everywhere and to those future > generations which will have to pay for these costs in currencies unknown > and unknowable in these times. > > TRYoung, Director > The Red Feather Institute > TR Young, 8085 Essex > Weidman, Mi., 48893 > Email: tr@tryoung.com > From tombrown@jhu.edu Sun Sep 6 15:48:45 1998 by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (980427.SGI.8.8.8/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 17:47:37 -0400 (EDT) From: tombrown@jhu.edu (Thomas F Brown) Subject: Cereseto's errors (was Re: Research for the 21st Century To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu If you consider Cereseto's article a strong argument in favor of a socialist economy, it is a sad commentary on the state of Marxist scholarship. I haven't seen any of the original critiques of Cereseto, but my cursory browse through the piece (more attention than it deserves) uncovered all kinds of distortions that she's made to support her ideological predisposition. Cereseto clearly understands that national wealth and income are by far the best predictors of national standards of living. A quick browse through any World Bank yearbook makes that immediately obvious. And that is why capitalist countries tend to rank the highest on these outcomes--they tend to have more money. The explanatory power of wealth and income swamp all of Cereseto's competing variables. But this glaring fact contradicts Cereseto's ideological predisposition, and so she goes to great lengths to control for income and wealth using the crudest method possible, trying to obscure the inconvenient fact that capitalist countries tend to have better standards of living because they tend to be richer than socialist countries. Cereseto implements her crude control by grouping countries into three categories based on income, and then matching socialist and capitalist countries within categories. She never explains why she used such a crude matching technique to control for income. How could she justify degrading GNP/C, a ratio measure, to a three-category ordinal measure? The result of throwing away so much information is that the predictive power of her most potent variable, GNP, is artificially decreased and never reported. Why would she do that? There are three glaring problems here. First, World Bank data are notoriously unreliable with the smaller, less wealthy countries. When Cereseto wrote, we knew little about the reliability of Cold War-era data from socialist countries, other than that it was highly suspect. Second, the problem is exacerbated in that data for the poorest socialist countries were conveniently not available to Cereseto. This introduces selection bias in favor of Cereseto's desired outcome. The bias is considerable, considering the small population of socialist countries. Third, Cereseto's crude matching technique obscures the variance within the categories, introducing far more randomness into the results than a regression approach would have. This is deadly, considering the sampling problems, the poor accuracy of the data, and considering the power of the predictor she's trying to control on. When GDP and wealth are included in a regression equation and maintained at the ratio level of measurement, then Cereseto's other predictors will fall to insignificance--random variance at best, considering the poor quality of the data and the small N. Cereseto solves this problem by ignoring it. She interprets this random residual variance as if it were determinative, meanwhile carefully side- stepping the most powerful predictors--wealth and income, which inconveniently have a positive correlation with capitalist economic organization. I am personally sympathetic to critiques of capitalism with regards to its failures in these domains. But my sympathy with Cereseto's ideological position will not excuse her failure as a scientist. I would challenge you to replicate her findings analyzing the best data we now have available using state-of-the-art methods--honestly implemented. From aaustin@utkux.utcc.utk.edu Sun Sep 6 17:15:02 1998 Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 19:14:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Wayne Austin Reply-To: Andrew Wayne Austin To: Sociology Graduate Students -- International Subject: Thomas Brown's errors (was Re: Cereseto's errors (was Re: Research for the 21st Century) In-Reply-To: <199809062147.RAA00133@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> Thomas, You say you didn't really read the study closely. Boy, I can tell. Cereseto's article is a comprehensive historical-comparative analysis rich with statistical data on a wide-range of social and economic variables. The data sources she used contained a massive cache of data concerning socialist countries, as well as data on capitalist countries. Overall, this report covers 125 nations, or all countries with better that 1 million population. Her independent variables were as follows: gross national product per capita (GNC/c) as an indicator of developmental level. Economic growth was measured by GNP/c average annual growth for the period 1960-1976. She also used other measures to determine level of economic development, e.g., percent of labor force in agriculture, per capita energy consumption, and percent of population in urban areas. She measured position in the world economy by using (a) the percent of primary commodities in exports (an indicator of internal division of labor) and (b) external debts as percent of GNP (a measure of economic dependence). She used birth/death rates, population growth rates, total national population, and total land density. In order to distinguish between socialist and capitalist countries for the major comparison in testing the Marxist model, i.e., to distinguish modes of production, she went with self-designation and Marxist-Leninist leadership, which correspond with the UN and World Bank practice of define socialist countries as "centrally planned economies" and capitalist countries as "market economies." The dependent variables, two types, are as follows: (1) Ten physical quality of life variables (PQLV). These were used to measure fulfillment of basic human needs. The Physical Quality of Life Index (PQLI). The PQLI has three components: life expectancy, infant morality, and literacy rates. She used both the index and the component variables. She also included several other measures of physical quality of life: calorie supply per capita as percent of requirements, population per physician, enrollment in secondary or higher education, female labor force as percent of total wage labor force (employment situation), percent unemployed, average rate of inflation (price stability). (2) Three variables were used to measure inequality in income distribution: (a) percent of national income received by lowest 20 percent of the population, (b) percent of national income received by top 5 percent of the population; and (c) the Gini index for overall inequality (for the entire income distribution). She doesn't rely only on GNP/c, Thomas. She blitzed you with data and all you can come up with is this manufactured criticism? On this matter of the classification system Cereseto devised in order to test her hypotheses you have made a massive error. The ODC ranks all countries on per capita income, then divides the countries into four categories: high, upper-middle, lower-middle, and low income. The OCD does this with the data, Thomas, not Cereseto. This is the way a huge chunk of her data came to her. These similar countries, according to the ODC classification, are then compared. However, the problem with this classification scheme is that it does not permit comparison of capitalist and socialist countries; it was structured to compare capitaist countries. So Cereseto had to regroup the data and divide out the socialist countries for comparison. She first arranged the capitalist countries according to per capita income and then divided them into three categories, low, middle, and high income. She then took the full range of socialist countries on per capita income and matched these with the one category of capitalist countries that subsumed the socialist level and range: the middle income group. I quote her: "The lower and upper cut-off points for the middle-income capitalist category were selected so as to match the GNP/c of the lowest and highest socialist countries. Thus, the middle-income capitalist category and the category of socialist countries are almost identical in per capita income range." For other comparisons she used the full range of data, including measuring the socialist category against both the high and the low income categories for capitalist nations. This permitted Cereseto to test all four models and her main proposition. She found that all the socialist countries used in analysis matched the middle income capitalist countries. In other words, while there were capitalist countries in the lowest income group, *no socialist country was in the lowest income group*. And when she compared middle-income to middle-income, the socialist countries scored *higher* than the capitalist countries on quality of life, inequality measures, and other measures. And when the middle-income socialist countries were compared to the high-income capitalist countries (which includes the handful of capitalist countries that qualify as high income) they generally beat them on the dependent measures, as well. Not only did she find that whereas there were all these capitalist countries in the poor category but no socialist countries there (which makes sense, since capitalism systematically creates poverty), she showed that of all those peripheral capitalist countries that became socialist, it was becoming socialist that lifted them out of the poor category - the poor category developed, mind you, by the capitalist organization who originally collected and arranged the data. Cereseto did not shrink from comparing the socialist countries with the richest capitalist countries, as you imply, Thomas. You are in error. And you have misrepresented Cereseto's work. If you are going to come on the list full of bluster, talking in loud tones about the poverty of Marxian scholarship, you'd better be prepared to produce more than a high school ideological rant. Given your many past logical misadventures, however, I cannot expect much more than this from you. Go back and read Cereseto's work again, and get the article from the Insurgent Sociologist, and if you need me to, I will send you my synopsis of her work. Andy From maxine@waikato.ac.nz Sun Sep 6 17:26:43 1998 Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 11:32:01 +1200 To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu From: Maxine Campbell Subject: Re: Cereseto's errors (was Re: Research for the 21st Century Hi Thomas I have not yet read the Cereseto article, but was interested in your critique. Some comments and queries; GDP is a contentious measurement even outside socialist economies, largely due to what is, and is not, included. Ineptitude and inaccuracies not withstanding, is there international agreement on what each country will or will not include? Are there any perverse incentives that might result in some countries declaring a lower GDP? Wealth and income are also problematic in that the top 5-10% of the population can dramatically skew the data. Furthermore, per capita wealth or income tells us nothing of living costs, which may alter the picture considerably. Even if we control for all this, will the results tell us if the population of the "winning" country or system are contented - dare I say happy - or feel valued and validated within their particular system, whether they feel active, productive members of their community or merely pawns in someone else's game, even whether they simply live in comparatively less misery than the members of the "losing" system. It seems to me, all systems have their limitations, but capitalism as I have experienced it has lost its humanity. What could have been a very useful tool for improving the wellbeing of humanity has instead become a dictator. Market driven policy has battered our country since 1984, and healthy markets take precendence over the health of the people. "Let the market decide" has become a catchcry indicative of a system that has handed power and control to what is essentially a creation of the people, but has taken on a life of its own - and we let it! Time to return to "let the people decide". Cheers, Maxine At 05:47 PM 6/09/98 -0400, you wrote: > >If you consider Cereseto's article a strong argument in favor of a socialist >economy, it is a sad commentary on the state of Marxist scholarship. I haven't >seen any of the original critiques of Cereseto, but my cursory browse through >the piece (more attention than it deserves) uncovered all kinds of distortions >that she's made to support her ideological predisposition. > >Cereseto clearly understands that national wealth and income are by far the best >predictors of national standards of living. A quick browse through any World >Bank yearbook makes that immediately obvious. And that is why capitalist >countries tend to rank the highest on these outcomes--they tend to have more >money. The explanatory power of wealth and income swamp all of Cereseto's >competing variables. > >But this glaring fact contradicts Cereseto's ideological predisposition, and >so she goes to great lengths to control for income and wealth using the crudest >method possible, trying to obscure the inconvenient fact that capitalist >countries tend to have better standards of living because they tend to be richer >than socialist countries. > >Cereseto implements her crude control by grouping countries into three >categories based on income, and then matching socialist and capitalist >countries within categories. She never explains why she used such a >crude matching technique to control for income. How could she justify >degrading GNP/C, a ratio measure, to a three-category ordinal measure? >The result of throwing away so much information is that the predictive >power of her most potent variable, GNP, is artificially decreased and never >reported. Why would she do that? > >There are three glaring problems here. First, World Bank data are notoriously >unreliable with the smaller, less wealthy countries. When Cereseto wrote, >we knew little about the reliability of Cold War-era data from socialist >countries, other than that it was highly suspect. Second, the problem is >exacerbated in that data for the poorest socialist countries were conveniently >not available to Cereseto. This introduces selection bias in favor of Cereseto's >desired outcome. The bias is considerable, considering the small population of >socialist countries. > >Third, Cereseto's crude matching technique obscures the variance within the >categories, introducing far more randomness into the results than a regression >approach would have. This is deadly, considering the sampling problems, the poor >accuracy of the data, and considering the power of the predictor she's trying to >control on. > >When GDP and wealth are included in a regression equation and maintained at the >ratio level of measurement, then Cereseto's other predictors will fall to >insignificance--random variance at best, considering the poor quality of the >data and the small N. > >Cereseto solves this problem by ignoring it. She interprets this random >residual variance as if it were determinative, meanwhile carefully side- >stepping the most powerful predictors--wealth and income, which inconveniently >have a positive correlation with capitalist economic organization. > >I am personally sympathetic to critiques of capitalism with regards >to its failures in these domains. But my sympathy with Cereseto's ideological >position will not excuse her failure as a scientist. I would challenge you >to replicate her findings analyzing the best data we now have available using >state-of-the-art methods--honestly implemented. > > > > From tombrown@jhu.edu Sun Sep 6 21:40:17 1998 by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (980427.SGI.8.8.8/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 23:40:05 -0400 (EDT) From: tombrown@jhu.edu (Thomas F Brown) Subject: Re: Cereseto's errors (was Re: Research for the 21st Century To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu MAXINE WROTE: >GDP is a contentious measurement even outside socialist economies, largely >due to what is, and is not, included. Ineptitude and inaccuracies not >withstanding, is there international agreement on what each country will or >will not include? Are there any perverse incentives that might result in >some countries declaring a lower GDP? Cereseto categorized countries according to GNP/C, not GDP. It's a more precisely defined measure, although there remains the problem of inaccuracies in measurement and reporting. >Are there any perverse incentives that might result in >some countries declaring a lower GDP? Interesting question. Have you heard of countries doing that? >Wealth and income are also problematic in that the top 5-10% of the >population can dramatically skew the data. Furthermore, per capita wealth >or income tells us nothing of living costs, which may alter the picture >considerably. Yes, and the same can be said for the quality of life measures that Cereseto used as her outcome variables. The national average tells us nothing about the distribution of benefits. This raises another important observation: that the relationship between economic development, national wealth, and inequality is processual over time. Is there much value in analyzing these relationships using only cross-sectional data? This is why I would challenge TR or whoever to replicate Cereseto's work using the more complete data we now have, in longitudinal perspective. This would surely give a more complete picture. >Even if we control for all this, will the results tell us if the population >of the "winning" country or system are contented - dare I say happy - or >feel valued and validated within their particular system, whether they feel >active, productive members of their community or merely pawns in someone >else's game, even whether they simply live in comparatively less misery than >the members of the "losing" system. Nicely put. Your observations suggest that an unbiased comparison of the quality of life in socialist vs. capitalist countries should also consider relative levels of democratization, political and cultural repression, religious and sexual freedom, censorship, etc. Indicators of some of these were available to Cereseto, but she chose to leave them out. >It seems to me, all systems have their limitations, but capitalism as I have >experienced it has lost its humanity. What could have been a very useful >tool for improving the wellbeing of humanity has instead become a dictator. >Market driven policy has battered our country since 1984, and healthy >markets take precendence over the health of the people. "Let the market >decide" has become a catchcry indicative of a system that has handed power >and control to what is essentially a creation of the people, but has taken >on a life of its own - and we let it! Time to return to "let the people >decide". Also nicely put. Clearly the libertarian utopia is just as unworkable as the socialist utopia. From tr@tryoung.com Mon Sep 7 05:18:43 1998 (usr-mtp-66.sensible-net.com [208.18.226.66]) by H50.sensible-net.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 07:14:59 -0400 To: psn-special@csf.colorado.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: Work and Wisdom in the World: A Labor Day Gift teachsoc@maple.lemoyne.edu, socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Some 12 years ago, Nancy Maxson and I wrote an article in the Sociology of Work which combined her interests in affirmative and empowering religious sensibility and my interest in Marxist Social Theory, Praxis and Liberation Theology. I laid out the Marxian Concept of Alienation and its intimate connection to work and wisdom in the world. Nancy did a particularly good job laying out the affirmative proscriptions for pro-social labor in Islam, Judaiac and Christian thought...and of course, the Buddhist Eight-Fold Noble Path to good work. I can't think of a better way to honor Labor Day than to share her good work with you. The article is at: http://www.tryoung.com/archives/185work.htm Work hard and do well, TR TR Young, 8085 Essex Weidman, Mi., 48893 Email: tr@tryoung.com From aaustin@utkux.utcc.utk.edu Mon Sep 7 09:25:03 1998 Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 11:24:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Wayne Austin Reply-To: Andrew Wayne Austin To: Sociology Graduate Students -- International Subject: Re: Cereseto's errors (was Re: Research for the 21st Century List, I respond to both Thomas and Maxine. On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Thomas F Brown wrote: > Cereseto categorized countries according to GNP/C, not GDP. It's a more > precisely defined measure, although there remains the problem of > inaccuracies in measurement and reporting. GNP is really not an any more precisely defined measure than GDP, although GDP is easier to measure because data on net endogenous foreign earnings are sometimes rather poor. Why you use one and not the other should be determined by the nature of the question. Sometimes it is more useful to account for output produced by production factors owned by entities external to the national context. For example, profits made by a British company operating in the US are included in the US GDP measure but are also part of British GNP; likewise the income of a US citizen or permanent resident (nationals) working in Britain becomes part of British GDP, while still representing US GNP. One might be interested in the national domestic context and so exclude national workers abroad and include foreign domestic activity. The important thing about GNP and GDP measures is that they were created to compare the economic output of different national economies, and, given the problems of measurement that plague any quantification of features of a complex reality, they are useful measures. They should not be taken as the only measures in judging the adequacy of an economic system - inequality measures are a much better indicator of economic adequacy if the question one asks concerns ordinary folk. In the end, the difference between the two measures is not that big of deal, and the favoring of GDP over GNP in the past decade represents a changing convention more than anything else. The point is rather moot anyway. Cereseto, like the data sources she analyzed, used GNP because that was the standard measure used until the late 1980s. The US reported GNP as the basic measure of economic output until 1991. It switched for various reasons: as noted, GDP is easier to measure; the increasing trend for other countries to report GDP (the shift in convention already noted); and because GDP, for reasons given above provide, is a better indication of the employment capacity of a domestic context. Cereseto's data was collected prior to 1977. Maxine writes: > >Are there any perverse incentives that might result in > >some countries declaring a lower GDP? We can note some reasons why the GDP is artificially high at the same time we can show how it systematically underreports. Environmental degradation is generally not accounted for adequately, and this is particularly true of capitalist economies in the periphery. For example, Repetto and associates found that if environmental degradation in Indonesia was properly accounted for in their GDP data the rate of annual growth would be cut by 3 percent. A government doesn't want to include environmental degradation in their measures because they (1) want the masses - who are generally growth-focused in the capitalist context - to believe that the ruling class is doing a good job, (2) because the ruling class wants to attract foreign capital, and (3) because the ruling class does not want to officially recognize externalities. Two other problems involve (1) the failure to record nonmarket activities and (2) counting activities that reflect the costs of preventing, ameliorating, and otherwise managing problems of crime and national security. Nonmarket activities, such as work involved in reproducing labor power, are not included in the measure as a matter of the character of social class and gender relations; so leaving these out produces a GDP that is less than the economy's actual output. This functions to make unequal relations less apparent and so underreporting benefits the ruling class. There is an adjusted GNP measure that accounts for nonmarket activities. It puts real GNP at roughly 50% higher than official measures. The inadequacies of the measure, therefore, reflect the biases of a capitalist economy. > >Wealth and income are also problematic in that the top 5-10% of the > >population can dramatically skew the data. Furthermore, per capita wealth > >or income tells us nothing of living costs, which may alter the picture > >considerably. This is why Cereseto includes measures of inequality and quality of life. GNP and GNP/c is only a measure of total economic output and it is not designed to measures these other things. Thomas writes: > This raises another important observation: that the relationship between > economic development, national wealth, and inequality is processual over > time. Is there much value in analyzing these relationships using only > cross-sectional data? This is why Cereseto analyzed data covering a 16 year period. She tests several development models and finds that the Marxian model overall explained the patterns of economic and social development better than the other models. This is why her work is *historical*- comparative. > This is why I would challenge TR or whoever to replicate Cereseto's work > using the more complete data we now have, in longitudinal perspective. > This would surely give a more complete picture. Such a study would be interesting, but the lack of such a study in no way invalidates Cereseto's research. When we do historical-comparative analysis we have to pick a time frame. Cereseto's analysis, begun in the later 1970s, used the most recent data. What Cereseto's work shows that during the height of global economic growth in the post-WWII context - the dramatic A-phase of the most recently completed long wave, growth that benefited capitalist and socialist economies alike in terms of development - the socialist world-system was doing a better job of meeting the needs of the people than capitalist countries were during the same period. As the global economy consolidated and entered into the B-phase of long wave, a long period of stagnation spread out from the capitalist countries and dragged the global system down with them. It was at the close of the B-phase, at a global economic low-point that Soviet elites betrayed the people and began dismantling socialism. Maxine wrote: > >Even if we control for all this, will the results tell us if the population > >of the "winning" country or system are contented - dare I say happy - or > >feel valued and validated within their particular system, whether they feel > >active, productive members of their community or merely pawns in someone > >else's game, even whether they simply live in comparatively less misery than > >the members of the "losing" system. The people who overthrew the bourgeois and monarchy and established socialist economies found themselves far better off than most capitalist countries and far better off than they had been as peripheral and semi-peripheral countries and regions under capitalism. And with the dismantling of the socialist world-system, the people are again struggling to survive. At the height of the Soviet Union the lives of people there were far better off than the imperialized world. To the extent that people are dominated everywhere you can characterize the problem as one of living in comparatively less misery. You can also see socialism as a better alternative to capitalism. I think that both optimism and pessimism are called for here. But clearly capitalism has failed in many of the formerly socialist countries. It is time for the Russian leaders to kick the neo-liberal reformers out of the government and return to the economic strategies that worked for them. Thomas wrote: > Your observations suggest that an unbiased comparison of the quality of > life in socialist vs. capitalist countries should also consider relative > levels of democratization, political and cultural repression, religious > and sexual freedom, censorship, etc. Indicators of some of these were > available to Cereseto, but she chose to leave them out. Cereseto's analysis concerns economic relations. Political analyses of democratization, political repression, sexual and religious freedom, and censorship have been done and they are important. But they were not in the scope of Cereseto's work. In any case, people living in socialist societies enjoyed these freedoms to a greater extent than most people in capitalist countries. Capitalist society has never been more democratic than socialist countries. Nor was political repression worse in socialist countries than in capitalist countries. The genocide and segregation of the American Indian and the African in America; the persecution and extermination of Jews, the Gypsy, homosexuals, and the physically and mentally disabled in Germany; the imperial war against the Third World by capitalist forces - all this swamps any record of abuse at the hands of state socialists. Censorship in socialist countries only has the distinction of being more frequently carried out by the state; in the capitalist world, censorship is privatized and therefore a more successful form of brain-washing. Andy From aaustin@utkux.utcc.utk.edu Mon Sep 7 17:25:57 1998 Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 19:25:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Wayne Austin To: Sociology Graduate Students -- International Subject: What if? On Labor Day WHAT IF WE DIDN'T NEED LABOR DAY? By Norman Solomon Labor Day may be a fitting tribute to America's workers. But what about the other 364 days of the year? Despite all the talk about the importance and dignity of working people, they get little power or glory in the everyday world of news media. What if the situation were reversed? Once a year, big investors and corporate owners could be honored on Business Day. To celebrate the holiday, politicians might march arm in arm through downtown Manhattan with the likes of Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Donald Trump. Executives could have the day off while media outlets said some nice things about them. During the rest of the year, in this inverted scenario, journalists would focus on the real lives of the nation's workforce. Instead of making heroes out of billionaire investors -- and instead of reporting on Wall Street as the ultimate center of people's economic lives -- the news media would provide extensive coverage of the workplace. For instance, such coverage would reflect the health hazards that workers face. On an average day, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 17 Americans die from on-the-job injuries. Meanwhile, the daily rate of occupational injuries and illnesses in U.S. private industry is upwards of 18,350 people. If media outlets can keep us so closely informed about stock prices every day, they could also keep us posted on exactly which industrial workplaces are killing and injuring America's workers. Much of the toll is less than obvious: Researchers have found that for each American killed by a workplace injury, another 10 or so job-related deaths occur due to disease. If these grim events were reported on a daily basis, with the intensity and attention to detail now reserved for coverage of the stock market, then our society would be much more aware of working conditions across the country -- and there would be more public pressure for improvement. In a more labor-friendly media environment, televised punditry wouldn't be dominated by pro-corporate forums like "The Capital Gang," "Hardball," "The McLaughlin Group" and ABC's "This Week" -- which, not coincidentally, are made possible by union- bashing firms like Archer Daniels Midland and General Electric. In contrast, prominent TV programs would present the outlooks of people who don't ride in limousines. Public television -- which now features shows like "Wall $treet Week" and "Nightly Business Report" -- would find ways to air regular programs that might be called "Main Street Week" or "Nightly Labor Report." In this media dream world, National Public Radio would not have added a "business update" to its hourly news broadcasts. Or at least NPR would also be providing a "labor update" at the top of each hour. The biggest circulation daily paper in the country would not necessarily be The Wall Street Journal, a possession of Dow Jones & Company. Instead, it might be a newspaper owned by a coalition of labor unions. And the editorial pages would publish a real diversity of views. On the magazine racks, periodicals like Business Week and Forbes (motto: "Capitalist Tool") would have to compete with equally bankrolled publications such as Labor Week and Solidarity Forever (motto: "Worker's Tool"). Congress would not get away with changing the name of Washington National Airport to Ronald Reagan National Airport, as occurred last February. A pro-labor media atmosphere would make it politically untenable to name the airport after a former president who smashed the air traffic controllers' union early in his first term. Not content to gush out a steady stream of platitudes about "democracy" and the "free market," the news media would probe the concept of workplace democracy. Right now, the mass media rarely explore the idea of extending democratic principles to the institutions where Americans work for a living. It's as though we've been conditioned to believe that our most exalted political values -- free speech and the right to vote for the leaders of powerful institutions -- should not intrude past the workplace door. More than 30 years ago, satirist Tom Lehrer recorded a song about National Brotherhood Week. "It's only for a week, so have no fear," he chortled. "Be grateful that it doesn't last all year!" Labor Day lasts 24 hours. Too bad we need it. _______________________________________________ Norman Solomon is co-author of "Wizards of Media Oz: Behind the Curtain of Mainstream News" and author of "The Trouble With Dilbert: How Corporate Culture Gets the Last Laugh." From tr@tryoung.com Tue Sep 8 04:57:47 1998 (usr-mtp-59.sensible-net.com [208.18.226.59]) by H50.sensible-net.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 06:54:10 -0400 To: ahs-talk@ncsu.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: sometime in this favored land... social-class@listserv.uic.edu, teachsoc@maple.lemoyne.edu Some time soon, in this favored Land, Mark McQuire will hit another home run; and soon kids everywhere will cheer his name and sooner still advertisements will steal his fame. Those of us in the Sociology of Sports have much to say about such cultural fads and foibles. Some of us simply keep ever more pointless records; some of us will use Freud to explain the primitive meaning of the bat, the catchers mitt, the home run and claim the game to be little else than sublimated sexuality; some of us will talk of alienation at work and divertissment from a bleak and cheerless life; many lament the sad state of America's priorities while others will talk about Jungian Archetypes. For those who would like a spectrum of explanations about the popularity of baseball and the salaries, fees and royalties given to sports heros, send your students to: http://www.tryoung.com/archives/108Sports.htm While the paper does touch on other theoretical explanations, the major focus is on the political economy of baseball and the use of the great skill, grace and genius of sports figures by market economies in the effort to generate false needs and dispose of 'surplus production' on the way to profits. ....AND for those of you who are simply baseball fans and little else, I have added 'Casey at the Bat' for you...I doubt me much that Mark will strike out in his quest for baseball immortality but if he does, there is always a guy like Sosa just behind him. Enjoy it, TR ********** Casey At The Bat Ernest L. Thayer The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day, The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play. And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same, A pallor wreathed the features of the patrons of the game. A straggling few got up to go in deep despair. The rest clung to that hope which springs eternal in the human breast. They thought, "if only Casey could but get a whack at that-- We'd put up even money now, with Casey at the bat." But Flynn preceded Casey, as did also Jimmy Blake, And the former was a lulu, while the latter was a cake. So upon that stricken multitude, grim melancholy sat; For there seemed but little chance of Casey getting to the bat. But Flynn let drive a single, to the wonderment of all. And Blake, the much despised, tore the cover off the ball; And when the dust had lifted, and men saw what had occurred, There was Jimmy safe at second and Flynn a-hugging third. Then from five thousand throats and more there rose a lusty yell; It rumbled through the valley, it rattled in the dell; It knocked upon the mountain and recoiled upon the flat, For Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat. There was ease in Casey's manner as he stepped into his place; There was pride in Casey's bearing and a smile on Casey's face. And when, responding to the cheers, he lightly doffed his hat, No stranger in the crowd could doubt 'twas Casey at the bat. Ten thousand eyes were on him as he rubbed his hands with dirt; Five thousand tongues applauded when he wiped them on his shirt. Then while the writhing pitcher ground the ball into his hip, Defiance gleamed in Casey's eye, a sneer curled Casey's lip. And now the leather-covered sphere came hurtling through the air, And Casey stood a-watching it in haughty grandeur there. Close by the sturdy batsman the ball unheeded sped-- "That ain't my style," said Casey. "Strike one!" the umpire said. >From the benches, black with people, there went up a muffled roar, Like the beating of the storm waves on a stern and distant shore; "Kill him! Kill the umpire!" shouted someone on the stand, And it's likely they'd have killed him had not Casey raised his hand. With a smile of Christian charity great Casey's visage shone; He stilled the rising tumult; he bade the game go on; He signaled to the pitcher, and once more the dun spheroid flew; But Casey still ignored it, and the umpire said, "Strike two!" "Fraud!" cried the maddened thousands, and echo answered "Fraud!" But one scornful look from Casey and the audience was awed. They saw his face grow stern and cold, they saw his muscles strain, And they knew that Casey wouldn't let that ball go by again. The sneer is gone from Casey's lip, his teeth are clenched in hate; He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate. And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go, And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey's blow. Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright; The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light. And, somewhere men are laughing, and little children shout; But there is no joy in Mudville--mighty Casey has struck out. First Published: Sunday, June 3, 1888 San Francisco Examiner TR Young, 8085 Essex Weidman, Mi., 48893 Email: tr@tryoung.com From tr@tryoung.com Tue Sep 8 11:43:21 1998 (usr-mtp-48.sensible-net.com [208.18.226.48]) by H50.sensible-net.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 13:39:41 -0400 To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: Call for Grad Student Papers sssitalk@sun.soci.niu.edu, ahs-talk@ncsu.edu The Red Feather Journal of Graduate Sociology calls for articles by Graduate Students for the Fall Issue. Special Topic Issues are also possible. Contact the General Editor, Phyllis Flott at: pfl661@airmail.net for details on submission or for information about Editing a Special Issue yourself. Phyllis is a grad student in Sociology at the Combined Ph.d Program of the University of North Texas and Texas Womans University. The RF Journal of Graduate Sociology is an International Journal by and for graduate students only. Back Issues may be seen by double-clicking the address below: http://www.tryoung.com/journals/JOURNAL-socgrad/socgradINDEX.html TR Young, 8085 Essex Weidman, Mi., 48893 Email: tr@tryoung.com From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Tue Sep 8 14:36:13 1998 Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 16:36:12 -0400 (EDT) From: James Cassell To: Southern Sociological Society Network , Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: (FWD) COMPURB-L - new list on comparative urbanization FYI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/cassell/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 15:55:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Barry Wellman To: asa com&urb section e-list Subject: COMPURB-L FYI apologies for x-posting ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry Wellman wellman@chass.utoronto.ca Professor of Sociology Centre for Urban & Community Studies Univ. of Toronto 455 Spadina Ave. Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 web: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax: +1-416-978-7162 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LIST ADVERTIZEMENT: COMPURB-L (List for Comparative Urbanization from Theoretical and Applied Perspectives) COMPURB-L is devoted to the developing of interest and the sharing of information on something which has been basically a crucible of human/environmental history for the past 10,000 years--the effects of urbanization. There are popular lists devoted to world history, urban history, and philosophy of history already. Why then a separate list devoted to comparative urbanization? Because COMPURB-L list members simply wish to focus more attention upon the urban form. Firstly, its political economy, structural and cultural changes, issues of governance, social movements, environmental relationships--all are seen as a fruitful methodology for an historical and sociological study which overlaps many disciplines. This can simultaneously provide insight into our past and our present experience. Secondly, comparative study can help to formulate a much more rigorous model for 'comparative urban studies.' As many I am sure are aware, what has passed for 'comparative' and 'international' in scope in the literature was typically an exploration into 'European' urbanization, or the process of capitalization. I foresee three major threads being stitched together in this list: the historical, the sociological, and the philosophical. The historical component would deal with developmental issues of urbanization. What are the effects on human cultures comparatively speaking as they undergo urbanization? What are the environmental effects of urbanization? Are they the same for urban cultures worldwide, in all epochs? What differences in the particulars of urbanization, if compared, would elucidate the role of different factors in the overall process? The sociological component has been explored extensively in urban sociology, especially within the past 20 years, yet it has not been utilized as a comparative methodology in a structural and spatial sense. Other component disciplines which I anticipate can donate (and take) much from looking at comparative urbanization studies are: economics, political sociology, urban and regional planning, anthropology, environmental history, ecology, world history, philosophy of history, environmental sociology, the sociology of economic change, cultural studies, the history of technology, and nomadic studies. Anyone interested in the comparative government policy of urban sites or comparative urban planning please join as well. Though I have established this list with a scholarly and theoretical/applied intent, by no means is that tacitly discouraging those interested in other questions to avoid querying for information or supplying their viewpoints. That is the point of the list. If we can't handle critique or information 'outside accustomed channels,' there is something wrong. Comparative studies are advanced through interdisciplinary attention, and the list depends upon those of diverse backgrounds contributing their special share to develop a useful framework of study. The point of the list is the discussion of the value of what should go into this comparative framework: what heuristics can enlighten urban study? The sharing of information and the weighing of its utility are going to go hand in hand. Though the list is to be a forum for exchange for theoretical and applied issues dealing with the urban form, historical process, and social organization, the urban form is only the organizational point for dealing with the wider effects of social structure in discussing human interaction and ideological and tangible cultural production processes in history. (How we process the urban site culturally, and how the urban site processes and qualifies our repertoire of activities, associations, life paths, and creative action is my particular interest.). Especially, I invite and appreciate anyone interested in 'nomadic' peoples to join this group and keep us from making any urban specific generalizations which are unwarranted. A website will be maintained, mostly for the sorting of a bibliography compiled through the participants suggestions of what they find useful in discussing comparative urbanization issues, or what they feel will expand the reach of such studies which have yet to occur. Over the past few months, this list has become a major router for conference announcements and potential funding sources dealing with urban issues. Occasionally, it has book reviews forwarded as well. If you have any additional information related to these areas, the list would be an ideal way to notify a wide public from many different backgrounds with an interest in urban issues. I would encourage one to avoid considering that 'this is where it is all at.' As I am sure many members of multiple lists realize, the cross-links are where it's 'at,' instead of a particular list, and cross-linkages tend to have a difficult (or silent) airing. This is not because a particular discipline is parochially inclined. It is just that the list (and I would argue socialization in general) is not *designed* to *do* such things. There's seldom found a listserv intentionally dedicated to not a particular discipline which examines multiple questions, but to a set of disciplines which examine the same question. COMPURB-L is the place which encourages this, a place where one can share these cross-linkages with an appreciative audience who are already interested in the same process of complementary discovery from the start instead of having to 'work uphill.' So if you see fruitful connections between the disciplines on the issues which could be grouped around comparative urbanization, or if you would be interested in 'representing' your discipline and learning other perspectives, please join. Subscribers to multiple lists are especially encouraged to join: it will only make the potential discourse richer for us all. COMPURB-L is what we will bring to it. If you choose not to join, please do your associates a favor and pass this message along to them if they are interested. -------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe, address e-mail to 'majordomo@ssc.wisc.edu' with the words 'subscribe compurb-l' followed by your e-mail address. The name of the list is in lowercase intentionally. If you are having problems subscribing, please contact me and I will see how I can help. Thank you. Mark Whitaker University of Wisconsin-Madison list-owner for COMPURB-L mwhitake@ssc.wisc.edu From tr@tryoung.com Wed Sep 9 04:26:47 1998 (usr-mtp-60.sensible-net.com [208.18.226.60]) by H50.sensible-net.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 06:23:08 -0400 To: ahs-talk@ncsu.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: Learning On Line: Radical Pedagogy for your students socgrad@csf.colorado.edu, social-class@listserv.uic.edu I'd like to bring to your attention a remarkable contribution to the knowledge process and to American Sociology. It is Learning On Line University: a set of courses designed to supplement/augment graduate and undergraduate courses in social science in North America.... ....and is sponsored by Z-Magazine and People-Link LOLU semesters run for 10 weeks. 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To find out a bit more about LOLU, its faculty and course syllabi, double click on: http://www.zmag.org/lolucrse.htm ************ Course Catalog (Fall 1998) ORGANIZING: THE LOST ART -- Faculty: Leslie Cagan Sponsor: Committees of Correspondence MOVEMENT HISTORY, MOVEMENT BUILDING, AND THE ROLE OF POPULAR EDUCATION -- Faculty: Jerome Scott & Walda Katz Fishman Sponsor: Project South MEDIA ANALYSIS: CHALLENGING ROUTINE PROPAGANDA -- Faculty: Norman Solomon Sponsor: FAIR SPOOKING THE PUBLIC: RACIAL PROFILING AND THE POLITICS OF MEDIA BLACKFACE --Faculty: Mikal Muharrar Sponsor: FAIR U.S. CAPITALISM IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- Faculty: Peter Bohmer Sponsor: Olympia Political-Cultural Center   INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL ECONOMY -- Faculty: Robin Hahnel Sponsor: URPE   CORPORATE POWER AND STRATEGIES TO DEVELOP COUNTERVAILING POWER --Faculty: Robert Weissman Sponsor: Multinational Monitor LINE. COLOR, AND SHAPE: A REINTRODUCTION TO THE VISUAL ARTS -- Faculty: Anita Karasu Sponsor: People-Link PARENTING FOR PROGRESSIVES IN THE LATE 20th CENTURY -- Faculty: Cynthia Peters Sponsor: Z Magazine   CONCEPTUALIZING A BETTER ECONOMY -- Faculty: Michael Albert Sponsor: Z Magazine RADICAL THEORY, VISION, AND STRATEGY -- Faculty: Michael Albert Sponsor: Z Magazine ` TRYoung, Director The Red Feather Insitute for Advanced Studies in Sociology TR Young, 8085 Essex Weidman, Mi., 48893 Email: tr@tryoung.com From DAVIDSON@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU Wed Sep 9 08:26:08 1998 Date: Wed, 09 Sep 98 10:24:36 EDT From: Alan Davidson Subject: [HF] race-based college admissions (fwd) To: socgrad@CSF.COLORADO.EDU Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 09:13:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Avi Bass Sender: Avi Bass Study of Affirmative Action at Top Schools Cites Far-Reaching Benefits The New York Times, Sept. 9, 1998 A major new study of the records and experiences of tens of thousands of students over 20 years at the some of the nation's top colleges and universities concludes that their affirmative action policies created the backbone of the black middle class and taught white classmates the value of integration. ... To the NYT story and study excerpts (NYT registration required): http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/affirm-impact.html To a shorter version of the NYT news story (easier access): http://chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/article/0,1051,SAV-9809090074,00.html From ipeck@net.kitel.co.kr Wed Sep 9 08:33:16 1998 Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 23:31:31 +0900 From: Lee Chang-soo Reply-To: ipeck@nownuri.net To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Re: (FWD) COMPURB-L - new list on comparative urbanization Thank you for your article. Although I have no any knowledge on this field, I could see something by your article. I am working at a independent and progressive center, the International Politics & Economy Center of Korea which has been resarched in the human rigths, rights of a trade union and workers and local organization beteween progress camp and cilvil society locally, here, and has collaborated with the Korean Confederation of Trade Union international department by some co-projects concerning the fields. Thank you again for your article. Lee Chang-soo International Politics & Economy Center of Korea(IPECK) James Cassell wrote: > FYI > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu > Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/cassell/ > University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 15:55:24 -0400 (EDT) > From: Barry Wellman > To: asa com&urb section e-list > Subject: COMPURB-L > > FYI > apologies for x-posting > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Barry Wellman wellman@chass.utoronto.ca > Professor of Sociology Centre for Urban & Community Studies > Univ. of Toronto 455 Spadina Ave. Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 > web: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax: +1-416-978-7162 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > LIST ADVERTIZEMENT: COMPURB-L (List for Comparative Urbanization from > Theoretical and Applied Perspectives) > > COMPURB-L is devoted to the developing of interest and the sharing > of information on something which has been basically a crucible of > human/environmental history for the past 10,000 years--the effects of > urbanization. There are popular lists devoted to world history, urban > history, and philosophy of history already. Why then a separate list devoted > to comparative urbanization? Because COMPURB-L list members simply wish to > focus more attention upon the urban form. Firstly, its political economy, > structural and cultural changes, issues of governance, social movements, > environmental relationships--all are seen as a fruitful methodology for an > historical and sociological study which overlaps many disciplines. This can > simultaneously provide insight into our past and our present experience. > Secondly, comparative study can help to formulate a much more rigorous model > for 'comparative urban studies.' As many I am sure are aware, what has > passed for 'comparative' and 'international' in scope in the literature was > typically an exploration into 'European' urbanization, or the process of > capitalization. > > I foresee three major threads being stitched together in this list: > the historical, the sociological, and the philosophical. > The historical component would deal with developmental issues of urbanization. > What are the effects on human cultures comparatively speaking as they undergo > urbanization? What are the environmental effects of urbanization? Are they > the same for urban cultures worldwide, in all epochs? What differences in > the particulars of urbanization, if compared, would elucidate the role of > different factors in the overall process? > > The sociological component has been explored extensively in urban sociology, > especially within the past 20 years, yet it has not been utilized as a > comparative methodology in a structural and spatial sense. > Other component disciplines which I anticipate can donate (and take) > much from looking at comparative urbanization studies are: economics, > political sociology, urban and regional planning, anthropology, > environmental history, ecology, world history, philosophy of history, > environmental sociology, the sociology of economic change, cultural studies, > the history of technology, and nomadic studies. Anyone interested in the > comparative government policy of urban sites or comparative urban planning > please join as well. > > Though I have established this list with a scholarly and theoretical/applied > intent, by no means is that tacitly discouraging those interested in other > questions to avoid querying for information or supplying their viewpoints. > That is the point of the list. If we can't handle critique or information > 'outside accustomed channels,' there is something wrong. Comparative studies > are advanced through interdisciplinary attention, and the list depends upon > those of diverse backgrounds contributing their special share to develop a > useful framework of study. The point of the list is the discussion of the > value of what should go into this comparative framework: what heuristics > can enlighten urban study? The sharing of information and the weighing of > its utility are going to go hand in hand. > > Though the list is to be a forum for exchange for theoretical and applied > issues dealing with the urban form, historical process, and social > organization, the urban form is only the organizational point for dealing > with the wider effects of social structure in discussing human interaction > and ideological and tangible cultural production processes in history. (How > we process the urban site culturally, and how the urban site processes and > qualifies our repertoire of activities, associations, life paths, and > creative action is my particular interest.). Especially, I invite and > appreciate anyone interested in 'nomadic' peoples to join this group and > keep us from making any urban specific generalizations which are unwarranted. > > A website will be maintained, mostly for the sorting of a bibliography > compiled through the participants suggestions of what they find useful in > discussing comparative urbanization issues, or what they feel will expand > the reach of such studies which have yet to occur. > > Over the past few months, this list has become a major router for conference > announcements and potential funding sources dealing with urban issues. > Occasionally, it has book reviews forwarded as well. If you have any > additional information related to these areas, the list would be an ideal > way to notify a wide public from many different backgrounds with an interest > in urban issues. > > I would encourage one to avoid considering that 'this is where it is all > at.' As I am sure many members of multiple lists realize, the cross-links > are where it's 'at,' instead of a particular list, and cross-linkages tend > to have a difficult (or silent) airing. This is not because a particular > discipline is parochially inclined. It is just that the list (and I would > argue socialization in general) is not *designed* to *do* such things. > There's seldom found a listserv intentionally dedicated to not a particular > discipline which examines multiple questions, but to a set of disciplines > which examine the same question. COMPURB-L is the place which encourages > this, a place where one can share these cross-linkages with an appreciative > audience who are already interested in the same process of complementary > discovery from the start instead of having to 'work uphill.' So if you see > fruitful connections between the disciplines on the issues which could be > grouped around comparative urbanization, or if you would be interested in > 'representing' your discipline and learning other perspectives, please join. > > Subscribers to multiple lists are especially encouraged to join: it will > only make the potential discourse richer for us all. COMPURB-L is what we > will bring to it. > > If you choose not to join, please do your associates a favor and pass this > message along to them if they are interested. > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > To subscribe, address e-mail to 'majordomo@ssc.wisc.edu' with the words > 'subscribe compurb-l' followed by your e-mail address. The name of the list > is in lowercase intentionally. If you are having problems subscribing, > please contact me and I will see how I can help. > > Thank you. > > Mark Whitaker > University of Wisconsin-Madison > list-owner for COMPURB-L > mwhitake@ssc.wisc.edu From DAVIDSON@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU Wed Sep 9 20:54:28 1998 Date: Wed, 09 Sep 98 22:53:36 EDT From: Alan Davidson Subject: [GR-L] Graduate education book (fwd) To: socgrad@CSF.COLORADO.EDU ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 18:36:24 EDT Reply-To: UConn Graduate Student Issues Sender: UConn Graduate Student Issues From: Alan Davidson Subject: [GR-L] Graduate education book To: GRDISU-L@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 11:22:07 -0700 Reply-To: Graduate Studies Discussion Forum Sender: Graduate Studies Discussion Forum From: "Bobbi A. Kerlin" Subject: AERA-GSL: Publication: New Directions, Number 101 To: AERA-GSL@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU This publication might be of interest to AERA-GSL list members. New Directions for Higher Education, Number 101, Spring 1998, Jossey-Bass Publishers. The Experience of Being in Graduate School: An Exploration Melissa S. Anderson, Editor Contents: Reflections on the graduate student experience: An overview, Melissa S. Anderson and Judith P. Swazey "Grand possibilities and perilous business": Academic autobiographers on graduate education, Steven Weiland Survival skills for graduate school and beyond, Beth A. Fischer and Michael J. Zigmond Developing self-authorship in graduate school, Marcia B. Baxter Magolda Beginning graduate school: Explaining first-year doctoral attrition, Chris M. Golde Students' perspectives on their master's degree experiences: Disturbing the conventional wisdom, Clifton F. Conrad, Katherine M. Duren, and Jennifer Grant Haworth Preparing college faculty, Jerry G. Gaff and Anne S. Pruitt-Logan Best practices for enculturation: Collegiality, mentoring, and structure, Peg Boyle and Bob Boice If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change, Jules B. Lapidus *************************************** Melissa S. Anderson Educational Policy and Administration 330 Wulling Hall University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 phone: 612-624-5717 FAX: 612-624-3377 email: mand@tc.umn.edu *************************************** From tr@tryoung.com Thu Sep 10 04:55:22 1998 (usr-mtp-23.sensible-net.com [208.18.226.23]) by H50.sensible-net.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 06:51:41 -0400 To: sssitalk@sun.soci.niu.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: Critical Dimensions in Dramaturgy and Social Interaction Two articles in the Transforming Sociology Series are now available to those who teach critical symbolic interaction. They are: No. 071 Dramaturgical Analysis and Societal Critique. by John Welsh Pittsburgh State University it is at: http://www.tryoung.com/archives/071Welsh.htm No. 075 SOCIOLOGY AND HUMAN KNOWLEDGE: SCIENTIFIC vs. FOLK METHODS OF ORGANIZING SOCIAL LIFE by TR Young at: http://www.tryoung.com/archives/075f_met.htm TR Young, Director, Red Feather TR Young, 8085 Essex Weidman, Mi., 48893 Email: tr@tryoung.com From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Fri Sep 11 05:52:28 1998 Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 07:52:27 -0400 (EDT) From: James Cassell To: Southern Sociological Society Network , Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: NSFG Research Conference on October 13-14, 1998 (fwd) FYI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/cassell/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 16:02:12 +1000 From: Diana Crow To: demographic-list@postbox.anu.edu.au Subject: NSFG Research Conference on October 13-14, 1998 > A Research Conference on > the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth > > The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and the Office of > Behavioral and Social Science Research (OBSSR) of NIH announce the > first research conference on the National Survey of Family Growth > (NSFG), to be held at NCHS in Hyattsville, Maryland, on October 13 and > 14, 1998. > > The 1995 NSFG (Cycle 5) is a national survey of 10,847 women 15-44 > years of age, interviewed between January and October of 1995. The > data set includes detailed event histories of living arrangements > during childhood; education; work; marriage and divorce; cohabitation; > sexual partners; contraception; and pregnancy. There is in-depth > information on the intendedness of pregnancies; religious background; > attitudes toward family and gender roles; use of family planning > services and other medical care; and many other topics. While > increasing the analytic potential of the survey, the time series of > key fertility-related indicators have been maintained. In short, the > 1995 NSFG is a very rich data set, useful for more in-depth research > than was possible with its predecessors conducted in 1973, 1976, 1982, > and 1988. > > The purpose of this conference is to present some original research > using the new NSFG data from Cycle 5, and to allow the researchers to > meet and discuss the data set and the issues it raises. The 2-day > conference includes over 20 papers on a wide range of NSFG topics. (A > list of papers to be presented is available from Anjani Chandra upon > request.) > > More information about the NSFG can be obtained from the NSFG homepage > at: > http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/about/major/nsfg/nsfg.htm > (In early September, further details about the Research Conference > will also be posted on this website.) > > Registration > > There is no registration cost for the NSFG Research Conference, > however space in the NCHS Auditorium is limited, and people are > encouraged to register early. All those who are interested in > attending are asked to register no later than October 6, 1998 by > contacting either: > > Anjani Chandra or > Linda Peterson > 301-436-8731, ext. 128 > 301-436-8731, ext. > 126 > ayc3@cdc.gov > lsp2@cdc.gov From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Fri Sep 11 10:04:49 1998 Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 12:04:49 -0400 (EDT) From: James Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: Part-time job available (fwd) FYI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/cassell/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 11:37:13 -0400 From: Rena Cheskis-Gold To: por@frosty.irss.unc.edu Subject: Part-time job available Dear All, I am looking for someone to do some part time work for me writing up survey reports. The statistics are basic - mostly crosstabs. SPSS skills are a plus, but not necessary. A certain amount of creativity is involved, along with careful proofreading skills. As long as the person has access to a FAX machine and email, location is unimportant. Ideally, I am looking for an advanced social science graduate student or a junior professional who would like to work about 10 extra hours per week for a while to make extra money. If the person works out, we could work something out on a long term basis. The pay is good, I believe -- $25/hour. (If there is anyone out there who thinks that I'm deluding myself and paying too little, or vice versa, I'd appreciate if you'd let me know.) Replies can go directly to rena.cheskis-gold@yale.edu or, (203) 432-1331 Thanks, Rena Cheskis-Gold From tr@tryoung.com Mon Sep 14 04:23:01 1998 (usr-mtp-36.sensible-net.com [208.18.226.36]) by H50.sensible-net.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 06:19:24 -0400 To: sssitalk@sun.soci.niu.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: The Sociology of Magic and Make Believe Those interested in Critical Diminsions of Social Construction Theory may find a Red Feather Article of some interest: it is entitled: The Sociology of Make Believe and Just Pretend T.R. Young and was written in 1982 The Abstract reads: The sociological uses of make-believe and just pretend are set forth in a context which helps illuminate alienated uses of magic, what-if, never-was and might-become.   Four tests for the reality quotient of a given form of human activity is offered along with some of the more pro-social uses of make-believe. The Structure of Social Magic is mapped.  Pro-social uses of make-believe and just-pretend are most important to the social process...all social reality begins as a prophecy and ends with some fractional truth-value.  The point is not to destroy the world of magic and make-believe but rather to protect and defend it from privatized, elitist and managerial uses. Socialization, sanctification and the process by which social reality is created all make pro-social use of make-believe and just-pretend.  students of sociology, critical theorists, cultural marxists and post-modern scholarship have much to offer in protecting make- believe from commodification and the mind managers who would use it against the human project. The article may be down-loaded from: http://www.tryoung.com/archives/105BelievePretend.html TRYoung TR Young, 8085 Essex Weidman, Mi., 48893 Email: tr@tryoung.com From charnes@concentric.net Mon Sep 14 07:29:36 1998 by uhura.concentric.net (8.8.8/(98/08/04 5.11)) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] by marconi.concentric.net (8.8.8) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 09:34:49 -0400 From: Rick Charnes To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Re: The Sociology of Magic and Make Believe Only having read the summary of this article I imagine that I would deeply agree with its basic premise: that we don't, as the positivists do, want to get rid of make-believe. 'Discovering the hidden causes and patterns behind superficial reality' is of course vitally important, yet something is terribly lost in the process as well. When sociology, in its attempt to 'explain' the world, robs from us our sense of wonder, awe, mystery and the inexplicability of the world, then something is wrong. How can we re-enchant the world without our explanations becoming obfuscatory? Sure, the right wing and Madison Ave. are the masters of enchantment, but does that mean we have to leave the field of magic to their commodifying minds? I think of the Thomas Moore book _The Re-Enchantment of the World_ and wonder what role sociology can play in that process... I love this way of thinking. Thank you. T R Young wrote: > Those interested in Critical Diminsions of > Social Construction Theory may find a Red Feather > Article of some interest: it is entitled: > > The Sociology of Make Believe and Just Pretend > T.R. Young and was written in 1982 > > The Abstract reads: > > The sociological uses of make-believe and just pretend are set forth in a > context which helps illuminate alienated uses of magic, what-if, never-was > and might-become. Four tests for the reality quotient of a given form of > human activity is offered along with some of the more pro-social uses of > make-believe. The Structure of Social Magic is mapped. Pro-social uses > of make-believe and just-pretend are most important to the social > process...all social reality begins as a prophecy and ends with some > fractional truth-value. The point is not to destroy the world of magic > and make-believe but rather to protect and defend it from privatized, > elitist and managerial uses. Socialization, sanctification and the > process by which social reality is created all make pro-social use of > make-believe and just-pretend. students of sociology, critical theorists, > cultural marxists and post-modern scholarship have much to offer in > protecting make- believe from commodification and the mind managers who > would use it against the human project. > > The article may be down-loaded from: > > http://www.tryoung.com/archives/105BelievePretend.html > > TRYoung > TR Young, 8085 Essex > Weidman, Mi., 48893 > Email: tr@tryoung.com From tr@tryoung.com Mon Sep 14 15:14:40 1998 (usr-mtp-61.sensible-net.com [208.18.226.61]) by H50.sensible-net.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 17:11:03 -0400 To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: Re: Bill, Monica and the Starrs of Social theory >Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 12:30:20 PDT >Reply-To: davidredmon@hotmail.com >Sender: owner-psn@csf.colorado.edu >From: "David Redmon" >To: PROGRESSIVE SOCIOLOGISTS NETWORK >Subject: Re: Bill, Monica and the Starrs of Social theory >X-To: psn@csf.colorado.edu, skerlin@teleport.com >X-Originating-IP: [169.226.63.195] > >LL, Scott, and (y)all, > >Interesting comments about the Starr report in relation to >commodification, information, entertainment, and consumption. However, >if so inclined (as Scott suggests), one could easily read the report >within the framework of symbollic interactionism, esp using the work of >Goffman and Garfinkle. The report is saturated with props, presentation >of self, frontstage, backstage, controlling the defintion of the >situation, reality, and information, and especially stigma. It would be >interesting to see a paper combining a Marxian/Goffman synthesis of the >report. Any comments? > >David >sorry if this went out twice--the computer turned off. > > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > TR Young, 8085 Essex Weidman, Mi., 48893 Email: tr@tryoung.com From aaustin@utkux.utcc.utk.edu Mon Sep 14 15:36:13 1998 Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 17:36:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Wayne Austin To: Sociology Graduate Students -- International Subject: Re: Bill, Monica and the Starrs of Social theory In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980914171103.0094c590@tryoung.com> David Redmon, I think that you are on point concerning the appropriateness of the dramaturgical approach to understand the hyper-reality of the Starr Report, and this concerns all the actors involved. An excellent movie for illustrating the back regions of mediated reality is the sleeper Mad City, where we are given the backstage of both sides of what I call the "media war of impression." The dramaturgical interpretation of these events needs also to be explained in terms of the fractional conflict among the ruling circles that is defining US political trajectory - these are the forces operating the front regions. There is a real need for the New Right to consummate their passive revolution by doing in the Democrats. I have recently thought that the dramaturgical approach to sociological understanding is not a metaphor like other sociological models, but rather it describes the actual constructed nature of our excessively mediated lives. In other words, the world is not *like* a stage with players, but the world *is* a stage with players. But then I have asked myself whether this is just a sign of our times, or whether political, ideological, and religious elites have always presented themselves in this contrived manner. In any case, dramaturgy is a powerful perspective from which to explain and understand social reality, its construction and its mediation. Andy On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, T R Young wrote: > >Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 12:30:20 PDT > >Reply-To: davidredmon@hotmail.com > >Sender: owner-psn@csf.colorado.edu > >From: "David Redmon" > >To: PROGRESSIVE SOCIOLOGISTS NETWORK > >Subject: Re: Bill, Monica and the Starrs of Social theory > >X-To: psn@csf.colorado.edu, skerlin@teleport.com > >X-Originating-IP: [169.226.63.195] > > > >LL, Scott, and (y)all, > > > >Interesting comments about the Starr report in relation to > >commodification, information, entertainment, and consumption. However, > >if so inclined (as Scott suggests), one could easily read the report > >within the framework of symbollic interactionism, esp using the work of > >Goffman and Garfinkle. The report is saturated with props, presentation > >of self, frontstage, backstage, controlling the defintion of the > >situation, reality, and information, and especially stigma. It would be > >interesting to see a paper combining a Marxian/Goffman synthesis of the > >report. Any comments? > > > >David > >sorry if this went out twice--the computer turned off. > > > > > >______________________________________________________ > >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > TR Young, 8085 Essex > Weidman, Mi., 48893 > Email: tr@tryoung.com > From tr@tryoung.com Tue Sep 15 04:21:48 1998 (usr-mtp-17.sensible-net.com [208.18.226.17]) by H50.sensible-net.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 06:18:08 -0400 To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: Backstage at the Whitehouse: Starr-ing Bill Clinton If anyone in socgrad would like to do a critical dramaturgical analysis of the Clinton-Starr Socio-Drama, I would be pleased to publish it in the Red Feather Archives. Multiple versions are welcome. ....and if you would like to see a model of how it might be done...take a look at: http://www.tryoung.com/archives/007Watergate.htm for a model on how to do critical dramaturgy, see my paper, first entitled Backstage at the Whitehouse, written some 20 years ago...in which Richard Nixon used resources of the Office of the Presidency to suborn the US Constitution then set up the dramaturgical mechanism with which to shape public understanding of the burglary at the Watergate Complex. I should think you could do it as part of the requirements of a theory, social psych or political soc course you are taking. let me know, TR TR Young, 8085 Essex Weidman, Mi., 48893 Email: tr@tryoung.com From tr@tryoung.com Tue Sep 15 04:50:13 1998 (usr-mtp-17.sensible-net.com [208.18.226.17]) by H50.sensible-net.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 06:46:30 -0400 To: ahs-talk@ncsu.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: The Name of the Crime: An Editorial teachsoc@maple.lemoyne.edu, socgrad@csf.colorado.edu, sssitalk@sun.soci.niu.edu There is much talk of impeaching Bill Clinton; more in the media than elsewhere. Most of the talk centers around a vague passage in the US Constitution grounding Impeachment in 'high crimes and misdeamors.' Much of the discussion grounds the possibility of impeachment on such legal and proscribed actions including: a. Perjury; lying to a Grand Jury controlled by Mr. Starr. as well as an Interrogatory in another case. b. suborning a witness: in the same Grand Jury proceedings c. Obstruction of Justice. By failing to co-operate with Mr. Starr in his inquisition into Mr. Clinton's sexualties. In more public realms, the crime seems to be: a. bad acting in public apologetics/failure at the dramaturgical enactment of sincerity, honesty, remorse and repentance. b. embarrassment of Democratic Candidates/especially those up for re-election c. enragement of Republican Conservatives/especially those hostile to social programs of democrats. d. disgracing the Office of the Presidency...and the USA. e. setting the 'wrong' example for young people who, one presumes, do not have enough bad examples at home. f. betraying Hillary g. hurting his daughter, Chelsea h. eroding the power of the presidency in Foreign Policy/ particularly irksome to those interested in global markets. i. your turn j. k. l. In my opinion; set forth in a post some weeks ago, the Crime committed by Bill Clinton is that of sexual predation; using the social and economic power of the Office of the President of the United States to extort sexual favors from a number of women. This is part of a much larger pattern of sexual predation going back at least as far as the Clinton Governorship in Arkansas. This is a substantive crime; those charged by Mr. Starr are violations of legal procedures in criminal law. Some Americans are willing to forgive and forget his sexual predations; calling it private congress between consenting adults. I'm not. Men without wealth, status or economic power use force to rape women...if Clinton resigns or is impeached, it should be for this white collar form of rape...the use of social power entrusted to him for public purpose...not his private sexual predations. This is the only crime that has enough substance to warrant the great political dislocations incurred in impeachment proceedings...sucessful or not. TRYoung, Editor, FROM THE LEFT TR Young, 8085 Essex Weidman, Mi., 48893 Email: tr@tryoung.com From mhoover@bu.edu Tue Sep 15 06:34:18 1998 Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 08:34:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Matthew Hoover To: Sociology Graduate Students -- International Subject: Re: The Name of the Crime: An Editorial In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980915064630.00951b70@tryoung.com> TR wrote: "Men without wealth, status or economic power use force to rape women...if Clinton resigns or is impeached, it should be for this white collar form of rape...the use of social power entrusted to him for public purpose...not his private sexual predations." I respectly disagree that what occured in this case has anything remotely to do with rape. Even Ken Starr's report indicates that Monica persued President Clinton. Monica is essentually a "groupie" that has a history of persuing men that are in authority positions (remember her high school drama teacher that came forward early on in this fiasco). Feminists may disagree, but I don't believe that status differences automatically preclude forming sexual relationships. Most of us spend a significant amount of time in the workplace and it follows that relationships will occur. Who you fall in love with has nothing to do with your place in the hierachy. What is important was whether the relationship was consenual, I do agree that sexual harassment (especially the "quid pro quo" variety) is a serious offense. But this case was not sexual harassment. The President's morality, in both hurting his wife and child and in his lying to the public after the fact, is the main issue in this whole mess. Thanks, Matt Hoover mhoover@bu.edu From lvf4m@server1.mail.virginia.edu Tue Sep 15 07:54:41 1998 From: Lisa Vivian-Marie Friel Sender: lvf4m@server1.mail.virginia.edu To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Re: The Name of the Crime: An Editorial Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 10:04:35 -0400 () Matt Hoover wrote: "I don't believe that status differences automatically preclude forming sexual relationships." and, "Who you fall in love with has nothing to do with your place in the hierachy." I agree with the first statement, however the second is more tenuous. American couples are increasingly similar (or homogamous) on many levels (even cohabitors are very similar). This is largely due to who we associate with on a daily basis. So, like it or not, love is patterned, but there are always people who do not fit the pattern. "Failing" to fit the pattern of course does not make one a sexual opportunist/abuser. I also agree somewhat with TR Young - Clinton figured he could get away with cheating and lying because of his power - in relation to Lewinsky and everyone else. To the extent that Clinton took advantage of his power, he did rape Lewinsky. However, I have trouble excusing her entirely from moral responsibility. When a spouse is cheating, if the "other" is aware of the situation, they are equally immoral in their actions. So my problem in calling Clinton a rapist is that I then must consider Lewinsky a victim. I can do that given the social mechinisms whereby women like Lewinsky are created and reinforced. But there comes an age when, social mechinisms aside, one must be a thoughtful, responsible adult. In the end, I feel Clinton is a rapist and feel sorry for Lewinsky being victimized. But I will feel even more sorry for Lewinsky if she cannot accept responsibility for her actions like an adult. Lisa Friel Univ. of Virginia On Tue, 15 Sep 1998 08:34:15 -0400 (EDT) Matthew Hoover wrote: > > Feminists may disagree, but I don't believe that status differences > automatically preclude forming sexual relationships. Most of us spend a > significant amount of time in the workplace and it follows that > relationships will occur. Who you fall in love with has nothing to do > with your place in the hierachy. What is important was whether the > relationship was consenual, I do agree that sexual harassment (especially > the "quid pro quo" variety) is a serious offense. But this case was not > sexual harassment. The President's morality, in both hurting his wife and > child and in his lying to the public after the fact, is the main issue in > this whole mess. > > Thanks, > Matt Hoover > mhoover@bu.edu > From aaustin@utkux.utcc.utk.edu Tue Sep 15 09:02:12 1998 Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 11:02:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Wayne Austin To: Sociology Graduate Students -- International Subject: Re: The Name of the Crime: An Editorial In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980915064630.00951b70@tryoung.com> On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, T R Young wrote: > Much of the discussion grounds the possibility of impeachment > on such legal and proscribed actions including: > > a. Perjury; lying to a Grand Jury controlled by Mr. Starr. > as well as an Interrogatory in another case. The Congress is focusing on the Nixon case and what charges were brought against him. But it is more useful to consider the charges developed against Nixon that were *not* pursued and grasp the reasons behind why they were not considered legitimate impeachable offenses. Particularly in the charge of perjury, Clinton has a way out, and this may be enough to short-circuit the impeachment process. There is a general consensus developing that the other charges, e.g., obstruction of justice, are a reach, and represent arrogance on the part of the Independent Counsel's office; the perjury charge is Clinton's real problem. When charges were drawn up against Nixon, one of the charges was that Nixon filed false tax returns. These were not considered appropriate because they involved the private matter of Nixon's personal finances. Yet, Nixon signed a public oath swearing that the information on his tax return was correct. He lied when he signed this oath. But the House committee argued that even though the lie was public, what was lied about, the substance of the lie, was private, and therefore not an impeachable offense. In Clinton's case, his opponents are saying that it does not matter what Clinton lied about, but rather what is relevant is the fact that he lied in a public setting. But this is not a reasonable argument. Fist, in perjury cases, it is often considered what the lie was about, and in the case of Clinton's perjury, and cases like it, it is very unlikely that such a case would be pursued, and past cases go against the likelihood that such a case would be successful if it were brought. But, secondly, and more importantly, in considering the charges against Nixon it was precisely the *substance* of the behaviors that was considered *not* the fact that they were public lies. If there was a public character to the acts, e.g., using the CIA to thwart the FBI's investigation, the charges were considered legitimate; but if Nixon's behavior was private, e.g., filing false tax returns, the charges were considered inappropriate for an impeachment proceeding. Why is this not being discussed? I think the answer lies in why we have even reached this point in this whole affair. But you would expect that Clinton's lawyers might be more aware of these facts and the legal reasoning. It permits Clinton to stop hair-splitting and avoid impeachment hearings. One more note. The argument about Nixon's tax returns being a private matter is a bit of a reach. If, on the outside, any of us were to falsify a tax return, we would be in some trouble. But if the substance of such an act is to be consider private, then there is no question that Clinton's behavior is private, and therefore the charge of perjury cannot be legitimately brought in the context of an impeachment process. Andy From tr@tryoung.com Wed Sep 16 05:23:44 1998 (usr-mtp-42.sensible-net.com [208.18.226.42]) by H50.sensible-net.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 07:20:04 -0400 To: ahs-talk@ncsu.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: The Political Economy of Sex Scandals teachsoc@maple.lemoyne.edu Steve Rosenthal's post on the Clinton/Starr Sleazefest is the best I've seen...I'm forwarding it for your consideration. TR ********** At 09:14 PM 9/15/98 +0000, you wrote: >I would like to invite PSN'ers to reconsider whether the >Clinton/Starr sleazefest should be analyzed on its face, or whether >it is a more deadly struggle disguised as a battle over the >president's private sex life. > >At the beginning of this decade there was a big fight among rival >capitalist forces over the nomination of Clarence Thomas as Supreme >Court Justice. Does anyone really think the fight was about whether >Thomas was a porn lover who regularly hit on women? Why didn't the >Senate and the media debate Thomas's service to the apartheid >government of South Africa, his opposition to affirmative action and >his dismantling the EEOC, his attacks on welfare recipients? Neither >senators nor the media wanted to defend affirmative action and welfare >recipients, or condemn racism. So they held a sleazefest instead. > >That was only a small opener for the main act that is on stage now. >If ever various factions of the bourgeoisie showed their utter >unfitness and incapacity to rule society, it is now. To me the most >compelling aspect of what the Starr Report revealed about Monica >Lewinsky and Bill Clinton was the utter banality of their >relationship. Monica is just another spoiled rich brat, and Bill >is just another corrupt, sexist, powerful boss. It wasn't >particularly lurid; it was pathetic. This is the political leader >of the world's only superpower? What a sick joke! > >For years Clinton's attackers have been backed financially and >politically by capitalist factions that are opposed to Clinton's >foreign or domestic policies and thus stand to gain from weakening or >removing him. Pro-Clinton capitalist factions have stood to gain >from Clinton's domestic and foreign policies. > >The Chase, Exxon, Mobil faction of the bourgeoisie has been >Clinton's main backer. Clinton flew up to NY to beg this >Rockefeller faction for forgiveness at the Council on Foreign >Relations and promised to try harder to get billions of dollars for >the IMF to impose restructuring on collapsing economies all over the >world. It's too little too late! > >Behind Starr are a variety of powerful capitalist forces who fund the >Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute, and the like. >They get their money from the Bradley, Olin, and Scaife Foundations. >For Clinton's backers, controlling MidEast oil is a high priority. >Other capitalist factions have other priorities, foreign and >domestic. > >The sharpening contradictions within the U.S. capitalist class are >being fought out in sex and corruption scandals, because none of >these factions can afford to tell the working class what they are >really fighting about. Who would support any of these murderous >exploiters? They are no different from their Russian counterparts, >who have proven in the past ten years that American-style free market >capitalism is a total failure. > >Whether capitalist politicians decide to remove Clinton or use him >in his broken state, they will try to come up with new politicians >who can do a better job of selling us on the necessity of more >fascist repression at home and preparation for larger wars abroad. >It is impossible to predict the particular developments that will >unfold in the coming months or years, but it seems to me that, as >economic depression spreads throughout the world, more and more >countries will resort to nationalist (fascist) measures to deal with >the ensuing political crises, and we will be drawn toward World War >III. > >When bosses fight among themselves in this degenerate way, it is a >sympton of their weakness, not their strength. Their weakness will >open up new opportunities for a workers' movement that is committed >to a renewed effort to rid the world of capitalism, imperialist wars, >and fascism. > >Steve Rosenthal > TR Young, 8085 Essex Weidman, Mi., 48893 Email: tr@tryoung.com From tr@tryoung.com Wed Sep 16 07:34:15 1998 (usr-mtp-51.sensible-net.com [208.18.226.51]) by H50.sensible-net.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 09:30:27 -0400 To: ahs-talk@ncsu.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: Social Problems Theory and Praxis sssitalk@sun.soci.niu.edu, teachsoc@maple.lemoyne.edu, social-class@listserv.uic.edu Two more articles in the Transforming Sociology Series have been converted to .html and up-loaded to the Red Feather Archives. Those who teach or research in Social Problems may want to down-load them. They are: No.124 THE SOCIAL SOURCES OF HUMAN PROBLEMS: Social Problems in the World Capitalist System at: http://www.tryoung.com/archives/124sourc.htm No.193 SOCIAL PROBLEMS THEORY AND HUMAN RIGHTS Grounding Postmodern Praxis in Social Problems. at: http://www.tryoung.com/archives/193HumanRights.htm TR Young, 8085 Essex Weidman, Mi., 48893 Email: tr@tryoung.com From tombrown@jhu.edu Wed Sep 16 15:54:11 1998 by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (980427.SGI.8.8.8/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 17:53:55 -0400 (EDT) From: tombrown@jhu.edu (Thomas F Brown) Subject: Re: The Name of the Crime: An Editorial To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu TR wrote: >Men without wealth, status or economic power use force to >rape women...if Clinton resigns or is impeached, it should be for >this white collar form of rape...the use of social power entrusted to him >for public purpose...not his private sexual predations. No one has more social power than Clinton. So whom can he have sex with without it being rape? Should the poor bastard be doomed to celibacy until he's out of office, lest he rape somebody with his awesome powers? From davidredmon@hotmail.com Wed Sep 16 18:01:51 1998 X-Originating-IP: [169.226.63.118] From: "David Redmon" To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Re: The Name of the Crime: An Editorial Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 17:01:43 PDT >TR wrote: >>Men without wealth, status or economic power use force to >>rape women...if Clinton resigns or is impeached, it should be for >>this white collar form of rape...the use of social power entrusted to him >>for public purpose...not his private sexual predations. > >No one has more social power than Clinton. So whom can he >have sex with without it being rape? Should the poor bastard >be doomed to celibacy until he's out of office, lest he rape >somebody with his awesome powers? Good point, Thomas. But, white collar rape is an ambiguous term, esp when defining its characteristics using "power." By the definition, and taking it to its logical conclusion, men or women who have more power than women or men who work in the same public sphere would be subject to the discursive power of the concept "white-collar rape." The opposite is true, too: men or women in public positions of power who have same-sex intercourse with men or women in lower positions of power would be considered rape. Instead, power is a sort of cultural capital in that it can be used as a social aphrodisiac to attract and lure others. It can also make others confess. People want it, people want to be associated with it, and people like its seductive qualities. Power *is* seductive. If anything, Clinton used his *position* of power to seduce Monica, not rape her. Now, I'm not saying President Clinton is a seductive man. Monica wasn't interacting with or seduced *by* Clinton, but rather with "the President"--one of the most socially constructed and discursively produced "powerful persons in the world;" one of the most seen and talked about persons in the world. I've been told by many men and women that they would love to just sleep with a "famous" person, or with a "rock-star" or with a "model," not with an actual person, but with what the category or sign represents. My point: positions of power are categorical signs, they are categorical texts, and could (should?) be read as such. What does the sign "President" convey? What is the meaning behind the sign? What story or meaning does the sign represent? What and from what position is the story being told by Starr? Who is doing the confessing? Who is made to confess, on whose behalf, and how is the confession twisted from others? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From tr@tryoung.com Thu Sep 17 03:36:21 1998 (usr-mtp-46.sensible-net.com [208.18.226.46]) by H50.sensible-net.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 05:32:43 -0400 To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: On the Sexuality of Presidents In-Reply-To: <19980917000144.28855.qmail@hotmail.com> Actually, Clinton has a wife who seems to love him and to cherish his company... ....I'm not making a case for celibacy of course; if Clinton wishes to court other women as jus' plain ol' Bill after he leaves the presidency, that is his and Hillary's concern... ....when he uses the social power vested in him to entice and engage young men and women, it is our concern. Absent the use of power, wealth and status to solicit sexual access, I am all for it...sexuality is central to the human project...for bad bill as for any one else... Yrs for more romance and less sleaze, TR At 05:01 PM 9/16/98 PDT, you wrote: >>TR wrote: >>>Men without wealth, status or economic power use force to >>>rape women...if Clinton resigns or is impeached, it should be for >>>this white collar form of rape...the use of social power entrusted to >him >>>for public purpose...not his private sexual predations. >> >>No one has more social power than Clinton. So whom can he >>have sex with without it being rape? Should the poor bastard >>be doomed to celibacy until he's out of office, lest he rape >>somebody with his awesome powers? > > >Good point, Thomas. > >But, white collar rape is an ambiguous term, esp when defining its >characteristics using "power." By the definition, and taking it to its >logical conclusion, men or women who have more power than women or men >who work in the same public sphere would be subject to the discursive >power of the concept "white-collar rape." The opposite is true, too: men >or women in public positions of power who have same-sex intercourse with >men or women in lower positions of power would be considered rape. >Instead, power is a sort of cultural capital in that it can be used as a >social aphrodisiac to attract and lure others. It can also make others >confess. People want it, people want to be associated with it, and >people like its seductive qualities. Power *is* seductive. If anything, >Clinton used his *position* of power to seduce Monica, not rape her. >Now, I'm not saying President Clinton is a seductive man. Monica wasn't >interacting with or seduced *by* Clinton, but rather with "the >President"--one of the most socially constructed and discursively >produced "powerful persons in the world;" one of the most seen and >talked about persons in the world. I've been told by many men and women >that they would love to just sleep with a "famous" person, or with a >"rock-star" or with a "model," not with an actual person, but with what >the category or sign represents. My point: positions of power are >categorical signs, they are categorical texts, and could (should?) be >read as such. What does the sign "President" convey? What is the meaning >behind the sign? What story or meaning does the sign represent? What and >from what position is the story being told by Starr? Who is doing the >confessing? Who is made to confess, on whose behalf, and how is the >confession twisted from others? > > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > TR Young, 8085 Essex Weidman, Mi., 48893 Email: tr@tryoung.com From tr@tryoung.com Thu Sep 17 06:25:29 1998 (usr-mtp-11.sensible-net.com [208.18.226.11]) by H50.sensible-net.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 08:21:44 -0400 To: psn-special@csf.colorado.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: The KKK teachsoc@maple.lemoyne.edu, sssitalk@sun.soci.niu.edu I am pleased to announce that the classic article on the KKK by Dobratz and Shanks-Meile is on-line and can be down-loaded from the Red Feather Domain: No. 125 THE KU KLUX KLAN AND THE AMERICAN NAZI PARTY: CASE STUDIES IN TOTALITARIANISM AND FASCISM* Betty A. Dobratz Iowa State University and Stephanie Indiana University Northwest double click on: http://www.tryoung.com/archives/125d-kkk.htm NOTE: If you have trouble, try: http://www.tryoung.com and then click on the website for ARCHIVES. The KKK article is #125. TR Young, Director TR Young, 8085 Essex Weidman, Mi., 48893 Email: tr@tryoung.com From aaustin@utkux.utcc.utk.edu Thu Sep 17 07:54:57 1998 Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 09:54:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Wayne Austin To: Sociology Graduate Students -- International Subject: Re: On the Sexuality of Presidents In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980917053243.009506a0@tryoung.com> TR, What is your take on European societies that have less gender inequality and violence but more permissive attitude towards leaders having mistresses? I am speaking now about the less puritanical countries who think that the media and government obsession over Bill Clinton's sex life is ridiculous. Andy On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, T R Young wrote: > Actually, Clinton has a wife who seems to love him > and to cherish his company... > > ...I'm not making a case for celibacy of course; if > Clinton wishes to court other women as jus' plain ol' > Bill after he leaves the presidency, that is his and > Hillary's concern... > > ...when he uses the social power vested in him to > entice and engage young men and women, it is our concern. > > Absent the use of power, wealth and status to solicit > sexual access, I am all for it...sexuality is central to > the human project...for bad bill as for any one else... > > Yrs for more romance and less sleaze, TR > > > At 05:01 PM 9/16/98 PDT, you wrote: > >>TR wrote: > >>>Men without wealth, status or economic power use force to > >>>rape women...if Clinton resigns or is impeached, it should be for > >>>this white collar form of rape...the use of social power entrusted to > >him > >>>for public purpose...not his private sexual predations. > >> > >>No one has more social power than Clinton. So whom can he > >>have sex with without it being rape? Should the poor bastard > >>be doomed to celibacy until he's out of office, lest he rape > >>somebody with his awesome powers? > > > > > >Good point, Thomas. > > > >But, white collar rape is an ambiguous term, esp when defining its > >characteristics using "power." By the definition, and taking it to its > >logical conclusion, men or women who have more power than women or men > >who work in the same public sphere would be subject to the discursive > >power of the concept "white-collar rape." The opposite is true, too: men > >or women in public positions of power who have same-sex intercourse with > >men or women in lower positions of power would be considered rape. > >Instead, power is a sort of cultural capital in that it can be used as a > >social aphrodisiac to attract and lure others. It can also make others > >confess. People want it, people want to be associated with it, and > >people like its seductive qualities. Power *is* seductive. If anything, > >Clinton used his *position* of power to seduce Monica, not rape her. > >Now, I'm not saying President Clinton is a seductive man. Monica wasn't > >interacting with or seduced *by* Clinton, but rather with "the > >President"--one of the most socially constructed and discursively > >produced "powerful persons in the world;" one of the most seen and > >talked about persons in the world. I've been told by many men and women > >that they would love to just sleep with a "famous" person, or with a > >"rock-star" or with a "model," not with an actual person, but with what > >the category or sign represents. My point: positions of power are > >categorical signs, they are categorical texts, and could (should?) be > >read as such. What does the sign "President" convey? What is the meaning > >behind the sign? What story or meaning does the sign represent? What and > >from what position is the story being told by Starr? Who is doing the > >confessing? Who is made to confess, on whose behalf, and how is the > >confession twisted from others? > > > > > >______________________________________________________ > >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > TR Young, 8085 Essex > Weidman, Mi., 48893 > Email: tr@tryoung.com > From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Thu Sep 17 08:19:39 1998 Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 10:19:41 -0400 (EDT) From: James Cassell To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Re: On the Sexuality of Presidents In-Reply-To: On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Andrew Wayne Austin wrote: > TR, > > What is your take on European societies that have less gender inequality > and violence but more permissive attitude towards leaders having > mistresses? I am speaking now about the less puritanical countries who > think that the media and government obsession over Bill Clinton's sex life > is ridiculous. > > Andy > As I understand the argument (taking place here and on teachsoc), in an exchange between two actors of unequal power, the less powerful one can not be seen as consenting to the exchange. Therefore, the less powerful actor should not be seen as responsible for their actions. I have some sympathy for this argument, but wonder how far we should push it. Are the people accused of war crimes in the former Yugoslavia not to be held responsible because they took their orders from Karadzic? They had considerably less power than he, afterall. I'm not trying to start a row here by bringing up an extreme example--I thought of this while reading throught the various posts on "zippergate." Maybe I'm being mutton-headed, but the question of agency in the face of power seems to be at the center of both. James ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/cassell/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From Michael.Gibbons.19@nd.edu Thu Sep 17 11:16:29 1998 Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 12:19:03 -0500 To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu From: Michael S Gibbons Subject: Re: On the Sexuality of Presidents In-Reply-To: James makes a wonderful point. If we can not attribute agency to those who are less powerful in a specific relationship, then we certainly weaken the case for resistance don't we? Is the coffee shop employee who steals something from an owner who pays and treats him/her poorly then not acting with agency? Is the slave who 'accidently' breaks the plow not acting with agency? Is the young intern hoping to sleep her way up the power ladder (not that this is necessarily what Monica had in mind-we don't know) not acting with agency? It seems to me that this is a troubling perspective if taken too far; including in the sexual sphere. What does it say that a young woman who has reached the age of majority can not choose her sexual partners - including taking into account that power is an aphrodisaic - because she occupies the same position as a 16-year old in that relationship? Are we willing to infantalize women this way? I'm not comfortable at all with this particular position. MikeG From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Thu Sep 17 11:28:10 1998 Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 13:27:48 -0400 (EDT) From: James Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: available position (fwd) FYI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/cassell/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 12:42:06 -0400 From: Karen Callaghan To: teachsoc@poplar.lemoyne.edu Subject: available position Barry University. The Department of Sociology and Criminology invites applications for a full-time, continuing Assistant Professor position beginning August 1999. Applicants should have a Ph.D. in sociology with criminology as an area of specialization. The candidate will be expected to teach courses in the following areas: juvenile delinquency, social psychology, criminological theory, and women and crime. A strong commitment to undergraduate teaching, advising, and mentoring is highly desirable. Barry University is a liberal arts, Catholic institution located in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The Department consists of four full-time faculty and approximately 60 undergraduate majors. To apply please send letter of application, vita, and three letters of recommendation to: Karen A. Callaghan, Chair, Department of Sociology and Criminology, Barry University, 11300 NE Second Ave., Miami Shores, FL 33161. E-mail: callagha@bu4090.barry.edu. Review of applications will begin November 16, 1998 and continue until the position is filled. An Equal Opportunity Employer. From tombrown@jhu.edu Thu Sep 17 13:59:53 1998 by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (980427.SGI.8.8.8/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 15:58:21 -0400 (EDT) From: tombrown@jhu.edu (Thomas F Brown) Subject: Re: On the Sexuality of Presidents To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu >As I understand the argument (taking place here and on teachsoc), in an >exchange between two actors of unequal power, the less powerful one can >not be seen as consenting to the exchange. Therefore, the less powerful >actor should not be seen as responsible for their actions. Does anyone besides me find it incredibly patronizing when folks (not James) assume or even assert that a 22-year-old woman needs to be protected from deciding on her own to have sex? A more sexist argument I cannot imagine. It's practically Victorian, and yet it continues to emanate from certain wings of feminist thought. The notion that a beautiful young woman lacks power strikes me as absurd. Beauty and youth already constitute an astonishing amount of cultural capital. Monica is additionally rather well-connected through her parents' wealth and social circles. And as soon as she collected that stain on her dress, the balance of power turned completely upside down, and we see in the transcripts that Clinton was going to all lengths to convince her not to disclose. Isn't the power to bring down an American president the ultimate power a single individual can have? From aaustin@utkux.utcc.utk.edu Thu Sep 17 15:05:23 1998 Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 17:04:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Wayne Austin Reply-To: Andrew Wayne Austin To: Sociology Graduate Students -- International Subject: On the Sexuality of Politicians (was Re: On the Sexuality of Presidents) In-Reply-To: Now this is getting entertaining. William Krystal says that Republican affairs are different. That was with two disclosed, Indiana Rep. Dan Burton and Idaho Rep. Helen Chenoweth (Indiana and Idaho - what two up-tight political milieus). Burton fathered a child by his mistress. He has been paying child support, though not claiming that on his taxes. He kept the affair a secret. Chenoweth has the distinction of being the mistress to a married man. Both her and Burton were more than holier than thou in judging Clinton. Burton called the president a "scumbag." Chenoweth is tight with the "family values" crowd. Ouch, this must sting. And now there are three. Hyde says that "The statute of limitation has long since passed on my youthful indiscretions." Youthful indiscretions? Hyde was 41. And what is all this talk of about the statute of limitation? Was Hyde's sexual relationship an illegality? Sounds like a variant of "I didn't inhale" to me. Or maybe legal hairsplitting. Hyde didn't lie about it, they say. But, like Dan Burton and Chenoweth, he has been covering this up for much longer than 7 months. And aren't Republicans even just a little bit outraged that Cherie Snodgrass, the woman Hyde had his affair with in the free-swinging 1960s, was married with three small children? Rush Limbaugh says Henry Hyde is his hero. Looks like Bill Krystal will have to amend his editorial. The Republicans are now saying that there is a "vast left-wing conspiracy" afoot to get Republicans. They are screaming that it is a "sexual witch-hunt," a wave of "sexual McCarthyism." Tom Delay says that Bill Clinton is pulling the levers of a vast conspiratorial machine uncovering the sexual lives of Republicans in a "scorched earth policy." Limbaugh is busy tracking down the liberal sympathies and funding sources at the e-journal Salon. The Republicans are saying that allies with time and money are investigating Republicans, perhaps as many as 20 are under the gun, trying to embarrass the true moral leaders of the American Republic. This isn't fair, the right wing says. Delay called on the president to heel his allies. Does Falwell reckon he spoke too soon? Where was Delay when his Republican allies were funding Paula Corbin Jones in her sexual harassment suit that caused all this? Did he call them off? And where was Delay when Starr was ruining reputations left and right to get the president on the hook? Haven't the Republicans sent their allies out with time and money to get this president, specifically to expose his private sexual life? And how sweet Republicans think it is that they can say that Bill doesn't like it when they do it to him, so how can he do it to them. The Republicans have the audacity to accuse the White House of hypocrisy. No wonder Henry Hyde is Rush Limbaugh's hero. Salon editor David Talbot, who exposed Henry Hyde's "sexual indiscretions," wrote: "What's good for the president is good for those who are sitting in judgment on him." That ought to set well with the self-righteous Republicans: Old Testament eye-for-an-eye justice. Sit back and revel in the quality of leaders the people have elected. Andy From tr@tryoung.com Fri Sep 18 05:04:21 1998 (usr-mtp-67.sensible-net.com [208.18.226.67]) by H50.sensible-net.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 07:00:38 -0400 To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: The Exculpation of Monica Lewinsky social-class@listserv.uic.edu, teachsoc@maple.lemoyne.edu The point of a structural analysis is neither the indictment of Bill Clinton nor the exculpation of Monica Lewinsky. I regret that, if to some it appears that such analysis portrays Ms. Lewinsky as a 'helpless victim' or Mr. Clinton as marauding sexual predator...even if, on more human terms they are. However, one must go beyond good and evil in order to know the sources of good and evil. Postmodern sociology of religion, of politics, and of class analysis does just that. In his most excellent structural analysis, Steve Rosenthal made the point that the trials and tribulations of Mr. Clinton is best understood as a contest between those who benefit from the globalization of capital and increase of market share by US corporations. Those who back Mr. Starr are hurt by globalization and want to 'make America strong' by excluding foreign competition in domestic and foreign markets. Clinton's supporters want to retain the cheap-jack 'safety net' left over from the Johnson years while his detractors want to eliminate all social programs in order to lower taxes, increase profits and make America safe for domestic capital. In none of this is Bill Clinton to blame nor Monica Lewinsky a victim...it is part of the agonies of the great social upheavals created by the globalization of capitalist markets. For what it is worth to those of us who feel shame and sympathy for Bill or Monica, the dislocations in the 3rd world are far more tragic; far more deserving of pity, anger and affirmative action than either the Starr faction or the Clinton faction. For my part, I will leave it to the US Senate to judge Bill Clinton; if they should impeach him, I would shed few tears...he is not my President. I would have preferred Dan Berrigan or Mary Daly for President...or maybe Garrison Keilor. And as to Monica Lewinsky, someone once said that tragedies are brought on by the weaknesses of mortals while comedies are the work of the gods and mortals victim of their games; we need not feel too much sympathy for Monica...she seems to have enjoyed her small part in this cosmic tragic comedy. Yrs from a small planet, TRYoung TR Young, 8085 Essex Weidman, Mi., 48893 Email: tr@tryoung.com From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Fri Sep 18 05:17:20 1998 Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 07:17:20 -0400 (EDT) From: James Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: available position (fwd) FYI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/cassell/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 15:32:06 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) From: David J. Pratto To: teachsoc@poplar.lemoyne.edu Subject: available position University of North Carolina-Greensboro (UNGG) invites applications for a full-time, tenure track PhD sociologist (assistant professor), beginning Fall Semester 1999. Primary interests should be in the areas of deviance including international/cross-cultural deviance, criminology, delinquency, or social justice. The successful candidate should have strong applied quantitative research skills and be able to teach courses in data analysis and global society. Other interests in combination with some of these areas are also invited. Significant contributions to the development of specialities in deviance, crime, law, and justice at undergraduate and graduate levels are expected in a very active department of sociologists. Responsibilities include undergraduate and graduate teaching, active engagement in external funding for research, and service related to the mission of the department and the university. UNCG (WWW:UNCG.EDU/SOC) is located in Greensboro, a city of over 200,000 in the Piedmont of North Carolina between Washington, DC and Atlanta. Review of applicants will begin October 15, 1998, with an applicant deadline of November 15, 1998. Interested applicants should submit letters of interest, curriculum vitae, and names, phone numbers, and addresses of three references to: Recruitment Committee, Sociology, UNCG, P.O. Box 26170 Greensboro, NC 27420-6170; E-Mail: DJPratto@UNCG.EDU; Phone:336-334-5295. Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action: Women/Minorities/Veterans/Disabled. ---------------------- David J. Pratto, Prof. & Head Sociology-UNCG P.O.Box 26170 Greensboro, NC 27402-6170 Phone: 336-334-5295 DJPRATTO@UNCG.EDU From tr@tryoung.com Fri Sep 18 05:32:44 1998 (usr-mtp-67.sensible-net.com [208.18.226.67]) by H50.sensible-net.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 07:29:06 -0400 To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: The Political Economy of Sexual Norms In-Reply-To: At 09:54 AM 9/17/98 -0400, you wrote: >TR, > >What is your take on European societies that have less gender inequality >and violence but more permissive attitude towards leaders having >mistresses? I am speaking now about the less puritanical countries who >think that the media and government obsession over Bill Clinton's sex life >is ridiculous. > >Andy ********** Andy: my take is pretty much like your take...except that I would add that the taking of mistresses is a heritage from the patriarchal past and that the taking of lovers by married men and women, which appears to be much more egalitarian and thus less problematic to public opinion; still these practices are legacy of monogamous sexual relations...they are to be carefully concealed from public view; discretion protects both monogamous morality and public equanamity. And monogamy itself is heritage from agrarian social morality...it was absolutely essential to protect the male lineage since land was trans- ferred within the family via primo-geniture. You might want to take a look at a socgrad mini-lecture where I've developed this in more detail: double click on: http://www.tryoung.com/lectures/024PostmodernFamily.htm In brief, the rules of marriage and sexuality shaped by the political economy of agrarian life are: ****** With the advent of hydraulic societies and the great surpluses which ensue from competent farming, several sexual norms were imposed: 1.The Rule of virginity...women were not to come to the marriage form pregnant with the child of another male. 2.The Rule of fidelity...women were not to invest their desire and delight in males other than the 'lawful' wedded husband. 3.The Rule of Chastity during absence and/or death of the husband. Women were not to act on their own sexuality and produce a claimant to the land through another lineage. 4.The Rule of Fecundity...women were to produce as many children as possible. There are several reasons for this: a.Children are net energy collectors after age 3 or 4. They add to the resources of the family in a hundred ways. b.Infant mortality rates were high: it takes 10 births to guarantee one male to inherit...five die early...three are female and will leave the family...two are left; one to inherit and one as a back-up in case of death, disease, or decrepitude. c.Social Security. One ages quickly in low tech societies. One needs another generation to take over the labor and management of the land...four of five surviving sons daughters to sustain one in one's later years is a good idea. d.Defense...given the amount of predatory raids and warfare, it is a good idea to have as many kin as possible. These rules are the some of the more interesting rules of marriage and family life we have inherited from the mid-east and from patriarchy. These survive the centuries until the advent of the modern era. ********* Yrs for more sociology and less invective in discussing human sexuality, TR PS: As I recall, prior to the Christian Conquest of Hawaii, there were 26 permitted sexual relationship for men and women. Seems to me to be about right; I could live with that. Yrs for more and better sexuality, TR TR Young, 8085 Essex Weidman, Mi., 48893 Email: tr@tryoung.com From slayman@2nature.org Fri Sep 18 11:30:10 1998 From: "Stephen Layman" To: "EFS Announcements" Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 13:29:12 -0400 Subject: Workshop on Education for Sustainability - Second Nature Boundary="0__=3mQyaQlpTt6NPYz8T29MosHnSg00ONTn4dbs0MPv4QZnVFrLvcMm6sjw" --0__=3mQyaQlpTt6NPYz8T29MosHnSg00ONTn4dbs0MPv4QZnVFrLvcMm6sjw ** apologies for cross-postings ** Further information is available on the Second Nature website < http://www.2nature.org >. 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Please feel free to forward these to your friends, and to check our website (http://www.pfaw.org) for updates. http://www.pfaw.org/issues/right/rwwo ==================================================================== To subscribe to the Right Wing Watch Online, send a message to majordomo@lists.pfaw.org with the message: subscribe pfaw-rww To unsubscribe, send the message: unsubscribe pfaw-rww ==================================================================== People For the American Way Foundation 202 467 4999 phone 2000 M Street NW Suite 400 202 293 2672 fax Washington DC 20036 pfaw@pfaw.org http://www.pfaw.org From tr@tryoung.com Sat Sep 19 03:39:54 1998 (usr-mtp-22.sensible-net.com [208.18.226.22]) by H50.sensible-net.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 05:36:18 -0400 To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: Asst. Prof. of Sociology faculty search (fwd) >Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 00:10:44 -0500 >Reply-To: sssitalk@sun.soci.niu.edu >Originator: sssitalk@sun.soci.niu.edu >Sender: sssitalk@sun.soci.niu.edu >From: Jim Thomas >Subject: Asst. Prof. of Sociology faculty search (fwd) >X-Comment: SSSI--The Discussion List for the SSSI > >FYI --- >jt > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 14:48:00 +0000 >From: Richard Wilson >Subject: Asst. Prof. of Sociology faculty search > >September 18, 1998 > >Dear Colleague: > >The Sociology Department of Loyola University New Orleans is presently >advertising for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position to begin >with the Fall 1999 semester. We would greatly appreciate your posting >the enclosed advertisement (which also appears in the October issue of >the ASA Employment Bulletin) in your department, as well as generally >"spreading the word" among your colleagues and most promising graduate >students who will be finishing their Ph.D.s this year. Thanks for your >help. > >Sincerely, > >Anthony E. Ladd, Chair >Department of Sociology & >Faculty Search Committee > > > >Loyola University New Orleans, LA. The Department of Sociology invites >applications for a tenure-track, Assistant Professor position beginning >August 1, 1999. Candidates must be committed to excellence in >undergraduate, liberal arts education and an integrated >sociology/anthropology/social work curriculum. We are looking for >primary specialization in Sociological Research Methods and Statistics >(both quantitative and qualitative), as well as Criminology. Other >substantive areas of interest are open. Candidates must show evidence of >outstanding scholarship, teaching, and community service. The department >has a strong commitment to the teaching of social justice principles and >their realization in the community through social action. Completion of >the Ph.D. is required by time of appointment. Salary and benefits are >competitive. Applicants should send a letter describing their teaching >and research interests, a brief statement of their personal educational >philosophy, and a current curriculum vitae (including names, >institutional addresses, and telephone numbers of 3=965 references). >Please do not send letters of reference or other written materials until >requested. All materials must be received by November 6, 1998 for >applicants to be considered. Loyola is a Jesuit university known for its >academic excellence, its commitment to social justice and community >service, and Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employment. Women and >members of minority groups are especially encouraged to apply. Submit >applications to: Dr. Anthony Ladd, Chair, Search Committee=97Position #SOC >9, Sociology Department Box 30, Loyola University New Orleans, 6363 St. >Charles Ave., New Orleans, LA 70118. > > TR Young, 8085 Essex Weidman, Mi., 48893 Email: tr@tryoung.com From tr@tryoung.com Sat Sep 19 06:56:38 1998 (usr-mtp-55.sensible-net.com [208.18.226.55]) by H50.sensible-net.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 08:52:55 -0400 To: Ericegg@aol.com From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: Articles on or Using Critical Theory Eric: As requested, some articles which focus on Critical Theory and which might be helpful to your work. They are at: www.tryoung.com/archives The two by Weiner and Kirkpatrick are especially good as overview and social history of critical theory.\ My articles are mostly applications/explications. enjoy, TR ******** No. 071 Dramaturgical Analysis and Societal Critique. by John Welsh Pittsburgh State University No. 077 Cultural Marxism:An Introduction by T. R. Young The Red Feather Institute Dec., 1980 No. 132 BUILDING A CRITICAL DRAMATURGY: Toward a Postmodern Social Psychology by Welsh and Young No. 145 MARX AND THE POSTMODERN: Compatibilities and Contrarieties by T. R. Young No. 153 THE ARCHEOLOGY OF SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE And The Drama of Human Understanding: Pre-Modern, Modern and Postmodern Missions and Methods for the Knowledge Process. by T. R. Young No. 175 A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CRITICAL SCHOOL: GOALS AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO DATE by Richard Weiner University of North Florida April, 1979 No 176 CRITICAL THEORY AND THE LIMITS OF SOCIOLOGICAL POSITIVISM by R. George Kirkpatrick, San Diego State University; George N. Katsiaficas University of California, San Diego; Mary Lou Emery, Stanford University TR Young, 8085 Essex Weidman, Mi., 48893 Email: tr@tryoung.com From tr@tryoung.com Sun Sep 20 05:21:52 1998 (usr-mtp-53.sensible-net.com [208.18.226.53]) by H50.sensible-net.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 07:18:13 -0400 To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: A Jewel in the Crown of Knowledge social-class@listserv.uic.edu, psn-special@csf.colorado.edu, sssitalk@sun.soci.niu.edu Maxine Campbell , has compiled a bibliography for the Radical Pedagogy website of the Red Feather Institute. It contains a wealth of references about radical pedagogy, adult education, feminist education, liberation theology, economic education, empowerment of students as well as a wealth of other resources not often seen in the USA. double click on: http://www.tryoung.com/RADPED/026RadPedBib.htm TR Young, Director The Red Feather Institute TR Young, 8085 Essex Weidman, Mi., 48893 Email: tr@tryoung.com From mhoover@bu.edu Sun Sep 20 08:55:14 1998 Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 10:55:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Matthew Hoover To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Subject: adjuncting Here is an intersesting piece from salon...Anyone feeling "disgruntled?" sorry about the look of it, here is the link if you want to read it from the web instead: http://www.salonmagazine.com/it/feature/1998/09/17feature.html WHEN ALL THE POSTAL WORKERS HAVE BEEN SEDATED AND LOCKED AWAY, WILL ADJUNCT PROFESSORS FOLLOW IN THEIR GUN-POWDERED FOOTSTEPS? BY ANDREAS KILLEN | I first noticed my symptoms two years ago. It was January and I was running a slight temperature. I'd backed out of a visit to my in-laws in order to attend the American Historical Association conference in New York City. Hundreds of academics crowded the lobby of the mid-town Hyatt. Earlier that week, I'd learned that I'd been bumped from one of the classes assigned to me for the next semester in favor of a full-time professor. As the day progressed, I grew more and more fever-addled. Around me milled groups of graduate students in a miasma of anxiety and halitosis, while the professors schmoozed happily, already anticipating next year's shindig in Seattle. By Day 2, as I slouched in my seat listening to a talk on war memorials, I found myself daydreaming about blowing up the hotel. Help! I thought. What's going on here? My analyst had no advice. She'd never heard of such a thing, doubted it was in the literature. I felt ashamed and tried to keep my sick fantasy to myself, unnerved by the image of mayhem lurking within my fevered brain. But the urge to confess was too great. My friend Jonathan Skolnik came to my rescue. "It's called 'going adjunct,'" he told me: homicidal impulses directed at the academic profession. He cited an incident in New York's public school system, in which a beleaguered substitute teacher became unglued and started hurling chairs at the wall. Perfectly normal, he assured me. I felt instantly better. But my symptoms didn't go away. As I studied the job listings in the Chronicle of Higher Education I found myself contemplating scenes of bloodcurdling violence, followed by cheerful scenes in which fellow adjuncts fed me cupcakes and made toasts in my honor. Hundreds of tenured faculty gone! Yikes! I needed help and fast. I talked to some of my fellow adjuncts, hoping they could tell me something, anything, to reassure me. But they only seemed to agree that it was just a matter of time before adjuncts replaced postal workers as symbols of downtrodden, disgruntled laborers. The life of an adjunct is dismal indeed, as anyone who's experienced it can tell you. The worst part, according to Columbia grad student Patrick Young, is the rude discovery that one is in a dead-end rather than an entry-level job. Over the past two years Young has held down jobs at five different institutions while working toward his Ph.D. in history. His toughest days have included shuttling between three different campuses spread over two of New York City's boroughs. Young says he's reached the point where he feels more like a menial laborer than someone following a linear professional path. "The whole idea that you'd be that transient is so antithetical to the idea of the engaged teacher," says Young. Between bad pay and lack of benefits and office space, Young is reminded on a daily basis of his status as second-class citizen. Some of the most destructive aspects of this existence are less easy to define. Confronted with the apathy of academic departments, he says, most adjuncts have little choice but to internalize their resentments endlessly. "The level of cynicism is harrowing," says Young. I ask what he means. He explains, "There's a constant temptation to avoid working hard because you're simply participating in your own exploitation." Hunter College adjunct lecturer Barbara Desmond has toiled for five years in Hunter's English department, where she describes working conditions so crowded that one colleague sometimes uses the bathroom to prepare for classes. Other disincentives include not being paid for preparation time or to hold office hours; with classes of up to 35 students, this can add up. Desmond discounts the possibility that being an adjunct has affected her performance; though conditions outside the classroom are bleak, she claims that, in the end, her cynicism has been short-circuited by her classroom experiences. Yet she tells me that in her spare time she's writing a script called "The Adjunct," a horror movie about an unstable part-timer who one day decides she's had enough and "goes adjunct." "Kathy Bates would be perfect for the part," says Desmond a bit wistfully. Tim Coogan is another denizen of this brave new world of academic nomadism. He works as an adjunct lecturer at three schools in the New York metropolitan area: Rutgers University, LaGuardia Community College and Cooper Union. Last year he taught a total of 18 classes, ranging from U.S. history and Western civilization to the history of technology and labor history. In the past he's also taught introduction to sociology, the history of minorities and the history of New York City. He's been doing this for 15 years and claims that he's taught at every school in the greater New York area, with the exception of Columbia and the New School. Hired as much for their willingness to work for low wages and no benefits as for their expertise in English composition or American history, adjunct teachers have become an integral part of the new market-driven university system. According to the National Adjunct Faculty Guild, there are currently 400,000 adjunct, part-time and full-time temporary college educators in the United States. Approximately 40 percent of the country's total academic work force, in other words, is treated as temporary labor -- roughly double the 1970 figure. The reasons for this expansion are complex -- according to a report recently released by the Modern Language Association, they have something to do with the end of the nation's Cold War-era educational funding system. It's no secret that schools balance their books with part-time teachers. Downsizing and flexibility have become the mantras of academic administrators. In the past, an implicit trade-off was assumed: In return for providing cheap labor, graduate students and recent Ph.D.s could get classroom experience that prepared them for life as members of the professoriate. With the current crisis of oversupply, however, more and more find themselves joining a new academic proletariat. For the current crop of Ph.D.s, the glad tidings of generational change have turned sour. The anticipated faculty turnover of the 1990s has failed to materialize. Tenured professors tenaciously defend their closed, guildlike world from the challenges of administrators and public officials. Academic superstars, who nowadays easily command six-figure salaries, often refuse to teach introductory level courses, which creates an increasing demand for part-timers. With declining budgets and escalating costs, overproduction of Ph.D.s and an embattled professoriate clinging to its privileges, no one is predicting changes any time soon. As NAFG executive director Patricia Lesko puts it, "What would prompt college administrations to change their basic employment practices?" The problems are too "structural," says part-time faculty advocate Karen Thompson. When she's not teaching English classes, Thompson works as president of Rutgers University's part-time chapter of the American Association of University Professors. She stresses that academic labor should be seen within the larger context of economic restructuring in which new forms of contingent work are becoming the norm. "Higher education is increasingly being transformed into a kind of vocational training system," she says. In the new information economy, educators will continue to play an important role, maintains Thompson, but an increasing number will do so as migrant workers. The ramifications are already being felt at every level of the higher education system: by an increasingly demoralized part-time work force; by full-timers, whose own bargaining position is undercut by the existence of this large reserve force; and by students, who are inevitably shortchanged by the system. I did manage to find a small glimmer of hope amid the ruinous statistics. Over the past five years, I learned, NAFG and other organizations like it have made "academic labor" one of the hottest topics on campus. Efforts at organizing have injected a new militancy into the hushed groves of academia. Though small, the tangible gains of these developments are not entirely negligible. Thompson cites the granting of recent concessions at CUNY, including better pay and pro-rated health benefits. But who can launch a movement, when you're teaching four, five, sometimes even more classes, often at more than one school, while trying to finish a dissertation? Organizing also assumes a degree of identification with one's status that many are not ready to make. "Having gone into adjunct teaching thinking it was a transitional phase," Desmond says, "I didn't want to accept this as what I'm doing with my life, and don't want to have to defend it." Each conversation was confirming my worst fears about my future. By the time I met Tim Coogan for coffee, I was thinking about a new career. He seemed to read my mind. "It's easy," he nodded, "to get frustrated by the sense that the profession has not made good on its promises. I know my Marxism and my labor history, and I know I'm being super-exploited." Yet Coogan himself does not fit easily into the adjunct-as-object-of-pathos mold. Wiry, bearded and bespectacled, he exudes fearlessness. His is a situation most would find singularly unappealing. Yet he's managed to carve out an enviable existence at the margins of academia. He ticks off some basic facts: at around $3,000 a class (for up to 18 classes a year) he makes as much as an associate professor. At Rutgers, where he's taught for more than 10 years, he has an office and is on the pension plan. He also gets medical benefits from LaGuardia. And he gets to live in New York City, a major plus. "In the hierarchy of adjunctification," Coogan says with a certain sang-froid, "I'm at the top." He publishes occasionally, thus escaping the condescension that many adjuncts say they feel from full-time professors. Doesn't he ever find his situation depressing? Coogan admits that his career trajectory has taken him down some strange byways. For instance, he's taught murderers and rapists at Riker's Island, where New York's Department of Corrections maintains an educational outreach program. But Coogan says that he ultimately found the experience tremendously rewarding. His inmate-students sent him a Christmas card at the end of the semester. Coogan seeks such challenges out. Not only do they pay well, but he's generally given carte blanche. He's the hired gun, the one who's brought in to take the job when no one else would dare. Indeed, Coogan finds hidden benefits to his situation. "In some ways," he points out, "I'm liberated from the tedium of academic life." He gets his pick of classes, and best of all, he never has to attend departmental meetings, the bane of every professor's existence. He's seen lots of his friends move on, and concedes that his life is not for the fainthearted. Yet he himself still has energy to spare, a fact he attributes to the pleasures of the classroom. Despite the obvious drawbacks, Coogan says, "I can live with being an adjunct." As he rushed off to catch the subway to yet another class, I had to admit that anything, even the subway, sounded better than a departmental meeting. I wasn't a violent person; I wouldn't harm a fly, much less a professor. Anyway, I mused, they already had plenty to worry about. I'd seen the future, and it wasn't pretty, but neither was it completely discouraging. One day, when tenure is finally demolished, academic cowboys like Coogan -- smart, resourceful and independent -- will be the ones who thrive. Only the truly brave will apply to graduate school in the first place, and they'll wear the badge of adjuncthood with pride. SALON | Sept. 17, 1998 Andreas Killen is a happily underemployed historian and new father living in New York. Any job offers should be forwarded to him care of Salon. From mronda@email.GC.cuny.edu Mon Sep 21 11:54:08 1998 Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 13:55:09 -0400 From: Michelle Ronda Reply-To: mronda@email.GC.cuny.edu To: socgrad@csf.COLORADO.edu Subject: [FW: Solidarity: "The Social" in Thought & Practice] FYI, in solidarity: > CALL FOR PAPERS > > Solidarity: "The Social" in Thought and Practice > > Graduate Student History Conference > New York University > April 2-3, 1999 > > Graduate students in the History Department at New York University > announce a conference on the theme of "solidarity" and invite graduate > students in all fields and periods of history to submit abstracts for > papers. We use "solidarity" to refer to social phenomena that have come > to be called mass action, political mobilization, and coalition-building. > Calling attention to "solidarity" addresses recent trends in the academy. > Many intellectual and cultural historians argue that discourse, ideology, > and narrativity ought to be privileged categories of social analysis. To > what extent has this view challenged or supplanted an older view that > society is to be studied as a realm of competing structures, contending > classes and groups, and conflicts over material resources? We invite > students to present historical work that showcases the various > interpretive and methodological tools that historians bring to the study > of "solidarity." > > We encourage prospective panelists to submit abstracts of papers that > address any of the four following questions: > > FIRST, is the study of society an exercise in metaphysics, disguised as > science, or is it a professionally anchored way of investigating and > knowing the social world? > > SECOND, if discourse constitutes the social, to what degree have competing > discourses operated as agents of historical change and how have they been > socially located? > > THIRD, can a focus on mass action, political mobilization, and > coalition-building be reconciled with the view that power exists difusely > and cannot be located in particular groups, classes, or institutions? > > FOURTH, how have recent explorations into the social construction of > identity promoted or undermined "solidarity" as a matter of practical > politics? > > While we are not soliciting panel proposals, we suggest that panel topics > could include: > > -Identity, Politics, and Social Change > -Individuality and Solidarity > -Resistance as Solidarity > -Has the Idea of the "Public Sphere" Fallen Flat? > -Academic Knowledge and Its Social Uses? > -The Problems of Collective Action > -Solidarity and the Discursive Construction of the Social > -The Reflexivity of Social Knowledge > > Please submit proposals by NOVEMBER 15, 1998. Proposals should include a > one-page abstract and a curriculum vitae, and should be sent to the > following address: > > Graduate Student History Association > "Solidarity" Conference > Attn: Jane Rothstein and Louis Anthes > New York University > Department of History > 53 Washington Square South > New York, NY 10012 > > For further information, contact: > > Jane Rothstein > jr231@is5.nyu.edu > > Louis Anthes > lqa9210@is2.nyu.edu -- Michelle Ronda Sociology Department, Graduate Center of CUNY & School of Public Affairs, Baruch College of CUNY office: (212) 802-5991 fax: (212) 802-5968 home: (718) 545-0088 From tr@tryoung.com Tue Sep 22 05:46:14 1998 (usr-mtp-68.sensible-net.com [208.18.226.68]) by H50.sensible-net.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 07:42:28 -0400 To: ahs-talk@ncsu.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: Social Control In America social-class@listserv.uic.edu, psn-special@csf.colorado.edu The USA, reputedly oriented to personal freedom, has more social control systems and devotes more of its national income to staffing and running these systems of social control than any other country in the world or in human history. Other social control systems have been more effective and others have been cruel beyond belief but no society in history has the control apparatus in place as extensive and as expensive as does the USA. ....not even the defunct Soviet Union. For an overview of eight major control systems in the USA, visit: No. 120 THE SOCIAL LOCATION OF JUSTICE IN AMERICA at http://www.tryoung.com/archives/120l-jus.htm Brief Summary of highlights from the paper: 1. Justice systems vary with race, class and gender. This variation tends to reproduce the structures of power and privilege. See Diagram I. 2. The two largest and more punitive systems; private security and the criminal justice system focus upon the working poor and the permanent underclass. 3. The Black community is subject to more repressive justice than is any other sector of society. See Diagram IV 4. Women are policed more by social workers, therapists and physicians or psychiatrists. This keeps women at home doing unpaid domestic service and childcare duties. Males are policed by the C.J.S. and, increasingly, by high-tech tactics. See Diagram III 5. Corporate crime is the most dangerous form of crime and the most lightly controlled. See Diagram II 6. The Medical Justice System exculpates and protects middle class Criminals from the C.J.S. 7. Peer Review Systems protect and exculpate professional groups from the C.J.S. 8. The Administrative Justice System embodies what little concern for the common good remains as citizens' groups are able to force through the law­making institutions. 9. In times of economic crisis, retributive justice increases and distributive justice decreases. The costs of all forms of social control increase during economic crisis. 10. The Private Justice System develops to provide private corporations more private control over rule­making, enforcing, adjudication and punishment. 11. The civil justice (tort) system develops to provide some justice in a society marked by conflict relations. As conflict increases, the C.T.S. tends to increase. 12. The Religious Justice System is often inimical to the privileges of power and wealth. It is declining except among the working poor. 13. The Military Justice System is an adjunct to the C.J.S. The M.J.S. controls the young men, mostly minority, who are forced into the military by the wage labor market. 14. There is a slow trend for the Medical Justice System to appropriate the middle class participants in organized production and distribution of vice to its own paradigm of illness. 15. Justice in American is bought, in significant measure, by the great injustices built into the world capitalist system. We buy our very real, very important freedoms and social justice at the expense of the poorest, more oppressed peoples in the world. TR Young, 8085 Essex Weidman, Mi., 48893 Email: tr@tryoung.com From danryan@mills.edu Tue Sep 22 19:03:42 1998 Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 18:00:17 -0700 From: Dan Ryan Reply-To: danryan@mills.edu To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Subject: petitions Greetings one and all and happy fall! A little request for help. For a project on internet friendship networks, I'm collecting internet petitions. You know, the ones that say "Save PBS" or "Stop X, Y and Z" and instruct you to sign at the bottom, forward to friends, send a copy back to so and so if you are the 500th, 550th, etc. If you receive any, could you be kind enough to forward a copy to me? I'm specifically interested in the lists of signers, so the longer the better! I'm also collecting mass mailings that have long lists of addressees, if you happen to come across any of those. Many thanks in advance and also, of course, in the footnote of the resulting paper. Cheers, Dan Ryan danryan@mills.edu From tr@tryoung.com Wed Sep 23 05:16:22 1998 (usr-mtp-61.sensible-net.com [208.18.226.61]) by H50.sensible-net.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 07:12:36 -0400 To: psn-special@csf.colorado.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: Politically Correct Sociology teachsoc@maple.lemoyne.edu, social-class@listserv.uic.edu Two articles which critique American Sociology for those who teach theory; the first by Mort Wenger shows the growth of Marxist theory since WWII while Young claims that American Sociology, and all human knowledge products are both politics and poetics; that postmodern critique merely makes the case more visible. Abstract and addresses are Provided: No. 122 MARXIAN ANALYSES AND AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY Morton G. Wenger, University of Louisville May, 1986 The Marxist tradition in American sociology occasioned considerable comment throughout that period, much of it polemical. This paper places Marxism in historical context in a more specific fashion than has generally been the case. Using various indicators based on data obtained from Sociological Abstracts and Dissertation Abstracts, as well as membership rolls in the American Sociological ASsociation's Marxist Section, Marxist sociology in America is seen to grow rapidly and then stabilize. These phenomena are explored in the context of the class history of America in the post-WW II era. It is concluded that the Marxist Sociology is, at the same time but in different ways, more similar to other "exotic" sociologies than it is to the revolutionary Marxisms of the past and present. While Marxist sociology may be in American sociology, it is not in American social life. double click on: http://www.tryoung.com/archives/122wen-m.htm No. 161 POLITICALLY CORRECT KNOWLEDGE in American Sociology ABSTRACT Current conflicts over politically correct knowledge are set inside the larger dramas of human knowledge as they sweep across human history. Missions and methods of knowing are limned in three major approaches to human understanding; pre-modern, modern and, now, postmodern sensibility. Issues of political correctness in sociology today are viewed against changing missions and methods since the 1930s. The new science of complexity, often called Chaos theory offers an elegant theoretical envelope with which to understand some of the issues. From this historical survey, a case is made that all social science is a poetics and a politics. Given postmodern critique, agency in social research, as in other sciences, shifts from Gods and/or Nature and resides, increasingly, in human hands. Against the nihilism of french postmodern thought, some ideas of what an affirmative postmodern sociology might look like are offered. double click on: http://www.tryoung.com/archives/161p-cor.htm TRYoung, Director TR Young, 8085 Essex Weidman, Mi., 48893 Email: tr@tryoung.com From tr@tryoung.com Wed Sep 23 05:27:24 1998 (usr-mtp-61.sensible-net.com [208.18.226.61]) by H50.sensible-net.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 07:23:39 -0400 To: psn-special@csf.colorado.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: The New Editor of FROM THE LEFT social-class@listserv.uic.edu, teachsoc@maple.lemoyne.edu It is my particular pleasure to announce that the new Editor of FROM THE LEFT is Steve Rosenthal. Steve is one of the most creative and engaging sociologists in American Sociology today. Those with announcements or other business with FROM THE LEFT may contact Steve at: FROM THE LEFT is the Official Newsletter of the Marxist Section of the ASA. Steve would like sociologists to know that he will keep the pages of the journal open to diverse >political and sociological views. Finally, let me say how very much I have enjoyed working with members of the Marxist Section and look forward to many more years of creative work as capitalism continues to provide ample challenge for class, race, gender and affirmative postmodern scholarship. TR Young, Retiring Editor, FROM THE LEFT ********** Back issues of FTL from Fall, 1995 to Fall, 1998 are available in electronic version at: http://www.tryoung.com/fromleft/fromleft.htm TR Young, 8085 Essex Weidman, Mi., 48893 Email: tr@tryoung.com From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Wed Sep 23 05:51:39 1998 Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 07:51:38 -0400 (EDT) From: James Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion , Teaching Sociology Subject: JRNL: Clio's Psyche & Political Crisis in DC (fwd) FYI - James ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/cassell/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 16:32:35 -0400 From: David Campbell To: H-GRAD@H-NET.MSU.EDU Subject: JRNL: Clio's Psyche & Political Crisis in DC Dear Colleagues, Half of the next issue of the quarterly "Clio's Psyche: Understanding the Why of Culture, Current Events, History, and Society," will be devoted to the current political crisis in Washington and I would like to invite you and your colleagues to consider writing for our publication. We are looking for articles from 300 to 1500 words in length on some aspect of this crisis. They are to be written in non technical language, without footnotes, and submitted to us on e-mail by OCTOBER 15th together with biographical information on the author. SOME TOPICS which come to mind for this issue are as follows: The Starr Report Impeachment The Psychobiography of Kenneth Starr Clinton and Nixon in Crisis: A Comparison The Relationship Between this Crisis and the Stock Market The Internet and 24 Hour News Coverage as Vehicles of Mass Hysterias Clinton as Repentant. The Psychology of Sin and Repentance The Psychology of Accusation The Emotions of Moral Superiority Clinton as Risk Taker The Language of Addiction in Dealing with Clinton's Compulsive Relationship to Food, Politics, and Sex Is Clinton Still the "Come Back Kid?" Laughing at the President: Interpreting the Jokes About the Presidency, Starr, and Lewinski Clinton and Dick Morris Interpreting the Rhetoric of Non-partisanship and the Reality of Political Advantage The Role of Disclaimed Action and Splitting in This Scandal The Psycholgy of Politics by Media, Polls, and Legalize "I Feel Your", His, and My "Pain": Clinton and the Emotions Voyeuristic Pleasure and Public Life Politics as the National Soap Opera Betrayal by and of the President: Stephanoupolis, Myers, and Other FOB Dissembling, Lying, and Perjury Legalizing Life: Extension of the Courts into the Oval Office and Politics Why the Congressional Democrats Feel Betrayed and May Abandon the President? Is This a Modern Purity Campaign? Monica's Psychodynamics Why Clinton Retains Such a High Level of Afro-American Support Anatomy of a Clinton Hater What Clinton Unconsciously Wanted From Lewinski The Strange "Friendship" of Monica Lewinski and Linda Tripp The President's Blood and DNA Trust and Betrayal in Politics House and Senate Impeachment Committees Sex and Politics From Star Chamber to Starr Report: Historical Comparisons The Loss of Privacy in the White House and Modern Life The Light "Totem and Taboo" Sheds on This Crisis Domestic Narcissism and Foreign Policy in the Post Cold War World The Impact of This Scandal on the Presidency Comparing French And American Views of this Crisis Views From Abroad [ These may be very short and may include newspaper reports] Reviews of New Books relevant to the Clinton, Starr, and the Crisis Topics must be psychological in their interpretations without using technical language. Please e-mail the completed article, with your biography, or if you have any questions. Incidentally, the other half of the issue is devoted to the relationship of academia and psychoanalysis/ psychohistory. Articles will be referreed. Articles arriving too late for this issue, may be used in the next one since we will publish extensively on this issue for as long as impeachment remains a pressing question. Some aritlcles which are already written, but not yet referreed are: "JFK and Clinton in Crises: A Comparison," "The Clinton-Starr Show," "This Crisis and Modern Culture," "The Talliban of the Beltway," and "The Sacrifice of a President." If you want to read the articles written about this crisis and much else by subscribing to this quarterly, send a check for $25.00 a year in the US and Canada, $29.00 elsewhere, or $40.00 for institutional subscriptions to the address below. Sincerely yours, Paul H. Elovitz Paul Elovitz is Editor, "Clio's Psyche" and Co-Director with Herbert Barry of the Research Group on the Personality and Childhood of Presidents of the Psychohistory Forum. Professor Elovitz, an historian and psychotherapist, is a founding faculty member at Ramapo College who previously taught at Temple, Rutgers, and Fairleigh Dickinson universities. Professor Barry, a prolific author, is a psychologist who has taught for over 30 years at the University of Pittsburgh after training at Yale and Harvard. Contact Information: "Clio's Psyche" % The Psychohistory Forum 627 Dakota Trail Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417 Pelovitz@aol.com =========================================================== ********************************************************** Visit the H-GRAD Website at http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~grad ********************************************************** From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Wed Sep 23 06:21:42 1998 Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 08:21:42 -0400 (EDT) From: James Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion , Southern Sociological Society Network Subject: Job Announcement (fwd) FYI - James ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/cassell/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 08:17:09 -0400 From: Mike Benson To: ECONSOC@listproc.hcf.jhu.edu Subject: Job Announcement The University of Tennessee, Department of Sociology invites applications for a tenure track position at the Assistant or Associate Professor rank beginning Fall 1999. Primary interest should be in the area of political economy with a special emphasis on economic analysis of class and gender. Applicants with a well-established record of research publications or strong potential to develop one and strong teaching credentials will be given priority. A Ph. D. by September 1999 is required. Responsibilities include undergraduate and graduate teaching, active engagement in external funding for research, and service related to the mission of the department and the university. Salary and benefits are competitive. Applicants should include a letter presenting teaching and research interests, a resume, sample syllabi for political economy courses if available, and a list of three persons who may be contacted as references. Materials should be addressed to Michael L. Benson, Search Committee Chair, Department of Sociology, 901 McClung Tower, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-0490. Review of applications will begin November 23, 1998 and will continue until the position is filled. UTK is an Equal Employment/Title X/ Section 504/American Disabilities Act/ADEA Employer. From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Wed Sep 23 06:37:09 1998 Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 08:37:12 -0400 (EDT) From: James Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion , Teaching Sociology Subject: GSS Student Paper Competition FYI; please direct all questions to Tom Smith ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/cassell/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 23 Sep 98 07:23:45 -0500 From: Tom_W. Smith To: sos-data@unc.edu General Social Survey Student Paper Competition The National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago announces the fifth annual General Social Survey (GSS) Student Paper Competition. To be eligible papers must: 1) be based on data from the 1972-1998 GSSs or from the GSS's cross-national component, the International Social Survey Program (any year or combination of years may be used), 2) represent original and unpublished work, and 3) be written by a student or students at an accredited college or university. Both undergraduates and graduate students may enter and college graduates are eligible for one year after receiving their degree. The papers will be judged on the basis of their: a) contribution to expanding understanding of contemporary American society, b) development and testing of social science models and theories, c) statistical and methodological sophistication, and d) clarity of writing and organization. Papers should be less than 40 pages in length (including tables, references, appendices, etc.)and should be double spaced. Paper will be judged by the principal investigators of the GSS (James A. Davis and Tom W. Smith) with assistance from a group of leading scholars. Separate prizes will be awarded to the best undergraduate and best graduate-level entries. Entrants should indicate in which group they are competing. Winners will receive a cash prize of $250, a commemorative plaque, and the MicroCase Analysis System, including data from the 1972-1998 GSSs (a $1,395 value). The MicroCase software is donated by the MicroCase Corporation of Bellevue, Washington. Honorable mentions may also be awarded by the judges. Two copies of each paper must be received by February 15, 1999. The winner will be announced in late April, 1999. Send entries to: Tom W. Smith General Social Survey National Opinion Research Center 1155 East 60th St. Chicago, Il 60637 For further information: Phone: 773-256-6288 Fax: 773-753-7886 Email: smitht@norcmail.uchicago.edu From d-m-c@worldnet.att.net Wed Sep 23 09:37:37 1998 From: "K" To: Subject: Fw: Adjuncts Unite Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 11:37:02 -0400 charset="iso-8859-1" -----Original Message----- >The obvious solution to the ADJUNT CRISIS is to unionize. We have historical examples of such >successes. They have relied on the creation of alliances between management, workers, and >consumers. There are, however, a few stumbling blocks with regard to the organizational location. >of adjuncts. We need to think about how adjuncts can unite and establish these alliances. Here are some suggestions: > >Now, getting tenured faculty on board is not easy. I don't >especially like confrontational tactics that often only serve to make >them feel guilty. You know, they respond to such tactics in the same >way that women's studies faculty do when it is pointed out that >they're enjoying their she-she luncheons (convened to discuss the >evils of male privilege and the horror of a curriculum dominated by >the deadly dull works of West Civ's dead, fat white guys) only because >a baker's dozen of underpaid and exploited servers, cooks, delivery >truck drivers, janitors, and migrant workers have been gathered under >conditions of near coercion to slice the lemons for their mineral >water, serve the pinot noir, concoct the delights of avacado-bean >sprout-tomato-pita wraps, serve up fresh imported strawberries >cushioned with creme brulee, and prepare the freshly roasted Brazilian >coffee and selection of herbal teas. >When approached >confrontationally, our misguided faculty extend you an invitation to >their next luncheon and make sure that you're servilely served >and blankly listened to. Guilty tenured faculty colleagues will >generally campaign in order to ensure that the untenured get a >mailbox, plenty of post-it notes, and maybe even liberal privileges >with the copy machine. The chair sends memos to the office staff >reminding them to make adjuncts feel at home and help them with >anything they need. > >No, a guilty, defensive faculty is not the answer. Instead, I prefer >a more subtle approach, one designed to illicit fear. When asked by >my non-academic friends and family if I might teach at a local state >college, I tell them about retrenchment and say that I >would have to wait for someone to die in a tragic car accident before >such a position would be available. An appropriately guerilla unionizing tactic can be deployed >here: Relate such conversations to your tenured faculty colleagues. >Be sure to present this as a delightful little insider's joke, wink >wink. Then, later in the conversation, quiz them on their approach to >life insurance. "I was wondering about whether I should sign up for >the university life insurance plan? Have you? " Then, seek out their family photos. You will find >them situated among their assortment of trinkets >signifying their allegiance to the third-world oppressed: a tribal >mask (a mass produced rip-off purchased at the last conference they attended), >hand-woven Guatemalen rugs made for pennies by third world women, goddess figurines from >their travels to the trendy former East Bloc. Take a long, lingering look >at those family photos and ask: "I don't mean to be impolite but you >*do* have your lovely family well-insured in the event of an untimely >death?" Finally, wrap up the conversation with your latest efforts at >the job search, detailing the rejections and humiliations that have >led you to consider therapy. Always positioning yourself as a productive researcher explain that >you have found solace in your latest research project on the women at the shooting range, >delights of militia membership, ideologies of gun ownership in the US, etc. If your current >department looks askance at qualitative research, then tell them about your project which >demonstrates a correlation between high adjunct hiring rates and increased levels of accidental >deaths among tenured faculty. > >As for student allies, I cannot stress how important it is that you reach their parents first. >I propose this approach, for now: A well-oiled public relations machine >which bombards the media with press releases ranking universities and >departments by the percentage of adjunct labor >employed at each institution. Lobby US News and World Report and the >like to include a new ranking criteria. > >Show those good folks where their money goes. Expose, expose, >expose. > There is also the insolent model of expose` undertaken by >Cornell undergrads: The Star Faculty Watch or somesuch. It is something >like a Where's Waldo for the Ivy league. Those quirky Cornellians >gathered not-too-systematic reports about who had actually *seen*--let along taken courses with-- >Carl Sagan and other hotshot professors on campus. >These tactics will humiliate the administration who will have to go forth, >sheepishly, explaining why the budget for for table linens or >redecorating the Chancellor's home is many, many times that of many, >many adjuncts combined. > >Also, none of this stuff about how bad the adjunct life is. Even >though this is true, it just doesn't play well in Peroria or Greenwich, Connecticut where there is a >several shortage of domestic help. Were someone from Greenwich to hear of the ADJUNCT >CRISIS they would only be prompted to write see if any of the adjuncts might want jobs as >governesses. >Instead, provide examples of how students--their very own >children--suffer in various ways, always taking care to avoid >portraying adjunct's teaching skills as poorer than tenured >faculty's. Well-placed horror stories would be nice too. For >example, profile the poor young undergrad who was denied an >incomplete and had to accept a humiliating F in a course taught by an adjunct. The student had >faced a sever family crisis (a foiled ski vacation traumatized him when he had to stay at an >EconoLodge over Spring Break). The adjunct sympathized with the undergrad's plight but was >unable to spend her summer commenting on and grading the undergrad's incomplete work, since >she was busy teaching two summer courses and moonlighting at the local Denny's >Or, dazzle them with statistics that demonstrate the social costs that >must be absorbed: Surely, the average insurance- and tax payer must >see how he pays more when confronted with statistical correlations >between a rise in the number of automobile accidents occassioned by >sleep-deprived adjuncts with no healthcare benefits shuttling from one job >to the next. > >Encourage dissertations on workplace alienation among adjuncts and the >effect on the quality of the product and the costs paid by the >consumer. (You know, sort of like the attack on poorly made buicks and chevrolets, >but of course without the union-busting tactics) > >Release these in strategic places as well-written essays or incisive >journalistic expose`s. Of course, we mustn't confine our efforts to >upscale media outlets. This is no time for waxing elitist about trash >TeeVee. Now, it may not be the case that producers at ET, Jerry or >Inside Edition will immediately understand the mass, trash, >yellow-journalism appeal of the ADJUNCT SCANDAL. But, this is >precisely why we need a Public Relations team to pitch the stories >appopriately. You will have to do much of this work, but hey you're >already working for peanuts why not work for free? >At a meeting with >an ET executive come prepared with a list of celebrities who have been made aware of the >ADJUNCT SCANDAL and who are concerned that their little Suzie Starlet Jr college education's will >be compromised. Dig up stories of celebrity children who've already >suffered, their psyches scarred by the experience of having taken a >course with a lesser adjunct rather than a *real* faculty member. I'm >certain that someone famous has been healing that wound in shame, >afraid to 'come out' and admit that they didn't get the same quality >educations as, say, Jodie Foster did. >Jerry Springer will be a relatively easy pitch because in his past >life as a politico, Jerry was actually involved in the student >movement and protested the Vietnam War. I'm certain Jerry will be >enchanted by the opportunity to sermonize on the ADJUNCT SCANDAL. You >will, though, have to pitch it properly for his staff. Perhaps >something like "CONFESSIONS OF AN ALIENATED ADJUNCT: I was a sexual >predator compensating for my lack of sleep, lack of a sex life at home >and lack of meaningful work in the Ivory Tower." A confrontation will >be needed, of course. This will be easy. Hire adjuncts to play the >part; they need the work! One will pose as the confessional, weepy >but occassionally unrepentent adjunct because you *do* need a fight. >The other will pose as the enraged parent or current spouse of the >scarred undergrad. They should hurl a few strategic chairs (no, not >department chairs) at one another, call each other hoes, >dogs, white collar trash, effete leftists, untenured radicals, elitist >capitalist pigs, hypocrit and whatnot. But, then, a moment of >revelation and resolution toward the end as the scarred former student >paramour (another adjunct/actor) admits that she still loves the >alienated adjunct. She forgives his behavior for after all he was >bereft of an understanding administration and surrounding by >unsympathetic, aloof and frigid tenured faculty. "Don't you see, >daddy," she pleads, "he's not the enemy. It's the SYSTEM. I learned >that in his sociology class. It's why I fell in love with him in the >first place. The real enemy is the market-driven university." And >Jerry is left with a perfect teaching moment, waxing philosophical in >a tweedy professorial looking jacket and courdoroys instead of one of >his many Armani suits. SnitgrrRl From DAVIDSON@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU Thu Sep 24 09:45:06 1998 Date: Thu, 24 Sep 98 11:44:10 EDT From: Alan Davidson Subject: Jobs To: socgrad@CSF.COLORADO.EDU All H-Net Job Listings September 21, 1998 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- See our Web version at http://www.matrix.msu.edu/jobs -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- RESEARCH/PROFESSIONAL 96. Institute for Community Research (CT) Data Analyst, Community Research Research: Data Analyst. The Institute for Community Research (ICR) has an immediate opening for a data analyst to manage and analyze longitudinal survey and network data collected in a four-year study of initiation to injection drug use. The ICR is an independent research organization with a 10-year record of research on drug use and HIV prevention. Responsibilities will include creation of project data bases, the organization of electronic data entry, quantitative data management and analysis; be central to integration of quantitative and qualitative data on vulnerability to injected heroin use in young drug abusers. Qualifications are advanced social science degree (Anthropology, Sociology, Social Psychology, Epidemiology, Biostatistics), completed Ph.D. preferred; experience in management and analysis of panel and network data; background in drug research helpful. Competitive salary, multiethnic interdisciplinary work environment, good benefits, and excellent opportunity for career development. Send letter of application and resume to Jean J. Schensul, Ph.D., Executive Director, ICR, 2 Hartford Square West, Suite 100, Hartford, Connecticut 06106-5128. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOCIOLOGY 98. Barat College (IL) Assistant Professor, Sociology Sociology: Barat College Department of Sociology invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, beginning January 1999. Barat is a small, independent, four-year coeducational liberal arts college, 29 miles north of Chicago. We emphasize teaching excellence in small classes and personal academic advising. Candidates must possess the Ph.D. in Sociology and a record of successful undergraduate Sociology teaching as principal instructor. Active participation in the department's new Community Service Program is expected. Prior experience of internship supervision and teaching at a small college would be beneficial. Primary teaching responsibilities will be Intro, Quantitative Research Methods, plus other courses depending on applicant's areas of strength. The position will begin in January, 1999, or September, 1999 depending on availability of candidate. Please send cover letter, vita, a list of seven courses which you could teach, and names and telephone numbers of three references by October 15 to David Throgmorton, VPAA, Barat College, 700 East Westleigh Road, Lake Forest, Illinois 60045. Barat College is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. 99. Boise State University (ID) Assistant Professor, Sociology Sociology: Boise State University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin August, 1999. Minimum qualifications: Ph.D. and demonstrated potential for excellence in teaching, research and community service. Successful candidate will be expected to teach general introductory courses plus undergraduate courses in at least three of the following areas: Chicano studies; stratification; gender, class and race; social inequality; criminology and juvenile delinquency; and urban community. Send letter of interest, including a description of teaching, research and professional experiences and interest; a vita; a complete set of graduate transcripts; evidence of teaching; a writing sample; and names of three references. Applicants invited for an interview will be evaluated during their interview on demonstrated teaching effectiveness, scholarship and potential for university service. To assure consideration, please send application and supporting materials by December 1, 1998 to: Search Committee, Department of Sociology, Boise State University, 1910 University Drive, Boise, Idaho 83725. EOE/AA Institution. Women and persons of color are especially encouraged to apply. 100. Cornell University (NY) Assistant Professor, Sociology Sociology: Cornell University, Department of Sociology, expects to fill two tenure track positions during the 1998-1999 academic year. We seek candidates for junior positions who show strong promise in scholarship teaching. Candidates should send a curriculum vitae, three letters of reference and a brief (two or three pages) statement of current and planned research by September 30, 1998 to: Chair of Search Committee, Cornell University, Department of Sociology, 323 Uris Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853-7601. Cornell is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer, minorities and women are encouraged to apply. 101. Drury College (MO) Assistant Professor, Sociology Sociology: Tenure-track position, assistant professor, beginning fall of 1999. Candidates must have completed a Ph.D. in sociology. The applicant will teach undergraduate classes in introductory sociology, research methods, minority groups, sociology of family, and courses in cultural diversity. Send a letter of application describing teaching and research interests, vita, graduate transcripts, and three letters of recommendation to Dr. Victor Agruso, Chair, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Drury College, 900 North Benton, Springfield, Missouri 65802; 417-873-7306; vagruso@lib.drury.edu. Review of applications will begin immediately. Applications will be accepted until position is filled. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply. Drury College is an equal opportunity employer. 102. McKendree College (IL) Professor, Sociology Sociology: McKendree College, one of America's best college buys, invites applications for 2 tenure-track positions to begin Fall, 1999. Successful candidates will be broadly trained with an interest in teaching courses in social welfare/social work or criminal justice in addition to general sociology courses. Candidates should have a commitment to undergraduate education at a liberal arts college and a record of excellence in teaching. Ph.D. required by August, 1999. Rank and salary are dependent upon qualifications. Send letter of application, vitae, and evidence of teaching effectiveness to: Chair, Sociology Search Committee, McKendree College, 701 College Road, Lebanon, Illinois 62254. McKendree College is located 25 minutes from St. Louis. Review of applications will begin November 30 and continue until the positions are filled. EEO/AA/ADA. 103. University of Toronto - Mississauga (Canada) Assistant/Associate Professor, Sociology Sociology: University of Toronto at Mississauga, Department of Sociology, invites applications for a tenure stream appointment at the level of either Associate or Assistant Professor. Applicants should have completed their Ph.D., be actively involved in survey research and provide evidence of excellent undergraduate teaching. The position involves the administration of the Hitachi survey research centre with the assistance of a technician (e.g. promoting the Centre by attracting funded research, supervising research and publishing the results in addition to day-to-day administration) and competency in at least one other substantive area. Salary will be commensurate with academic rank. Candidates should send a curriculum vitae and a statement of teaching specializations and research interests to the address below. Applicants should also ask 3 referees to send letters of recommendation under separate cover. Address all correspondence to the Chair of the Search Committee, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5L 1C6. Appointment will take effect July 1, 1999. Closing date for receipt of applications is October 16, 1998. In accordance with its employment equity policy, the University of Toronto encourages applications from qualified women or men, members of visible minorities, aboriginal peoples and groups with disabilities. From steve.buechler@mankato.msus.edu Thu Sep 24 10:32:32 1998 From: Steve Buechler Sender: steve.buechler@mankato.msus.edu Reply-To: steve.buechler@mankato.msus.edu To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Call for Papers Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 11:31:40 -0600 CALL FOR PAPERS The Midwest Sociological Society sponsors a student paper competition at the graduate level each year. The competition is open to students from the nine-state Midwest region and to other student members of the Society. The deadline for submissions is January 15, 1999. The MSS meetings are in Minneapolis from April 8-11, 1999. For complete information, visit the MSS website at . For specific inquiries, contact me directly at the address below. ---------------------- Steve Buechler steve.buechler@Mankato.MSUS.EDU From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Thu Sep 24 10:47:40 1998 Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 12:47:35 -0400 (EDT) From: James Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: Tenure Track Position available (fwd) FYI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/cassell/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 11:46:30 -0400 From: Rodney Coates To: "Stephen F. Steele" , APPSOC-L@APPLIEDSOC.ORG, SPA@listproc.georgetown.edu, sssnet@frosty.irss.unc.edu Subject: Tenure Track Position available Please help us fill this position. Feel free to circulate -on the net, professional associations, and personal friends that might be interested in applying. Your assistance will make this search successful. thanks..rodneycoates For those who might be on the job market this year here is notice of a tenure track positions which we hope to fill next year. Please feel free to circulate. Rodney D. Coates Director of Black World Studies Associate Professor of Sociology Miami University Oxford, Ohio 45056 -------------------------------------- Miami University Middletown Campus - Tenure-track, Assistant Professor, position with specialties in Black World Studies (BWS) and any other appropriate academic area. The position is a joint position: half-time in the Black World Studies Program, half-time in Department of academic specialty; the tenure-track is in the academic department. Successful candidates will teach courses in BWS (featuring an Afrocentric perspective) and other appropriate courses as needed for an expected twelve-hour teaching load. Additional courses may be in area of academic specialty (e.g.,African-American literature or history-interdisciplinary courses are possible) cross-listed with BWS, or other introductory courses as negotiated with the campus. Additional duties to include student advising, community service (extending the reach of the BWS program into the community), and scholarship. Ph.D. required. Previous teaching experience is desirable. Send letter of interest, resume, statement on Afrocentric education or philosophy, and three letters of reference to: Gary Wheeler, Black World Studies Search Committee, Miami University Middletown, 4200 East University Boulevard, Middletown, Ohio, 45042. Review of credentials begins Nov. 15 and continues until the position is filled. -------------------------------------- Rodney D. Coates, Director of Black World Studies Associate Professor of Sociology Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056 From tr@tryoung.com Fri Sep 25 11:38:25 1998 (usr-mtp-38.sensible-net.com [208.18.226.38]) by H50.sensible-net.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 13:34:41 -0400 To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: Vacancy Announcement > >Hi to all on the list: > >See below for an employment opportunity at Oglala Lakota College at Pine >Ridge Reservation. Please pass along to relevant colleagues. > > > OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE > > P.O. BOX 490 > > KYLE, S.D., 57752 > > Vacancy Announcement > >VA# 0385 > >Position : PSYCHOLOGY INSTRUCTOR >Salary : Faculty Scale, dependent on training and experience >Opening Date : Sept. 1998 >Closing Date : Until Filled >Starting Date : Jan. 7, 1999 >*American Indian preference applies, re. OLC policy > > >RESPONSIBILITIES: > >Individual will work in the Department of Human Development and Social >Justice under the supervision of >the Department Char. He/She will teach courses in Psychology and other >areas as per qualifications, and >will participate in the development of graduate courses/degree program. > >JOB DUTIES: > > > 1.Teach twelve credit hours per semester. > 2.Advise and mentor students. > 3.Act as resource for Oglala Lakota College and communities at Pine Ridge >Reservation. > 4.Serve on college wide committees. > 5.Incorporate the Lakota perspective into course curriculum. > 6.Work with Adjunct Faculty as mentor/advisor. > 7.Other duties as assigned. > >QUALIFICATIONS: > > 1.Minimum of Ph.D. in Psychology or related field. > 2.College level teaching experience. > 3.Knowledge of tribal history, culture, philosophy, and language >desirable. > 4.Previous experience with Native Americans. > 5.Native American preference. > APPLICATION PROCEDURE: > > Applicant must submit a complete Oglala Lakota College Application >Form, a professional or work > resume, and College Transcripts to the Personnel Director. Background >checks are required of all > applicants at the applicant's expense. Tribal members and/or veterans >of the U.S. Armed Forces > should include appropriate documentation. Applications with incomplete >information will not be > considered. To obtain applications or further information, call or >write: Personnel Director; Oglala > Lakota College; Box 490; Kyle, SD 57752; (605) 455-2321. For more >information about the > College, link to http://www.olc.edu/OLC.home.html > > > TR Young, 8085 Essex Weidman, Mi., 48893 Email: tr@tryoung.com From meisel@sobek.Colorado.EDU Fri Sep 25 13:08:27 1998 Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 13:08:20 -0600 (MDT) From: Meisel Joshua To: Sociology Graduate Students - International Subject: Porn starr (njc) (fwd) "Public media should not contain explicit or implied descriptions of sex acts. Our society should be purged of the perverts who provide the media with pornographic material while pretending it has some redeeming social value under the public's 'right to know'." -- Kenneth Starr, 1987, "Sixty Minutes" interview with Dianne Sawyer From ticepc@email.uc.edu Fri Sep 25 17:27:02 1998 Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 19:29:56 -0400 To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu From: Pete Tice Subject: call for papers List, To those researching aspects of child and adolescent poverty I am soliciting submissions for the North Central Sociological Association annual meeting in Troy, Michigan beginning on April 15, 1999. The official Call for Papers is out next month. Those interested in presenting their research, please feel free to submit abstracts or papers for consideration to the following address. Take care, Pete Peter Tice Department of Sociology PO Box 210378 University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH 45221-0378 email: ticepc@email.uc.edu phone: 513-556-4700 fax: 513-556-0057 From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Sun Sep 27 04:29:11 1998 Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 06:29:13 -0400 (EDT) From: James Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: Re: advice on methods (fwd) Thought some of you might find this useful. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/cassell/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 19:16:49 -0700 From: William G. Roy To: TEACHSOC@poplar.lemoyne.edu Subject: Re: advice on methods For the person looking for resources on the study of the internet, you can check out UCLA's Center for the Study of Online Communities at http://netscan.sscnet.ucla.edu/csoc/ Bill Roy UCLA From cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu Sun Sep 27 05:26:12 1998 Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 07:26:14 -0400 (EDT) From: James Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: 9/23/98 Starr Quote a Hoax? (fwd) Since the "porn star" quote has shown up here, figured I'd better pass this along. James ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/cassell/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 14:50:41 -0400 (EDT) From: James Cassell To: Teaching Sociology Subject: 9/23/98 Starr Quote a Hoax? (fwd) FYI - James ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/cassell/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 14:12:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Joshua Prokopy To: uncsocgs@unc.edu Subject: 9/23/98 Starr Quote a Hoax? (fwd) Sorry about this ya'll ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 14:07:54 -0400 From: "Misch, Peggy S." To: jprokopy@email.unc.edu Subject: 9/23/98 Starr Quote a Hoax? Friends, Now that the 1987 Starr hypocrisy quote has likely flashed around the world a few times, the friend who forwarded it to me has sent along a note that indicates it was probably one more internet hoax. That only leaves the more visible political scam that the failed "Whitewater" investigation produced. To speculate on our man Starr's excesses: this may be a calculated campaign to create maximum damage to Clinton while making sure that Congress seriously restricts independent prosecution against such legitimate targets of investigation as illegal US missile attacks, Iran-Contra, and the terror campaign that killed 40, 000 Nicaraguan civilians . -- Jerry Markatos -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >>Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 08:39:41 -0500 >>Subject: Fwd: Re(3): Starr Quote >>To: aspalt@pop.mindspring.com >>X-FC-Forwarded-From: Ferdi_Serim@monet.prs.k12.nj.us >>From: Katherine_Miller@monet.prs.k12.nj.us (Katherine Miller) >> >>Sorry to report that my source for that quote announced this morning that >>it was another instance of an Internet hoax (and what am I teaching my >>students now? Information Literacy, critical thinking and evaluating >>sources!) >> >>Sure would have been something if he had said it though! >> >>Chargined and chastened, >> >>Ferdi ----------------------------------------------------------- | Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 13:57:13 -0400 | To: cfsa@sunsite.unc.edu, lroughton@lrarchitects.com, manya@mail.iamerica.net, | Marcoplos@aol.com, marty@kgnu.org, miaki@mindspring.com, | morning@npr.org, nc-warn@pobox.com, Bakalite@bakalite.com, | uccmsm.cscc@mhs.unc.edu, pHart@fair.org, demsouth@all4democracy.org, | priscilla_007_@hotmail.com, earthlight@mindspring.com, | rodney@med.unc.edu, sarnold107@aol.com, smujica@gibbs.oit.unc.edu, | sledd@nuteknet.com, seilkop@emji.com, steve_wing@unc.edu, | ssimone@email.unc.edu, totn@npr.org, intonato@sprintmail.com, | cambanis@compuserve.com, prism@sunsite.unc.edu, | burt@mercury.interpath.com, rostagnis@mindspring.com | From: Jerry Markatos | Subject: Starr Quote a Hoax? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- From DAVIDSON@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU Sun Sep 27 13:37:26 1998 Date: Sun, 27 Sep 98 15:36:28 EDT From: Alan Davidson Subject: funding opportunities - minorities; women (fwd) To: socgrad@csf.Colorado.EDU ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 19:25:19 -0400 Reply-To: UConn Graduate Student Announcements Sender: UConn Graduate Student Announcements From: Jennifer Steinbachs Subject: funding opportunities - minorities; women To: GRADLIST-L@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU >TITLE: FORD FOUNDATION DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIPS - NRC > >> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> SPONSOR: NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL >> COMPLETE TITLE: Ford Foundation Predoctoral and Dissertation Fellowships >> for Minorities >> PURPOSE: To increase the presence of under represented minorities on the >> nation's college and university faculties >> DEADLINE: 11/15/98 >> SUMMARY: The Ford Foundation offers doctoral fellowships to members of >> six minority groups whose underrepresentation in the professoriate has >> been severe and long-standing. The fellowship program identifies >> individuals of demonstrated ability and provides them with opportunities >> to engage in advanced study leading to the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) >> or Doctor of Science (ScD) degree and to inspire others to follow an >> academic career in teaching and research. >> >> Approximately 50 Predoctoral Fellowships and 29 Dissertation Fellowships >> will be awarded in a national competition conducted by the National >> Research Council (NRC) on behalf of the Ford Foundation. The awards will >> be made to those individuals who, in the judgment of the review panels, >> have demonstrated superior scholarship and show greatest promise for >> future achievement as scholars, researchers, and teachers in >> institutions of higher education. >> >> ELIGIBILITY >> > >URL : http://www.usalert.com/htdoc/usoa/fnd/any/any/proc/any/nrcf08149801.htm >Matching Keywords : > Fellowships > Student Support & Dissertation Support > > >TITLE: DISSERTATION GRANTS - WOODROW WILSON NATIONAL FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION > >> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> SPONSOR: WOODROW WILSON NATIONAL FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION >> COMPLETE TITLE: The Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grants in Women's >> Studies >> PURPOSE: To encourage excellence in education through the >> identification of critical needs and the development of effective >> programs to address them. >> DEADLINE: 11/06/98 >> SUMMARY: To encourage original and significant research about women on >> such >> topics as the evolution of women's role in society, women in history, >> the psychology of women, and women as seen in literature and art. >> Special grants of $2,000 each are available for dissertations regarding >> women's health. >> >> ELIGIBILITY >> Students in doctoral programs who have completed all predissertation >> requirements in any field of study at graduate schools in the United >> States. Candidates must have completed all pre-dissertation >> requirements including approval of the dissertation prospectus by >> October 30, 1998 and expect to complete their dissertations by the >> summer of 2000. Candidates who are within a few months of completing >> their work should not apply. >> >> APPLICATION > >URL : http://www.usalert.com/htdoc/usoa/fnd/any/any/proc/any/wood07249802.htm >Matching Keywords : > Student Support & Dissertation Support > Women > > >TITLE: DISSERTATION GRANTS - WOODROW WILSON NATIONAL FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION > >> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> SPONSOR: WOODROW WILSON NATIONAL FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION >> COMPLETE TITLE: Johnson & Johnson Dissertation Grants in Women's Health >> PURPOSE: To encourage excellence in education through the >> identification of critical needs and the development of effective >> programs to address them. >> DEADLINE: 11/06/98 >> SUMMARY: To encourage original and significant research on issues >> related to women's health. This grant is interested in the implications >> of research for the understanding of women's lives and its significance >> for public policy or treatment. Previous grants have concerned smoking, >> estrogen, and lung cancer; maternal and child health development in >> Africa; AIDS awareness and prevention in India; dietary determinants of >> morbidity and mortality among American women; physiological response to >> domestic violence, and the politics of reproduction. >> >> ELIGIBILITY >> Students in doctoral programs such as nursing, public health, >> anthropology, history, sociology, psychology, and social work, who have >> completed all predissertation requirements at graduate schools in the >> United States. Candidates must have completed all pre-dissertation >> requirements by October 30, 1998, expect to complete their dissertations >> by the summer of 2000, and have at least six months work left to >> complete. >> > >URL : http://www.usalert.com/htdoc/usoa/fnd/any/any/proc/any/wood07249803.htm >Matching Keywords : > Student Support & Dissertation Support > Women > From meisel@sobek.Colorado.EDU Mon Sep 28 10:42:10 1998 Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 09:58:00 -0600 (MDT) From: Meisel Joshua To: Sociology Graduate Students - International Subject: MOVE ON!(fwd) ___________________________________________________________________ Now that the Starr report is out, and the worst is known, I've been hoping that congress would take swift action and then move on with the business ofthe country. But it seems our representatives are settling down for a longprocess, and I'm not sure I can stand it. Worse, I'm not sure the country can stand it.I'm helping launch an Internet campaign to tell our representatives thatwe've had enough. The President should receive censure from the Congress and we should all move on. And the independent council investigation should end. It's time for the public interest to come first, and for our representatives to show real leadership. Will you help? Just go to http://www.moveon.org to sign the petition. It only takes a minute. And then if you send a message on to your friends and colleagues, the ball will really get rolling. It's up to us. Please feel free to forward this message to anyone you think would be interested. Wes Boyd From DAVIDSON@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU Mon Sep 28 17:19:41 1998 Date: Mon, 28 Sep 98 19:18:21 EDT From: Alan Davidson Subject: New Journal: Genders To: socgrad@CSF.COLORADO.EDU, Mark Swiencicki ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 16:19:48 -0400 Reply-To: H-Net American Religious History discussion group Sender: H-Net American Religious History discussion group From: Brenda Brasher Subject: CFP: New Journal To: H-AMREL@H-NET.MSU.EDU From: Lillian Taiz ltaiz@calstatela.edu CALL FOR PAPERS Genders, a peer-reviewed academic journal, publishes essays about gender and sexuality in relation to social, political, artistic and economic concerns. We are now available, without charge, on the WWW at www.genders.org. We welcome submissions from historians. Please check our website for more details. From tr@tryoung.com Tue Sep 29 06:45:02 1998 (usr-mtp-47.sensible-net.com [208.18.226.47]) by H50.sensible-net.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 08:41:12 -0400 To: ahs-talk@ncsu.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: Four by Geyer and colleagues socgrad@csf.colorado.edu, teachsoc@maple.lemoyne.edu, social-class@listserv.uic.edu, geyer@siswo.uva.nl I am pleased to announce that The Red Feather Institute has posted four articles by Felix Geyer on the RF Chaos Theory and Non-linear Social Dynamics website. Contact Felix Geyer at: geyer@siswo.uva.nl or after October 15: geyer@wins.uva.nl SISWO is the Netherlands Universities' Center for Coordination of Research in Social Science) Amsterdam. Geyer's four articles are: 021 SOCIO-CYBERNETICS AND THE NEW ALIENATIONS Felix Geyer views alienation as a generic term for different kinds of information processing problems of individuals...and the role of communication technology in creating or solving such structural forms of alienation. 022 FROM SIMPLICITY TO COMPLEXITY:Felix Geyer discusses Adaptations to Irreversible Change in Complex Social Systems 023 VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES. Felix Geyer lays out the Structure of Virtual Communities. 024 NORBERT WIENER AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES  by FELIX GEYER and JOHANNES VAN DER ZOUWEN Weiner's work is largely unknown to most social scientists but internet technology together with the explosion in non-linear systems research has made the value of his early work even more visible. You may download them at: http://www.tryoung.com/chaos/chaos.htm TR Young, Director The Red Feather Institute TR Young, 8085 Essex Weidman, Mi., 48893 Email: tr@tryoung.com From tr@tryoung.com Wed Sep 30 03:49:12 1998 (usr-mtp-14.sensible-net.com [208.18.226.14]) by H50.sensible-net.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 05:45:22 -0400 To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu From: tr@tryoung.com (T R Young) Subject: 15 minutes are up. sssitalk@sun.soci.niu.edu, teachsoc@maple.lemoyne.edu As some of you know, Rob Rowe sends me oddments of humor regularly...most are raunchy sexist stuff endemic to male solidarites [Rob is test pilot for super secret air force stuff and has a lot of free time]...most I dump but this one has struck a chord somewhere in my psyche. TR ********** > ---------- Subject: 'Twas the night before crisis' > <> > > And it's less than 3 months before Christmas '98! > Here is your first Xmas card! ............... > > 'Twas the night before crisis, And behind White House doors, Not a creature was stirring, Especially Al Gore. The interns were nestled, All dressed in berets, In hopes that 'Big Bubba' Would come out to play. When, on the East Lawn, There arose such a clatter, Even Sam Donaldson Lost control of his bladder. Away to our TVs We flew like a flash, There's a special report, And, it's pre-empting 'M*A*S*H'! And, what to our wond'ring Eyes should appear, But a homely lil' troll, With tapes for all to hear. With a K-Mart bought Blazer, And a bad frizzy 'do, And a tale to be told -- To me and to you. On the chair! On the carpet! On the Oval Office desk! With a chubby young intern, Who was all eyes and breasts. The Pres had been careless, Indeed, dumb and dumber. Now the whole world would know Bubba'd gotten a hummer. And Monica Lewinsky Emerged from the rubble, If she'd just kept her mouth shut, We'd not have all this trouble. And thus set in motion, A whole web o' spiders, With pundits galore, And White House 'insiders'. You ask, "Who would care 'Bout Bill and his penis?" Well, there's Republican Starr And he's armed with subpoenas! More rapid than eagles, Process servers, they flew! 'Here's one for you! And for you, oh, and you, too!' 'Here, Jordan! Here, Cockell! Is there anyone else?' 'Let's subpoena the lawyers! And Bubba himself!' 'We want you to tell us About Bill's private life, And all those he sleeps with, 'Cept for his wife.' And, many months later, After long we've all suffered, Let's examine more closely Just what Starr has uncovered. We've learned 'Little Bill' Has a 'mind' of his own, And, horror of horrors -- That 'mind' likes to get blown! But a funny fact also surfaced, After 40 million bucks; Seems most people don't care Just who Clinton...... (uh, er... makes love to.) Now the public's grown weary. Will this sleaze never end? We just want to get back To 'E.R.' and to 'Friends.' So, Monica, and Linda, Hey Ken Starr, you suck -- Get the hell off my TV, Your 15 minutes are up > > from "Ann F, Mullen" ******** Rob sent a .bmp along with it...a monica l. boob sandwich I left it in cyberspace. TR TR Young, 8085 Essex Weidman, Mi., 48893 Email: tr@tryoung.com From cassell@vance.irss.unc.edu Wed Sep 30 06:27:24 1998 Received: from frosty.irss.unc.edu (frosty.irss.unc.edu [152.2.32.82]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.4/CNS-4.1p-nh) with SMTP id GAA25681 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 06:27:21 -0600 (MDT) Received: from vance.irss.unc.edu by frosty.irss.unc.edu (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA19716; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 08:27:26 -0400 Received: by vance.irss.unc.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA10899; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 08:27:10 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 08:27:10 -0400 (EDT) From: James Cassell X-Sender: cassell@vance To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion Subject: Looking for "Historiography for Dummies" Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Someone over on the teachsoc list requested suggestions for a good introductory text on historical and/or comparative methods. Thus far, no one has suggested anything on that list. I'm also interested in this request. So I'd appreciate hearing from folk doing comparative/historical work: what references on "method" have you read in seminars or your own research. You can send them to me privately or the list, as you like. I'll post a summary here and on teachsoc. Thanks, James ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cassell cassell@irss.unc.edu Institute for Research in Social Science http://www.irss.unc.edu/cassell/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: 919/962-0782 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From tombrown@jhu.edu Wed Sep 30 15:49:04 1998 Received: from jhuml1.hcf.jhu.edu (jhuml1.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.86]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.4/CNS-4.1p-nh) with ESMTP id PAA20538 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 15:49:01 -0600 (MDT) Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (jhunix-b.hcf.jhu.edu) by jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu (PMDF V5.1-12 #26381) with ESMTP id <01J2FCQR5NWACYZ19N@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu> for socgrad@csf.colorado.edu; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 17:48:37 EDT Received: (from tombrown@localhost) by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (980427.SGI.8.8.8/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) id RAA05957 for socgrad@csf.colorado.edu; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 17:48:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 17:48:37 -0400 (EDT) From: tombrown@jhu.edu (Thomas F Brown) Subject: Re: Looking for "Historiography for Dummies" To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Message-id: <199809302148.RAA05957@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> Learn by example. Read Toqueville's "Ancien Regime", Barrington Moore, Theda Skocpol, Braudel, Wallerstein, Marx's "17th Brumaire...", any of Weber's substantive writings....