Mon, 3 Oct 1994 08:30:36 -0700 for <socgrad@ucsd.edu>
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 11:26 EDT
From: SCOTT BLAKE <BLAKE@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU>
Subject: T.R. Young
To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU

Hi folks.
I thought I'd add my humble opinion to the discussion.  I happen to find the
weekly postings from hir stimulating.  I especially like that sie usually
posts on Sunday morning.  It resonates with something way back in my rejected
Christian upbringing that is quite pleasant.  I like it so much that I wrote
to hir to get the floppy of full-length papers and assorted other stuff.  I 
have not yet found time to read everything (~1.2M), but what I have read is
very insightful.  I don't think that Young's work is very well documented, it
is often short on "facts" and, IMHO, more or less falls into the category of
speculation.  Sociology could use a little more speculation.  We have become
afraid to guess -- or, at best, believe it to be a futile endevor.  Why?  Where
do new ideas come from if to from taking a guess?  We are all, I think, 
inundated with competing modes of inquiry, methodolgies, theories -- all
footsteps to follow in.  The injection of a little dreamy, unsubstantiated, 
intuitive guess about the world might, just might, open up some places of
interest that maybe we haven't thought of before.  I hope that Young continues
to post and I would encourage people to take some time and try to figure out
what sie is saying, and not saying.

Scott Blake
Brandeis University