Sat, 8 Oct 1994 19:08:45 -0700 for <socgrad@ucsd.edu>
Date:         Sat, 08 Oct 94 22:00:02 EDT
From: DAVIDSON@UConnVM.UConn.Edu
To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU
Are there any socgradders going to the Society for the Scientific Study of
Religion meetings in Albuquerque, New Mexico next month?  Just curious.


       As for the role  of personal experience, I won't go in-depth until
I read Molotch's article, BUT social science not informed by biography
is not possible, at the very least b/c readers do assume a particular
relationship between writer and text, even in the most statistical sources.
On another list (SSSRel-l) there is currently a discussion over the extent to
which it is possible to tell the religious affiliation of the author in
journal articles in the Sociology of Religion.  Whether it actually is or
not isn't as important as the fact that readers think it is, and may judge
one's work accordingly.