Sun, 9 Oct 1994 08:41:43 -0700 for <socgrad@UCSD.EDU>
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 09:41:39 -0600 (MDT)
From: rebel palm aitchison <rpalm@unm.edu>
Subject: Re: your mail
To: DAVIDSON@UConnVM.UConn.Edu
Didn't even know there was such a thing...but if anyone's coming out 
here, I'll stop by just for a chance to meet some of you, since I live 
here anyway.  When and where is it?

On Sat, 8 Oct 1994 DAVIDSON@UConnVM.UConn.Edu wrote:

> 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.
>