Received: from jhuml1.hcf.jhu.edu (jhuml1.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.2.86]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.6/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with ESMTP id BAA01005 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 01:04:15 -0600 (MDT) Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu by jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu (PMDF V5.0-7 #13870) id <01IA43E1RAJK9TCN56@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu> for socgrad@csf.colorado.edu; Tue, 01 Oct 1996 03:03:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu by jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu (PMDF V5.0-7 #13870) id <01IA43DXWMVQ9TCN4W@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu> for socgrad@csf.colorado.edu; Tue, 01 Oct 1996 03:03:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu id <2693-6>; Tue, 01 Oct 1996 03:03:44 -0400 Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 03:03:34 -0400 From: Thomas F Brown Subject: Re: T.R. Young To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Message-id: <96Oct1.030344edt.2693-6@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <199609301422.IAA09636@csf.Colorado.EDU> If he would abandon the lecture "talkin at us" style and rather see his viewpoint as on of many contributions than (as I've said 3 times now, at least) I welcome his contributions. ================================================ I should hope a sociology grad student would be able to get past the style and cut right to the substance of the argument. I don't really see much relevance in criticizing someone's rhetorical style while totally ignoring their argument. If you welcome his contributions, then why are you bitching about his style?