Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 03:17:52 -0400
From: Thomas F Brown <tombrown@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
Subject: Re: Luck be a Lady Tonight: Gambling in a Time of Trouble
To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu
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 For it is US who will be
creating the Sociology of the 21st century.  And We have to be engaging
each others minds in an attempt to make Sociology relevant again to the
issues that we shall be (and are currently) facing.  And we cannot do
that by merely engaging with Professor's, we must engage one another and
use each other as resources.  So Mr. Gunn far from advocating a list
devoid of content I am encouraging that we/graduate students take the
responsibility to make this list a vital source of discourse about the
modern world and sociology's role in making that world. 
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By picking out one voice and assigning him a status based on his
rhetorical style, it seems to me that YOU are the one creating
a hierarchical social structure here. You are the one setting
up a we/they dynamic. 

I don't see how typed words appearing on my screen whose source
is from someone I've never met and who has no power over me at all
can possibly contribute to a hierarchical power structure. I think
you may be reifying your own problems with authority figures.