Received: from cats.ucsc.edu (cats-po-1.UCSC.EDU [128.114.129.22]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id PAA03990 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:23:11 -0600 (MDT) Received: from verdesc.ucsc.edu by cats.ucsc.edu with SMTP id OAA14395; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:17:08 -0700 Message-ID: <311E6B8A.4E5A@cats.ucsc.edu> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 14:19:54 -0800 From: Christian Organization: Dept. of Sociology MIME-Version: 1.0 To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Re: fwd - tutorial (fwd) References: <960912.064344.EDT.34LPF6T@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Well thanks T.R. for you clarification, it was needed. First off...inresponse to some of the regional/provincial issues that some people have raised. I think good sociology has come from all over regions all over the world. Wherever there groups of humans there is good sociology to be done. As far as the non-linear approaches that TR is beseeching us to utilize I have no problem with that, as a matter of fact I think that chaotic/complex systems will be the next grand-theory of sociology. I know that many sociologists have begun incoroporating the understandings of Ilya Prigogine (who happens to be in Texas!) into there analysis. Perhaps most notably Imanuel Wallerstein's World-System Theory's lexicon is loaded with Prigogine's conceptual tools (dissipative structures, leitmotivs, feedback loops, etc). I have just recently finished a rough draft of paper which utilizes complex system's theory to analyze the debate over the temporal and spatial boundaries of the Modern world economic system. Regardless I welcome and encourage the introduction of complexity into sociology. It seems that the current paradigm shift away from newton and Descartes towards interconncetion should be accepted by sociologists and integrated into our understandings. Cheers, Christian