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From: "Kelley Crouse" <kcwalker@syr.edu>
To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 08:55:45 +0000
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Subject: Re: five years
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> Thomas Brown wrote:

     I don't see why completing a >sociology phd should take
     longer than five years anyway, unless you're >doing historical
     research.

And Aaron Z Pitluck responded:

        Sure, historical research might stretch it out.  Or
        ethnographic research. Or anything involving research in
        foreign countries, which often requires government approval
        and/or affiliation with foreign > institutes. Or any research
        dependent on capricious outside funding > sources (e.g.
        Fulbright). Or...

Or, or....  There are other factors here that influence whether or 
not someone has it on the ball.  Has anyone here considered that 
things like family background, race, class, and oh, maybe, gender 
have something to do with how easily and quickly one gets through 
graduate school.  I take it neither of you are trying to raise 
children?  That neither of you ever encounter any sort of stumbling 
blocks:  ill parents and relatives, family crises, out-of-work 
relatives who might need your help, etc. 

Kelley