Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 09:58:40 -0500 (CDT)
From: Rodney Arthur McDanel <rmcdanel@jove.acs.unt.edu>
To: Sociology Graduate Students -- International <socgrad@csf.colorado.edu>
Subject: Re: tracking
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On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Thomas F Brown wrote:
 
> This is a good point, but it does not address the existence of tracking,
> does it? Are you suggesting that women might get tracked into gender studies 
> because that specialty is defined as the women's track? This theory would be 
> tautological. It would not explain anything. It would not tell us whether or 
> not tracking exists, and it would not tell us how to measure it. I apologize 
> if I have misconstrued your argument. 

My point is only that tracking is far more subtle and deeply ingrained
than perhaps we realize.  The mere mention of its existence generates a
flurry of opposing arguments ending up with two sides straining at their
leases to get at each other.  I don't doubt a bit that tracking exists.
Nor do I doubt that it extends far beyond gender issues or that, to some
degree, we all perpetuate and fall victim to it.

Rod McDanel