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From: Douglas Sadao Aoki / Lucy De Fabrizio <stumpy@mail.unixg.ubc.ca>
Subject: Re: Areas of interest/prestige
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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 14:55:01 -0700
I don't want to offend any sociologists or would-be sociologists, especially
since I'm about to become a faculty in a soc dept myself, but it certainly
seems to me that the discipline has little prestige in the academy, at least
in the North American scene.

My area is social theory, and contemporary social theory is dominated not by
sociology and but by English and other literary studies (for instance,
deconstruction, post-structuralism, new historicism, queer theory,
psychoanalysis, much of feminist theory, even critical legal theory). As a
result, when I've spoken with some prominent social theorists outside of
sociology, they have been uniformly very dismissive of the discipline. 
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Doug Aoki
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC
CANADA

stumpy@unixg.ubc.ca