Received: from copland.udel.edu (copland.udel.edu [128.175.13.92]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.6/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with ESMTP id OAA03481 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 14:37:36 -0600 (MDT) Received: from localhost (jmccorke@localhost) by copland.udel.edu (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA05608 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 16:14:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 16:14:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Ann McCorkel To: Sociology Graduate Students -- International Subject: Re: tracking In-Reply-To: <97Jun23.192619edt.2008-7@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Thomas F Brown wrote: > That's a reasonable criticism, but it's so general it's always true. > The only thing it tells you about tracking is that everyone is tracked > in everything they do. Precisely--with variations in substance, intensity, etc. Seems more useful to sort out degrees, frequencies, and patterns than start with a polemic about free will and determinism. > This is exactly what I'm requesting--a description of how choice is > influenced when it comes to choosing an academic discipline. Many > people in this thread argue that institutionalized practice affects > choice, but they stop there. I'm trying to prod people into advancing > that argument in enough detail so that we can assess it. Fair enough--I will give this some thought... Jill McCorkel Univ. Delaware