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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 15:09:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jill Ann McCorkel <jmccorke@UDel.Edu>
To: Sociology Graduate Students -- International <socgrad@csf.colorado.edu>
Subject: Re: Discursive Culture Clashes
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On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Thomas F Brown wrote:

> 
> Observing the tracking thread, I think that there may be a
> culture clash between 1) people who relish an intellectual
> debate and 2) people who link thought with identity, and thus
> construe the conflict of ideas as interpersonal tension. This
> leads to misunderstandings on both sides.
> 
In large part I agree with your analysis here.  I am troubled by what I
see as a cultural tendency toward the repression of debate.  Aaahhh, if
only we could get to that communicative utopia Habermas keeps harping
about....

Jill McCorkel
Univ. of Delaware