Date:         Wed, 25 Jun 97 16:08:12 EDT
From: Alan Davidson <DAVIDSON@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU>
Subject:      tracking
To: socgrad@CSF.COLORADO.EDU
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Just a quick note, I don't think ANYONE on the "tracking exists" side of the
fence is implying that anything exists to such a deterministic or
conspiratorial level as a regime structure or what not?  I think this
is more a discussion a bout the micropolitics of departments, and perhaps
only specific departments.  As for the issue of sociology as a science issue,
I would agree -- there is nothing inherently "unscientific" about studying
issues such as gender and race, it is just that folks that study issues of
gender, race, gay and lesbian studies, and even religion are more likely to
be accused of having their biographies impact their work than are folks who
study stratification and other "more prestigious -- i.e., less slippery"
areas of inquiry.