Received: from kirkwood.hoosier.net (kirkwood.hoosier.net [206.106.64.12]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.6/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with ESMTP id MAA13840 for ; Thu, 29 May 1997 12:51:17 -0600 (MDT) Received: from localhost (lev@localhost) by kirkwood.hoosier.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA29760; Thu, 29 May 1997 13:49:56 -0500 Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 13:49:56 -0500 (EST) From: P Kayak X-Sender: lev@kirkwood.hoosier.net Reply-To: P Kayak To: Jill Ann McCorkel cc: Sociology Graduate Students -- International Subject: Re: Forms/Levels of Inequality In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Am glad you said that. The language of "private" was getting out of balance. The private is not in all cases, Hobbsian disorder. Certain people could be reminded, the public is not either. On Tue, 27 May 1997, Jill Ann McCorkel wrote: > It seems to me that you are conflating "private" with "non-social"--are > you suggesting that gender oppression, for example, is not > institutionalized in the "private" sphere of family and personal > relations? What would constitute a non-social form of oppression and > concomintanly, inequality? Are you taking up a functional analysis to > distinguish social from the non-social? > > Jill McCorkel > University of Delaware > > > some forms of inequality were helpful to the > > human project: here is my reply. TRY - Paul "To have doubted one's first principles is the mark of a civilized man." |_Nine Stories_byJDSalinger=**** - O W Holmes