Hi Svetlana,
I've been thinking about why the particular topic of your research caught
my attention and the attention of some of my e-colleagues and I think it
has to do with the tendency in North America for Social Science to
"fuzzify" its phraseology....
I'm sure if you had talked about your research as a "Study on the
Socio-Economic Foundations of Social Marginals and Marginalization", no
one apart from those with a direct interest would have paid any attention.
It's probably better (if occasionally more uncomfortable) to, as they say
"call a spade a spade" as you have done...
I'm taking the liberty of sharing this with the e-list to which I
forwarded your original note.
regs
Mike Gurstein
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>Thank you for your comments. I fully agree with you that social research
>pales in comparison with the works of George Orwell, Bertold Brecht,
>Charles Dikkens, Victor Hugo or Maxim Gorky (to name but a few authors).
>Unfortunately I do not think that I can endevour to continue this
>literary tradition. But I hope that one does not necessarily have to be
>a writer or a reader to achieve human understanding and feel what it is
>to be an outsider (I can point you to a famous sociological book with
>this title).
>
>Hoping (but not begging) for understanding,
>Svetlana
>
