TEACHSOC: Re: Escape from sociology The full picture

[Del Thomas Ph. D.]

John Glass wrote:   as I have mentioned on this list and others, numerous times, sociology is a humanistic enterprise (or at least it was at its conception); as such, there are values inherent in that orientation. i believe that one can also tease out what constitutes good, bad, gloom, doom. etc., from that perspective, too. With all due respect, sociology, social science is a tool.  Tools do not have inherent values.  It would be like inferring values to a hammer.  We IMO should separate the tool from the carpenter.  If you doubt the anti sociological message in the Promise subject it to a beta test.   SI is not alone in the escape from sociology.  But CWM is insistent on unease.  Do you find any reference to victory, glory, ease or pleasure.  Can you say Puritan ethic in new collars and cuffs.   Or you could look at the posts on this list. Perhaps the most noticeable escape from sociology takes place in the sociology classroom. Del