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To: SirRealist who wrote (19953)	2/25/2002 12:43:07 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

. . .I have been impressed with the work of rigorous sociologists. And who did you have in mind here? It's easy to get lots of credos (whoa, editorial work going on here, who the hell typed "credos" anyway; I meant kudos) and be terribly non-rigorous in the social sciences and no one outside them know any the better. My favorite candidate for that status was Talcott Parsons. Parsons could easily have passed for a stock analyst during the dotcom bubble, if you were looking for lack of rigor. (In case anyone's checking, that's hyperbole, sarcasm, and so on.) My other, more immediate candidate, is Kaplan's favorite, the Clash of Civilizations guy, Samuel Huntington. There's an interesting categorical swap in the social sciences between folk who actually do in the field research, for whom books like Huntington's are "theory" by which they mean irrelevant; and theorists who consider books like Huntington impossibly woolly by which they mean non rigorous. Feeling better. Set a new record for my walk this morning. Weather's terrific. John