The contracts would go exclusively to US companies
and to
subcontractors from nations officially designated as
friendly, the
report said.
Is this strictly legal, from a WTO point of view? Or
have we reached that point in the stock market crisis
at which the world goes into a funk of
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Subject: ROBERT K. MERTON, SOCIOLOGICAL GIANT ON WHOSE SHOULDER WE ALL
STAND
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:57:13 -0800
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Dear All:
yesterday sociology lost one
I don't want to go through thsi again, but I have explained the differrence between functionalISM and functional EXPLANATION at several points on this and othyer lists; check the archives. As I said before, FE is not a general doctribe about the nature of society; it is a style of explanation of
Title: functional explanation and Marx
[was: RE: [PEN-L:35046] Re: Re: [Fwd: Robert K. Merton, 1910-2003] -- apologies]
JKS writes: ... I have explained the differrence between functionalISM and functional EXPLANATION at several points ... FE is not a general doctribe about the nature of
OK, Jim, do you really wanna rehash this? We have been
over these grounds before.
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apologies]
JKS writes: ... I have explained the differrence
between functionalISM and
functional EXPLANATION at several points ... FE is
not a general doctribe
about the nature of society; it is a style
Title: RE: [PEN-L:35048] Re: functional explanation and Marx
no, I'll skip this whole discussion, since it has been done before. Further, we agree: functional explanation is simplistic. In the name of clarity, let's avoid simplistic explanations.
BTW, I don't object to the term
Title: Turkey Iraq
from SLATE: According to pieces in the [Washington] Post and LA [TIMES]... there is growing Kurdish opposition to
Turkey's plans to send troops into northern Iraq. No one should think we are bluffing, one top Kurdish official told the Post. There will be conflict. A
Does any of this hold water, er, oil?
Tuesday, February 25, 2003
www.stratiawire.com - Jon Rappoport
AN INTERVIEW ON THE WAR BEHIND THE WAR
FEBRUARY 25. Here is an interview with retired propaganda expert Ellis
Medavoy. I recently featured some of his comments in my stories about AIDS
and
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The contracts would go exclusively to US companies
and to
subcontractors from nations officially designated as
friendly, the
report said.
Is this strictly legal, from a WTO point of view? Or
have we reached that point in the stock
--- Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
no, I'll skip this whole discussion, since it has
been done before. Further,
we agree: functional explanation is simplistic. In
the name of clarity,
let's avoid simplistic explanations.
If you want to skip the discussion, which I do, let's
avoid
The Japan Times: Feb. 26, 2003
WINDOWS FEELS THREAT FROM LINUX
Gates courts LDP leadership over 'e-Japan' deal
In an unprecedented attempt to encourage the Japanese government to adopt
Windows for a planned electronic government project, Microsoft Corp.
founder and Chairman Bill Gates said
Title: RE: functional explanation and Marx
JKS writes:
... You, like Elster, though for
different reasons, think that all or almost all
functioanl explanations in social science are
simplistic. He think they are not mechanical enough,
yoy think they are not dialectical enough, whatever
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Robert Merton was the co-founder (with his
graduate advisor Talcott Parsons) of American structural-functionalism, the central
strand of US sociology -- a tireless institution-builder who helped anchor sociology
in US
Jim offers an account of dialectics in terms of
mutual determination of individuals by society and
vice versa. Personally I find abstract discussions of
dialectics worse than useless, but I'll just remark
here that such accounts, if offered as an
interpretation of Marx's views, fail to account
Title: RE: [PEN-L:35056] Re: [Fwd: ROBERT K. MERTON, SOCIOLOGICAL GIANTON WHOSE SHOULDER WE ALL STAND]
michael hoover: pluralist and elitist theories are two sides of same functionalist coin, former assumes that capitalism and liberal democracy are values consciously and spontaneously shared
Title: RE: [PEN-L:35056] Re: [Fwd: ROBERT K. MERTON, SOCIOLOGICAL GIANTON WHOSE
SHOULDER WE ALL STAND]
Been around this before I think, but anyway:
analyzing functionality need not carry the baggage of functionalism, we must
all agree with that? An importance difference between Marxs
Title: RE: [PEN-L:35056] Re: [Fwd: ROBERT K. MERTON, SOCIOLOGICAL GIANTON WHOSE SHOULDER WE ALL STAND]
[was:
RE: [PEN-L:35059] RE: RE: Re: [Fwd: ROBERT K. MERTON, SOCIOLOGICAL GIANTON WHOSE
SHOULDER WE ALL STAND]
Mat writes:
Been around
this before I think, but anyway: analyzing
Any suggestions for progressive political and economic analyses on
Venezuela --web resources preferred. Thanks
E. Ahmet Tonak
Professor of Economics
Simon's Rock College of Bard
84 Alford Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230
Tel: 413 528 7488
Fax: 413 528 7365
www.simons-rock.edu/~eatonak
and if the parliament votes no? Sabri, anyone else?
[ the BBC ]
Bosses charged over 'illegal' payouts
The head of Germany's biggest bank, and the boss of the country's leading
union, have been charged in connection with illegal payments made when
telecoms giant Vodafone took over Mannesmann.
Deutsche Bank chief executive Josef Ackermann and the
http://www.latimes.com
The Dividends of Delay
Allies' foot-dragging has strengthened U.S. war strategy
By William M. Arkin
William M. Arkin is a military affairs analyst who writes regularly for
Opinion. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .org.
February 23, 2003
SOUTH POMFRET, Vt. -- Thanks to France
It will be a good step forward for the establishment of democratic
processes and institutions in Turkey. It seems to me there is a
possibility for that, albeit a slim one. Today even the deputy prime
minister commented on this possibility by saying that the rejection of
the government's
I had a fruitful brush with Merton about 3 years ago. I was doing
factory ethnography here, exploring power on the shop floor, the wage
relation as a practical matter (the practices of paying, paying less
than stipulated, paying late, sometimes not paying at all) and how
workers accommodate and
Tom Kruse wrote:
I found a fascinating Merton´s work on the sociology of time. A passage
in Bourdieu's Pascalian Meditations tipped me off to this work; B was
talking about how the state exercises an excruciating, intimate form of
power by making people wait. I checked out Merton; and noted
Yes there are two quite different types of doctors. Academics who cant keep
students waiting if they have an appointmet and Medical Doctors who can keep
patients waiting indefinitely even though a specific appointment time is
made.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
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From: Tom Kruse
Interesting that this article recognises that the no-fly zones have been
used as cover to bomb Iraq defences and communications, and also that the
inspectors are again acting as spies.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
Meanwhile, months of delay have brought tangible benefits for U.S.
military units as they
Ian wrote:
and if the parliament votes no? Sabri, anyone else?
Sorry Ian, just saw this. Busy with empirical IO and the contract
theory in these days. I read Ahmet's response and agree with him.
The chances are slim. But both Ahmet and I live in the US. Is
there anyone out there who lives in
Decisions, decisions
While we agonise about whether to go to war, the US has moved on to a
different question: what next?
Jonathan Freedland
Wednesday February 26, 2003
The Guardian
Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus. So says the latest hot
polemic exciting transatlantic policy
It's under Bush's bed!
Paulo Coelho
Wednesday February 26, 2003
The Guardian
Bearing in mind that the president of the most powerful nation in the
world is responsible for his actions and knows what he is talking about,
I - a Brazilian writer, with no access to the secret services, the UN
Has the lapsed penner, Mark Weisbrot, returned from there?
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 06:07:56PM -0500, e. ahmet tonak wrote:
Any suggestions for progressive political and economic analyses on
Venezuela --web resources preferred. Thanks
E. Ahmet Tonak
Professor of Economics
Simon's Rock
This is BS. MSoft is bullying business into buying updates.
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 10:50:15AM -0800, Ian Murray wrote:
During the meeting, a lawmaker who uses the Windows system complained that
Microsoft is making too much profit by forcing Windows users to buy
updated versions every few
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair continues to ignore UNSCOM/IAEA's
1991-1998disarmament record. Below find Blair's reported claim that
disarmament isonly possible with full Government of Iraq (GoI)
cooperation. Below Blair'sstatements find the 1999 Security Council
Disarmament Panel
EU Asks U.S. to Revise Rules
For Country's Service Sector
Host of Regulations at Issue
As Bush Seeks Freer Trade
By NEIL KING JR.
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
WASHINGTON -- As the Bush administration seeks freer global trade
in services, the European Union is taking aim at the
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From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
EU Asks U.S. to Revise Rules
For Country's Service Sector
Host of Regulations at Issue
As Bush Seeks Freer Trade
By NEIL KING JR.
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
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It's the above kind
U.S. and Saudis Agree on Cooperation
Gulf Nation to Permit Expanded Use of Military Facilities in Event of War
By Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 26, 2003; Page A01
The United States and Saudi Arabia have reached new agreements that will
allow expanded U.S. air
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,903175,00.html
analysis in UK Guardian of US opinion polls
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