Word: wronging
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...going so well, then it suddenly all went so wrong...
...four-year period was taught by someone else--Dr. Geoffrey Hawthorn of Cambridge University, another Brit., and adistinguished exegist at that!) There is room for Sociology and for Social Studies, and I hope that the links between the two areas can be strengthened: Differently put, there is nothing wrong with Sociology, just with some pronouncements recently made in its name...
...mentally when thinking about this dispute. The idea of sociology without ideas, of a specialty without substance, has an amusing side to it. The presumption that exegesis is somehow soft in comparison to the rigorous and ruthless practice of the inhabitatants of William James is delightful. But it is wrong, even silly, to believe that exegesis is soft: have my letter-writing colleagues--excuse me if I chuckle--never come across the formidable Cowles Professor of Government Professor Judith Shklar...
...cannot laugh everything away, even though that can help to keep despair at bay. The matters at issue are serious. It is always distressing to see people out to destroy when they could be creating. My experience convinces me that Professors Davis and Patterson are badly wrong. Social Studies is terrific, imaginative, rigorous, serious and high-powered. I hope my two colleagues in Sociology will have the good grace to apologize to the Social Studies community as a whole. John A. Hall Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Studies
They're what's wrong with the world today. Japanese products are corrupting American society. They're responsible for the unemployment, homelessness, drug addiction, illiteracy and dissolution of traditional family values. It's all Japan's fault...