>Well, actually, I'm about to snuggle up with ol' Dr J for the first time.
>I'm doing my thesis on the social theory behind the use and impact of
>new information technologies (computers) in higher education. Dr J is
>my advisor's idea (it is going to be a theory thesis...a rare beast these
>days...and I've already covered social theory up to and including
>Marxism. Habermas, I guess, is the next logical step.)
Sure. I did better in theory classes than the others....just something
about the ridiculousness of metasociology and hermenutics and all. Of
course, some ways of presenting theory are better than others (C. Wright
Mill is downright funny, where E.P. Thompson....everyone who does Social
History or Historical Sociology [European, at least] has to read Thompson
and no more than 1 out of every 100 actually LIKE the damn guy).
As a Social Science geek, I'd like to hear about what you're finding with
Habermas. An Educational thesis, though? You reading Dewey for that, or is
that considered utterly inappropriate at this point in time?
Adam D. Barnhart
adamb@cfmc.com
ydnt85a@prodigy.com