Rebekah, you don't need someone who's doing work in your specific areas of interest per se, you just need a department that would have the kind of faculty and...
Thank you so much . . . I am already aware of this information. I thought I would ask, just to see if I would receive any type of specific advice (people I amy...
Hi all, Some time ago I suggested that there were operatives on this and other sociology lists. That information came from our on going project. Our group has...
Del Thomas Ph D
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Feb 23, 2007 5:07 pm
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Ken, Brett makes a good point about "There is something out there, a reality that is independent of what I think of it. " To that I would add that there is...
Del Thomas Ph D
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Feb 28, 2007 3:20 pm
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Del. No argument, there are agents other than humans. But this is a long way from reality, because reality is the result of an interactive process among these...
I'm researching the impacts of telework on individuals and communities for my master's thesis at San Jose State University. Please take a few minutes to take ...
I'm researching the impacts of telework on individuals and communities for my master's thesis at San Jose State University. Please take a few minutes to take ...
Ken, If you carefully read this "Christian ex-gay" material you will see that it contains the same code that incites the violence and oppression in the...
Del Thomas Ph D
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Mar 3, 2007 2:23 pm
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Ken, What do you mean by these ways of life? The Christian ex gay movement? Or the Christian anti-gays who are gay? As you know the ex-gay movement folks...
Del Thomas Ph D
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Mar 5, 2007 2:33 pm
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Del, Please explain the code to me. I admit I have not studied the Christian ex-gay movement in detail. But I don't see any comparison of it with the words...
Ken and all, Regarding the code as Paul and his questions and Amy's comments advise us the ex-gay language is code for cleansing. As sociologists, we should...
Del Thomas Ph D
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Mar 5, 2007 9:25 pm
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Del, My statements only applied to the gay and ex-gay ways of life mentioned in John's email. John did not include the others you list. Ken ...
Ken, Do you intend to understand gays and ex gays in isolation. How can you understand or describe a way of life in isolation from their context and...
Del Thomas Ph D
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Mar 5, 2007 10:53 pm
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Del, Yes to context and history. Ken ________________________________ From: Del Thomas Ph D [mailto:deltom@...] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 2:53 PM ...
Ken, I've read the exchange and your answers like the one below are so devoid of context as to at best non responsive. Paul's questions deserved more than...
Del Thomas Ph D
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Mar 6, 2007 12:59 am
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Just a quick thought - I've gone to family "therapy" and I don't have a disease. -rebekah...
Rebekah, Fascinating can of worms. We play games with illness and disease. Illness disease a malfunction of a system or organ. When I directed a mental health...
Del Thomas Ph D
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Mar 6, 2007 3:50 pm
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I recall a conversation with a social worker who found out that I was a conscientious objector. Part of my training to be a therapist was to go through ...
Del Thomas Ph D
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Mar 6, 2007 5:47 pm
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Roger and all, Thank you, We can move from homocentric con game of debate to observation of nature and testing the empirical. There are road blocks. First our...
Del Thomas Ph D
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Mar 7, 2007 12:07 am
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I'm researching the impacts of telework on individuals and communities for my master's thesis at San Jose State University. Please take a few minutes to take ...
Colleagues The Bush administration has contended that the focus of programming on the homeless should be on "chronic homeless." They have defined these people...
Dean Wright
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Mar 13, 2007 9:43 pm
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In the mean time, I would suggest everyone call their congressperson and senators. This is an outrage. Concentrating only on homeless men is a ploy so Bush...
Dean, Your comments remind me of a report I heard on the radio on my way to a SSSP meeting in Pittsburgh. A young woman formerly homeless who had become the...
Del Thomas Ph D
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Mar 14, 2007 1:32 am
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Ok, first of all, the cost of "homelessness" to who? And second, are you looking at homeless US citizens, homeless "illegals/aliens (as many refer to us/them...
... -- R. Dean Wright, Ph.D. Ellis and Nelle Levitt Professor Emeritus of Sociology Department for the Study of Culture and Society Drake University 2505...
Dean Wright
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Mar 15, 2007 10:39 pm
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I just heard about this show on the radio this morning and looked it up on CBS's website. Their new fall lineup includes a reality TV program called "Kid...
Interesting. What scares me is that the adults are structuring the parameters of the game. Does anyone remember the first American Big Brother TV show? It was...
Dean Wright and I have a new book. ________ Politics in the Human Interest: Applying Sociology in the Real World By William Du Bois and R. Dean Wright ...
Here's a brief excerpt from Politics in the Human Interest. __________ Albion Small chaired the first American sociology department which was at the University...