from an article critiquing a sociologist's book on high schools:

> Not that I mean to be rude, but does any other discipline
> depend so much on vaunting its own
> methodology—especially when it's being used to confirm
> the obvious? As he shares the results of his painstaking
> investigations (adolescents seem to care a lot about
> clothes), Milner doesn't want anyone to be confused by his
> subject's arcana. Cheerleading, he explains, "usually
> involve[s] a mixture of verbal phrases and routinized
> physical movement," and you wonder: Usually? What in
> hell do the exceptions do—kick a possum to death in stony
> silence? (And by the way, does their team win?)

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barry
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