I meet either is daughter or grand daughter she asked a very interesting
question (simple) and the person she asked had no answer. Fascinating lady
(about 33 years ago in El Paso TX)
Allan
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 1:59 AM, archytas <nwte...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I thought there was something in this stuff for a while. A book on
> 'The Making of a European Business Elite' was broadly structuralist
> and showed a lot I knew to be true about the nepotism and old boy (now
> girl too) networks. These days I think the structuralist movement
> told us nothing and really ended-up with a bunch of typical chattering
> class heroes incapable of working out socialism was a failure and this
> needed to be said and some real model of science embraced more
> clearly. Claude was a nice man according to those who knew him and I
> liked reading his work - eye-opening up until the point of trying to
> make sense of modern society and his rather intense way of trying to
> generalise concepts like the Trickster. I sold my copy of Triste
> Tropiques a few days before he died and had a last scan of it then
> before posting it off. It felt weak and reminded me I think sociology
> is dead.
> > His ideas on Structuralism opened up the world to me, as I began to
> > see the patterns of language and ideas in the context of history,
> > thanks to his writing. RIP
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