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.

On 6 Nov, 17:08, Molly Brogan <mollybro...@gmail.com> wrote: