So, methinks we should combine our academic aspirations. Maybe together we could write an acceptable dissertation. I could handled sharing a PhD. You could be Ph, I'd be D. I could be D. You could be R. We'd be kinda like dopplegangers. Except not, because we can't possibly look alike (I'm 5'2", and can't dance remotely gracefully.)Maybe we are more like foils. . .
All this silliness is my way of saying I don't want to do my job today that MY academic issue is wanting to throw away a large chunk of the theory and just DO something with my studies, stuff that has real, tangible relevance. I find reading theory fascinating, and often quite useful in real, tangible circumstances (for example, Bourdieu's idea of habitus & cultural capital, and Gidden's structuration theory both play out in how I use language in my work, and in how I understand how other people's language affects me and the world in general), but writing theory is the bane of my existence. But a big chunk of my diss has to be about theory, which means I am writing theory. And I didn't discover my interior social scientist, or that my real interest, language in use, could be studied through a social scientist lens until TOO LATE. My diss topic was chosen before I found out I could have done something quite social scientisty, even in my department. Even with my topic. (My advisor's diss and her current research project both do this.) So I am stuck trying to write theory without real practice. BLECH!!! I understand I need theory. It is just lacking application right now, and that BUGS ME.
So, if you write my theory, I'll do the field work and tables. . . And we can get that PhD/2.
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academic musings - on foils, dopplegangers and the like.
Date: 2003-07-14 02:23 pm (UTC)All this silliness is my way of saying
I don't want to do my job todaythat MY academic issue is wanting to throw away a large chunk of the theory and just DO something with my studies, stuff that has real, tangible relevance. I find reading theory fascinating, and often quite useful in real, tangible circumstances (for example, Bourdieu's idea of habitus & cultural capital, and Gidden's structuration theory both play out in how I use language in my work, and in how I understand how other people's language affects me and the world in general), but writing theory is the bane of my existence. But a big chunk of my diss has to be about theory, which means I am writing theory. And I didn't discover my interior social scientist, or that my real interest, language in use, could be studied through a social scientist lens until TOO LATE. My diss topic was chosen before I found out I could have done something quite social scientisty, even in my department. Even with my topic. (My advisor's diss and her current research project both do this.) So I am stuck trying to write theory without real practice. BLECH!!! I understand I need theory. It is just lacking application right now, and that BUGS ME.So, if you write my theory, I'll do the field work and tables. . . And we can get that PhD/2.
What d'ya think?