Re: like a Jeopardy question

Ricardo Ottoni (rjapias who-is-at ibm.net)
Mon, 08 Mar 1999 00:55:43 -0300

Mary Bryson wrote:
>
> I am assuming that just walking into a room changes what's happening there,
> and so any social science research is of necessity always already changing
> something as it envisions itslef attempting to understand it.

I see things this way too.

I think this
> quote is about being reflexive concerning the fact that one *is* always
> having an efffect. I have been looking to see how far this idea will talk
> me in thinking about "gender", because it has struck me on numerous
> occasions, like if I happen to get my hair cut just a bit too short, that i
> learn lots about gender that day, or week.

What you had wrote above made me remmember a fary tale's king who made
everything he touched become gold.
>
> Mary
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