End of term papers completed
As I complete my semester Term papers, I suppose I'll take this opportunity to talk a little bit about, what else, the subjects I've been working on.
Substantially, both papers are political treatises, written about public policy issues from Sociological perspectives.
In 2004 the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released a report detailing the activities of a "new" extreme Militia (opposing the popular stance of many scholars, who had performed extensive research into the Militia's decline after 9/11). I took up the cause of this report in good faith, in the hopes of extending its findings.
Instead, we find something even more interesting in my analysis. The ADL report turns out substantially wrong, and completely without merit. Many of its findings are based on pseudo-data. But through my research I discover that militia-like groups, notably organizations like Ranch Rescue have absorbed the most extreme members of the old Militia Movement, and indeed now possess the racists and extremists that once dominated the Militia movement.
Provocative eh? You can read the entire first draft of the report for yourself.
I also chose to look critically at Race and Schooling this semester, in the hopes of better elucidating the discursive and political openings in school reform created by the evolving politics of race.
The reports substantially details the rhetorical positions of our nation's three principle Civil Rights organizations, and uses SMT to lend reasoning to their positions.
Substantially, both papers are political treatises, written about public policy issues from Sociological perspectives.
In 2004 the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released a report detailing the activities of a "new" extreme Militia (opposing the popular stance of many scholars, who had performed extensive research into the Militia's decline after 9/11). I took up the cause of this report in good faith, in the hopes of extending its findings.
Instead, we find something even more interesting in my analysis. The ADL report turns out substantially wrong, and completely without merit. Many of its findings are based on pseudo-data. But through my research I discover that militia-like groups, notably organizations like Ranch Rescue have absorbed the most extreme members of the old Militia Movement, and indeed now possess the racists and extremists that once dominated the Militia movement.
Provocative eh? You can read the entire first draft of the report for yourself.
I also chose to look critically at Race and Schooling this semester, in the hopes of better elucidating the discursive and political openings in school reform created by the evolving politics of race.
The reports substantially details the rhetorical positions of our nation's three principle Civil Rights organizations, and uses SMT to lend reasoning to their positions.
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