Comments on: Discourse on Style http://etherwave.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/discourse-on-style/ A blog dedicated to improving how we write, teach, and think about the history of science Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:06:39 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Will Thomas http://etherwave.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/discourse-on-style/#comment-46 Will Thomas Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:20:00 +0000 http://etherwave.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/discourse-on-style/#comment-46 If pressed, I'd like to recant my "bulk of the impact" statement. Sociology is probably directly responsible for a heightened emphasis on practice, which has been enormously productive (and is actually my favorite kind of history). I guess when I write "impact", I mean impact that we couldn't have gotten from concurrent trends in mainstream cultural history.<br/><br/>A policy note: I never retract or alter any substantive argument in a post without signaling that I did so with an "edit". In the spirit of blogging, these are all raw thoughts. If pressed, I’d like to recant my “bulk of the impact” statement. Sociology is probably directly responsible for a heightened emphasis on practice, which has been enormously productive (and is actually my favorite kind of history). I guess when I write “impact”, I mean impact that we couldn’t have gotten from concurrent trends in mainstream cultural history.

A policy note: I never retract or alter any substantive argument in a post without signaling that I did so with an “edit”. In the spirit of blogging, these are all raw thoughts.

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