Taking The Rhetoric Out of Theoretic Debate

A Rejoinder to Michalski

Bibliographic Data

ID2277281
AuthorsDouglas A Marshall (University of South Alabama, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume49
Issue2
Pages275-284
Publication date2008-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociological Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0253 • E-ISSN: 1533-8525
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1533-8525.2008.00115.x
OpenAlexW2028811748
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited3

Michalski's (2008) Michalski, Joseph H. 2008. “The Social Life of Pure Sociology.” The Sociological Quarterly 49(2):253–73.[Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar] critique of Marshall (2008) Marshall, Douglas A. 2008. “The Dangers of Purity: On the Incompatibility of Pure Sociology and Science.” The Sociological Quarterly 49(2):209–35.[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar] is rebutted. It is demonstrated that Michalski's response largely fails to address the substance of Marshall's argument, and instead deploys a number of characteristically Blackian rhetorical strategies to obscure the field. These include an inconsistent and opportunistic rejection of philosophical argument, the lamentation of an imaginary victimization, a reliance on reassertion over reasoning, the use of misleading examples, an attempt to turn to the critique against the critic, and the exaggeration of empirical evidence. As a result, his critique is not only unconvincing, but further substantiates Marshall's case

Argument (complex analysis) · Epistemology · Exaggeration · Field (mathematics) · Linguistics · Psychoanalysis · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Management and Organizational Studies · Mathematics · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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