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- Title
Ironies of post-modernism of Cheal's doom.
- Authors
Smith, Dorothy E.
- Abstract
This article focuses on sociologist David Cheal's writings in sociology. Cheal borrows meta-narrative of science to write his Canadian sociology. Sociology has always been multi-vocal and dialogic but in Cheal's case the conceptual strategies deployed in his text remove him and the reader to the spectator's site. Cheal tells the story ruthlessly and pays scant attention to the actualities of what people say or do. Cheal adopts a narrative strategy that subdues the original voices. It is essentially at odds with the character of contemporary feminist thinking and debate. The original voices of racial difference and class are spoken and heard in feminism in such a way that it acknowledges their authority without compliance or necessary agreement. Cheal's account of feminism caught between modernism and post-modernism is a collage of picking from various contemporary texts selected to fit his narrative.
- Subjects
CHEAL, David; SOCIOLOGISTS; SOCIOLOGY; NARRATION; FEMINISM; MODERNISM (Christian theology)
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1990, Vol 15, Issue 3, p334
- ISSN
0318-6431
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3340920