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It is important that discussions of 'political correctness' within the discipline of political studies should not just replicate the crude conceptions of both 'politics' and 'correctness' that characterise the disputes that are gathered under that name. As a properly political phenomenon, 'political correctness' calls for careful and critical discussion by political scientists In this paper, the conceptualisations of 'politics' and 'correctness' in these disputes are examined In addition, the idea and practice of 'cultural' or 'discursive' politics is discussed, and the connection with disputes about the academic curriculum is examined.

Examines the conceptualizations of politics & correctness in discussions of political correctness. It is argued that these discussions can illuminate the study of political struggle & models of political process. The idea & practice of cultural or discursive politics are discussed, & the connection with disputes about the academic curriculum is considered. 19 References. Adapted from the source document.

Here I present extracts from discussion about `class' by teenage girls from working class, upper working/lower middle, and upper middle/upper class backgrounds. The data demonstrate the variation in salience of class for girls from these different groups. This finding stands in contrast to the finding from the same research project that for all girls `gender' is highly salient. The material also underpins an argument about research method. There are ambiguities in the girls' talk about class, which raise two issues: first there is the question of how we interpret ambiguous talk; second, there is the issue of our responsibilities to our informants, who are made aware by the research process that they put forward ambiguous or even contradictory views, and are discomfited by this knowledge. [Table: see text]