RECENT DEVELOPMENTS LEND WEIGHT TO THE ARGUMENT THAT THE PRC'S TACIT ALLIANCE WITH THE US AGAINST USSR IS A FRAGILE THING. USING CHINA AS A COUNTER BALANCE TO SOVIET EXPANSIONISM MAY SEEM WISE TO SOME US STRATEGIST. BUT THE CHINESE LEADERSHIP CAN BE EXPECTED TO ACT ON WHAT THEY THINK ARE CHINA'S OWN BEST INTEREST, AND THERE MAY BE MANY SURPRISES AHEAD.
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This article calls attention to the productive intersection of various postcriticisms of knowledge production and the critique of ethnography as a writing technology for producing scientific knowledge about others. In particular, poststructural and deconstructive criticism, cultural studies, feminist science studies, postcolonial theory, and queer theory are seen to have focused disruptive and useful attention on the ethnographic I/eye, both inside and outside the professional academic texts of human science. A radical or full reflexivity is seen to be particularly useful in this attention to the one who sees, knows, and writes, but this reflexivity has been criticized by feminist technoscience critic Donna Haraway for being in fact too timid. A consideration of Haraway's preferred strategy based on the metaphor of diffraction, which seeks to effect difference patterns in the local worlds where ethnography is done, closes the article.
The difficulty of treating war as a soc institution or harmful soc event is not methodological. Even the psychol'st no longer hesitates to define war as a soc institution. Why, then, is war not treated as a soc problem in the literature of US sociol? It is suggested that the answer lies in a confusion in thinking about the beginnings of war as an institution rather than in any serious value conflict over the means of its abolition. European man is not disposed to think of the state-war system as akin to a predatory or robber culture & the professional sodier as the chief benefactor. He persists in describing the in-group as a peace island situated in a sea of aggression, &the soldier as the guardian. One outcome of this way of looking at things has been that the sodier & his techniques of violence have been made allies in the search for soc order. For there also persists in the thought of European man the belief that group life is a function of coercion. It is assumed that restraints, of both a symbolic & physical nature, must be placed upon the human individual if soc life is to be enduring. The paradox exists that man is by nature a soc animal & that he is not. He is both soc & malevolent. This paradox, when combined with the traditions of Greco-Roman humanism & patristic Christianity on the uses of force & violence in society, makes the soldier the pillar of law & order in the community of ingroups called European civilization, just as is the policeman so regarded within the local in-group. AA.
