Contribute to Discussion Forum 3

This is the first discussion forum. Please post your answers (by replying to this post) to the questions at the end of the Instructor’s Comments before 11:59 PM Tuesday evening. The deadline to complete reading others’ posts and making your Discussion Questionshttp://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/252.html 

 https://www.cddc.vt.edu/illuminations/kell32.htm

Here are the initial discussion questions (please answer them in a new topic within
this week’s discussion forum):
 

(1) Kellner distinguishes between “functional” and “critical oppositional public
intellectuals.  What are the major distinctions?   Which of the two styles of theorizing
most appeals to you?  Why?   
(2) What does Patricia Hill Collins’ mean by “matrix of domination?” In what ways
does her notion of “both/and” thinking help to subvert the matrix in her view?   Give
an example from your life that exemplifies how intersections of some of your multiple
statuses (e.g., gender, race, class, age, etc.) affect your social experience.
(3) Why do Lengerman and Niebrugge-Brantley believe that female sociologists’ early
focus on advocacy helped to undercut their perceived importance?  Hint: what was
the perceived status of advocacy relative to the perceived status of “objective”  
science in the early days of sociology?