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Originally posted by James
She didn't go before a board or anything. I am sure it would be mentioned.
Even though the book was in the "education" section of borders it isn't an academic study nor is it acaemically rigorous. However, it doesn't really have to be either.
Her book presents an overview of the greek system, and it follows 4 girls loosely through a year. She supplements/confirms the girls' experience with either interviews or articles.
She also uses the girls experiences, interviews and articles to back up her own conclusions and value judgements.
A number of the articles posted on Greekchat are also used to in her book.
In fact the book is alot like a giant greekchat conversation. Its all there. Hopefully she used GC as a primary resource to "guide" her research. It would have saved her an enormous amount of time.
What is kind of amusing is that she is less hard on most aspects of the greek system, and the people involved, than many of the girls that are flaming the book on this thread.
Using your postings as a comparison . . you are more anti-greek by far than she comes across in her book. . . at least 3/4 pof the way through lol.
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Thanks, James.
So, she's just presenting her findings and letting people take them as they will. Any generalizations beyond her sample that are being made, are being made by the readings and not the authors. Well, at least 3/4 of the way through (
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LOL...I think my posts are a good comparison. I can be very anti-Greek, at times. I should write a book about it and piss people off/makes lots of $$$$$$.