Seminar

Kathleen suggests I read  Foucault, Giddens, Fairclough
(language games - discourses)

attempt to position research

'about': others constructs or 'through': my own

Clarify  difference between

General Research Topic & Research Methodology (Theoretical  Research Position)

I assume this means she thinks I am confusing my concern with complementarity of constructs (specifically  distinction/union)  Critical Knowledge/Random Expressive Flow (I realise this can only operate at certain levels of knowledge (in and between certain language games!?) 


with a need to take a specific research position  (eg post sructuralist as opposed to structuralist)


(Habermas is officaily a modernist (hes  associated with Frankfurt School of Critical Theory)( Layder Points to the fact that Habermas work spans different perspectives with aspects of Post modern thats why I like some of his concepts to  quote the postmodernist wikipedia (Which we are not supposed to "While influenced by American pragmatism, structural functionalism, and even poststructuralism, many of the central tenets of Habermas' thought remain broadlyMarxist in nature."   (replace this with Layder quote))


Kathleen jokes that I should "circle like vulture around a core target of research"  its funny...
- funnily enough no one mentioned "Core" is perhaps itself part of a  language game with certain power interests and  trajectories !... then of course  there is N-N-N-Nerd-Core !