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Monday, October 03, 2005
CONCEPTUAL PLAGIARISM? From the student newspaper at the University of Pennsylvania: A Penn Sociology professor has accused one of his colleagues of committing "conceptual plagiarism" in a scandal that has enveloped the department and generated buzz at universities across the country. ****************************************************************** Don’t know quite what to say about this. The idea of conceptual plagiarism is a bit woolly. There are problems of definition and discovery aplenty here. But given what bad shape sociology’s in as a discipline, this story could morph into a larger drama about the future of the field. ------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE: Things seem to have been resolved. Long ago. Very odd. |