On language and form.
Sociological language is
usually filled with latinised concepts and complicated sentence
structures. It is as if the use of
ordinary words and sentences might decrease the trust in arguments and
reasoning. I detest that tradition. So little of the sociology I am fond of needs
technical terms and ornate sentences. I
write with my “favourite aunts” in mind, fantasy figures of ordinary people,
sufficiently fond of me to give the text a try, but not to the extent of using
terms and sentences made complicated to look scientific.
Nils Christie.
Crime Control As Industry 1994.
Routledge.
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