The best ethnographies are like that.pic.twitter.com/2v7MkLXxxA
The great thing bout this 1972 paper isn't just the content. It's also a reminder that (some) psychology papers used to be written with the simplicity, concision, unpretentiousness, and vividness of a Hemingway novel.https://twitter.com/sbkaufman/status/1114241191938277376 …
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I used to think people were so dumb for believing in Skinner. But then I read him and understood the fascination. For all his faults, Skinner was an incredible writer.
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Same can be said of mathematics, engineering papers. Compare 1950s 60s technical paper, the best ones written clearly with no pretence. Nowadays impenetrable, anti-intuitive, and designed to make reader feel stupid.
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They just don't want to be shredded by nitpicky pedants, man. So they narrow focus.
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Thanks for sharing this. You can expect similar qualities for Humanities scholarship written before 1972. BTW, ‘72 happens to be a significant, prescient year politically, roughly marking birth of ‘the New Left’.
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