it's like, it's a nice metaphor (if you're into that sort of thing), but bad theory. feel the same way x1000 about Foucault, because Foucault is metaphoric theory + Hobbes + bad Nietzsche.

meh, i like aspects of both, i guess. i learned to appreciate sociology when i had to write a paper comparing Sapir and Durkheim. where Sapir thought that the social was just an aggregate of individuals, culture could be effectively deposited within them, Durkheim was like, no no--there is something distinctively social. something that by our individual participation in it becomes more than its parts, that places us under the influence of ideas larger than ourselves. plus hierarchy, social organization, and the like need a sociological model