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                    <text>Chad Hanson

Take a Picture
When you live in Wyoming, your home often serves as a staging area for trips to the
parks of the old frontier—Yellowstone and Grand Teton. I wouldn’t have it otherwise.
My wife and I enjoy acting as tour guides and outfitters. When our visits to the parks
numbered in the single digits, I stood beside friends, siblings, and nephews and we
stared at jagged rock formations. We fixed our eyes on sparring elk, stately herds of
buffalo, and steaming azure-colored pools. We searched for adjectives to describe what
we saw: serene, majestic, out-of-this-world.Then we repeated the terms wherever they
were needed.
-Two summers ago, something started to change. I pulled up next to a crowd of tour­
ists alongside a highway in the northeast corner ofYellowstone. Each person held an
optical device. There were binoculars, spotting scopes, and telephoto lenses, each one
trained on a member of the Slough Creek wolf pack that bounced and played in a field
of sagebrush and prairie grasses at the base of a hill. Shutters clicked, flash units pulsed,
and the onlookers produced a chorus of “oohs” and “aahs.” I like wild animals. Each year,
I make a point of watching them when I’m in the parks. I’ve written countless letters
to government officials and members of Congress, urging for the animals’ protection.
I am committed to the presence of wolves and bears in the Greater Yellowstone region.
Even so, while I stood before one of ■wildlife-watching’s most sought-after prizes, I
found myself pulling away from my camera to scan the scene around me in the ditch on
the side of the road.
There were men and women in the group, young and old, all festooned in brightly
colored clothing: hats with atypical bills, footwear made for different occasions, back­
packs with patches sewn on them, and sunglasses that gave people the look of human
flies. I heard three different languages. A couple standing next to me spoke French. A
family behind me shared a story in one of the Slavic tongues, and I also recognized an
Asian dialect. All around me, human beings shuffled and chattered, voices rising and
falling as people related to each other. A row of parked cars rested behind us, half on tar
and half on gravel. Each one was chosen to say something about the owner. There were
sensible Hondas, rough and tumble trucks, and perky Subarus. These people interested
me more than the dark spot in my zoom lens chasing its tail through a meadow.

Throngs of people fill our parks. Yellowstone receives more than three million visi­
tors every year. If you drive the park’s highways in the summer, you will notice that
people and cars are the defining features of the area. For most of us, our fellow "visitors
are a source of frustration. We believe our experience of nature is diminished by each
person with whom we share the world. We feel romantic about solitude. We adore
the image of a lone cowpuncher shifting back and forth in a saddle, his horse stepping

toward the sunset.

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My friend Carl lost two wives to cancer in a span of seven years. Afterward, he bat­
tled depression. Today, he is remarried, but for a time he struggled with a deep feeling
of loneliness. At the height of his condition, I watched him chase a ten-year-old out of a
fishing hole so he could have it for himself.
Two years ago, on the Firehole River, a mile north of Old Faithful, I watched three
men gear up for fly fishing. They sat on the tailgate of a pickup truck. When they fin­
ished rigging their rods and zipping their vests, the men dispersed along the stream, far
enough apart so they could not see or hear one another. Everything we’ve been taught
suggests that we should put distance between ourselves and others. Then we start com­
peting. We ask, “How many did you catch?”

When I fish alone, I enjoy being by myself, but when I fish with companions, I like to
fish with them.
In August, my friends Bear and Graham visit from Idaho. I don’t think they would
mind if I called them sld bums. They work when they want. They live in peace, and they
ski like high-velocity members of a Russian ballet company. They come to Wyoming
in the off-season when the snow melts oh the west side of the Teton Range. They are
rarely in a position to buy out-of-state fishing permits, so they leave their fly rods back
at home. Therefore, we only have one rod with us when we hike along the shore of a
river. It’s a perfect three-to-one ratio. We fish each bend and pocket as a team. We com­
plement each other when the fly falls gently onto the surface. We cooperate, and when
we’re through, it feels like we did something together.
Last spring, my wife and I set up our canvas teepee in Yellowstone’s Norris Camp­
ground on the shore of Solfatara Creek. The majority of the families there slept in trail­
ers or recreational vehicles. I took a walk through the campsites after we unloaded
our gear. I noticed rigs with names hke Hornet and Predator. A pit bull growled at
me through the -window of a camper van. Back at the tent, I told Lynn I expected a
manufacturer to soon unveil a new flagship RV called the Leave-Me-Alone-or-I-WillKick-Your-Ass.
We visit parks and nature for the seclusion. We drive through hours of traffic. Then
we set up camp in beehives of activity. It’s enough to test the most garrulous and outgo­
ing of us, but we survive because we all ignore each other.

This summer, I find myself sitting in a row of chairs, set up auditorium-style in the
basement of a natural history museum in Seward, Alaska. The chairs are pointed toward
a television set.The screen flickers with a live feed from a camera mounted on an island.
Birds like gulls, loons, and puffins cover the island from the summit to the shore. The
curators call the exhibit Gull Cam. It’s a popular display. As I sit in my chair, people

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�come and go. There are no fewer than twenty people watching at a given time. Nobody
says a word to anybody else. Side-by-side in our seats, each of us pretends that we are in
the middle of a private visit with the animals.
i thought about taking a boat to the island. I figured it might be fun to strut into the
camera’s view. I wanted to duck walk back and forth, flap my elbows, shoot my neck
in and out, and squawk like a seagull. I felt like showing the bird watchers that people
aren’t really so bad. We’re more compelling than most of the other creatures on this
Earth. By all rights, we ought to mount cameras on the corners of busy intersections
and gather to watch pedestrians.
If you are going to watch people in parks, you’re going to see them taking photo­
graphs. Visitors have been making images of the parks in Wyoming for more than a cen­
tury. The first Europeans to visit the area were astounded. When they saw the land sur­
rounding the Snake River watershed, they believed they had entered a place of Biblical
significance. Since the rugged peaks and valleys showed no signs of cities or settlements,
they assumed the landscape mimicked Eden—nature as God intended—unmarred by
homes or factories or farmers’ fields. The great artists of the day flocked to the region.
Painters like Thomas Moran and Albert Bierstadt rushed to see the grandeur. For the
first time, artists began to make images VTith no human subjects. The land spoke for

itself, and it captured the imagination of the railroad companies.
Businessmen hoped to capitalize on westward migration, and they used pictures of
forests, lakes, and wildlife to lure tourists and settlers across the Mississippi to the
mountains. Their advertisements succeeded. They convinced Americans to travel
west—to hunt, fish, and revel in the beauty of the surroundings. They also persuaded
lawmakers to create and then protect the parks, exempting our scenery from the scars
of logging, mining, and real estate development.
In the same era, we became a society of employees. We began to punch time clocks
during the week. In the span of two generations, a majority of us made our living by
means not connected to land or animals. We worked shifts, indoors, at desks, or on
assembly lines. When we were lucky, we were granted twp weeks off, and when those
two weeks showed up on the calendar, we took vacations. Travel turned into a form of
leisure. We invented sightseeing.
Since our vacations account for a small number of our’days on this planet, we began
to look for a way to commemorate the time we spent away from our jobs. Fortunately,
cameras went up for sale at the same time we started to look for a way to prove that
there was more to our lives than what we did for work.
Ironically, composing photographs is work. For groups and nations shackled by Cath­
olic guilt and Protestant work ethics, the act of leisure is unsettling. The next time
someone asks what you are doing, tell them, “Nothing,” then see how they respond. Do­
ing nothing is not an option for Americans, Germans, or the busy people of Scandinavia.
Tourists from nations like ours adjust knobs, set up tripods, and click shutters as a hedge

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�against the angst associated with spending time in unproductive ways.
Picture-taking is also a way to remind ourselves that our stories contain meaningful
chapters. We want to illustrate the passages so desperately that we take unnecessary
risks. A half a dozen tourists are killed or injured on the South Rim of the Grand Can­
yon each year. They ignore warning signs, step onto ledges, and then fall while taking
photographs.
Last summer, I watched a fly fisher wrestle a brown trout to the ground on the bank
of the Yellowstone River. He used his foot to pin the flopping fish on the shore, then he
took a photo from above. Dry pebbles stuck to the trout’s skin. The spectacle struck
me as awkward, even lamentable. The fisherman would not let the trout back into the
river without proving that he owned it, temporarily. The scene reminded me of a phrase
coined by Native Americans. The Ojibway describe some of us as “far-hearted.” While
the vacationer struggled with the trout, his heart hved somewhere else.
In the early years of the frontier, native people refused to let photographers take im­
ages of them. They thought cameras had the power to steal souls. I can see why they felt
that way, but for most of us, the act of taking pictures is binding. Pho'tographs connect
us to landscapes, animals, and each other.

A century ago, we lived in large, extended families—three generations on the same
farm or homestead. Today, small family units bustle from town to town in search of the
most abundant revenue stream. In the process, we lose our sense of a place’s history or
of a like-minded group of people who can help us define ourselves. So we take photo­
graphs. In a book of essays titled On Photography, Susan Sontag explains that photos came
along at the right time to offer disconnected people a way to take back or establish a
sense of community.
When cell phones started to come with cameras, they became almost ubiquitous. But
in homes with children, we still find the greatest number and widest range of cameras.
You can see the intent on the faces of parents when they point a lens at their kids with a
snowy peak in the background. They’re shooting a web of significance onto the siblings
with the hope that the image will hold them together by bearing witness to the shared

experience.
Crowds gather at the base of Old Faithful six times a day. Likewise, the parking lots
with scenic views of the Grand Tetons are full from June to September. We know what
we’re supposed to value, and we have a good idea which photos we are supposed to
carry home. There is comfort in knowing that you’ve travelled in a direction that is
well-regarded by others, but this approach is not perfect. When parks become our des­
tination, travel plans turn into nothing more than strategies for collecting pictures. I like
to think that travel offers more than just an opportunity to fill hard drives and kitchen
drawers with images of people grinning in front of landmarks approved by society.

�There are also consequences attached, to approaching life as an image. The camera
shapes our notion of what is worth seeing. Parks are worth seeing. But what about the
land and animals that fall outside the boundaries of parks? When we decide that one
landscape or animal species is worth our attention, in the same step we are deciding that
others are unworthy. For example, some species are considered majestic when they’re
in the parks, but they become pests if they happen to walk outside the lines.The buffalo
ofYellowstone serve as a case in point.
Buffalo don’t know what we’re up to when we define and redefine the land according
to our whims. We can stand with our feet on either side ofYellowstone’s northern bor­
der. We can look to the left, and call what we see there a park.Then we look to the right
and say, “Grazing allotment, measured in animal units per month.” Buffalo don’t know
the difference, so they wander into Montana toward the end of December, We attempt
to haze them back into the park by helicopter, but if the choppers don’t scare them into
Wyoming, the creatures are destroyed. They’re killed because some of them carry an
infection called brucellosis, which can cause cows to abort their calves. The concern is
that the disease could spread from buffalo to cattle. But brucellosis is not native to this
continent. Livestock brought the condition with them from their homes in Spain and
France, then gave the infection to the herbivores of North America. If the buffalo gave
it back to them, Christians would likely call that reaping what you sow.
Wyoming is a land of contrasts. Within its borders, you’ll find the last vestige of a
complete, intact ecosystem: Greater Yellowstone. To the south and east, big swaths of
land have been offered up as a biological and geographic sacrifice. Near the town of
Pinedale, Wyoming, just an hour’s drive from Grand Teton, there lies a region where
natural gas drilling pads are so numerous and so close together, the area looks like a me­
chanical pincushion. T&amp; the north and east, coal mines ravage the land. In the Thunder
Basin, we dug an open pit so deep and wide its scale rivals the river canyons of the West.
Tourists don’t visit Thunder Basin, Photographs are not taken. Nobody wants to re­
turn from a vacation with a picture of a strip mine or a drilling rig. So the gas fields
remain out of sight. Open pits don’t cross our minds, and the aerial image ofWyoming
keeps changing. People from all over the world snap photos inside the borders ofYel­
lowstone and Grand Teton, satisfied that we live in a kind of earthly paradise. Mean­
while, the gears of industry turn the rest of the state into an outdoor factory.

The United States is a new nation compared to places like Japan. The Japanese love
nature
as much as they love economic growth. They live in urban apartments.
They work long hours in corporate offices. Then they go home to bonsai trees, tiny
reminders of nature, groomed to strict cultural standards. Our parks are bonsai trees,
islands of carefully pruned organic matter, floating in a sea of mechanization.
Life in our national parks has changed, even in the short history since white people

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settled the West, The first European visitors carried shotguns and rifles. We carry cam­
eras. Our relationship with the scenery is different today. When the parks were first
established, we felt intimidated by nature—wild animals, brutal winter storms, and
hostile Indians. People turn to guns when they’re afraid, but we don’t have much to
fear anymore. Everybody knows that we not only tamed the natural world, we beat it
into submission. Now we take photographs. We take pictures when we feel sentimental.
Photos of the shrinking glaciers on the Grand Tetons are nostalgic.

The Ucross Ranch is an artist’s retreat east of the Big Horn Range in Northern Wyo­
ming, In the fall of 200S, the organization commissioned a series of photographs. They
paid twelve artists to take pictures of the natural gas pumping stations in the Powder
River basin, an area of sage flats, rolling hills, and rugged breaks formerly untouched by
roads or fences or buildings. When the photographers finished, the Ucross Foundation
presented the images in the form of a travelling exhibit. They titled the work “The New
Gold Rush. In the two years that followed, the pictures appeared in museums across
the West.
“The New Gold Rush” was scheduled to appear in Casper’s largest art museum in
the fall of 2006. Two weeks prior to the opening, the gallery’s director, announced that

they would not host the exhibit after all. Public galleries depend on donations to run

programs and manage their affairs. In Wyoming, the most generous donors earned
their fortunes in the new gold rush—the rush to turn the nation’s last remaining tracts
of wide-open space into gas drilling operations. Images are powerful. When the local
newspaper covered the museum’s decision to keep patrons from seeing the photos, I
thought, The artists that made these prints are dangerous. The/re like a dozen Pancho Villas with
adjustable lenses.

Last year, the Federal Government went through a process of planning for the future
of the Bighorn National Forest. I packed my camera and headed to the mountains. My
luck, the balsam roots were blooming. The waters sparkled and a fresh coat of diamonds
covered the glaciers. I sent the pictures to the Director of Planning, along with a note
that said. See what you 11 ruin you allow logging in here? Did I influence the outcome of
the Forest Service plan? Judging from the final report, I would have to say no. But I’m
just one guy with an old Nikon and two semesters’ worth of art classes. Can you im­
agine all the potential in the cameras spread around this country in the summertime?
This year, I started taking photographs of people taking photographs in Yellowstone.

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Chad Hanson'

I would like to begin by thanking Richard
Machalek and Michael Martin. Their work serves
as a reminder that our discipline is diverse and
dynamic. I appreciate the effort to urge us to
include genetic concepts in lower-division courses,
but I do not share the enthusiasm for sociobiology.
In what follows, I suggest that the call to include
genetic principles in the sociology curriculum is
part of a historic effort to discuss social patterns
in terms that are individualistic, and in the end I
offer my views on the role of freshman-level
courses in an academy where the boundaries of
fields are shifting.
I reviewed Machalek and Martin’s (2010) essay
in the spring of 2009. Al that time, I felt surrounded
by the field of biology. The year marked the bicen­
tennial of Charles Darwin’s birth, and also the
150th anniversary of the publication of On t/ie
Origin of Species. Television news covered the
occasion, and the blogosphere buzzed with discus­
sions of Darwin’s contribution to science and
humanity. The completion of the Human Genome
Project added meaning to the event, and in the
wake of that accomplishment. Social Forces (Guo
2006) and the American Journal of Sociology
(Bearman 2008) both published issues committed
to exploring the link between genes and behavior.
A story even appeared in the Chronicle of Higher
Education, boasting a subtitle that claimed,
“Genetic research finally makes its way into the
thinking of sociologists” (Shea 2009).
Machalek and Martin’s suggestions for teaching
hinge on the thought that 21st-century break­
throughs in biology now warrant the inclusion of

genetic concepts in our lower-level classes.
But there has been no revolution in the field
of sociobiology. The preceding suggestions are
instead part of a slow but long-running attempt to
use biology to explain or account for human trails
and actions. The attempt begins, arguably, with
Herbert Spencer’s 19th-century social Darwinism;
the effort runs through the 20th century with the
controversial publication of books such as The
Bell Curve (Hermstein and Murray 1994); and
the line of thought continues here in the 21st cen­
tury, up to and including this very conversation.
There is nothing new about attempts to use
genetics to interpret social life. For example,
when Machalek and Martin present biological
concepts for faculty members to include in soci­
ology courses, the citations date back 27 years or
more. When they describe how our personal
traits grow out of an interaction between genes
and the environment (p. 42), they quote from
Sociobiology and Behavior, a 1982 book by
David Barash. When they mention that we pos­
sess a nearly universal potential for language
(p. 42), they turn to the 1975 work of the linguist
Noam Chomsky, and when they explain how
human beings are biologically prone to develop
skills that allow us to detect behaviors such as

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lying and cheating (p. 42) they cite a study con­
ducted in 1966.
Machalek and Martin are right to point out that
there is an increasing tendency to look toward
individuals and their unique biology to e?q}Iain
social behavior, but that tendency has not been
driven by persuasive new research or evidence.
The completion of the Human Genome Project
marked a significant breakthrough; however, that
undertaking concluded that humans are 99.9 percent
identical. Even though that still leaves room for
wide-ranging variety, the finding suits most soci­
ologists, as we tend to assume that our similarities
outweigh our differences, at least at birth.
The heightened focus on genetics has resulted
not from new, compelling explanations of behav­
ior but rather from a shift of emphasis in our soci­
ety. Geneticists and sociobiologists have been
more successful than others when it comes to con­
vincing the public of the value of their work and
perspective. Alvin Gouldner (1970) first discussed
this matter almost 40 years ago. He suggested.

The most basic changes in any science
commonly derive not so much from the
invention of new research techniques, but
rather from new ways of looking at data
that may have long existed. Indeed, they
may neither refer to nor be occasioned by
“data,” old or new. The most basic changes
are in theory and in conceptual schemes,
especially those that embody new back­
ground assumptions. They are thus changes
in the way the world is seen, in what is
believed to be real and valuable, (p. 34)
At this stage in our history, the genetic explanation
for behavior enjoys a privileged position in the
marketplace of ideas. An unschooled observer
might ask why we do not turn to the humanities
for an understanding of the human condition, but
I have doubts about whether the editors of the
American Journal of Sociology have plans to pub­
lish an issue with the American Academy of Poets.
With few exceptions (Miley 1988; Moran 1999)
I am also unaware of any “Conversations” in
Teaching Sociology in which authors plea for the
inclusion of poems or sonnets in the sociology cur­
riculum. For reasons that relate to the exercise of
power, attention is lavished on some fields, to the
exclusion of others. Within the academy, the histor­
ical record is unequivocal: masculine, hypothesis­
testing, hard sciences triumphed over soft, feminine

accounts of social history or personal biography
(Bean 1998).
At present, the fields of biology and medicine
dominate discussions of a broad spectrum of
issues, including obesity, homicide, and alcohol­
ism. Thus, grant money flows toward researchers
who take a genetic approach to such topics. In
the American Sociological Association’s 2005
presidential address, Troy Duster (2006) docu­
mented the difference between grants awarded to
life scientists and those who emphasize the role
of social structure in the analysis of social prob­
lems. The differences were noteworthy. In the
supplement to the 2008 volume of the American
Journal of Sociology, Freese (2008;S28) also
suggested that attempts to understand the link
between genetics and social structure are currently
considered “hip,” and he is correct, at least with
respect to the views of those in a position to award
grants or publish articles. As a case in point,
the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provided
partial funding for the American Journal of
Sociology's genetic supplement (Bearman 2008).
The foundation’s goal is to improve health care
delivery.
In The Medicalization of Society, Conrad
(2007) suggests that genetic explanations for
behavior are welcomed into public conversations.
He explains that our culture has been primed for
the genetic point of view, because of “an abiding
faith in science, rationality, and progress; the
increased prestige of the medical profession; and
the American penchant for individual and techni­
cal solutions to problems” (p. 8). As a nation, our
assumptions about the underpinnings of our
actions lean toward biological science.
With respect to undergraduate students, socio­
biology is the perspective that they bring with
them to class. In my introductory courses, students
start each semester assuming that violence, greed,
and selfishness are all part of the natural order. In
my courses on marriage and family, students
imagine that new mothers are guided by the
benevolent hand of parental instincts, and when
I teach criminology, I find that students believe
that the high U.S. crime rate is the result of
prolonged, elevated levels of testosterone.
Thus, the question becomes. What are we to do
as teaching sociologists? 1 do not know anyone
who would deny that our lives rest, delicately,
on foundations of biology. Familiarity with one
single case of autism or Alzheimer’s disease is
enough to remind us that we are all trapped in

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the web of genetics. For most, the web is support­
ive. For some, it is unthinking and ruthless. Still, I
believe I can speak for at least a subset of us when
I say that we became sociologists because, after
careful thought, we determined that geneticists
will always be limited to explaining a small por­
tion of our similarities and differences. Most of
us surely came to realize that the variables that
shape who we are and what we become are
historic and cultural. We manage our identities
and determine our actions as we observe norms,
enact roles, and share the values maintained
within the groups to which we are meaningfully
attached. As such, are we obliged to include
a wide range of genetic terms and concepts in
our lower-level courses? I say no. I see no need
for an adjustment to the way we address biological
views on human character or potential when we
teach introductory courses.
In my class, 1 take time to talk about the dubi­
ous history of sociobiology. I discuss the most
egregious of the attempts at eugenics. Then I
move to a more immediate application of biolog­
ical principles. 1 tell students that my male pattern
baldness is a sign that my genes are more highly
evolved than those of them with lush, full, apelike
heads of hair. At this point in the term, they know
when I am playing the role of the court jester.
Machalek and Martin paint a more sober picture
of biological research. They work to make a case
that our thoughts and actions often proceed on
the basis of a “common, biological platform shared
by all humans" (p. 42). Of the concepts they
describe, 1 plan to use the “startle response” as
an example of the degree to which our genes deter­
mine our behaviors (p. 43). I know that my students
will appreciate the discovery that people all over
the planet squint their eyes and clench their back­
sides when a firecracker goes off unexpectedly.
Introductory students deserve the best of what
our discipline offers. I realize that priorities are
subjective, but from my standpoint, sociobiology
is not our field’s finest or highest achievement.
There is a place for sociobiology within the disci­
pline, but studies of genetics and social structure
are best reserved for graduate students or upper­
division undergraduates. The population of stu­
dents who take the introductory course have differ­
ent goals than those who enroll in our advanced
classes. Most introductory students are not sociol­
ogy majors. They take our courses as part of the
liberal arts curriculum. The introductory class is
often their only exposure to the field. Thus, the

survey course serves a distinctive role. Students
take introductory biology and psychology along­
side sociology in their freshman or sophomore
years, and at that time we should offer an effective
counterpoint to the views espoused in fields where
attention is focused on individuals, as opposed to
historic and cultural context.
I am sympathetic to the call to cross the bound­
aries of disciplines. My background is interdisci­
plinary, and I cherished the time I spent in pursuit
of a multifaceted degree, but I did not venture
into other fields until after I earned two credentials
in the field of sociology. I benefited from having an
intellectual home, so to speak, and I have done my
best to pass that lesson on to my students. Wellestablished disciplines are needed to make the
most of projects where researchers take an interdis­
ciplinary approach. Each field brings something
valuable to a study—a method or a perspective.
Without strong and unique fields, interdisciplinary
woric simply becomes undisciplined.
No matter where genetic principles are taught
in the curriculum, however, the suggestion to
stay apprised of new biological research is laud­
able. For my part, I have already taken the steps
that Machalek and Martin suggest, although for
different reasons than they had in mind. If discus­
sions with students are part of your courses, then
the views, if not the data, of biologists are already
present in your classroom. We owe it to students,
and we owe it to ourselves, to stay engaged with
scientists working to unravel the mysteries of
genes. I can think of no better way to make our
debunking sophisticated.
With respect to our colleagues in the life scien­
ces, Machalek and Martin are right to point out
that they have begun to see the limits of a narrow,
biological perspective on human endeavors. For
the sake of advancing all the fields of the acad­
emy, we should be in a position to help them bring
social theory and social research to bear on what
are ultimately social problems. That will likely
mean sharing concepts and vocabulary. It should
also mean collaboration on research that brings
out the best in diverse disciplines.
The improvement of our understanding of
humanity gives us reason enough to consider the
data and findings of biochemists and geneticists. 1
keep a quotation from one of my favorite poets in
the top drawer of my office desk, however. It is
a line in a poem by Muriel Rukeyser (1968). In
The Speed of Darkness, she wrote, “The universe
is made of stories, not of atoms” (p. 111).

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Bio

Chad Hanson teaches sociology at Casper College in
Casper, Wyoming. When he is not in the classroom he
studies the behaviors of brook trout; up to his knees in
mountain streams and with a fly rod in his hand. His
book The Community College and the Good Society:
How the Liberal Arts were Undermined and fVhat we
can do to Bring them Back is forthcoming from
Transaction Publishers.

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Form 103—W276

THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM

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POSTAL TELEGRAPH ,

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ALL. AMERICA CABLES
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Joseph McGi’ath
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If this transaction was properly recorded, I am
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the most satisfactory way of nandlln^ ti^o matter.
Thankin?: you, 1 am
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