SOCIOL 4SS3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Noam Chomsky, Comparative History, Bastion
18 Dec 2019
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Partisian warrior attacking credibility and moral character. Different inds see the same person diff ways depends on perspective. Reputational entrepreneur has become increasingly international and eve global. Has gone through legitimation process but not solidified (why there is conflict: attempt to gain legit by publications. Chomsky is also a paradigmatic example of prophesying public intellectual: giving talks on both current and future implications of us foreign policy and military intervention, thru extensive writing history he underwent legitimation process. He is one of the most talked about inds in canada, but not even mentioned in newspapers in the states: supports hypothesis that his reputation has been constructed diff in can than usa. Challenged provocative mainstream structural and behaviourist schools of linguistics at 29. Was an institution builder est the phd program in the field at mit in 61 and training generations of young scholars who spread his schools of linguistics.
