Occupational hazard
Does the highlighted sentence mean "I thought that maybe as a sociologist I was suffering from the obsession of trying to find sociological justification for everything"?
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Hearing a classical piano concerto streaming from a window while sitting out in the courtyard of a large apartment complex, I was moved to speculate about the class, age, ethnicity, and gender of the person listening to it. It later struck me that I was suffering from an occupational hazard, that of the intellectualizing sociologist.
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catttt Does the highlighted sentence mean "I thought that maybe as a sociologist I was suffering from the obsession of trying to find sociological justification for everything"? Partly. To intellectualize is also to sidestep emotional involvement by constructing a rational explanation for a thing.
- catttt Does the highlighted sentence mean "I thought that maybe as a sociologist I was suffering from the obsession of trying to find sociological justification for everything"?
- Partly.
- To intellectualize is also to sidestep emotional involvement by constructing a rational explanation for a thing.
- Instead of enjoying the music, she turned into a brain in a jar.
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cattttDoes the highlighted sentence mean "I thought that maybe as a sociologist I was suffering from the obsession of trying to find sociological justification for everything"?
Partly. To intellectualize is also to sidestep emotional involvement by constructing a rational explanation for a thing. Instead of enjoying the music, she turned into a brain in a j
0cattttDoes the highlighted sentence mean "I thought that maybe as a sociologist I was suffering from the obsession of trying to find a sociological justification for everything"?
Very close, but not "obsession" and "justification" so much.
... suffering from the life-long habit of seeing everything as a sociologist
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