Peter Emmerson

Equality is a concept derived from theometaphysical techniques that have become conventions in what might be termed ‘western’ thacting.  Equality is a noun that makes a human experience look like an object.  Using such a concept concomitantly disengages us from our mundane experience creating a distance sufficient to allow us to thact in ideal, scientific ways and dream up all sorts of fantastic possibilities that can never be realized.  If we keep to verb-oriented language we get a very different impression – how can a person be equal with another?  Verbal analyses engage us with down to earth, mundane, engineering ways of judging: height, weight, money, housing ………  Sociologists are too often working with implicit scientific theometaphysical notions such as equality, justice, modernity, democracy etc. that automatically disengage them from those mundane situations they are trying to analyse.  If they were to abandon these conventions and use verb-oriented language they could engage much more effectively with that evidence they are seeking to engineer.