Derrida for Sociology? A Comment on Fuchs and Ward Ben Agger American Sociological Review, Vol. 59, No.4 (Aug., 1994), 501-505, Stable URL: fip:flinks jstor-org/sicisici-0003- 224928 199408%2959%3A4%3C501%3 ADFSACO3B2.0.COB3B2-V American Sociological Review is currently published by American Sociological Association, Your use of the ISTOR archive indicates your acceptance of ISTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at flip: feworwjtor org/aboutterms.htmal. ISTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in par, that unless you fave obtained pcior permission, you may not dowaload an cnt isus of @ journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content inthe ISTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial uss. Please contact the publisher cegarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at bupsorww.jstoc.org/joumals/asa. hl. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transtnission. ISTOR is an independent not-for-profit organization dedicated to creating and preserving.a digital archive of scholarly journals. For more information regarding ISTOR, please contact jstor-info@umich edu. up:ttrwwjstor.orgy Wed Ian 701:54:13 2004DERRIDA FOR SOCIOLOGY? A COMMENT ON FUCHS AND WARD* Bex Aacer Unversity of Texas, Arlington tuchs and Ward's (1994) premise is that de- construction can be mapped onto Kuhn's distinction between normal science and para- digmatic shifts, differentiating “radical” and “ynoderate” versions of deconstruction, Owed to the work of Jacques Derrida (1973, 1976, 1978, 1981, 1982, 1986, 1988), the radical ver- sion of deconstruction emerges from periods of sciemtitic crisis, when a textual felt is disor ganized, In the context of crisis, everyone questions “everything,” even basic assummp- tions. Fuchs and Ward argue that moderate de- construction takes over when a field organizes itself around certain assumptions which are ex- ‘empr from deconstruction so that practical work can go forward. In this context, moderate