Thursday, March 20, 2008

Eureka!

I have it! I have it!
No, not the dratted social capital questionnaire that I have been trying for weeks now to get around to writing. No, it is not the goal that I have trapped underneath triumphant fingers, flying over my keyboard.
It is the reason why I may be incapable of getting an intuitive grasp of social capital research.
The reason is this:
I am not a socialised person. Not one for mutually benefical collective action. Given the choice, I will spend hours alone, with my head pressed to a problem, trying to figure it out. If someone needs help, I will provide it. I would rather die than ask for real help when I really need it ('Please can I vent over email today' does not count.)
My general stock of trust, solidarity, cooperative behaviour and social networks is suspended listlessly just below the 'average' watermark.
To sum up:
I might never do the kind of incisive PhD that requires the subject matter to have gotten under my skin and into my cells.

So then?
So what?

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