notes+on+James's+paper


 * Subject:**
 * introduction is to human beings in general. But this doesn't help us to understand why we should study James' life, why his life might be of interest, or, in fact, the subject of James as the subject of the paper.
 * Suggestion: introduce James in the opening paragraph .... the brief overview of his day, his relationship to primary groups and to multiphrenia .... and, to this, I'd open with some statement about why this life is important to study.
 * Question for the class: why is James's life important? interesting? something we should learn more about?
 * Tool:**
 * James does a good job of briefly talking about Cooley and Gergen. But he doesn't really establish a relationship between the theorists and his own life. And, too, he mentions but doesn't explain the concepts that he's going to use.
 * Suggestion: gloss your tools with a definition.
 * Claim:**
 * My sense is that he's applying a tool to a tool, rather than applying a two-part tool (Cooley / Gergen) to the subject (James). This leads him away from being able to say something authoritative about himself.