None of these classy locutions mean anything different from the simpler ones they replace. They work ceremonially, not semantically. Writing in a classy way to sound smart means writing to sound like, maybe even be, a certain kind of person. Sociologists, and other scholars, do that because they think (or hope) that being the right kind of person will persuade others to accept what they say as a persuasive social science argument.
Howard S. Becker
“Writing in a classy way to sound smart means writing to sound like, maybe even be, a certain kind of person.”
And then there’s Trump and his tweets…
Did you ever stop to think of his tweets as merely a smoke screen? So many people get so up in arms about those tweets that they never notice all the other little things he doing/trying to do to/with the government.
Maybe he visited the bookstore of magic and learned a trick or three. The problem is it’s hard to tell which part is the trick and which the decoy.
EVERY field has its own language, often pointless to the outsider. And a sociologist giving people grief for jargon? Seriously? Pshaw.
I hear there’s some old boy that writes his stories in a little cabin with a hundred acres of space around him.
Many others scribble, type, tap or speak stories into existence where and when they find the time.
The readers know not how it was done or what other steps came after, only that it turned into a good or bad read.