Social Class Consequences
Friday, November 30th, 2007 Posted in Social Class | 1 Comment »So far we are into an off-center investigation of social class. We have two lines into the subject. 1) We have denied to all commentators the sanctuary of the objective scientific observer. All concepts and theories ...
Social Class in U.S.A.
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 Posted in Social Class | No Comments »Advantage, in pejorative usage sometimes called exploitation, is the dark shadow of social class. It introduces into the relationships of equal citizens a strong element of inequality. Our civilization, our religious and moral sensibilities cast an uncomfortable pall ...
Social Class. Yes, No, and Maybe
Sunday, November 25th, 2007 Posted in Social Invention, Social Class | No Comments »We approach social class from the theory side. Concepts along with their formulators and advocates are active parts of the reality they attend. It is called praxis, making the word real. Sometimes the new ...
Social Class Unmasked
Friday, November 23rd, 2007 Posted in Social Class | 1 Comment »In sociology the concepts and theories and the persons who propound them are part of the reality described. The social order of the economic life of a society includes the understandings used to describe it. There is ...
Social Class Inside Out
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 Posted in Social Class | 1 Comment »All they want is love and money. (William Saroyan) Social class is a tag for the social organization of economic life. The task is to describe the social forms and processes needed to produce, distribute, and consume goods and services. Everyone ...
Small Universe Ain’t It?
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 Posted in Sociology of Jokes, Small World | 3 Comments »My joke was not funny. It was like an automobile without a transmission. It wasn't going anywhere. But at the time (1959-1960) I thought it was. Building on that delusion, a remarkable sequence of events followed over the next ...
The Yuck Is on Me
Sunday, November 11th, 2007 Posted in The People, Sociology of Jokes | No Comments »I lack a context. I want to share a joke with you but I do not have a sociology of the joke and I do not want to go off topic. It is like lacking ...
Beta Ethnicity
Friday, November 9th, 2007 Posted in Ethnicity, Alpha ethnicity, Beta ethnicity | No Comments »The alpha ethnic group has everything. In isolation it approximates a biological, cultural, social, territorial and self governing unity. It is we the people and in each instance it represents the continuity of our species. Ethnic identity only becomes ...
Alpha Ethnicity
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 Posted in Group, Ethnicity, Alpha ethnicity | No Comments »Ethnic means the people. Biological reproduction is recognized in kinship forms. People trace back to a common ancestor, sometimes identified as a common place or a common experience. Start with the reproducing couple and their children, ...
Note on “When Prophecy Fails”
Friday, November 2nd, 2007 Posted in Reductionism | 1 Comment »The shared problem for mankind is to describe and understand the universe (the all and everything including us). There are multiple parallel ways that call on different types of knowing and different tests for truth. The classic realms are the familiar ...