Solidarity Forever Maybe.
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in The People, Solidarity | No Comments »Paradoxically most of the active confrontational fronts in America can be mitigated by the recognition and acceptance of an overriding shared link, a band of unity that is based on and establishes a curing solidarity. A relationship of solidarity is characterized ...
How I Entered the Field and the Forest
Thursday, April 24th, 2008 Posted in Biography | 1 Comment »TIME IN Sequences of Recollection: A measure of time at work beyond hours and days is the variety of the work itself. I think of my formal efforts into my chosen part of the universal as projects. I start ...
Intergroup Solidarity in the Run for President
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Posted in Elections, Solidarity | No Comments »We can think of the campaigns for nomination and election as a game whose rules are set by party committees, federal and state legislatures, news media, all under the critique of observers and participants. The rules and patterns ...
Preliminaries. The Sociology of Running to be Nominated
Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in Elections | No Comments »Rules incorporate advantages. They also encourage the search for tactical advantages--finding the maneuvers that increase chances for success. Those who make the rules are projecting a fuzzy pattern for future actions. The current (2008) lengthy season for the selection of ...
Mass Observation
Saturday, April 12th, 2008 Posted in The People, Cadre, Cadre Functions | No Comments »Life is a 24/7 proposition. To imagine all of us worldwide concurrently acting is staggering. And over time, one day after another up to one century after another and more, to register and record the entire shebang of ...
A Sociological Chat about the Sub-Prim Crisis
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Posted in Concrete incident or process, Sub-Prime Crisis | No Comments »Notice the imperfection of the economic system in the USA. Crises are not infrequent. Every time we experience one we hold our collective breath, fearing that this will be the big one, the meltdown, when the finely tuned ...
Musing on the Hedge
Friday, April 4th, 2008 Posted in Anti-Experiment, Gambling, Money | No Comments »In the 1930s Philadelphia an informal gambling market developed at professional baseball games. Around 400 mature men would gather in the left field bleachers of the old Shibe Park and bet with each other over the outcome of the ...
When One Gender Dominates Another
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in Analysis, Asymmetrical Relationship, Anti-Experiment, Murder, Gender | No Comments »On one side the established law and the generally accepted conventional way. On the other snippets of action sequences like the OJ Murder Case that project other patterns. If we make the leap from case to category, place ...