The Concrete and Particular Group
Thursday, October 30th, 2008 Posted in Group, Concrete incident or process | No Comments »We start with the situation of people whose lives have been intertwined who separate. Man Ray leaves France and his domestic companion Adrienne Fidelin remains. Che leaves Cuba and Fidel stays behind. Florence graduates high school and leaves her au ...
Gone But Not Forgotten. The Vulnerable Concrete Social Group.
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 Posted in Sociology of Group, Concrete incident or process | No Comments »"...the time has come for us to part," wrote Che Guevara in his farewell letter of April 1, 1965 to Fidel Castro. This marked the formal end of their relationship. A separation, the parting of the ways, is a moment ...
Minor Characters: Anonymous, Silent, Invisible
Friday, October 24th, 2008 Posted in Characters: Leading, Featured, Minor | No Comments »Shakespeare's "Hamlet" is full of other characters. It is Hamlet's story, he is the central figure, but others have their parts, each called out, illuminated into existence, by the needs of the Hamlet narrative and plot. Tom ...
Choices
Saturday, October 18th, 2008 Posted in Choices | No Comments »Calling attention to the distinction between a public road or path and a private one where the right of way crosses privately owned property. If members of the public use the way for a year without hindrance by the owner ...
What Game Are We Playing?
Thursday, October 16th, 2008 Posted in Social Invention, Surplus Value, Crisis | No Comments »"I owe you my life," says the person snatched from the sea to his rescuer. "Forget it," answers the coast guard sailor. "All in a day's work." There is a giving, a rendering of a service, without consideration. More generally, a gift ...
Let Me Get This Straight! My Sociological Understanding of the Socio-Economic Crisis of September-October 2008.
Sunday, October 5th, 2008 Posted in Cadre, Money, Sub-Prime Crisis | No Comments »The concrete event is the on-going now. It is opposed to the model which is abstracted from it. We have the thing itself against our conception of it. When I try to grasp this economic crisis we are in I ...