Note on a Second Review of Blogs Past. Science Nixed.
Sunday, December 28th, 2008 Posted in Social Science? | No Comments »This is second in the series of recollections and comments on past blogs. "Two. The Question of a Scientific Sociology." It is an important topic because there is some residual confusion in the field. One must see a hard social science ...
Note on a Forward Looking Review
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 Posted in Review | No Comments »"Review, Reprise, and Reconsider." I aim to reopen topics here we have not touched recently. Today I begin with comments on our initial post titled "What, Then, Is Sociology?" You will get some idea of our purpose from the introductory ...
Somali Piracy
Friday, December 19th, 2008 Posted in Piracy | No Comments »Approach the concrete through the news media instead of through direct experience. Start at a remove from the real. Either way there is distortion. The grunt on the ground who only knows what he can see, hear and sense directly ...
Taking Advantage
Monday, December 15th, 2008 Posted in Advantage | No Comments »The job is one's connect to the economy. It is called making a living. The first step is subsistence--to get enough food, shelter and associated necessities for self and dependents to survive. That we do so many things not linked ...
Jobs
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 Posted in Critique, Jobs | No Comments »Transition at the top. Two sets of senior cadres, one incoming, the other outgoing. Concern is not over unemployment. All of these people have alternate places. No matter the election outcome, they all keep working. Money will be rolling in. ...
Participating in a Socio-Economic Order
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 Posted in Participation | No Comments »Encounter: One group meets another and interaction begins. Or there is a natural manifestation against which the human group acts. There is an onset, a beginning, something happens. Participation can be ordered according to involvement. We have do, see, hear, or ...