Observations On and Around Jobs
Friday, January 30th, 2009 Posted in Jobs | No Comments »Distinguishing the job from the person filling it is a conceptual leap we all make. What is to be done, what the job requires, is known by those most intimately involved. On the position of salesperson, for example, though ...
The Obviously Missed. The Blind Spot Revisited.
Sunday, January 25th, 2009 Posted in Concepts, Invention | No Comments »In August of 2007 I posted "Blind Spot Spotted–Finally Visible in the Social Order of Sports." I started with an exact moment of illumination. It was intensely personal yet it concerned a test of a sociological concept against the larger ...
Unemployment
Friday, January 23rd, 2009 Posted in Unemployment | No Comments »Define employment as goal oriented actions for pay. It involves accepting the directives and discipline of the other. Work has a psychic return: the pleasure or discomfort in the doing, the breaking of isolation in the co-operating work ...
Revisit of Blogs Past. Looking for a Pebble on the Beach
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 Posted in Method | No Comments »We offer a new commentary on the blog titled "A Pebble on the Beach. Answering the Critique" posted August 21, 2007. ^^^^^ The critique of hard science sociology was like a heavy wave hitting a beach. Everything gone except perhaps a pebble. ...
Jury Duty Three. A Service for Amateurs.
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 Posted in Jury Duty | 1 Comment »The jury is a part of a larger social order whose purpose is to determine the fate of persons accused of acts contrary to established law. Anyone caught up and charged passes through a linked sequence of encounters ...
Jury Duty–Two. A Case of a Negotiated Verdict
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 Posted in Jury Duty | No Comments »A few decades back a detective charged with accepting a bribe went on trial. The State's Attorney had a very tight case built around a tape recording of the actual felony which took place in a popular local restaurant-bar. This ...