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 ...
A Sociology of Sociology
Thursday, January 17th, 2008 Posted in Analysis, Sociology of Sociology | No Comments »Sociology is a social enterprise attached for rations and support to the modern university system. It is part of a long-time absorption of studies of the real world into this formal order. The new specialties have been breaking off ...
The End of Second Hand. Part IV
Friday, September 14th, 2007 Posted in Analysis, Concepts, Second Hand | No Comments »Material goods are easy. The user queue describes the experience of a large array of them, from the ephemeral to the durable. They all fit the same abstract model. The distinctions: producers from consumers, sale from gift, public from private, useful ...
Another Round of Palaver About Second Hand. Part III
Monday, September 10th, 2007 Posted in Analysis, Concepts, Second Hand | No Comments »Watch the leaving out. In emphasizing consumption we omit the obviously critical producing side. The search for the social pattern of using up is balanced by a social pattern in the making. While conceptually separate ...
More Second Hand Stuff. Part II
Saturday, September 8th, 2007 Posted in Analysis, Concepts, Second Hand | No Comments »Using up of material goods is straight forward. A queue (anywhere from one on up) of users forms for each specific item This describes the sequence and trajectory of the using up. A large range of ...
Second Hand Transfer and the Exhaustion of Value. Part I
Thursday, September 6th, 2007 Posted in Analysis, Concepts, Second Hand | No Comments »Life requires the collection and transformation of materials in our environment to usable forms that we consume. The newly produced (made-up or found or defined) is full-of-use. It falls into the hand of an initial consumer who begins the process ...
Research Confusion. Interorganized Medical Units. Part III
Monday, September 3rd, 2007 Posted in Analysis, Research Confusion | No Comments »Act III. Discovery of the Basic Missing Fact. ^^^^^ Cliffhanger: Like a hound who has been offered the wrong scent, I was making progress on a meaningless track. The denouement, the last cliff, was fast approaching. ^^^^^ In the novel "The Crying of Lot ...