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 Project in Social Organization Part II.
Friday, August 31st, 2007 Posted in Concepts, Research Confusion | No Comments »Act II. Looking Around, Sensing the Lay of the Land. The Second World War butted up against the very slowly waining Great Depression. The military draft transported youths who had grown up in lean material environments into a world of ...
Sociological Research Project—Organization of Medical Services in a Neighborhood. Part I
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 Posted in Concepts, Research Confusion | No Comments »Act I. Groping, I come to the edge of a research field. (This narrative is presented in three parts.)But First a Story... Tolliver found Schlep near the stalls and they walked from there toward the paddock through the disciplined ritual of ...
Blind Spot Spotted–Finally Visible in the Social Order of Sports
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 Posted in Concepts, Social Invention | No Comments »Blind spot: something that should be obvious is invisible. In language you define too narrowly and so omit and make invisible a fact that is glaringly present. George C. Homans, a famous Harvard sociologist, in his book "The Human Group" chuckled ...
What, Then, Is Sociology?
Monday, August 13th, 2007 Posted in Concepts, What is Sociology? | No Comments »Sociology is at the third level of mystery. Call it the constant and universal experience of the plural. It comes right after, if not parallel to, our awareness of material and life. When we attempt to describe and understand any ...