Some of the Concrete is Under Deep Water. Notes on the Iraq War.
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 Posted in Concrete incident or process, Conflict | No Comments »War, and specifically the ongoing war in Iraq, is an interaction sequence whose parties attempt to impose contradictory social orders on each other using forceful and fraudulent means. The key for the sociologist is in the interaction. The ...
A Sociological Chat about the Sub-Prim Crisis
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Posted in Concrete incident or process, Sub-Prime Crisis | No Comments »Notice the imperfection of the economic system in the USA. Crises are not infrequent. Every time we experience one we hold our collective breath, fearing that this will be the big one, the meltdown, when the finely tuned ...
Orange Juice. A Sociologist Approaches a Concrete Case of Murder
Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in Concrete incident or process, Anti-Experiment, Family Forms, Murder | No Comments »Like most cases of crime and deviance the OJ murder case appears on its face to be irrational. The shocking element: what seems to be a sane and ordinary person is acting against common sense. Why would a mature, ...
On the Edge of a High Place.
Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in Cadre, Alternate Worlds, Prostitution, Concrete incident or process, Anti-Experiment | No Comments »In the movie "A Man for All Seasons" an historical event is transformed into a dramatic narrative. Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) engages in a political disagreement with King Henry VIII of England (1491-1547) over divorce and ...
The Governor and the Whore. An Observation
Thursday, March 20th, 2008 Posted in Prostitution, Politics, Concrete incident or process | No Comments »This story, so riveting in the moment, flashed through the public consciousness like a transient case of dysentery. Correct medical treatment and it goes away. The governor resigned. Stop press. Story over. His attacks on Wall Street firms and ...