A Long Slog to the End of Global Warming
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 Posted in The People, Sociology of Group, Global Warming, Mass Movements, Ideology | No Comments »There is no individual resolution of the global warming crisis. One person turning down the thermostat in an unused room is not enough. It is a case of hang together or burn separately. Man's effect on the heating pattern ...
Warming Up
Saturday, June 28th, 2008 Posted in The People, Global Warming, Mass Movements | No Comments »Think of global warming as an uncontrolled fire that is growing. The scientists have sounded the alarm. Now we only need our engineers acting as our fire department consultants to deploy a technical response. We, the people, in ...
Our Stories
Thursday, June 19th, 2008 Posted in The People, Biography | No Comments »First there are the whole lives of each of us from birth to death, minute by minute, some parts of which we record for ourselves in memory. We narrate to others snippets very much like the geneticist takes ...
Solidarity Forever Maybe.
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in The People, Solidarity | No Comments »Paradoxically most of the active confrontational fronts in America can be mitigated by the recognition and acceptance of an overriding shared link, a band of unity that is based on and establishes a curing solidarity. A relationship of solidarity is characterized ...
Mass Observation
Saturday, April 12th, 2008 Posted in The People, Cadre, Cadre Functions | No Comments »Life is a 24/7 proposition. To imagine all of us worldwide concurrently acting is staggering. And over time, one day after another up to one century after another and more, to register and record the entire shebang of ...
The Yuck Is on Me
Sunday, November 11th, 2007 Posted in The People, Sociology of Jokes | No Comments »I lack a context. I want to share a joke with you but I do not have a sociology of the joke and I do not want to go off topic. It is like lacking ...
The Stages of Small Group Action
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 Posted in Concepts, The People, Group, Cadre Functions, Small Group, Focused Group | No Comments »For a short while I did group interviews for commercial firms trying to hone their advertising messages to consumers. I worked for two very bright psychologists, decent men making an independent living for themselves and their families. At the time ...
We the People
Thursday, October 4th, 2007 Posted in Concepts, The People, Social System | No Comments »But first a look at the social system. With the encounter we start small, two actors in relationship. The challenge is to build up one incident at a time, like the stacking of saucers at a French cafe, until the whole ...