Notes

“I could write a book,” said my father, repeating a popular mantra. “So could we all,” said my mother, “if we only had the ear of a ghost.”

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“Ordinary Sociology” began as a memoir, then became a constantly revised and uncompleted book, and now it is transformed into a blog.

All posts are newly written in a (very likely) vain attempt to compress content into the blog’s small space.

Not scholarly, though I very much appreciate precision in reference and erudition in reach, the sociology I offer is, in an admittedly abstract way, practical. So it is an informal, carry around, ordinary sociology–one man’s description of different sectors of the social experience and a sharing of the ways to approximate valid results as we look at and consider the plural world–especially that part occupied by we humans.

Through blog posts we build a book. The narrative in not lineal and does not aim at a tight and complete integration. We dab here and there on a large canvas and let the overall meaning find itself.