The Influence Of Intentional and Unintentional Propaganda in Small Groups (For those that see the similarity to the previous Propaganda and Goffman’s Face to Face Interactions, this is the same paper with a major overhaul of the introduction and a minor rewrite of the body with one concept deleted due to confusion. I am taking this paper to a few conferences this year to wow… Read More
A Qualitative Methods Research Proposal (By no means is this complete, but I have to start someplace) I. Introduction. Intentional propaganda is the systematic propagation of ideas in a deliberate manner in order to encourage or instill a particular attitude or response and it is a broad and infinite subject. In other words, it is deliberate and intended. Here I… Read More
Interpretation Of Current Concept Map The current concept map encompasses almost the entire history of Propaganda from the beginning of recorded time to the present day and the current study of propaganda in small groups. However, because this is such a vast subject, the map has missed many areas, including the Greek and roman “origins” as well as several others.… Read More
Reflections On Hunt’s Chapter 2 of Where The Music Takes You: The Social Psychology Of Music Subcultures While I agree that the idea of attempting to distill the contents of a book into a few pages after only reading one chapter seems a little far-fetched, it is a rather broad chapter that introduces us to the phenomenon of jamband subculture. I would also like to dig a little deeper into the remaining… Read More
Observations On My First Sociological Interview I began this interview and wrote the interview questions making certain assumptions, blindly, without considering the context of the questions I was asking and the results I was looking for. This wasn’t just an interview like the others I had conducted in the past for www.radiocasbah.com, where I engaged in an informal conversation with a… Read More
Observations On Visual Data Most of the visual data that I selected was deliberate, from my collection of photos taken over the last several years for my Internet Radio web site, www.radiocasbah.com, and from the front page of my Facebook feed relating to musicians that I know and the ever-present promotional-propaganda on the Facebook side panel. The only errant… Read More
Reflections On Facebook Observations While I made my observations of musical artists’ publicity-propaganda on my Facebook page feed over a week ago, I observe this activity daily in my personal life so these observations are ongoing and continuous. Facebook is just the latest, but not necessarily the greatest addition to self-promotional-propaganda. There are thousands of platforms on the Internet… Read More
What Is Institutional Ethnography? What is institutional ethnography? At a basic level, institutional ethnography is the study of the social organization of everyday life. What it does not do is objectify the subjects or people into objectifications of the everyday world that one is studying. The social ontology of institutional ethnography, its underlying fundamental, essential principle, is that the… Read More