Facebook Promotional-Propaganda Observations While I completed this observation on 18 and 19 February, I observe this phenomenon daily on the Internet and in the external world. I have observed all varieties of propaganda in the everyday for far longer than Facebook has been around, Facebook exemplifies what is most fascinating about this phenomenon: the example of unintentional propaganda… Read More
Reflections on Subjectivity, Role, Access, Ethics (This is something that I have considered since working for local network television news. The readings lately and the other students viewpoint on this have just codified what I have known all along. Now I just have to find a way to research with this in mind. Stay tuned.) Everyone has a bias, and objectivity… Read More
Reflections on My Driving Research Interests My driving research interests are more like lifelong passions, as any glance into one of several bookshelves of my library will reveal. However, those interests are usually distilled into a few topics that contain a myriad of additional subjects. I am fascinated by sociology in general, but I am especially fascinated by how people react… Read More
Reflections on Who I am as a Sociologist Who I am as a sociologist is, by turns, a complex question, as well as one that will never be fully defined as I continue to evolve year by year, learning and researching people and their environments from the simple to the complex. How and why I arrived at this present destination is also complex,… Read More
Propaganda as Musical Pop Culture Part 2 And there is still more, some popular and some early seminal punk. We begin with Don Henley’s Dirty Laundry. As always, if you find or write any worthy of consideration, send them my way, and we may get to a few more additions and editions of these.… Read More
Propaganda And Goffman’s Face-To-Face Interactions While Erving Goffman expanded the scope and study of sociology to face-to-face interactions between individuals and small group gatherings, little has been said of the application of those ideas to propaganda on a personal level. I will argue that Goffman’s study of frame analysis and impression management apply to propaganda of various types that he… Read More
Inequality Viewed Through The Rromani Experience While general study can encompass a wide subject area, it does not cover every nuance of our population. The subject of inequality touches upon almost everyone in our society and others, barring the standard bearer of privilege, the wealthy white Anglo-Saxon Protestant male, but we can only discuss general aspects of that inequality within a… Read More
Masculinities Viewed Through Cultural Crisis Masculinities can be defined from a myriad of perspectives, and so I reaffirm here what has been an obvious fact of life all along and should probably be a truism, that there are as many definitions of masculinity as there are people populating the planet. When the traditional cultural definition of masculinity contradicts what someone… Read More
The History Of Rromani Inequality: An Abbreviated Literature Review At some point in the future, I may probably teach a class on this subject since it is something I feel very strongly about. For now, this is an assignment for a class, an annotated bibliography for a class I would like to teach. The following will be a bibliography devoted to the inequality and… Read More