Posted in anthropology, social psychology, sociology on Apr 20th, 2008 No Comments »
Just as there is the term folk psychology, meaning the subjective psychological assumptions and models individuals deploy to navigate the interpersonal universe, there could be the term folk anthropology to designate the subjective assumptions each of us deploys to understand the human universe.
Mr. Obama got himself in a lot of hot water recently when he […]
Posted in anthropology, critical culture, internet, self-reported values, sociology on Dec 9th, 2006 No Comments »
With exquisite timing, Google today released its year-end Zeitgeist report, revealing “our collective consciousness” as expressed through our searches. The list of our top-ten news searches of the year provides a delightful preview of what we can expect when those dastardly news editors finally stop filtering the news and let “us” decide what we need […]
Posted in Gregory Bateson, coherencies, consciousness, critical culture, modern views, new paradigms, philosophy, science, sociology on Jul 18th, 2006 No Comments »
Yeah, What Bateson said.
From a Batesonian perspective, it is the way we classify, make distinctions, and make sense of things that is fundamental. If it is the distinctions we ourselves make that are causes, then it is how we process information and map the territory that explains. Within this framework, any explanation or scientific activity […]
Posted in cognitive psychology, philosophy, psychology, social psychology, sociology on Oct 17th, 2005 1 Comment »
Another goldmine hiding out on the web. This time oriented around phenomenological-constructive psychology and coming out of The Virtual Faculty in New Zealand. The VF has a modest facade behind which lies enormous resources; for example: The Vysgotsky Project.
I haven’t read all the papers, (not hardly!) but could point to a thinker worth curling up […]
Posted in Karl Weick, management, organizational development, psychology, sociology on Jun 2nd, 2005 No Comments »
In fleshing out the squareONE links page important thinkers on the periphery of experiential learning theory demand highlighting. Weick, who’s methodology of sensemaking is experiential remains a central influence to my own ‘galumphing,’ (a Weickian term for exploration). His book is an accessible, thought-provoking inquiry. As was the follow-up, .
Henry Mintzberg stands a bit […]
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