What I Am Is What I Am
First try of participant observation (Photo credit: Renton Z) I am “cheating” a little today, as this post made it to my “professional” blog first. But I feel it’s appropriate for those who would like...
View ArticleFailing The Ultimate Sociological Experiment: With A Cat
Somehow the vacation conversation yesterday turned to the concept of gender roles, gender confusion and androgyny. We started talking about kids and play and debated the age old question of nature...
View ArticleConsumer Is A Four letter Word: A “Culture” Perspective
Once upon a time I worked at a brand strategy and innovation company for a guy named Rich and alongside a couple other guys named Brandon and Oliver. They are big thinkers, expert “do-ers” and...
View ArticleAn Invitation To Kill: What Legal Access To Automatic Weapons Really Means
How is it that somehow as a culture we have decided that its morally acceptable for civilians with no training or civic imperative to have access to automatic weapons? I will say that the right to bear...
View ArticleSelf Driving Cars: What Is The Ultimate Impact of Low-Effort Mobility?
I am the first to admit that the road will be a lot better off when I am behind the wheel of a car that drives itself. I am a terrible driver. It’s True. Luckily I have only been involved in minor...
View ArticleSurrounding Ourselves With Sound and Other Modern Household Survival...
Flash back to before we established a “civilized” industrial-to-knowledge-to-conceptual economy such as we have been used to in modern times. Survival was a matter of basics and most humans resided...
View ArticleIntelligent Optimism: A Perspective On The Social Context Of “Consciousness”
One of my favorite subscriptions is to a magazine called the Intelligent Optimist (formerly known as Ode) http://www.theoptimist.com/ What I love about this publication is how they connect social...
View ArticleGuest Post: Homelessness
thenarcissisticanthropologist:Evidence of one generation’s intentions to make the world better: A Millennial perspective on homelessness with some sociocultural support. Great read! Originally posted...
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