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All the world’s a stage

By reckon | Published: September 15, 2008
Way back in the 1950s, sociologist Erving Goffman proposed in his study The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life that the very warp and woof of the social world consists of carefully constructed dramaturgy, albeit of a manner that most performers were unconscious. Our daily lives and cultural rituals provide all the settings, costumes, props [...]
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Hard-wired for the ups and downs

By reckon | Published: March 27, 2008
I’m here not to praise elitism but to understand it, not so much through a history of elites but by talking about elites in prehistory. Human beings are naturally hierarchical and they like arranging themselves into hierarchies of skill, age, wealth, competence, experience, whatever. We can deny it if we want, but we all know [...]
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How to Survive in America

By reckon | Published: March 27, 2008
This post on Flickr caught my eye as I was skipping rocks in my Netvibes universe today. Scanned cover of a book I found dumped in a box on a street in Berlin, from the Cambridge University Press printed in 1983. Love the dramatic title and the strangely psychedelic imagery. Oh, btw, this is a [...]
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