To know that all SI is just a game, because in reality we are not just who were made in the interactions. We don’t know any better how to describe our personality, but we know that there is something more. And we would love to know and we would love to see our own real image—which is God’s image.
Category: research Tagged: dissertation symbolicInteractionism
The interview with Martella Wilson-Taylor (CEO of YWCA Boston) was really inspiring for me. First of all her naked scepticism about any Boston Miracle whatsoever was interesting.
Category: research Tagged: dissertation BostonMiracle
Read MoreThere were again two shootings yesterday, one in Mattapan and other in Jamaica Plain. I was thinking about the TV news report about that and how does it shows the image of the community, and actually I found one thing interesting—the phrase “a community on the edge”. Somehow it …
Category: research Tagged: dissertation BostonMiracle
Read MoreLen asked me to explain him how should all these theories I quote in my dissertation proposal work together and how I am not creating yet another Great Sociological Theory.
Of course, that this question hits on the most complicated part of the question. How does it all fits together …
Category: research Tagged: dissertation BostonMiracle
Read MoreWhile reading an excellent introduction to SI “Symbolic Interactionism: An Introduction, An Interpretation, An Integration” by Joel Charon I was thinking about my research (of course) and about the current craze about rising murder rate in the City of Boston. Although I certainly do not want to diminish the real …
Category: research Tagged: dissertation BostonMiracle
Read MoreFirst of all, this is what I’ve got from a member of my dissertation committee:
What you propose so far is quite interesting, but I still do not get a clear sense of how you propose to study the Boston Miracle. The theories you review are there for explaining …
Category: research Tagged: dissertation BostonMiracle
Read MoreOr actually is there any problem at all? Well, there seem to be problems—Rivers fights with Hammond (and vice versa?), there are no money for after-school activities, and it is not that important whether the number of murders actually increases, or whether it was just return to mean. Why …
Category: research Tagged: dissertation BostonMiracle
Read MoreReading an article from the Boston Globe (2001-11-02) “Friction among clergy members seen in partnership” I begun to think again about some totally non-scientific comments. First of them is the Honza Horálek’s comment on difference between alliance and community—whereas in the world, people organize into alliances given their …
Category: research Tagged: dissertation BostonMiracle
Read MoreThis is probably the most obvious conclusion from reading of all the materials about the Boston Black community (shouldn’t I use term “neighborhood” as describing just geographical proximity of its members?), but in the spirit of Len’s theorem that all sociology is either common sense or non-sense, I …
Category: research Tagged: dissertation BostonMiracle
Read MoreIt was very interesting comment by Amy Farell—the important part of the Boston Miracle is that it was described so much with the religious subtone. City deeply immersed in the desperation, sin, and murder is saved by the mission of pastors, who redeem poor black teenagers! It’s a …
Category: research Tagged: dissertation BostonMiracle
Read MoreWhile reading Guiliani’s farewell address I was quite surprised how much liberal it sounded—if I am not mistaken then the biggest achievement he saw in his work as a mayor of the New York City was that the situation of the poorest has visibly improved. I don’t …
Category: research Tagged: dissertation BostonMiracle
Read MoreThe issue of analyzing for process (Strauss, Corbin, chap. 11) brings another view on whole story of the Boston miracle. What kind of process are we actually observing? What is routine, what is a reaction to unexpected and what is emerging from the process?
How does the changing image (from …
Category: research Tagged: dissertation BostonMiracle
Read MoreTwo things. First of all, while reading (and marking up) newspaper articles about The Ten Point Coalition, I have been again shocked how much people could misunderstood world of Rev. Hammond (and tend to agree with him on this point very much). Boston Globe from 2003-09-16 reported, that gay activists …
Category: research Tagged: dissertation BostonMiracle
Read MoreWhile reading this morning next chapter of Carey (1989), I again hit some of my familiar spirits. I was thinking yesterday about the symbolic interactionism (the first chapter of Carey is actually a thorough explanation of the background of ideas feeding into the symbolic interactionism and similar constructivist sociological tradition …
Category: research Tagged: dissertation BostonMiracle
Read MoreReading Carey (1989), I met again the issue of the Mannheim’s Paradox (the author’s name), which is fancy name for finding that social scientists themselves are humans and thus subject of ideological pressure and laws of human behavior, which could influence how they perform as scientists. Or in …
Category: research Tagged: dissertation BostonMiracle sociology
Read MoreThe three similar stimuli met me in the last days. First I have read in “Communication as Culture” (James W. Carey, 1989) that a good sociology is similar to an art in its orientation towards “making the phenomenon strange”, because
[…] the social sciences can take the most obvious yet background …
Category: faith Tagged: dissertation BostonMiracle sociology
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