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Re: [xmca] Gary Alan Fine's Tiny Publics

He also published a critique of ":social capital" at the same time as I was critiquing that discourse. I thought he was too "sectarian" in his approach, but then again, that's what others thought of me. I look forward to reading what he has to say about mesolevel societal phenomena. 

Andy

Wagner Luiz Schmit wrote:

Interesting...

I only new his work about Role-playing games "Shared Fantasy" from the
early 80's

Wagner

2012/5/10 Greg Thompson <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com>


This book has gotten some interest here locally at the lab and I thought it
might be of interest more widely (with a "strong recommend" for Andy).


http://www.amazon.com/Tiny-Publics-Sociological-Associations-Sociology/dp/0871544326/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1

It is Gary Alan Fine's new book Tiny Publics and in it he argues for the
importance of paying attention to meso- level organization (and even seems
to argue that this is the most "consequential" level of social life - small
(tiny!) though it may be).

-greg

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University of California, San Diego
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