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

[Larry Purss <lpscholar2@gmail.com>]

Thanks for this Greg

Sociology has a long tradition of exploring this meso level of social
organization or what R. Nisbet referred to as *intermediate community* that
mediates the individual and larger institutional structures.
Here is a link to an article by Fine if interested and don't want to
purchase the book

http://www.clgs.cn/uploadfiles/2009-12/2009122317185627.pdf

Larry




On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Wagner Luiz Schmit <
wagner.schmit@gmail.com> 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
> >
> > --
> > Gregory A. Thompson, Ph.D.
> > Sanford I. Berman Post-Doctoral Scholar
> > Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition
> > Department of Communication
> > University of California, San Diego
> > http://ucsd.academia.edu/GregoryThompson
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