An active interest in sociological theories supports independent research in social psychology. Current interests are related to theories of deviance as these relate to changes in specifically and generally distributed norms across social graphs (i.e., topology), theories of social order (for an overview, see Hechter & Horne, 2009) as these relate to self-concept and identity (see Markus, 1977), and situated identity/self (Alexander & Knight, 1971; Markus & Kunda, 1986).
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Simmel (1908/1922/1955)’s essay on conflict and group-affiliation research memos are located here as organized with Csikszentmihalyi’s (1975, 1997) flow state diagrams. It is important to note that Simmel’s perspective. WARNING: Memo sorting tables may change at any moment! Current Memo Sorting Table Layer 1 ∞ Challenge Anxiety Conflict [TS/SCI] Flow Conflict [REDACTED] Harmony [TS/SCI] Conflict…
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Religious, domestic, and political societies are strongly integrated social groups (Durkheim, 1897/1951) where suicidal prevalence is inversely proportional to integration. Subordination to social ego is reliant on legitimation. Where individual ego overcomes social ego (i.e., individual-social disintegration; under-integration), it is typed as egoistic suicide due to “excessive individualism.” Egoic suicide is related to thoughts. So…
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“An account is a linguistic device employed whenever an action is subjected to valuative inquiry.” (as cited in Scott & Lyman, 1968, p. 46). Justifications techniques of neutralization (e.g., denial of injury, denial of victim, condemnation of condemners, and appeal to loyalties [p. 51]) sad tales operational definition “selected (often distorted) arrangement of facts that…
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“… rationalizations…. [that] follow… deviant behavior… [operationalized by] protect[ion]… from… self-blame and the blame of others after the act… [and] that…. precede… and make… deviant behavior possible…”(Sykes & Matza, 1957, p. 666; MDL refactoring applied) “… techniques of neutralization are critical in lessening the effectiveness of social controls and… lie behind a large share of…
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grounded in Gustave Le Bon and Edward Burnays’ writings three tendencies of inter-herd relations … to perceive a herd (A; “public”) as influenced by another herd (B; “semi-public”) … to ascribe a share of voice (f(A); “public opinion”) in the activity of another herd (f(B’); “semi-public activity”) [ co-valent bonding ] … to exert share…
References
Alexander, C. N., & Knight, G. W. (1971). Situated identities and social psychological experimentation. Sociometry, 34(1), 65-82. https://doi.org/10.2307/2786351
Hechter, M., & Horne, C. (2009). Networks. In M. Hechter & C. Horne (Eds.), Theories of social order: A reader (2nd ed., pp. 296–299). Stanford Social Sciences.
Markus, H. (1977). Self-schemata and processing information about the self. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 35(2), 63-78. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.35.2.63
Markus, H., & Kunda, Z. (1986). Stability and malleability of the self-concept. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51(4), 858-866. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.51.4.858