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There’s No Place Like Home | Print Article | Newsweek.com
"Fewer Americans are relocating than at any time since 1962. That's good news for families, communities ... and even the environment. Several factors are driving this process, including an aging population, suburbanization, the Internet, and an increased focus on family life. And even as the recession has begun to yield to recovery, our commitment to our local roots is only going to grow more profound. Evident before the recession, the new localism will shape how we live and work in the coming decades, and may even influence the course of our future politics. Perhaps nothing will be as surprising about 21st-century America as its settledness. #Americans actually are becoming less nomadic. As recently as the 1970s as many as one in five people moved annually; by 2006, long before the current recession took hold, that number was 14 percent, the lowest rate since the census starting following movement in 1940. #
MTV Generation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
people in between Generation X and Generation Y. Their early psychosocial exposure to these factors is thought to have been unprecedented and resulted in a peculiar, homogenous youth culture defined by a deep appreciation of the fashion trends, perspective, attitude and music popularized by MTV and similar media (Viva, Triple J etc.) that rose to prominence in the late 1980s. Also note that "[w]ith the proliferation of technology, the internet, beepers and cell phones have become social lifelines for this generation. They are technology savvy, independent and resourceful." In the Generations theory of William Strauss and Neil Howe, it can either be seen as a cusp between Generation X (1961-81) and the Millennial Generation (1982-2001), or as a separate generation or wave similar to Generation Jones (1954- 65). Biologically they were born during the upsweep in birth numbers of the baby bust between the babybooms of 1946-64 and 1987-94. The phrase was feat. on The Simpsons in the 1992
The End of Solitude - ChronicleReview.com
#the contemporary self wants to be recognized, wants to be connected: It wants to be visible. If not to the millions, on Survivor or Oprah, then to the hundreds, on Twitter or Facebook. This is the quality that validates us, this is how we become real to ourselves — by being seen by others. The great contemporary terror is anonymity. If Lionel Trilling was right, if the property that grounded the self, in Romanticism, was sincerity, and in modernism it was authenticity, then in postmodernism it is visibility.
# So we live exclusively in relation to others, and what disappears from our lives is solitude. Technology is taking away our privacy and our concentration, but it is also taking away our ability to be alone.
Anthropology of media - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anthropology of media (also anthropology of mass media, media anthropology) is an area of study within social or cultural anthropology that emphasizes ethnographic studies as a means of understanding producers, audiences, and other cultural and social aspects of mass media.
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The Anthropology of Cyberspace
Theoretical issues: technology, communication, society, and culture
Life With Alacrity: The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes
for a group to sustain itself at the size of 150, significantly more effort must be spent on the core socialization which is necessary to keep the group functioning. Some organizations will have sufficient incentive to maintain this high level of required socialization. In fact the traditional villages and historical military troop sizes that Dunbar analyzed are probably the best examples of such an incentive, since they were built upon the raw need for survival. However, this is a tremendous amount of effort for a group if it's trying not just to maintain cohesion, but also to get something done.
Anomie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anomie, in contemporary English language is a sociological term that signifies in individuals an erosion, diminution or absence of personal norms, standards or values, and increased states of psychological normlessness. It is a social condition in which norms are weak, conflicting, or absent.[1] When applied to a government or society, anomie implies a social unrest.
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Bronisław Malinowski - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
he intoduced the term "pathic communication"
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PHATIC COMUNICATION - this is communication with little hard, informational content, but lots of emotional and social content
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"phatic communication." This is communication with
little hard, informational content, but lots of emotional and social
content. Phatic communications doesn't get much said, but it has
social effects so powerful, it gets lots done.
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