I was trying to take advantage of a snow day by staying in, catching up on reading, and not blogging to improve my lagging academic productivity…only to spend the day napping, reading other blogs (rather than writing on my own), and late in the hour seeing this over at Scatterplot.
Geez, resistance is futile.
Anyway, I’ve been tagged by Tina Guenther at Sozlog with this meme!
pick sentence 6-8 on page 123 of the nearest book, write them down and pass the game on to 5 other bloggers.
Ok, so as I write the nearest book to me is Ulf Hannerz’s Cultural Complexity: Studies in the Social Organization of Meaning. Let’s see what’s on p. 123…I am assuming sentence 6 is the 6th full sentence, so it’s as follows:
How is it matched with his own understandings, and in which way are the latter sustained or altered by expert-client interaction? How are the issues described which bring client and expert together? Is the mode of thought and communication of the expert a reflection and refinement of that of the layman, a specification of his general will, or is there a distortion, in some way and to some degree, which results in an exercise of expert domination over clients?
It may help to contextualize this a bit by including sentence 5: “How does the client comprehend expert knowledge?”…which is what the passage is about. About the rest of the book, I dunno…I just bought it yesterday.
At the risk of being a total spoilsport and incurring the wrath of meme-gods*, can I not pass this on? If I were to choose 5 people to tag, it would have been SocProf at Global Sociology, Tina herself, J. Lena at What is the What, PhilBC at A Very Public Sociologist, and finally because she’s always reading something I wish I were, N. Pepperell at Rough Theory. But they’ve all been tagged with this meme already! So I’ll just say visit their blogs, they’re all terrific.
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*Superstitious sod that I am, I’m convinced I’ll be struck by a bus, or that an icicle will fall off a roof and impale me, for not doing what I’m supposed to…
Correction: Oops, my memory played tricks on me, my bad. What is the What was not tagged. JLena can duly consider herself tagged, or use my original mistake as an opt-out clause.
…and I mistakenly referred to Phil BC at AVPS as PhilC. Oops.
Hmm… what does that say about the socbloggers network?? (Apart from the tendency to waste time, that is,
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Well, Tina tagged you and me, and you tagged AVPS and would have tagged me if Tina hadn’t tagged me first. Wait, was JLena tagged or am I imagining it? Anyway, what it says to me is exactly that – too much time on our hands! But also, Rough Theory is mainly a philosophy blog – it’s been making the rounds in those circles too.
I frankly don’t quite get this meme. Why 123? Why sentences 6-8?
Yeah, Tina was tagged herself and complained about it.
As for the meme itself, it seems someone was shooting for roughly middle of the book / middle of the page.
what it might say about the socblogosphere – practice networking, stay connected, communicate, seek connections … we have internalized it, and it is fun to play around with comments, trackbacks and the rules of meme games. Benedict Köhler (Viralmythen) does network analyses of people connected via blogrolls, and I think there are similar studies tagging (we say ‘Stöckchen’) in the blogosphere, and the result is probably that people chose like minded others. what it says about Andrew – can’t decide whether to resist or not? what it says about me – couldn’t resist passing it on after returning from other activities (some delightful, some not) while looking on some papers, taking a short unproductive look into the blogs and seeking for a challenge I could meet right on the spot …
uh, oh.
Hi Tina, good to hear from you! You’re right – nice to touch base once in a while. As for this meme…
…taking a short unproductive look into the blogs and seeking for a challenge I could meet right on the spot
it’s sad, but writing this post was my one challenge for the day that I actually met…
@JLena – you can do it! And do what I failed miserably at, which is to keep it going…
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To me what’s fascinating here is how the same community stumbles upon sites through different paths. I posted on this meme a couple of weeks ago, or as Michael put it, I “open sourced” it by not participating in the tagging aspect, but still picked up a book and quoted the suggested sentences. People responded on my blog and at Crooked Timber and then it seemed to go dormant. Then all of a sudden, some blogs in my RSS feed started posting about it again.
@eszter: thanks for stopping by, and that’s really interesting – not only the who-connects-with-whom dimension but the time-wave aspects of it too.
Aaargh! You got me! I’ll have you know I run a serious blog for serious people, lol. I will accept your meme challenge when there’s a gap in my blogging schedule
Phil BC: We here on this side of the Atlantic spend our hours lolling about in frivolity and capitulating to the powers that be; we insist you do likewise.
As an aside, you were first tagged by SocProf, so I cannot claim responsibility for your participation in this game: http://GlobalSociology.edublogs.org/2008/02/22/i-have-been-tagged-with-the-latest-sociological-meme/