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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 > > __________________________________________ > > _____ > > xmca mailing list > > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > > > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca