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



This looks to be the same fellow who wrote:
Fine, G. A. (1987). With the boys. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Which Mike has referenced to describe idiocultures, a construct I've found very useful to discuss settings within settings that have highly localized practices.

-----Original Message-----
From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Andy Blunden
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 9:20 PM
To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
Subject: Re: [xmca] Gary Alan Fine's Tiny Publics

I will buy it right away Greg.
Andy

Greg Thompson wrote:
> 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
>
>   

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