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Turner made the argument that, despite 'unfocused encounters' being largely neglected in sociological theorizing, without a weak-tie interactions (like walking by people in Walmart you don't know but are confident won't threaten you), large-scale societies wouldn't be possible (how could anybody get anything done in college if you had to know everybody there personally?).
— Apr 13, 2019 07:59AM
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Turner's prose is so detached and analytical, it makes me feel like I'm in a solarium during spring. I'm familiar with most of his ontological-schema from his "Face to Face" text. I wanted to re-read it, so this reading is fulfilling two functions. To be a true social scientist, will I have to read Goffman, or can I just read this?
— Apr 09, 2019 04:55AM
