[Springboard] Outliers study session 3. Great study, see you next time -- What about a next book?
James Wiegel
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Thu May 28 10:30:42 EDT 2009
Also, I ran across George West's book on creating community.
Jim Wiegel
If anyone tells you something strange about the world, something you had never heard before, do not laugh but listen attentively; make him repeat it, make him explain it; no doubt there is something there worth taking hold of. -- Georges Duhamel.
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--- On Thu, 5/28/09, Marianna Bailey <wmbailey at charter.net> wrote:
From: Marianna Bailey <wmbailey at charter.net>
Subject: Re: [Springboard] Outliers study session 3. Great study, see you next time -- What about a next book?
To: "Springboard Dialogue" <springboard at wedgeblade.net>
Date: Thursday, May 28, 2009, 7:23 AM
This looks like a very interesting book. We are
interested.
Marianna
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James Wiegel
To: Springboard Dialogue
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 9:36
PM
Subject: Re: [Springboard] Outliers study
session 3. Great study,see you next time -- What about a next book?
Anyone interested in
studying THE BIG SORT?
THE BIG SORT (Houghton Mifflin, May
7, 2008) is the landmark story of how
America came to be a country
of swelling cultural division, economic separation, and political
polarization.
Going far beyond the simplistic red state/blue
state divide, journalist Bill
Bishop (in collaboration with
sociologist and statistician Robert Cushing) marshals original data and
incisive reporting to show how Americans have sorted themselves
geographically, economically, and politically into like-minded
communities over the last three decades.
Homogeneity may be a perk of the unprecedented
choice our society offers—but it also breeds economic inequality,
cultural misunderstanding, political extremism, and legislative
gridlock. This is the story of our times, and its reality poses a
profound threat to democracy, but no one before now has seemed to
notice, let alone been able to describe, its causes and
consequences. The nation we live
in—our culture, economy, neighborhoods, and churches—has been sculpted
by the Big Sort over the past thirty years:
How did zip codes become as useful to
political activists as to mail carriers? In the relatively new cultural
dynamics of political segregation, Bishop discerns a troubling
transformation of American life. Complex and surprising, the story of
that transformation will confound readers who suppose that recent
decades have made American society both more diverse and more tolerant.
Pinpointing 1965 as the year when events in
Vietnam,
Washington, and
Watts delivered body blows
to traditional social institutions, Bishop recounts how Americans who
had severed ties to community, faith, and family forged new affiliations
based on lifestyle preferences. The resulting social realignment has
segmented the nation into groupthink communities, fostering political
smugness and polarization. The much-noted cartography of Red and Blue
states, as Bishop shows, actually distorts the reality of a deeply Blue
archipelago of urban islands surrounded by a starkly Red rural sea.
Bishop worries about the future of democratic discourse as more and more
Americans live, work, and worship surrounded by people who echo their
own views. A raft of social-science research underscores the growing
difficulty of bipartisan compromise in a balkanized country where
politicians win office by satisfying their most radical constituents. A
book posing hard questions for readers across the political
spectrum.
Bryce
Christensen
Jim
Wiegel
If anyone tells you something strange about the world,
something you had never heard before, do not laugh but listen
attentively; make him repeat it, make him explain it; no doubt there is
something there worth taking hold of. -- Georges Duhamel.
401
North Beverly Way
Tolleson, Arizona 85353-2401
+1
623-936-8671
+1
623-363-3277
jfwiegel at yahoo.com
www.partnersinparticipation.com
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On Wed, 5/27/09, Robert Rafos
<rafos at sympatico.ca>
wrote:
From: Robert
Rafos <rafos at sympatico.ca>
Subject: [Springboard] Outliers
study session 3.
To: "Springboard Dialogue"
<springboard at wedgeblade.net>
Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2009,
12:24 PM
Tonight at 6:00 P.M. Mountain
time continues the study of Outliers, Chapters 6 and
7.
Dial in Number is:
269-320-8400
Access code is: 881373#
Chart attached
Bob Rafos
"Remember the trail, for if you don't know the way you have
come, you will be lost." - Grandfather Albert, a Sicangu
Lakota.
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