[Springboard] Outliers study session 3. Great study, see you next time -- What about a next book?
James Wiegel
jfwiegel at yahoo.com
Thu May 28 13:06:04 EDT 2009
here you go. It was posted to the Repository.
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, 7:47 AM
We definitely want to get a copy of his book.
That would be different kind of study, like rehearsing/remembering and
projecting forward?
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From:
James Wiegel
To: Springboard Dialogue
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 10:30
AM
Subject: Re: [Springboard] Outliers study
session 3. Great study,see you next time -- What about a next book?
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.
401 North Beverly Way
Tolleson, Arizona
85353-2401
+1 623-936-8671
+1
623-363-3277
jfwiegel at yahoo.com
www.partnersinparticipation.com
---
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
----- Original Message -----
From: 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
---
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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