Mon 24 Dec 2001 00:02
from required reading: sociology's most influential books d clawson ed.
p114 to have a deep restructuring impact on the discipline
(1) it must introduce a theoretical framework that allows us to view the social environment in a new, fruitful way. must provide insight and a source of new research questions.
(2) Second, it must provide a blueprint for developing researchable problems. a strategy for generating evidece relevant to the theoretical questions.
(3) the ideas and methods must fall on fertile ground. the intellectual climate must be ready to move into the domain opened by the work.


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Mon 24 Dec 2001 00:01
A strategy is needed for dealing with the large amounts of possible areas of research.
My plan is to research the dreamer/improving orientation as a cultural phenomena, and in the end develop a plan for encouraging this orientation (if the construct proves valid and measurable), and then testing the effectiveness of aspects of that plan.

We cannot tolerate the religionists any more. There must be a new religion and it will be aggressive but non-violent. A scientific scientology/mormonism? This upon seeing 'why 50 scientists choose to believe in creationism)

Need to find people oriented similarly to me, who might they be?
Deci, ryan?

Barbara Marx Hubbard
Conscious evolution: awakening the power of our social potential
jfd 98-8316
1998

center for conscious evolution: consciousevolution.net
the meme machine - susan blackmore, r dawkins.

how societies change - sociology for a new century. daniel chirot.

the measurment of cultural evolution in the non-literate world: homage to raoul naroll. david g hayes.
hologeistic research.  This looks like a good book...

ceptualinstitue.com

look for papers by csikszmentmihalyi
william damon
howard gardener.

I imagine people on street corners recruiting others for studies and for this point of view. Have you heard of Experience Science? have you heard of experience art? If the mormons and the scientologists can do it, we should be able to do it as well. Maharishi.

teilhard's conscience planetaire

social engineering keyword search.
www.shareguide.com/hubbard.html
great futurists, bukminster fuller, norman cousins, gene roddenberry and willis harman

cultural creatives...
renaissancealliance.org

social entrepreneurship
changemakers.net
ashoka.org
institute of social engineering .nl

barbaramax hubbard
american renaissance alliance.

The entrepreneur's revolution and you by william drayton, founder of ashoka

The meaning of social entrepreneurship - j gregory dees, stanford university.

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http://disinfo.com
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disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id367/pg1  - visit futurist oriented sites later.

l'ecole des sciences politique at the sorbonne.
Thom hartmann robert anton wilson.

world future society 1966
society for the universal human
1984 - vp nomination us.

Potentials: envisioning the new millenium

living enrichment center - 'next church' movement

lecworld.com

www.thevenusproject.com

newciv.org

wfs.org -- legendary?


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