by david allan van nostrand | Sep 27, 2021 | Items in the News
In May of 1921 a small group of American professional golfers travelled to Great Britain by steamship. Upon arrival a friendly competition was proposed and a 10 man team match was held at the Kings’ Course at Gleneagles, located in Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland,...
by david allan van nostrand | Sep 20, 2021 | Human Behavior, Items in the News, Surveys
Social scientists often get inspiration from day to day occurrences. They notice something, realize they’ve it seen before, and want to know more about it. So they do research, sometimes observational, sometimes surveys, and now and then both. Back in the 1970s, two...
by david allan van nostrand | Sep 13, 2021 | Sociology, The world around us
Susie Scott of Sussex University is trying to develop a Sociology of Nothing. She says that instead of looking at who we are and what we do in our lives, she wants to look into the shadows of things that are absent, lost, missing, empty, silent, and invisible. She...
by david allan van nostrand | Sep 6, 2021 | Items in the News, Organizational Behavior
Rolling cigars is a repetitive manual task that requires only the use of the hands and eyes. Back in the cigar factories of Havana in the late 1800s, Saturnino Martinez thought reading to cigar rollers would help alleviate their boredom as they silently made one cigar...
