This book offers a new and rigorous approach to observational sociology that is grounded in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. Throughout the authors encourage the reader to explore the social world at first hand, beginning with the immediate family context and then moving out into the public realm and organizational life. Examples of observational analysis are given with reference to topic areas such as family life, education, medicine, crime and deviance, and the reader is shown how to conduct their own inquiries, using methods and materials that are readily and ordinarily available. Drawing on both original material and published studies, Francis and Hester demonstrate how observational sociology can be carried out with an attention to detail typically overlooked by more traditional ethonographic approaches.

What's the Official Protocol for CE5 Events? The first rule about planning a close encounter of the fifth kind (CE5) event is that there are no set rules, just guidelines from our own personal experience as to what has been tried and worked for us. No private official Earth protocol for extraterrestrial (ET) contact currently exists. We do have quite a few details regarding telepathic contact that have been given to us by a Star Nation from Zeta Reticuli II, the P'nti. You will read some of what they have taught us, in their own words, scattered throughout this book. You can also learn a great deal about improving your own telepathic skills in the companion volume to this one, The Telepathy 101 Primer written by T'ni. It is a gift from the people of P'ntl to the people of Earth. To download the primer for free, visit www.officialfirstcontact.com. It is available in multiple languages. Physical hard copy books are also available. If you and your event participants have not begun your telepathy practice in earnest, our Star Nation friends tell us it's an essential first step before you attempt your CE5 contact. You, as CE5 event planners, along with your guests, are literally writing the rightminded Earth Human contact story as it happens. What follows are only suggestions toward a successful event. These are just some starting points, so don't limit yourself. Be creative. Your intent from the initial planning stages, to hosting the event, to following up with your fellow experiencers afterwards are ALL critically important to everyone's safety, as well as your success at ET contact. Events can be small or large or anywhere in-between, so not all suggestions here will apply to all events. As you read this book do not let the lightheartedness nor the casual tone fool you. This is very real! BEFORE you decide you are going to host a gathering where you are asking for an extraterrestrial visit, we would like you to consider several really important things: You are not JUST asking to see an unidentified flying object (UFO) from afar. You are asking for an in-person visit from one of the many extraterrestrial nations who are already here on our planet (and they ARE here). You want them to come meet you in the flesh and talk. Remember, that means not just you personally but everyone else at your event as well. You, as the event organizer, are accepting the responsibility of keeping everyone at your gathering safe physically, emotionally and spiritually. You and Earth Humans you invite to your CE5 are going to be facing a lot of new and scary things. Even if everyone coming wants to see a UFO, even if they want to meet an extraterrestrial, we are here to tell you...when it actually happens, emotionally everything about your party changes dramatically, in an instant! We want you to be as prepared as you can be. Know what you are walking into before you begin. Read this book from cover to cover before you decide not only IF you will host your ET invitational, but also where, when, how and with whom you will put your close encounter of the fifth kind event together. After your CE5 is a success and you witness things firsthand, your guests will need you to help them understand this big new thing they experienced. Think through everything BEFORE you invite your first person. CE5s are life changing events; it will truly be something that you and they will never forget! Do everything you can to have the best CE5 this planet has ever seen. Stay safe, have fun, learn, grow and have a very, very good time meeting your intergalactic relatives. They tell us they've been looking forward to this for a long time too. -Su Walker from New Mexico (USA) June 2018

Guided by the gospel imperative to "Go and make disciples of all nations," the ministry of Invite Welcome Connect equips and empowers individuals and congregations to practice evangelism, hospitality, and connectedness. Invite Welcome Connect's founder, Mary Parmer, shares the deep truths of this ministry as well as practical steps to assess your faith community and begin implementation. This resource also features stories of transformation from more than two dozen lay and clergy leaders. Foreword by Michael B. Curry.

Over 400 schools throughout the world have adopted Invitational Education to foster innovative thinking, sustained positive action, and the creation of socially and emotionally safe schools. As educators are now involved in an epic rethinking of what they do and how they do it, Developing Inviting Schools provides a dependable guide for improvement. Written by two of the creators of the Inviting Schools movement—Purkey and Novak—along with Joan Fretz who works with public schools, this book updates and extends the construct of invitational learning to assist today’s teachers and leaders. The authors present a simple, but not simplistic framework that offers real-life responses to such challenges as faculty morale, school safety, conflict management, community involvement, student behavior, motivation, and school success. Use this resource to create, sustain, and enhance the social and emotional climate of your school. Book Features: A defensible theory of practice based on the community values of intentional care, respect, trust, and optimism.A deep dive into the basic assumptions that guide life in schools. Guidance for developing and maintaining positive school climate initiatives.Practical examples of how Invitational Education works in real-life situations.A fresh and innovative approach to a positive social and emotional learning environment.

Preface by Pierre Bourdieu Preface by Loic J.D. Wacquant I Toward a Social Praxeology: The Structure and Logic of Bourdieu's Sociology, Loic J.D. Wacquant 1 Beyond the Antinomy of Social Physics and Social Phenomenology 2 Classification Struggles and the Dialectic of Social and Mental Structures 3 Methodological Relationalism 4 The Fuzzy Logic of Practical Sense 5 Against Theoreticism and Methodologism: Total Social Science 6 Epistemic Reflexivity 7 Reason, Ethics, and Politics II The Purpose of Reflexive Sociology (The Chicago Workshop), Pierre Bourdieu and Loic J.D. Wacquant 1 Sociology as Socioanalysis 2 The Unique and the Invariant 3 The Logic of Fields 4 Interest, Habitus, Rationality 5 Language, Gender, and Symbolic Violence 6 For a, Realpolitik of Reason 7 The Personal is Social III The Practice of Reflexive Sociology (The Paris Workshop), Pierre Bourdieu 1 Handing Down a Trade 2 Thinking Relationally 3 A Radical Doubt 4 Double Bind and Conversion 5 Participant Objectivation Appendixes, Loic J.D. Wacquant 1 How to Read Bourdieu 2 A Selection of Articles from, Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 3 Selected Recent Writings on Pierre Bourdieu.

Vikram, a successful first-generation Indian immigrant, invites three of his college friends to his son's graduation from MIT--an event where real life collides with unmet expectations.

A landmark volume that explores the interconnected nature of technologies and rhetorical practice Rhetorical Machines addresses new approaches to studying computational processes within the growing field of digital rhetoric. While computational code is often seen as value-neutral and mechanical, this volume explores the underlying, and often unexamined, modes of persuasion this code engages. In so doing, it argues that computation is in fact rife with the values of those who create it and thus has powerful ethical and moral implications. From Socrates’s critique of writing in Plato’s Phaedrus to emerging new media and internet culture, the scholars assembled here provide insight into how computation and rhetoric work together to produce social and cultural effects. This multidisciplinary volume features contributions from scholar-practitioners across the fields of rhetoric, computer science, and writing studies. It is divided into four main sections: “Emergent Machines” examines how technologies and algorithms are framed and entangled in rhetorical processes, “Operational Codes” explores how computational processes are used to achieve rhetorical ends, “Ethical Decisions and Moral Protocols” considers the ethical implications involved in designing software and that software’s impact on computational culture, and the final section includes two scholars’ responses to the preceding chapters. Three of the sections are prefaced by brief conversations with chatbots (autonomous computational agents) addressing some of the primary questions raised in each section. At the heart of these essays is a call for emerging and established scholars in a vast array of fields to reach interdisciplinary understandings of human-machine interactions. This innovative work will be valuable to scholars and students in a variety of disciplines, including but not limited to rhetoric, computer science, writing studies, and the digital humanities.

Far more than a guide to homemaking and being a fine host—although it is definitely all that too—The Inviting Life is about how to live each day with a desire and determination to turn the ordinary into something lovely. It’s also a book about why we should bother. Whether the subject is décor, ambience, shopping, feeding weary travellers, mixing cocktails, planning dinner parties, or getting yourself motivated for spring cleaning, Laura Calder affirms the value of our everyday activities and shows how beauty, creativity, and delight have the power to change the world. This one-of-a-kind book is both a page-turning narrative about Laura’s own hosting and home-making adventures and an invaluable work of reference. It’s a spur to ideas for everything from creating a welcoming living space and making a respectable salad, to putting guests at their ease and writing a thank-you note worth receiving. Written with candour and humour in Laura’s inimitable and engaging voice, The Inviting Life offers empowering guidance for anyone looking to take more pleasure in their life and home.