People, caught (suspended) in a web of consequences (significance)

• Adam (child in ethnography)
• Pierre Bourdieu (sociologist)
• Mike Bloomberg (multi-bilionaire and mayor of NYC - 2001 to 2013)
• George W. Bush (president of the USA - 2001 to 2009)
• Michel Foucault (sociologist)
• Edward Kennedy (senator in the USA Senate - 1962 to 2009)
• Joel Klein (Chancellor of the NYC Department of Education - 2002 to 2011)
• Jill Koyama (anthropologist)
• Ray McDermott (anthropologist)
• Jean-Claude Passeron (sociologist)
• Rosa (child in ethnography)
• Hervé Varenne (anthropologist)

(and the many people who must remain anonymous whom Jill Koyama met during her fieldwork)

 

People in search of an author (spider)?

"characters who have been written into a script that remains incomplete" (McDermott and Aron 1978)

not what these people know, believe, or have attitude towards, but their positions-so-far as the look for what to do next (find an author? re-write the play?)