Peter Ehrenhaus is a professor of communication and writes very interesting things about silence and symbolic expression. He says that silence can be an object or an encounter. With an encounter meaning can arise in silence between the individual and the object experienced as silent. He is not a psychologist and presents his ideas in …
People power and the graffiti art movement
Sociologically this is most unusual. It is a case of people power, winning over money power and political power.
The sociology of graffiti
Sociologically that is a remarkable achievement. A group with little or no power has forced those with the power to behave a particular way.
The graffiti movement as a sociological force
When they first started they scared us, so we fought back as we usually do by using the police to maintain order and keep people under control and behaving properly. But this group of young people did not stop. We started to discover how powerful they were
Graffiti and collectivism
Four or five months ago I went on a graffiti photographic shoot. I went through parts of the the city to find the best graffiti artwork to use them on my website and so forth. In my two day effort I found many high quality pieces and photographically recorded them. Included were 16 photographs I …