Orrin E Klapp
Biographic Data
| ID | 3631359 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Orrin E Klapp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Orrin E |
| FAMILY NAME | Klapp |
| SIGNATURE | KLAPP O E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 166 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1948 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Inflation of Symbols: Loss of Values in American Culture
Today Americans are used to keeping tabs on inflation through the use of price indexes and interest rates, and to restraining it through the use of Federal Reserve monetary policy. No tabs, however, are kept on other kinds of inflation, of symbols other than money. Klapp looks into what the inflation of value might mean and how it occurs in relations, popular culture, mass contagions, fads and fashions, even smiles and kisses. In Klapp's view, sy…
The Drama of Social Life: Essays in Post-Modern Social Psychology
These essays explore the many ways theater and dramaturgy are used to shape the everyday experience of people in mass societies. Young argues that technologies combine with the world of art, music, and cinema to shape consciousness as a commodity and to fragment social relations in the market as well as in religion and politics. He sees the central problem of post-modern society as how to live in a world constructed by human beings without nihili…
Criminals as Heroes: Structure, Power and Identity
The Rules Are No Game: The Strategy of Communication
Literacy is power, but power is never absolute. Like other modes of communication it is moulded by codes or rules; and these constraints - of system, structure, and strategy - are the rules that are no game
Uniforms and Nonuniforms: Communication Through Clothing
Clothing serves as a system of signs that helps to order social interaction by identifying and locating individuals and groups within society. In the first in-depth study to analyze the communicative character of uniforms and other types of clothing, Nathan Joseph examines how clothing functions in a variety of social contexts to enforce norms, maintain institutional power, identify group membership, and express or suppress individuality
Overload and Boredom: Essays on the Quality of Life in the Informational Society
Southern Folk, Plain and Fancy: Native White Social Types
The Theory of the Two Charismas
Meaning Lag in the Information Society
Journal Article Meaning Lag in the Information Society Get access Orrin E. Klapp Orrin E. Klapp 1Orrin E. Klapp is Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 32, Issue 2, June 1982, Pages 56–66, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1982.tb00495.x Published: 07 February 2006
Opening and Closing: Strategies of Information Adaptation in Society
Preface 1. Social noise 2. Opening and closing in open societies 3. The feast of the media 4. When information turns to noise 5. Entropic communication 6. Good redundancy: identity as playback 7. Theory of opening and closing 8. Movements and possibilities Notes References Index
Opening and Closing: Strategies of Information Adaptation in Society
The Celebration of Heroes: Prestige as a Social Control System
Everyday experience as well as theories from anthropology, economics, psychology, and sociology underlie a systematic investigation of the sources, processes, and social importance of prestige
Rumor and Gossip, the Social Psychology of Hearsay
Presents findings from a sociological and psychological study of rumor, gossip, and hearsay, showing that the distribution patterns of these communication forms closely parallel characteristics and rules of economic exchange, and that the consumption of rumor and gossip corresponds to the consumption of goods and services. Recommendations and guidelines for rumor control centers based on World War II clinics are presented
Models of Social Order: An Introduction to Sociological Theory
Opening and closing in open systems
After considering some phenomena of collective behavior, this paper suggests an amendment to the open social system model. Only under some conditions does a pluralistic society approximate J. S. Mill's description of the free market of ideas. A more accurate picture is continual oscillation between relative openness and closedness—resilient adjustment to intakes of information and states of entropy. When such oscillations are more fully analyzed …
Models of Social Order: An Introduction to Sociological Theory
Rebels and Colleagues: Advertising and Social Change in French Canada
Collective Search for Identity
Collective Search for Identity
Symbols in Society.Hugh Dalziel Duncan
Modern Social Movements: A Sociological Outline
Symbolic Leaders: Public Dramas and Public Men
Radio, television and the press form the vast stage on which the public dramas of our time are played to a responsive audience of millions- the peoples of our nation and of the world. Almost anyone can steal the scene and become a public hero, a favorite villain or a lamented victim. How do these persons-the symbolic leaders-emerge? Who are they? How does the climate of public opinion affect the would-be leader? How does the public use its leader…
Cultures of Violence: A Study of the Tragic Man in Society
Mexican Social Types
Mexico, like any country, has a social type system as part of its informal structure. Hero types state positive norms of the ethos. Such themes are found also in public images of admired leaders. Villain and fool types state negative norms. Though some types are universal, the system provides an important key to national character and structural differences among societies
Excess and Restraint: Social Control Among a New Guinea Mountain People
Heroes, Villains and Fools, as Agents of Social Control
SOCIAL types comprise a relatively unappreciated field of popular culture. Though certain ones have been intensively studied from special points of view and the role of stereotypes has been long recognized, there has been little effort to catalog, classify, or even adequately consider the vast number of highly significant types to be found in common speech, jokes, comics, popular fiction, folklore and the like. These conceptions, appearing wherev…
Heroes, Villains, and Fools: The Changing American Character
This volume presents three major social types in American society-heroes, villains, and fools-as models for American behaviour. Approaching these models primarily through language, Orrin E. Klapp explores what they may suggest about Americans as a people. Rather than study people, the author describes abstract types named and embedded in popular language. These social types are important symbols; and a way to attack a symbol is by identifying its…
Hero Worship in America
Symbolic Leaders: Public Dramas and Public Men
Radio, television and the press form the vast stage on which the public dramas of our time are played to a responsive audience of millions- the peoples of our nation and of the world. Almost anyone can steal the scene and become a public hero, a favorite villain or a lamented victim. How do these persons-the symbolic leaders-emerge? Who are they? How does the climate of public opinion affect the would-be leader? How does the public use its leader…
Social Types: Process and Structure
COMPARATIVELY f ew of the hundreds of social types in American culture have received much attention and their general part in modern social systems has not been made clear. These collective concepts have a function in role-definition and the organization of the self, for example, and hence are an important link between the person and the system. Their significance, if anything, is growing as our society becomes more mobile and anonymous, for it i…
The Fool as a Social Type
The fool is a social type having certain definable roles and a special status and function in group life. Fools represent departures from group norms of propriety which are subject to the sanction of ridicule. Fool-making is a continuous social process and operates to enforce propierty and to adjust status
The Creation of Popular Heroes
The popular hero is a social type having certain definable roles. The problem of making a hero is that of imputing to a person these roles and of maintaining and building a collective interpretation which has the character of a legend. The destroying of a hero is the casting of him in antiheroic roles. Social types, especially fundamental symbols such as the hero, the villain, and the fool, provide a key to collective psychology because the mass …
American Villain-Types
Opening and closing in open systems
After considering some phenomena of collective behavior, this paper suggests an amendment to the open social system model. Only under some conditions does a pluralistic society approximate J. S. Mill's description of the free market of ideas. A more accurate picture is continual oscillation between relative openness and closedness—resilient adjustment to intakes of information and states of entropy. When such oscillations are more fully analyzed …
Mexican Social Types
Mexico, like any country, has a social type system as part of its informal structure. Hero types state positive norms of the ethos. Such themes are found also in public images of admired leaders. Villain and fool types state negative norms. Though some types are universal, the system provides an important key to national character and structural differences among societies
Power Structure and Decision-Making in a Mexican Border City
A reputational study of the local power structure of Tijuana shows the elite to be composed mainly of businessmen, though no single group runs things; local government is weak, and the major power sources are outside the community. Though leadership is not democratic, neither is it oligarchic, because the elite is poorly integrated. Indeed, rather than over-all government, there is an ecology of games. Characteristic roles of leaders and patterns…
The Clever Hero
APOINT worthy of the most careful attention is the number of clever heroes who are rascals on the other side of the law. This type is a hero who in many respects verges upon being a villain, but still retains the admiration of the people. He is upstart, rebel, lawbreaker, liar, thief, and malefactor; and yet in spite of being so-perhaps because of this-he is a social force. What is the secret of his power? Perhaps by analysis of his role and its …
Notes toward the Study of Vilification as a Social Process
The Folk Hero
The Living and the Dead: A Study of the Symbolic Life of Americans
Inflation of Symbols: Loss of Values in American Culture
Today Americans are used to keeping tabs on inflation through the use of price indexes and interest rates, and to restraining it through the use of Federal Reserve monetary policy. No tabs, however, are kept on other kinds of inflation, of symbols other than money. Klapp looks into what the inflation of value might mean and how it occurs in relations, popular culture, mass contagions, fads and fashions, even smiles and kisses. In Klapp's view, sy…
Rumor and Gossip, the Social Psychology of Hearsay
Presents findings from a sociological and psychological study of rumor, gossip, and hearsay, showing that the distribution patterns of these communication forms closely parallel characteristics and rules of economic exchange, and that the consumption of rumor and gossip corresponds to the consumption of goods and services. Recommendations and guidelines for rumor control centers based on World War II clinics are presented
Models of Social Order: An Introduction to Sociological Theory
The Creation of Popular Heroes
The popular hero is a social type having certain definable roles. The problem of making a hero is that of imputing to a person these roles and of maintaining and building a collective interpretation which has the character of a legend. The destroying of a hero is the casting of him in antiheroic roles. Social types, especially fundamental symbols such as the hero, the villain, and the fool, provide a key to collective psychology because the mass …
Hero Worship in America
The Folk Hero
The Fool as a Social Type
The fool is a social type having certain definable roles and a special status and function in group life. Fools represent departures from group norms of propriety which are subject to the sanction of ridicule. Fool-making is a continuous social process and operates to enforce propierty and to adjust status
The Hero: A Study in Tradition, Myth, and Drama.Lord Raglan
Heroes, Villains and Fools, as Agents of Social Control
SOCIAL types comprise a relatively unappreciated field of popular culture. Though certain ones have been intensively studied from special points of view and the role of stereotypes has been long recognized, there has been little effort to catalog, classify, or even adequately consider the vast number of highly significant types to be found in common speech, jokes, comics, popular fiction, folklore and the like. These conceptions, appearing wherev…
The Clever Hero
APOINT worthy of the most careful attention is the number of clever heroes who are rascals on the other side of the law. This type is a hero who in many respects verges upon being a villain, but still retains the admiration of the people. He is upstart, rebel, lawbreaker, liar, thief, and malefactor; and yet in spite of being so-perhaps because of this-he is a social force. What is the secret of his power? Perhaps by analysis of his role and its …
American Heroes: Myth and Reality. Marshall W. Fishwick
The Mystique of Modern Monarchy: With Special Reference to the British Commonwealth.Percy Black
American Villain-Types
Ethical Judgment: The Use of Science in Ethics.Abraham Edel
The Reputation of the American Businessman.Sigmund Diamond
Social Types: Process and Structure
COMPARATIVELY f ew of the hundreds of social types in American culture have received much attention and their general part in modern social systems has not been made clear. These collective concepts have a function in role-definition and the organization of the self, for example, and hence are an important link between the person and the system. Their significance, if anything, is growing as our society becomes more mobile and anonymous, for it i…
Ritual and Family Solidarity
Journal Article Ritual and Family Solidarity Get access Orrin E. Klapp Orrin E. Klapp San Diego State College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 37, Issue 3, March 1959, Pages 212–214, https://doi.org/10.2307/2572964 Published: 01 March 1959
Notes toward the Study of Vilification as a Social Process
The Living and the Dead: A Study of the Symbolic Life of Americans
Power Structure and Decision-Making in a Mexican Border City
A reputational study of the local power structure of Tijuana shows the elite to be composed mainly of businessmen, though no single group runs things; local government is weak, and the major power sources are outside the community. Though leadership is not democratic, neither is it oligarchic, because the elite is poorly integrated. Indeed, rather than over-all government, there is an ecology of games. Characteristic roles of leaders and patterns…
Heroes, Villains, and Fools: The Changing American Character
This volume presents three major social types in American society-heroes, villains, and fools-as models for American behaviour. Approaching these models primarily through language, Orrin E. Klapp explores what they may suggest about Americans as a people. Rather than study people, the author describes abstract types named and embedded in popular language. These social types are important symbols; and a way to attack a symbol is by identifying its…
Excess and Restraint: Social Control Among a New Guinea Mountain People
Mexican Social Types
Mexico, like any country, has a social type system as part of its informal structure. Hero types state positive norms of the ethos. Such themes are found also in public images of admired leaders. Villain and fool types state negative norms. Though some types are universal, the system provides an important key to national character and structural differences among societies
Symbolic Leaders: Public Dramas and Public Men
Radio, television and the press form the vast stage on which the public dramas of our time are played to a responsive audience of millions- the peoples of our nation and of the world. Almost anyone can steal the scene and become a public hero, a favorite villain or a lamented victim. How do these persons-the symbolic leaders-emerge? Who are they? How does the climate of public opinion affect the would-be leader? How does the public use its leader…
Cultures of Violence: A Study of the Tragic Man in Society
Modern Social Movements: A Sociological Outline
Symbols in Society.Hugh Dalziel Duncan
Collective Search for Identity
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