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Gary Alan Fine (born May 11, 1950, in New York City) is an American sociologist and author.^[1]

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American Folklore Society

The American Folklore Society (AFS) is the United States (US)-based professional association for folklorists, with members from the US, Canada, and around the world, which aims to encourage research, aid in disseminating that research, promote the responsible application of that research, publish various forms of publications, advocate for the continued study and teaching of folklore, etc.

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Americans

Americans are the citizens and nationals of the United States.

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Art

Art is a diverse range of human activity and its resulting product that involves creative or imaginative talent generally expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.

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Assistant professor

Assistant professor is an academic rank just below the rank of an associate professor used in universities or colleges, mainly in the United States, Canada, Japan and South Korea.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Barkley Forum

The Barkley Forum is the intercollegiate debate and forensics organization at Emory University.

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Benedict Arnold

Benedict Arnold (Brandt (1994), p. 4June 14, 1801) was an American-born military officer who served during the American Revolutionary War.

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Bill Clinton

William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

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Bill Traylor

William Traylor (April 1, – October 23, 1949) was an African-American self-taught artist from Lowndes County, Alabama.

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Blogosphere

The blogosphere is made up of all blogs and their interconnections.

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) is an interdisciplinary research lab at Stanford University that offers a residential postdoctoral fellowship program for scientists and scholars studying "the five core social and behavioral disciplines of anthropology, economics, political science, psychology, and sociology".

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Culture

Culture is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or DPhil; philosophiae doctor or) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research.

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Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons (commonly abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally created and designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.

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Edgar Tolson

Edgar Tolson (1904–1984) was a woodcarver from Kentucky who became a well-known folk artist.

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Emory University

Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Eric Schlosser

Eric Matthew Schlosser (born August 17, 1959) is an American journalist and author known for his investigative journalism, such as in his books Fast Food Nation (2001), Reefer Madness (2003), and Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (2013).

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Erving Goffman

Erving Goffman (11 June 1922 – 19 November 1982) was a Canadian-born American sociologist, social psychologist, and writer, considered by some "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century".

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Ethnography

Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures.

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Evanston, Illinois

Evanston is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, situated on the North Shore along Lake Michigan.

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Fast Food Nation

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal is a 2001 book by Eric Schlosser.

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George W. Bush

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Henry Darger

Henry Joseph Darger Jr. (April 12, 1892 – April 13, 1973) was an American writer, novelist and artist who worked as a hospital custodian in Chicago, Illinois.

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Henry Ford

Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist and business magnate.

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Herman Melville

Herman Melville (born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period.

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High Museum of Art

The High Museum of Art (colloquially the High) is the largest museum for visual art in the Southeastern United States.

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Horace Mann School

Horace Mann School (also known as Horace Mann or HM) is a private, independent college-preparatory school in the Bronx, founded in 1887.

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Howard Finster

Howard Finster (December 2, 1916 – October 22, 2001) was an American artist and Baptist minister from Georgia.

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Indiana University Bloomington

Indiana University Bloomington (IU Bloomington, Indiana University, IU, or simply Indiana) is a public research university in Bloomington, Indiana.

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Little League Baseball

Little League Baseball and Softball (officially, Little League Baseball Inc) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization"".

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Lonnie Holley

Lonnie Bradley Holley (born February 10, 1950), sometimes known as the Sand Man, is an American artist, art educator, and musician.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Martín Ramírez

Martín Ramírez (January 30, 1895 – February 17, 1963) was a self-taught artist who spent most of his adult life institutionalized in California mental hospitals, diagnosed as a catatonic schizophrenic.

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Midwest Sociological Society

The Midwest Sociological Society (MSS) is a "… membership organization of academic and applied sociologists as well as students of the discipline." The society was founded in 1936 and held its first annual meeting in 1937.

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Minnesota

Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States.

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Mushroom hunting

Mushroom hunting, mushrooming, mushroom picking, mushroom foraging, and similar terms describe the activity of gathering mushrooms in the wild.

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National Weather Service

The National Weather Service (NWS) is an agency of the United States federal government that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weather-related products to organizations and the public for the purposes of protection, safety, and general information.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Northwestern University

Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois.

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Op-ed

An op-ed piece is a short newspaper column that represents a writer's strong, informed, and focused opinion on an issue of relevance to a targeted audience.

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Outsider art

Outsider art is art made by self-taught individuals who are untrained and untutored in the traditional arts with typically little or no contact with the conventions of the art worlds.

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Patricia Turner

Patricia A. Turner is an American folklorist who documents and analyzes the stories that define the African American experience.

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Phi Beta Kappa

The Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦΒΚ) is the oldest academic honor society in the United States.

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Policy debate

Policy debate is an American form of debate competition in which teams of two usually advocate for and against a resolution that typically calls for policy change by the United States federal government.

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Psychology

Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior.

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Reason (magazine)

Reason is an American libertarian monthly magazine published by the Reason Foundation, with the tagline "Free Minds and Free Markets".

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Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974.

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Robert F. Bales

Robert Freed Bales (March 9, 1916 – June 16, 2004) was an American social psychologist.

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Roscoe Arbuckle

Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle (March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film actor, director, and screenwriter.

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Rumor

A rumor (American English), or rumour (British English; see spelling differences; derived from Latin 'noise'), is "a tall tale of explanations of events circulating from person to person and pertaining to an object, event, or issue in public concern." In the social sciences, a rumor involves a form of a statement whose veracity is not quickly or ever confirmed.

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Russell Sage Foundation

The Russell Sage Foundation is an American non-profit organisation established by Margaret Olivia Sage in 1907 for “the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States.” It was named after her recently deceased husband, railroad executive Russell Sage.

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Sam Doyle

Thomas "Sam" Doyle (1906–1985) was an African-American artist from Saint Helena Island, South Carolina.

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Science

Science is a strict systematic discipline that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the world.

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September 11 attacks

The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.

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Sinclair Lewis

Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.

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Social psychology is the scientific study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others.

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Social Psychology Quarterly is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes theoretical and empirical papers in the field of social psychology.

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In sociology, a social system is the patterned network of relationships constituting a coherent whole that exist between individuals, groups, and institutions.

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Sociology

Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study

Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) is an institute for advanced study in Uppsala, Sweden.

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Symbolic interactionism

Symbolic interactionism is a sociological theory that develops from practical considerations and alludes to humans' particular use of shared language to create common symbols and meanings, for use in both intra- and interpersonal communication.

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Terrorism

Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Thornton Dial

Thornton Dial (28 September 1928 – 25 January 2016) was a pioneering American artist who came to prominence in the late 1980s.

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Thorstein Veblen

Thorstein Bunde Veblen (July 30, 1857 – August 3, 1929) was an American economist and sociologist who, during his lifetime, emerged as a well-known critic of capitalism.

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Tournament of Champions (debate)

The Tournament of Champions (TOC) is a national high school speech and debate tournament held at the University of Kentucky every year in a weekend in April.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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University of Bremen

The University of Bremen (Universität Bremen) is a public university in Bremen, Germany, with approximately 23,500 people from 115 countries.

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University of California, Davis

The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university in Davis, California, United States.

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University of Chicago

The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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University of Georgia

The University of Georgia (UGA or Georgia) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Athens, Georgia, United States.

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University of Iceland

The University of Iceland (Háskóli Íslands) is a public research university in Reykjavík, Iceland, and the country's oldest and largest institution of higher education.

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University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota (formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), colloquially referred to as "The U", is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States.

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University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania, commonly referenced as Penn or UPenn, is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Uppsala University

Uppsala University (UU) (Uppsala universitet) is a public research university in Uppsala, Sweden.

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Urban legend

Urban legends (sometimes modern legend, urban myth, or simply legend) is a genre of folklore concerning stories about an unusual (usually scary) or humorous event that many people believe to be true but largely are not.

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Visiting scholar

In academia, a visiting scholar, visiting scientist, visiting researcher, visiting fellow, visiting lecturer, or visiting professor is a scholar from an institution who visits a host university to teach, lecture, or perform research on a topic for which the visitor is valued.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Alan_Fine

Also known as Gary A. Fine, Gary Fine.

, Roscoe Arbuckle, Rumor, Russell Sage Foundation, Sam Doyle, Science, September 11 attacks, Sinclair Lewis, Social psychology, Social Psychology Quarterly, Social system, Sociology, Stanford University, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Symbolic interactionism, Terrorism, The Washington Post, Thornton Dial, Thorstein Veblen, Tournament of Champions (debate), United States, University of Bremen, University of California, Davis, University of Chicago, University of Georgia, University of Iceland, University of Minnesota, University of Pennsylvania, Uppsala University, Urban legend, Visiting scholar, Vladimir Nabokov, Warren G. Harding, 2004 United States presidential election.

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