Joseph Farington (and his diary) [ Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters / Communication ]
… that this is part of a circulation of information that is an essential component of sociability and the maintenance of social norms, but one feature of Farington’s diary that renders it more puzzling is that a good deal of the information … lacking any deterrent effect, in ‘Rethinking Gossip and Scandal‘ in Donald Black (ed.), Toward a General Theory of Social Control, v. 1 (Academic Press, Inc., 1984), p. 271-302, p. 272. The second form of gossip is more intimate: you … with strangers being excluded because they lack knowledge of the principals (and, more crucially, lack any social relationship with them). 5 This underlines the intimacy required for participation and is in sharp contrast to …
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