Posted by Jay Livingston
Sociological Images (here) put up my Thanksgiving post from six years ago. Unfortunately, they had to leave out the opening, which was about the new Energizer Bunny balloon. Sociological Images is much more scrupulous about copyright, and the picture was something I'd grabbed from Google Images. Beside, a year later, that balloon is no longer news.
The post was a Durkheimian look at the Macy’s parade as totemistic ritual – one that unifies and energizes the social group. So the new Energizer Bunny balloon had a double meaning for sociologists.
The original 2006 post is here.
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