[Air-l] Re: qual and quant

[Douglas Galbi]

Charles Tilly:
>we have reason to believe that a) unmediated person to
>person connections still play crucial parts in the bulk of 
>transnational social movement organizing

"Mark D. Johns" <johnsmar at luther.edu>:
>Would that I had said it so succinctly.  My point concerning my caucus 
>experience exactly.

This seems to be a more general aspect of communication activity.
Consider, for example, that in the century following the Norman Conquest
of England in 1066, almost all persons in England changed personal given
names from Anglo-Saxons names to Norman names.  Unmediated
person-to-person
connections were the driving force for this rapid change in personal
names.
Moreover, based on a measure of change in name distribution, the
communication 
of names in the century subsequent to the Norman Conquest of England in
1066 
is comparable to the communication of names across twentieth century
England 
and Wales.  For data and discussion, see pp. 34-9 of Galbi, "A New
Account of Personalization and Effective Communication," at
www.galbithink.org 

Douglas Galbi