Abstract
The presenters of papers on social problems issues at meetings of social science associations can readily become less motivated to deliver a statement on a social problems topic because of its inherent importance to society than because of an array of other situationally salient reasons for appearing before an audience. The convention roles and rituals enacted by the presenters often contribute to that means-end reversal. This paper satirizes the social science convention setting in which the means-end reversal can occur, and caricatures those individuals who become caught up in the reversal. A set of 16 "ideal types" of presenters are described: Poets, Penitents, Protesters, Prophets, Proposalists, Proceduralists, Paradigmists, Pundits, Pathologists, Pedagogues, Publishers, Popgroupers, Patricians, Plebes, Partiers, and Pragmatists.
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