Professor Elam

Cycling Through History
How Social Mood Determines Your Career Success
October 25, 2011 / 3 PM  CST / Main Campus One University Way / Room to be Announced

Socionomics is a new predictive social science. It holds that mood is developed endogenously, outside and separate from other factors like the news. This is both contrary to conventional wisdom (bad news makes people unhapppy) but correct (unhappy people create bad news). 

Social Mood has been forming regular eighteen year cycles for over one hundred years in this country. We will present both qualitative and quantitative evidence to support this assertion. The US is now half way through an eighteen year down cycle of economic stagnation, don't believe me, just pick up a newspaper and scan the headlines!  Understanding these cycles and the moods that create them will help students and faculty understand why things happen they way they do in their own lives. 

Demonstrations will be presented on how social mood affects politics, entertainment, and business as well as the presence of absence of social protest. Understanding socionomics, where we are in the cycle, and how this affects your probable career future is of great immediate value. 

This will be both a fun and informative presentation. We hope to attract professionals in sociology, psychology, and education. 

Dennis Elam and Dr. Sam Rock presented a paper using socionomic concepts at the last SWTLC conference. 

Dennis Elam Phd CPA
Learn more about socionomics at http://www.socionomics.net/index.aspx