READERS with a taste for the banal may be interested in a new online
magazine, the Journal of Mundane Behavior. Hosted by the Department of
Sociology and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at California State
University, Fullerton, the JMB is a “scholarly journal devoted to the
study of the `unmarked’—those aspects of our everyday lives that typically
go unnoticed by us, both as academics and as everyday individuals”.
In an introductory essay, Scott Schafer notes that: “Most of us don’t lead
Jerry Springer lives.” He goes on: “The editors of Journal of
Mundane Behavior believe that the…
