1. Looking Into Chaos: Perceptions, Interactions, and Strategies of Disaffected Male Undergraduates By Carole F. Robinson, Ph.D. April 21, 2005
2. Background B.A. English(Comparative Literature and Psychology Personality Psychology Psychoanalytic Literature M.S. RD-Organizational Change Psychology: Ecological and Community Social and Personality New Sciences: Chaos, Complexity, Dynamical Systems
3. “ Most of reality, instead of being orderly, stable, and equilibrial, is seething and bubbling with change, disorder, and process.” Prigogine & Stengers, 1984 Through the lens of chaos and complexity theories
4. “ Where chaos begins, classical science stops. For as long as the world has had physicists inquiring into the laws of nature, it has suffered a special ignorance about disorder in the atmosphere,
5. in the fluctuations of wildlife populations, in the oscillations of the heart and brain. The irregular side of nature, the discontinuous and erratic side—these have been puzzles to science, or worse, monstrosities.” Gleick, 1988
6. the “oscillations of the heart and the brain” of male undergraduates who experience chaos in their academic journeys, the “disorder in the atmosphere” of a turbulent and complex university, This was an inquiry on multiple levels into:
7. into individual and community perceptions of the “erratic” or “irregular” male undergraduate, into the relationships among these forces.
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9. Very clear preferences for Intuition: See patterns and possibilities—make connections others may not see Represented 1%-5% of the general population: INFP (6), INTP (1), ENTP (1) Students in Study Had Similar Personality Preferences (as indicated by the Myers-Briggs Personality Inventory)
10. University classes are predominately geared toward Extraverts, Sensors, Thinkers, and Judgers (ESTJ)—linear, factual, and product-oriented—such that the U rewards Sensors Judgers. Intuition as a way of knowing is not generally rewarded in mass market education, and is often discredited.
