Application of six thinking hats with the theme ,profession of sociologist". Transcript of the sequence of green hat

• Author: Gheorghe Onut
• Position: Dep. of Sociology and Philosophy
• Pages: 31-41

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Technique Note

Date: Saturday, 29.11.2008, time 10.20 - 11.55

Place: Brasov, Transilvania" University, ,U" building, ,under the ladder"

Guests: Dana Ababei, sociologist, graduate 2002, Brasov

Raluca Buzea, sociologist, graduate 2002, Brasov

Luciana Cristea, sociologist, graduate 2004, Brasov

Andreea Filip, sociologist, graduate 2008, Brasov

Roxana Florescu, sociologist, graduate 1998, Brasov

Monica Kovacs, sociologist, graduate 2003, Brasov

Ramona Nastasache, sociologist, graduate 2004, Brasov

Romulus Oprica, sociologist, graduate 2004, Brasov

Marius Plescan, sociologist, graduate 2001, Brasov

Vera tugulschi, sociologist, graduate 2004, Brasov

Moderator: Gheorghe Onut, sociologist, graduate 1976, Bucuresti

Instructions Green hat is the equivalent of the exuberant of the directed brainstorming:

- an ultra-typical participant to brainstorming;

- an avalanche of ideas, perfectly unreasonable, fantasist, arbitrary;

- essential role in maintaining the divergence and of a very high imaginative standard of the discussions;

- typical for the directed brainstorming, exuberant is the only launcher of new ideas. These ones will be the ideas that the others criticize, support, modify etc., evolving this way towards the solution.Page 32

From under the green hat we exploit the creative possibilities offered by the problem.

This is the typical creative hat. Wearing it on our heads, we make propositions, we formulate alternatives, we challenge to the change.

Transcription M. Down with it (previous hat). We will wear the green one, which is with a star.

Roxana Florescu: What are we doing with...?

M. I will tell you right away, let me put it on my head, otherwise I don't know (...) So, pass on to the green hat. The green hat is the typical creative hat; now we are making brainstorming-brainstorming. Please shoot out of speed (saying) any stupid thing crosses your mind in connection with the profession of sociologist. I will attack first: it is like a Puma helicopter. On the helicopter Puma 330 you may set a tank hunter, but you may also set an evacuator of injured soldiers out of the first line, you may set a tactic carrier of troops, you may set a crane, you may set a fire extinguisher. So I think the sociologist is, you may set on it almost whatever crosses your mind.

Romulus Oprica: I think it is my father's Dacia...

M. Shoot.

Romulus Oprica: He drove with it up the mountains; he carried with it whatever was needed in order to ensure the stability of the family. He took us out for a drive, we felt good and I think it is very versatile.

M. More.

Raluca Buzea: I think it's a baby, around 2 years old...

M. Baby?

Romulus Oprica: (imitating a child) ,But why?"

Raluca Buzea: ... who starts to speak, and who says with so much serenity ... Everything he says, he firmly believes, no matter if the ones around him do not understand, do not agree, it seems stupid to them, a crazy thing. For him it is super, it is his world.

M. More. Ideas, ideas, ideas. How to make a cooler faculty at sociology, how to find work, what to work.

Raluca Buzea: To make the site of the faculty to be ok, to create a forum on the site, which should also be accessed by us, not only by the students who have access, if it is still exists ...

M. (looking towards the ,sky" of the institution) Hear or not? (laughs)

Vera tugulschi: To reactivate the existing site...

Romulus Oprica: Do you know it works?

Raluca Buzea: So... To make mail-s on groups and crazy things...

Luciana Cristea: Hey, I have not succeeded.

M. Common, pull out more. Do not argue anymore, otherwise we reach the black hat.

Raluca Buzea: Let's have festive evenings, because during the years of study we could not have them, not even in the end we could not have them...

M. What?

Raluca Buzea: Festive evenings! Didn't you enjoy last night?

M. Yes, it is obvious.

Monica Kovacs: Yes, but only you. We didn't... (laughs)

Raluca Buzea: So let's have festive evenings, so that we should meet among ourselves.

M. I want more ideas.

Vera tugulschi: It is something like an ipod.

M. I don't know what that is. It seems to me that the ipod is a sort of myriapod with a single leg (laughs).

Vera tugulschi: No, it is that sort of thing on which you can cram music and movies and figures and data and staff ...Page 33

Raluca Buzea: You have it all the time, in case of need.

Vera tugulschi: and a documentary and a funny thing. You may listen to it in your ear, you may make it yell... You may do whatever you want with it.

M. Does it wash the dishes?

Vera tugulschi: No, but you can press in the back pocket of the blue jeans.

Luciana Cristea: You can throw it. (laughs)

M. I know here a gentleman in the room whom that cheeping thing of radar took him in some two thousand times, whom police stopped to beat and eventually he decided to put it off, and until I managed to shout his mouth, his something, you understand, he opened the window and vijjj, sent it into the landscape. So with the ipod, I see.

Luciana Cristea: That means with the sociologist.

Andreea Filip: I think it has to be like a boomerang. Which means we go to the client and we explain - you know, we know to do this, and he throws us away. But we return to him and try to convince him, we really know how to do this.

M. I heard yesterday Mircea Badea saying that there are women so ugly that not even the boomerang returns to them (laughs).

Andreea Filip: We return!

M. More, more. In case nothing comes up, bang! (we commute): which is the animal that you would liken the sociologist to?

Monica Kovacs: I was just thinking. With a monkey.

M. With a monkey? Shoot!

Monica Kovacs: Yes, it is like at the zoological garden, everyone is looking to it, and do not know how to use it, they know it is intelligent and from time to time it also knows to show its red buttocks, if it has them (laughs).

Romulus Oprica: And it is also funny.

Monica Kovacs: (gesture from the shoulders: isn't it so?) Yes.

M. Other animals?

Marius Plescan: I would assimilate him with that character from the cartoons, the Tasmanian...

Vera tugulschi: The Tasmanian devil.

M. Yes, Taz, Taz.

Marius Plescan: He razes everything, at a given moment he realizes he has sawn off the bough on which he was sitting, but he goes further, he turns around, he looks up... At a given moment, poor thing, he stops, he does not know were he is, but he continues, he continues with this staff. It seems to me sometimes I am in this situation, I go, I go, I go.

Vera tugulschi: Sometimes it is like a giraffe. It has a long neck, it sees much, it sees far, however it is kind of awkward. Until it reaches, until ... and it cannot bow.

M. Two commuting men from Ardeal, who had missed their course and had to stand about town, went to the zoo and were looking at the giraffe and one of them said ,Hey, pal, do you realize when this thing drinks a glass of brandy, until it flows down that throat, to its stomach, wow, how cool it must be!, one of them rejoices." The other one: ,Hey, how stupid you are. Do you realize when, poor thing, it throws up?" (laughs) Other animals, please.

Roxana Florescu: I don't know, I am thinking about an animal which throws away, changes its skin.

Luciana Cristea, Monica Kovacs: Chameleon?!

Roxana Florescu: Or which changes its colour. Or which throws away its skin...

M. ... but not its habit...

Roxana Florescu: ... or which changes its colour.

Romulus Oprica: Political colour, right?

M. You can say, right, your own staff? Let man say one's own animal. So, sayPage 34more, an animal which changes many times, in all sorts.

Roxana Florescu: Yes.

Dana Ababei: I would compare it with a pet. When you don't have it, you don't realize how it is, when you have it, you rejoice. You say ah!, what a good choice I made. Something like that.

M. Pets are also fleas..., flies.

Dana Ababei: Well, of company! For instance cat, dog, anything. Guinea pig...

M. No, I was not criticizing you. I was trying to imagine how a pet flea sociologist would look like (laughs).

Dana Ababei: you never get rid of them... (she makes the gesture of catching a flea on her sleeve).

M. Yes, yes, yes, yes (laughs)

Romulus Oprica: You don't see it. Only the traces it leaves.

M. Shoot, animal!

Andreea Filip: What I have said, I have nothing more to say.

M. Right, but with another animal. What would liken it with? With a marmot, with a bicycle, with...

Luciana...