[Xmca-l] Re: "sociocultural psychology" ?

Andy Blunden andyb@marxists.org
Thu May 21 20:53:46 PDT 2020


Yes, I *was* going to mention Berger first off, but I 
thought these guys were relatively niche, until the 1970s. 
But you are right of course.

Andy

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On 22/05/2020 9:39 am, Charles Bazerman wrote:
>
> Chuck
> ----
> די פאַרייניקטע שטאַטן איז אַ פאָלק פון ימאַגראַנץ
> الولايات المتحدة هي أمة من المهاجرين
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> The U.S. is a nation of immigrants.
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> Andy,
> Two historical notes:
> 1. Don't forget Berger and Luckmann's 1966 Book Social 
> Construction of Reality, which is built on Luckmann's 
> earlier work on sociological phenomenology.
> 2. And on the right always lurking in deconstruction, 
> remember Paul DeMan and his checkered past.
> Chuck
>
>      (1) The discovery of the "social construction of
>     reality" was an achievement of the Left, the
>     progressives, with people like the Critical
>     Psychologists, the theorists of postmodernism and
>     post-structural feminists in the 1970s an 80s, who
>     exposed how taken-for-granted facts along with the
>     truths of Science were on closer inspection
>     ideological products of dominant social groups. Of
>     course, how reality is /seen /is an inseparable part
>     of how reality /is/. This insight led to a range of
>     powerful theoretical and practical critiques of all
>     aspects of society. Feminists offered an alternative
>     way of interpreting reality as a powerful lever for
>     changing that reality by undermining patriarchal
>     structures and certainties. So far so good. But today,
>     in 2020, it is not progressives who are asking "who
>     decides?" and calling into question the very idea of
>     truth and fact: it is Donald Trump and Rudi Giuliani.
>     Quite honestly, this outcome was always implicit in
>     the postmodern and poststructuralist critique. Or,
>     could I say: "Donald Trump is a more evolved form of
>     Judith Butler" if I thought in those terms, which I
>     don't.
>
>
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