Namely, that modern (or post-modern) people
find themselves thrown into a world with a
number of pre-extant artifacts, Discourses,
practices, etc., and that part of the task of
socialization is to orient oneself with res-
pect to those practices. Or, more radically
put, to decide which ones to resist and
which ones to use in action, which ones
support caring relationships among people
and other living things.
This "origin" story puts us in the middle
of history rather than the beginning, to
be sure, and perhaps that's more my own
personal feeling or sentiment, that I
think gets validated in sociocultural theory:
that I didn't make the rules; that I can't re-
member giving them to anyone else to
make; and that there is a price to pay for
going outside accepted practice.
Bill Penuel
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