argh a pronouncement!

Mike Cole (mcole who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu)
Thu, 21 Oct 1999 14:09:59 -0700 (PDT)

I deeply apologize for making a pronouncement, Paul. I do believe
its content to be foundational to a chat perspective as i understand
it (which must be different from how LSV understood it).

More knowledgable peers should help me out, but the most prominent
discussion I know of that involves class is to be found in Psychology
of Art where there is a Plekhanov-style base-superstructure
discussion.

Empirical work was done by Luria and others in the late 1920's and
early 1930's, which fits into the overall scheme of the cross-cultural/
cross-historical Central Asian research, which looks at different social
categories of kids and their verbal development. Some of this may
be in old issues of "Soviet Psychology."

It is now a standard Western European/American/etc critique of vygotsky
that he did not carry out his own program of research with respect to
issues of units larger than a dyad except in comparative work of luria
et al.
mike