Can you say more about your concern about 'all those selves' that i had
mentioned?
At 12:43 PM 10/22/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Judy,
>
>I'm wondering who the "us" is when you write: "I wonder, however, if the
>notion of "false
>>consciousness" -- i.e., not-middle-class -- gets us anywhere, "
>Particularly in relation to all those selves you are "paying attention to."
>
>Paul H. Dillon
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Judy Diamondstone <diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu>
>To: xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
>Date: Friday, October 22, 1999 12:16 PM
>Subject: Re: question on class
>
>
>>A Can "working class" be seen in a
>>>cultural way as in having community, needs, dreams etc. or is it solely
>>>"false", "negative" or in opposition to the middleclass. Is "working
>class"
>>>simply an identity without content a product or construction of "civil
>>>society" or is there something more.
>>
>>That's an excellent question! I wonder, however, if the notion of "false
>>consciousness" -- i.e., not-middle-class -- gets us anywhere. I've been
>>paying attention to similar questions in different literatures, which seem
>>motivated in part by a concern for complexity and for parsing out different
>>strata or time depths in sociocultural phenomena - like the distinction
>>between the situated social self and the "cultural" or enduring self; or
>the
>>autobiographical self, the discoursal self, the writing self.... I'm
>>inclined to see 'class' as positioning within a wider culture, a
>perspective
>>or bias towards certain content rather than other content available in the
>>wider culture. Reverting once again to Blake "anything that's possible to
>be
>>believed [seen, imagined] is a portion of the truth [that ever elusive
>>'true' consciounessness...]
>>Judy
>>
>>
>>Judith Diamondstone (732) 932-7496 Ext. 352
>>Graduate School of Education
>>Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
>>10 Seminary Place
>>New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1183
>>
>>
>
>
Judith Diamondstone (732) 932-7496 Ext. 352
Graduate School of Education
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
10 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1183