Paul, if institutions can change only by virtue of individuals working
together, then don't individuals with all their culturally 'caused'
imperfections need to understand themselves AS individuals IN interaction
in order to effect change? That is, don't we need to understand (and be
accountable for) our imperfections? How does the collective work happen
otherwise? I like the idea -- was it Carl's? Andy's? that agency has not
yet been realized because we have not yet formed a collective
consciousness, and I don't see how that we can unless we can negotiate &
dialog & shmarmy stuff like that. There is no object that is only
objective....
Judy
At 06:57 PM 1/21/01 -0800, you wrote:
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>Nate,
>
>you wrote:
>
>> what is it about how our institutions are organized,
>> schools are run, families are supported, consumption broadcasted etc that
>> forms certain psychological dispositions in American children that are
>> absent in other children.
>
>Isn't this type of question the only meaningful frame for any psychology
>that would claim some relation to culture?
>
>
>And isn't the further implication that the practitioners who treat
>"individuals" perhaps attempting to treat a symptom when the cause is
>institutional/cultural to begin with?
>
>Paul H. Dillon
>
>
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