Re: RE: late lbe2 (what is an elemntary activity system)

From: Diane Hodges (dhodges@ceo.cudenver.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 24 2001 - 22:01:10 PDT


phillip capper writes
>For example a university (which I argue is an activity system,
>but which I understand Paul argues is not) may set up a research institute
>as an action with the goal of attracting research funding. But the people
>inside that institute may see their internal activity as motivated by
>intellectual aspirations which are not consistent with the university's
>desire to maximise funding.
>
ok - help me out here. i understood LBE concepts to be as follows:
individual action is embedded in social activity.
so,
a research institute is a social(political) activity, within which
individual researchers produce particular actions that correspond, or
don't, as the case may be, with the larger activity.

there is also the presence of coercion here, something not addressed, in
terms of social activity, which is where i'd see all social activity as
political activity, since power is acted out differently,
and coercion is irrepressible in institutional activity.

also, division of labor plays a huge role in the ideas expressed here -
divisions of labor being so intimately connected to gender, sexuality,
class, and race, and so on. ... the ways any activity is organized
engages, it seems to me, these aspects of coercion and divisions of labor,
power,

such that individual actions become manifestations of the ceaseless
negotiation of these conflicts.
???
i don't know. i'm asking, kind of....?
thanks phillip

diane

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