As Geoff gropes towards understanding I slouch toward confusion (on the way
to Gomorrah, I guess). How does adding "socio-historical source" to
community clarify it? Why is subject/artifact/object analytical and not
community/rules/division of labor? Why are only subjects (individuals or
collectives) historical? Does a word have a history? A gun? A mountain? A
kidney? Is someone(thing) historical only because it has significance (e.g.,
Rosa Parks vs. walking a dog). Significant for whom? Historians?
I'm really not trying to be argumentative here, I truly don't understand.
This strand started with Mike posting some data. Perhaps if we all
referenced back to that and concretized some of the words and terms we are
using, we could make some progress.
djc
-----Original Message-----
From: blantonw@miami.edu [mailto:blantonw@miami.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 1:58 PM
To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
Subject: Re: History
Geoff,
My understanding of community in Yrjo's model is that it is the source from
which a subject is drawn for point of view for anaylysis. It is also the
socio-historical source of the elements of the triangle. I am groping for
words, too.
My question is: Can the subject be the collective community and also
various combinations of participants in the community?
Bill Blanton
At 04:55 PM 2/12/02 +0000, you wrote:
>I am not sure Don that everything in the Activity system is community -
>would that not reduce the analytical purchase of community. My
understanding
>is that it is the bottom part of the triangle 'model' (which I take to be a
>heuristic device rather than a model per se, and I see it as having a
>heuristic function, hence my question to Helena about its analytic
function)
>which should be taking as representing community with its rules and
division
>of labour. But I am groping towards an understanding here so what do others
>think?
William E. Blanton
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