> There's a way in which affect has a lot to do with one's
>stance-toward-activity as we've discussed before, and perhaps even toward a
>stance constructed across various activities. And yet the relation is
>perhaps never constant, which is perhaps one reason why many research
>psychologists have been so reluctant to study affect.
>
Are you saying that affective orientations are both learned
(by way of recurring opportunities for participating in
certain ways & not others in certain activities/local systems-
of-social-relations) and at the same time to a certain degree always
contingent/emergent (in so far as opportunities arise to
participate in new ways? -- What counts as an opportunity to
participate in new ways is still a black box, though - it's
not simply setting up activity-specific conditions for individuals
to take new roles).
Can you say more?
Judy
Judy Diamondstone
Graduate School of Education
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
10 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu
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