You, as well as Rachel, remind me of the problem of pace. Yes, last
summer's discussion of Cultural Psychology stopped at the point where
I turned from critical/historial review to examining the idea that
a psychology would really start from analysis of everyday activities,
so that claim never got worked over, nor the implications I drew
from it.
How to sequence? We can, of course, have overlapping parallel discussions,
that would be nothing new, or we could set up a separate list serve
for some part(S) of the discussion, which has its pluses and minuses.
I am certain of only one thing: We plan to discuss diversity and activity
theory in the LCHC lab meetings starting the first week of October. For
the reading-together activities to occur, we need some other places/
people to take the organizing role.
ready when you-all are!
mike
PS- And yes, the discussion of settings is really likely to be worthwhile.
It is not disconnected from the other proposed topics. I have just been
reminded by an early (1964) Goffman paper "On the neglected situation"
which would almost certainly be relevant.