Fw: mass phenomena

From: Paul H.Dillon (illonph@pacbell.net)
Date: Sun Jan 21 2001 - 18:51:07 PST


----- Original Message -----
From: Carl Ratner <cr2@humboldt1.com>
To: Paul H.Dillon <illonph@pacbell.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: mass phenomena

> Mike,
> By mass psychological phenomenon I mean emotions, perceptions, cognitive
> processes, mental illness that are shared by masses of people. As opposed
to
> idiosyncratic features. It is the mass phenomena that are organized by
> activities and cultural concepts of a social system. The fact that many
> people participate in these activities is why their psychological
phenomena
> are widespread (shared). Thus, I believe that activity theory directs
> cultural psychologists to understand mass psych. phenomena as they are
> organized by broad, encompassing activities. Idiosyncratic aspects of
> psychology are due more to individual experience with particular people
and
> thus are not directly related to the manner in which social activities are
> organized. They would lie outside activity theory/cultural psychology in
my
> view.
> Carl
> --
> Carl Ratner, Ph.D.
> cr2@humboldt1.com
> http://www.humboldt1.com/~cr2
>
> P.O.B. 1294
> Trinidad, CA 95570
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>
> > From: "Paul H.Dillon" <illonph@pacbell.net>
> > Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 14:14:23 -0800
> > To: Carl Ratner <cr2@humboldt1.com>
> > Subject: Fw: mass phenomena
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Mike Cole <mcole@weber.ucsd.edu>
> > To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> > Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 1:19 PM
> > Subject: mass phenomena
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Andy/Carl-- what is a mass psychological phenomenon and how does it
> >> relate to non-mass phenomena?
> >> mike
> >>
> >
> >
>



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