[Xmca-l] Re: The Science of Qualitative Research 2ed

[David Kellogg]

I was referring to what you said about the second edition, Martin. Didn't
you say there was an ethnographic study of boxing in South Chicago? I
remember that the first edition didn't have much by way of concrete studies
in it: it was a sustained argument rather than a working hypothesis. But
maybe what I'm remembering is Greg's review of it and not my own; I think
what happened was that I looked at it and found that there was too much
methodology and not enough method for my students.

See what you think of this, from Chapter Five of the pedology of the
adolescent. Vygotsky has argued that the crisis at adolescence is caused by
the non-coincidence of three peaks: general-organic, sexual, and cultural
historical development. Then he says:

"Blonsky thought, profoundly, that at the end of childhood the child is an
anthropological analogue with so called “childish races”, i.e. with various
primitive tribes, lacking that period of development which commences after
sexual maturation but passing instead from childhood directly into the
state of sexual maturity. In Thurnwald we find some indications that the
epoch of sexual maturation is critical for the children of primitive
peoples, who in at school age find themselves on a par with enculturated
peoples but after maturation frequently cease advancing and manifest a
“relapse into primitivity”, sinking to the general level of the whole
tribe."

Ugh. Thurnwald was a reviewer for the PhD thesis of Eva Justin, a nurse who
learned Romani in order to take part in the extermination of the gypsies.
After her PhD work was done, she arranged for the extermination and or
vivisection of all 29 of her research subjects. Thurnwald gave her a B.



David Kellogg

Recent Article in *Mind, Culture, and Activity* 24 (4) 'Metaphoric,
Metonymic, Eclectic, or Dialectic? A Commentary on “Neoformation: A
Dialectical Approach to Developmental Change”'

Free e-print available (for a short time only) at

http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YAWPBtmPM8knMCNg6sS6/full


On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 10:24 AM, Martin Packer <mpacker@cantab.net> wrote:

> Sorry to be dense, David. Are you referring to my book?
>
> Martin
>
> > On Jan 2, 2018, at 5:56 PM, David Kellogg <dkellogg60@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Martin--
> >
> > I thought that your solution--presenting concrete cases that were
> > theoretically defensible and yielded practical results for students--was
> a
> > good approach, and I was contrasting it with the alternatives:
>
>