[Xmca-l] Re: "sociocultural psychology" ?

[Charles Bazerman]

Chuck
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Los Estados Unidos es una nación de inmigrantes.
The U.S. is a nation of immigrants.
History will judge.
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Andy,
Two historical notes:
1. Don't forget Berger and Luckmann's 1966 Book Social Construction of
Reality, which is built on Luckmann's earlier work on sociological
phenomenology.
2. And on the right always lurking in deconstruction, remember Paul DeMan
and his checkered past.
Chuck

 (1) The discovery of the "social construction of reality" was an
> achievement of the Left, the progressives, with people like the Critical
> Psychologists, the theorists of postmodernism and post-structural feminists
> in the 1970s an 80s, who exposed how taken-for-granted facts along with the
> truths of Science were on closer inspection ideological products of
> dominant social groups. Of course, how reality is *seen *is an
> inseparable part of how reality *is*. This insight led to a range of
> powerful theoretical and practical critiques of all aspects of society.
> Feminists offered an alternative way of interpreting reality as a powerful
> lever for changing that reality by undermining patriarchal structures and
> certainties. So far so good. But today, in 2020, it is not progressives who
> are asking "who decides?" and calling into question the very idea of truth
> and fact: it is Donald Trump and Rudi Giuliani. Quite honestly, this
> outcome was always implicit in the postmodern and poststructuralist
> critique. Or, could I say: "Donald Trump is a more evolved form of Judith
> Butler" if I thought in those terms, which I don't.
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