Jay Lemke writes:
>A recent front-page story in the New York Times was headlined:
>Congress votes stiff new curbs on immigration. -- Are there such
>things as repeating patterns in the history of a community?
>dynamical linkages that are relatively invariant along its
>trajectory, despite the historical uniqueness of each instance?
>Is this an aspect of the 'culture' of the community, and how do
>we need to define the historical specificity of culture once it
>is no longer a static-synoptic notion (i.e. culture-now vs.
>culture-through-history, culture as historical product, vs
>culture as feature along a specific historical trajectory)?
I very faintly recall some work that came to exactly this conclusion.
Immigration patterns, School Curriculum, Political moments, etc. to shift
in cyclical patterns that are surprisingly regular - not surprisingly
tied to economic phenomenon. Does anyone have a pointer to this work?
Sorry I'm too swamped and I've forgotten too much to even know where to look.
Edouard