Hello everybody--
A "quick" comment. Jay wrote on December 31,
>I certainly agree that 'social structures' are not 'objectively
>out there', but are analyst's interpretations and models -- and
>need to be analyzed in fact as part of the practices of analysts...
and further he continued
>What is missed [in the analysis of local activity situations - EM]=20
>I think is a systematic sense of the kinds of linkages
>that connect one situation to another. These too are present in
>every situation, but they may seem marginal or invisible or
>irrelevant, both to members and analysts, when our attention is
>on the activity-focus of that one situation.=20
Because boundaries between activity situations are not fully "out there" =
either,
I think one of possible solutions of the problem stated by Jay is to =
consider a broader activity system (i.e., a "trans-situation") that =
includes the two situations as its phases or moments in the newly =
defined activity. This methodological "trick" can help to avoid the =
mechanical notion of "linkage" and "transfer." What do you think?
Eugene Matusov
UC Santa Cruz
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