Judy
At 04:15 PM 4/19/96 +1000, you wrote:
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>Perhaps the trick is to see weather and climate as a cline, so we can
>have 2 person cliamte, more person climate... etc. Or texts, registers,
>codes (in Bernstein's sense of coding orientation),
>languages if we put this into a linguistics kind of orientation to
>communities.
>It's the micro- vs macro- problem again... the bottom line for me is that
>we can't talk about power without relating weather to climate, and if we
>can't talk about power, it is very difficult to act politically on
>anything.
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>On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Robin Harwood wrote:
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>> Jim--I love the climate/weather analogy. The "climate" perspective
>> seems to imply not only a longer period of time, but also seems to
>> look for meaningful patterns over a larger geographical region as
>> well. "Weather" occurs outside my front door, but "climate" is
>> something that can be said to characterize the entire state of
>> Connecticut; moreover, I can visit Virginia and "compare" the "climates"
>> (i.e., the larger weather patterns) of the two states.
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>> This is interesting to me, because I have heard some people argue
>> that it is meaningless to look for cultural patterns any larger
>> than two people interacting at a given point in time. The climate/
>> weather analogy, however, seems to suggest otherwise...
>>
>> Robin
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Judy Diamondstone
Graduate School of Education
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
10 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
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