Re: importance of architecture

Peter Smagorinsky (psmagorinsky who-is-at ou.edu)
Wed, 24 Sep 1997 06:57:07 -0500 (CDT)

Steve Witte's article Context, Text, Intertext (Written Communication,
9(2), pp. 237-308) looks at the ways in which people use shopping lists to
structure their experiences in grocery stores--this seems to complement the
excerpt that Katherine posted nicely.

Peter

At 05:04 PM 9/23/97 -0700, you wrote:
>On the question of settings:
>>From page 6 of the new Kirshner and Whitson volume Situated Cognition
>"The supermarket for example as arena is the product of pattrns of
>capital formation and political economy. It is not negotiable directly
>by the individual It is outside of yet encompasses the individual,
providing a
>higher order institutional framework within which setting is constituted.
>At the same time, for individual shoppers the supermarket is
>(my caps)
>A REPEATEDLY EXPERIENCED PERSONALLY ORDERD AND EDITED VERSION OF THE
>ARENA. IN THIS ASPECT, IT MAY BE TERMED A SETTING FOR ACTIVITY.
>(Lave, 1988, p. 151).
>
>Katherine Brown
>
>