Re: primate musings

Judy Diamondstone (diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu)
Sun, 9 Nov 1997 12:00:41 -0500

Mike, I noticed that a new course offered in the Ed. Psych
Dept. here refers to your "mesogenetic" notion (though not
explicitly crediting you on the announcement I saw) - it
indicates to me that "mesogenesis" is taking root in the
mind(s) of educational psychologists. The
course more directly borrows from Bronfembrenner. The "meso"
notion "fits" with the nested context picture in a way that
DOES suggest there is something here that can be, yes,
empirically studied. -- Judy

At 01:32 PM 11/8/97 -0800, you wrote:
>Jay wrote, among other things:
>(1) how the community-scale analysis and the individual-scale analysis are
>to be smoothly integrated with one another in the theory, and
>
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>Jay-- I know this is only a tiny fragment of what you were writing
>about which was the process of hominization writ large, but I
>focus here in my own work and this is a level that members of
>xmca, in principle, ought to be able to conduct empirical as
>well as theoretical work on.
>
>In Cultural Psychology I offer up one empirical approach, a
>"mesogenetic" methodology focused on microgenesis, ontogenesis,
>and cultural-historical genesis of a particular activity system.
>Discussion of the book on xmca never got that far, so I am not
>certain of how people responded to that effort.
>
>I would be very interested in hearing from members of XMCA about
>research they are engaged in, or which they know about, which
>brings community and individual analyses together.
>
>mike
>
>
>

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