thanks for the gift, phillip!

From: Mike Cole (mcole@weber.ucsd.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 10 2002 - 17:48:13 PDT


Phillip wrote, after I wrote my note re novelty and social construction.

This suggests that the answer to Kevin's question is that a 'novelty' is a
potential product of an 'accident', where the accidental occurence generates
socially and culturally situated reflection on its nature.

Yeppes, Novelties are RETROSPECTIVE social constructions! (Just as meanings
are RETROSPECTIVE "individual/social" constructions. Well, at least by analogy
with..)
mike



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