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Phillip Capper wrote:
>Thanks Mike
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>You wrote
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>" I assume by culture you mean the attribution of pilot reactions to
>something
>of the sort "Russians are told to follow human orders over belief in
>equipment"
>or some such generalization of the sort bandied about.
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>But where is culture, in this sense, in Yrjo's expanded triangle? And
>aren't tools and rules constituents of culture? Might whata you are talking
>about be usefully worked upon by examinging the category of rules and its
>heteroglosic uses? (As in norms, values, .......)? This is not a known
>answer question, but a concrete case, I hope, of the issues you raised a
>few days ago."
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>My answer to your first question is - everywhere.
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>My answer to your second question is -- yes.
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>But how are we to think about the rules and tools in cases like this? First
>there are a set of international procedures that have evolved over time. But
>in reality they are not a truly negotiated set of procedures - they are
>dominated by the cultural and historical contexts of the major airliner
>manufacturing countries - the United States and France. For some countries
>they are simply an external imposition. These rules (and the implication of
>what tools they apply to) are then translated into many languages. What
>cultural lenses are the understandings passed through in the translation?
>and then they are implemented - once again passing through a set of complex
>lenses with the remediation that thereby occurs.
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>At the end of those filterings we do have local predispositions. It may not
>be true to say "Russians are told to follow human orders over belief in
>equipment", but it may be possible to say that "in some contexts there is a
>predisposition to follow human orders over belief in equipment, and this
>predisposition is more frequently found in some national settings than
>others, one of which is Russia." And we might seek to understand the
>dynamics of such a circumstance through a CHAT analysis
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>Phillip Capper,
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-- There is no hope of finding the sources of free action in the lofty realms of the mind or in the depths of the brain. The idealist approach of the phenomenologists is as hopeless as the positive approach of the naturalists. To discover the sources of free action it is necessary to go outside the limits of the organism, not into the intimate sphere of the mind, but into the objective forms of social life; it is necessary to seek the sources of human consciousness and freedom in the social history of humanity. To find the soul it is necessary to lose it. A.R. Luriavygotsky@charter.net http://webpages.charter.net/schmolze1/vygotsky/index.html http://marxists.org/subject/psychology/index.htm
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