Dear Andy, I think you are right on the target talking about, what Jim Gee
calls, "projective identity." The question that I have is how and why
working class people participate in middle-class "cultural model" (or way of
talking).
It is not the case that working class people accept any middle class
"cultural model" that available via TV or other popular media. Although I do
not have much data about that but I doubt that many working class people
would buy middle class cultural model of child fostering based on constantly
giving kids choices. So the question is why some working class people
project themselves in "self-actualization" middle-class cultural model but
not in "child-rearing through choice-making" middle-class cultural model. I
do not think the preference of working class people in adapting middle-class
models can be explained simply by watching TV. Any ideas?
What do you think?
Eugene
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From: Andy Blunden [mailto:ablunden@mira.net]
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 6:38 PM
To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
Subject: RE: real and virtual worlds
We could put this together with Jim Gee's observations about play. People
are growing up acting out characters that they see on TV. They believe that
they can make their own character. But this turns out to be a frustrated
experience; they only get to play Doug Heffernan. ... Andy
Claudias study shows that also working class men widely hold this
self-actualizationcultural model they do and cannot enact it (but rather
they act out of necessity-based being a breadwinnercultural model). Victor
or anybody else, can you explain what makes proliferation of cultural
modelsthat people deeply hold but cant enact, please?
Eugene
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