On 24-Nov-07, at 12:52 PM, Tony Whitson wrote:
Identity is one of the most central and prominent themes in Wenger's
work.
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Mike Cole wrote:
> I am not sure how our multi-log has helped your understanding,
> Eric, but
glad it was useful to you.
As I understand them, Lave and Wenger espouse a social ontology and I
do not recall them having talked about identity.
I you looked at the index of their book, you would find a lot of
entries, a number of them in bold. I don't want to be picky, but
don't we want to have informed discussions. I knew they were all
about identity, and it took me only 5 seconds to go to the book
shelves, get the book and find the index entry.
:-)
Michael
But they do use the quasi
dimension, peripheral-->central which implies some sort of common set
of social norms and expectations, a.k.a. superego bound up with what
is considered central.
Being peripheral (what might have been refered to at other times as
marginal)
is not all that bad a subject position. Some might even argue that it
provides
a privileged view of the workings of the system that is human life.
mike
On Nov 24, 2007 12:20 PM, <ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org> wrote:
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> Wow, Boris & Mike:
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> That is truely enlightening. I appreciate the formation of the
> ideal that
> has evolved from this discourse. I was floundering at first Mike,
> regarding your comment on superego, but having read and reread the
> post
> from Boris I now concur that personality research is not for the
> collective
> but rather for the understanding of cultural influences upon
> development.
> Mike, in your opinion does Lave and Wagner's research on legitimate
> peripheral participation assist in the research pertaining to
> identity?
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> Thank you Andy for beginning this fabulous thread
>
> grateful for the discourse,
> not dead yet,
> eric
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> To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> cc: Boris Meshcheryakov <borlogic@orexovo.net>
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> In red below is my attempt at translation of a note from Boris
> Mescheryakov
> re identity and personality in LSV. Boris, whose work you can read
> in the
> Companion to Vygotsky and elsewhere
> was kind enough to look up relevant passages from LSV. I probably
> have not
> done the translation justice, but most all of this exists in
> English and
> others more knowledgeable of Russian
> can straighten things out.
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> It appears were are dealing with issues that are not usefully
> reduced to
> either or....... again.
> mike
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Boris Meshcheryakov < borlogic@orexovo.net>
> Date: Nov 23, 2007 12:01 AM
> Subject: Re: Fwd: [xmca] Vygotsky on Identity?
> To: Mike Cole <mcole@weber.ucsd.edu>
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> Здравствуй, Mike.
> По-видимому, правы те, кто считает, что проблема идентичности,
> идентификации, самоопределения (самодетерминации) не были
> самостоятельным
> предметом размышлений и исследований Выготского. Могу лишь предложить
> некоторые его высказывания о развитии личности и самосознании (эту
> связь
> Выготский четко описывал):
>
> Apparently, those who believe that the problem of identity,
> identification,
> self determination were not independent subjects of thought and
> investigation by LSV are correct. I can only propos a few of his
> statements
> on the development of personality and self consciousness (this
> connection
> Vygotsky clearly did describe)
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> ?...отличие ребенка от подростка может быть лучше всего выражено
> положением
> Гегеля, который различал вещи в себе и вещи для себя. Он говорил,
> что все
> вещи суть сначала в себе, но на этом дело не останавливается и в
> процессе
> развития вещь превращается в вещь для себя. Так, говорил он, человек в
> себе
> есть ребенок, задача которого состоит не в том, чтобы оставаться в
> этом
> абстрактном и неразвитом "в себе", а в том, чтобы стать также и для
> себя
> тем, чем он пока есть лишь в себе, именно стать свободным и разумным
> существом. Вот это превращение ребенка из человека в себе в
> подростка ?
> человека для себя ? и составляет главное содержание всего кризиса
> переходного возраста. Это есть эпоха созревания личности и
> мировоззрения...?
> (Педология подростка, Собр. соч., т. 4, с. 199).
>
> "the difference between child and adolescent may be best expressed by
> Hegel's position that distinguished things in themselves and things
> for
> oneself. He said that the all things are initially in themselves, but
> matters do not stop at this point and in the process of development
> the
> thing turns into a thing for onself. Thus, he said, a person (man) in
> himself is a child, whose task is to leave behind that abstract and
> undeveloped "in himself" and in so doing, in order to become for
> himself
> in
> a way that he is in the meantime only in himself, that is, to become a
> free
> and intelligent being. This very transformation of the child into
> an adult
> (man) in himself in the adolescent -- a person (man) for himself--
> constitutes the major content of the entire crisis of this
> transitional
> age.
> It is an epoch of the maturation of personality and world view
> (Pedology
> of
> the Adolescent, Comp Works, v4, p. 199)
>
> "Личность становится для себя тем, что она есть в себе, через то,
> что она
> предъявляет для других. Это и есть процесс становления
> личности" (История
> развития ВПФ, Собр. соч., т. 3, с. 144). (A) Personality becomes for
> itself, when it has previously been in itself, through what it
> manifests
> through others (History of Dev of HPF, Coll. Works, Vol 3, p. 144)
>
> Очень важное добавление из "Истории развития ВПФ": "The following
> addition
> from same work is very important:
>
> ?Дж. Болдуин справедливо отметил, что понятие о "я" развивается у
> ребенка
> из
> понятия о других. Понятие ?личность? есть, т.о., социальное,
> отраженное
> понятие, строящееся на основе того, что ребенок применяет по
> отношению к
> самому себе те приемы приспособления, которые он применяет по
> отношению к
> другим. Вот почему можно сказать, что личность есть социальное в
> нас? (т.
> 3, с. 324/ жирн. шрифт мой ? Б.М.).
>
> James Baldwin correctly noted that the concept of "I" develops in a
> child
> from the concept of others. The concept, personality, that is, the
> social,
> reflected, concept, is built on the basis of the fact that the
> child uses
> in
> relationship to himself those means of adaptation which he uses in
> relationship to others. This is why it is possible to say that
> personality
> is the social in us. (vol 3, p. 324)
>
>
>
> Из "Психологического словаря" Варшавы и Выготского (1931) From
> Varshava
> and
> Vygotsky (1931) *Psychological Dictionary*:
>
> "Идентификация (Фрейд) - отождествление, уподобление себя другой
> личности,
> приписывание себе признаков определенного человека. Идентификация
> играет
> огромную роль в сновидениях, в творчестве, в мечтах.
> Психологический смысл
> И. сводится к расширению круга переживаний, к обогащению внутреннего
> опыта".
>
> Identification (Freud) - the equating, making similar, of oneself to
> another
> personality, the adoption by oneself of the characteristics of a
> specific
> person. Identification plays a huge role in reminisences, dreams and
> creativity. The psychological sense of identification comes down to
> the
> widening of one's circle of experiences (perezhivania), to the
> enrichment
> of
> innner life.
>
> "Личность - термин, означающий единство и индивидуальность всех
> жизненных
> и
> психологических проявлений человека; человек, сознающий сам себя как
> определенное индивидуальное единство и тождество во всех процессах
> изменения, происходящих в организме и психике, есть личность.
> Болезнь Л.
> выражается в распаде этого единства"
>
> Personality is a term indicating a unity in the indivualenss of all
> everyday
> life and psychological manifestation of persons; a person (man)
> accepting
> himself as a certain individual unity and entity in all processes of
> change
> that take place in the organism and the psyche - this is personality.
> Disease of personality is expressed in the disintegration of this
> unity.
>
> И еще: В "Психологии искусства" в главе о "Гамлете" Выготский
> акцентирует
> понятие "второго рождения" . В работах А.Н. Леонтьева тоже встречается
> этот
> термин в связи с развитием самосознания в подростковом возрасте. And
> also:
> In *Psychology of Art *in the chapter on Hamlet Vygotsky
> accentuates the
> concept, "second birth." In the works of AN Leontiev one also
> encounters
> this term in connection with the development of selfconsciousness
> during
> adolescence.
>
>
> --
>
> С уважением,
>
> Б.М.
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