Re: [xmca] Time in the unit of analysis: Social representations

[Larry Purss <lpurss@shaw.ca>]

Hi Mike
I hope this thread goes somewhere.
I was thinking about a particular story you mentioned on the web which could be a reference point when schematizing the triangle.
Your story of the "biography" (see Danzinger for his idea of the biography of objects) of the abacus as a tool and the history of situated practices in Japan seems central to CHAT narratives.
The process of INTERNALIZATION where "master" abacus players no longer need to physically manipulate the abacus because the moves are manipulated internally seems to be a key notin that must be captured in the triangle.
Mike, your story of how the abacus location in the culture has changed and the status positions of master players have transformed is also informative of the historicity of this theory.
I hope others have further thoughts.  Historicity and time seem central to an expanded triangle.

Larry


----- Original Message -----
From: mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, January 24, 2010 10:50 am
Subject: [xmca] Time in the unit of analysis: Social representations
To: "eXtended Mind, Culture,Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Cc: "Glick, Joseph" <jglick@gc.cuny.edu>

> I have been reading the work of Sandra Jovchelovitch at LSE and 
> wonder if
> this work has come to the attention of others? It seems very 
> closely related
> to a CHAT perspective, with many common genealogical
> roots. Just how closely her elaboration of Moscovici's work on social
> representations is a chat perspective I am unsure. One onceuponatime
> participant in xmca, Joe Glick has some apposite complementary 
> thingts to
> say about her recent book, *Knowledge and Representation.
> 
> *Certainly seems worth a review in MCA if anyone is 
> interested/informed.
> My particular reason for posting this note is that in her book, 
> which starts
> with a subject-object-subject
> triangle that, when elaborated, appears to have the elements 
> that folks on
> this list appear to wish in a
> metatheoretical framework, refers to work of Bauer and Gaskell 
> that contains
> a triangle IN TIME. One often hears complaints about the a 
> temporality for
> triangular representations of mediated activity theories, so I 
> thought the
> Bauer and Gaskell picture might inspire somone to produce a 
> representationthat would do the same for Yrjo's expanded 
> triangle. Here is the social rep
> version. Anyone out there able to
> expand on this? (attached)?
> mike
> 
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