Thanks, Greg,I haven't been following, so I was startled by your references to "CoP" in this message -- thought I was missing something.
I read "CoP" as "Communities of Practice." I wonder if we could use something else (C/P, or just CP) for Culture of Poverty.
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Gregory Allan Thompson wrote:
Here is the other side of the culture of poverty discourse. Frankly, I think that this discourse is much more circulatable, and hence pernicious, than the CoP argument. This is the one that people can discuss in polite company. Nonetheless, the CoP argument is strongly implied leaving people secretly buying into the CoP argument - even people who would never admit to it in polite company. "The rise and rise of the cognitive elite" http://www.economist.com/node/17929013 -greg __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca
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