RE: where is culture

From: Stetsenko, Anna (AStetsenko@gc.cuny.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 12 2002 - 11:43:04 PDT

 and of course, I meant I proposed this in the conext of the present ongoing
discussion, not in the history if civilization (:-)
Anna

-----Original Message-----
From: N
To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
Sent: 7/12/2002 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: where is culture

Did I miss something? I am not sure I am following you. I commented
with "community?" because I saw it addressing a "cultural concrete" so

to speak. We tend to use culture as a "cultural specific" and a
"cultural general" which can make it confusing times (Both are useful).
I saw "community" as in Engestrom's triangle as a useful way to get at
it. I guess community would get more at the "culture concrete", at least

for me. I envision more than one triangle here, don't you? ;-)

I am not sure what Eugene's sociocultural approach is, so was not
intentionally making a connection. :-)

N

Mike Cole wrote:

>Nate-- So are you proposing that norms/values aspects of culture, which
>is, I agree with Phil, everywhere in the system, the most likely place
>to links up the Engestrom rep of activity with what Eugene would
characterize
>as a sociocultural approach?
>mike
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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
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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. 
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