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Andy -- Actually, I'm not sure what "societal meaning" is, or even if it's not a misuse of the post-fix (like prefix?) "-al" to make up a new word. But I took it from the quote from Manfred. "Meaning" -- sure, I can agree that meaning implies interpretation. Then does "societal" mean "the meaning to a society" -- in the sense of what role a bank plays in a society? And I guess that in one sense that role is established by regulations and laws. Which are pretty contested right now in the US, right? I see they're putting the heat on some top players in the financial industry these days. Helena On 3/30/13 4:30 PM, "Raquel Guzzo" <rguzzo@mpc.com.br> wrote: > >Raquel S. L. Guzzo >Pos-Graduação em Psicologia >Centro de Ciências da Vida >Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas > >rguzzo@puc-campinas.edu.br >rguzzo@pq.cnpq.br >rguzzo@mpc.com.br > >On 30 Mar 2013, at 20:21, Andy Blunden wrote: > >> So what can be meant by "societal meaning" then, Helena? Material >>objects (such as the bank building, and the various human bodies >>involved, and books and ledgers, coins, etc.) are "societal" in the >>sense of being universal. But "meaning" implies to me an act of >>"interpretation" of material objects, something particular. And if the >>Politburo is not there to ascribe the one societal meaning to material >>things/processes/events, what on Earth can "societal meaning" be? >> >> Andy >> >> Helena Worthen wrote: >>> ... >>> >>> Before this gets too long, I'll just say that I agree, there is no >>> omniscient observer to tell us what the "societal meaning" of something >>> is. In fact, if Manfred and I were standing in line at that bank where >>> this happened, it might be fun for us to compare our "personal sense" >>>of >>> what we saw. >>> >>> Helena >> >> >> __________________________________________ >> _____ >> xmca mailing list >> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu >> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > >__________________________________________ >_____ >xmca mailing list >xmca@weber.ucsd.edu >http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca