social constructionism - tension: dialogue - power
atmosim - notion of social organization - individual's autonomy as opposed to the social
Always the tension - enlightenment vs. more religious eras
Foucault, these ideas bleed - not "neat"
overdetermination?
- constructivism - (trivial ) dominant mode? - transmission mode more dominant!
epistemic functions - rhetoric - linguistic turn away from objectivism change in way we think of things
way of framing work - how people exist in a social network
postmodernism
Vygostky - approach to human development - mediated activity - tools (language as tool)
Disciplinary Boundaries: different ways of constructing knowledge - biology vs. humanities
how the individual operates in society
De Certeau
- tension between the individual and the social
- obscure background of social activity
-rational inquiry
- lab is artificial - when dealing with world - power tied to loss of competence when the expert encounters everyday language - lose power
Issues of mass communication - DO we matter as individuals? Do we have a place of "importance'?
(myth - individual matters - discourse)
His point -
Common man does matter - center our inquiry there
strategy vs. tactics
issues of consumption - becomes the object of study
consumers becomes a main theme
constructivism
facts are out there - what individuals do with that (they consume, but construct)
reductive? tools/ rules/ roles?
complicated notion of "making" - hidden - basing structure on consumerism
tactics - outside but inside - look at everyday practice to subvert - Spanish colonizers
Vygostsky only a tool when a tool in use
Choice - embrace and do it -- or develop arguments against that position
stasis theory - not discussing certain things at certain times
1. existence - did he steal my bike?
2. definition - I borrowed it
3. quality - extenuating circumstances - I took it to help someone
can start to see these patterns within scientific journals
p. 19 -
speech acts, reading, writing - places us in "strategy" and "tactic" world - ambivelent
discourse communities used to maintain power
force expert into world with common knowledge - break down power boundaries
Language is way to fight against power.
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trajectory
strategy - (activity) generates relations with others distinct from it
tactics - (action) insinuates into other place - poaching - place and time (waiting for opportunity)/ pervert system to get what you need - not institutionalized - course of action
At end - trajectory going off track in a homogeneous manner
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