Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 19:02:47 +0100 From: bda94-AT-stud.hoe.se (bwanika) Subject: Re: the ontological status of structures Thank you Doug for the most elaborative piece;- I would like to make some points below;- > So the actors are acting in knowledgeable ways to reproduce the >rules. They may not be know that they are thereby reproducing the >relation of inequality, which can exist without their awareness. Since >inequality is not itself a rule or an action, there need be no practice >constituting it. I apologize for any apparent flippancy, but inequality >may exist even without a specific practice that ethnomethodologists might >call "doing inequality." Inequality is not a practice but a relationship >generated by practices. Is it not that human actions always follow this trend, to bridge such inequal relationship generated by practices? For instance in a class society, or gender relationships ? What is the driving force behind human actions really ? > Thus, I do not think that peasants' lack of technological >knowledge is the key factor. I think, Bwanika, that the "technological >fix" represents the kind of concession to western industrialization that >you oppose. The Marxist view, I think, would emphasize class structure. > I am not opposed to the western industrialization processes .But, I do think this type of developement should causally be generated by human actions not as social constructions. I believe, this type of development came out of human resolution to standing problems. Besides, I can't see how the whole world, despite the fact that there differing contigent structures, should perceive existential relationships as being monotonic. Now, 'am basing my arguments on the consequences of, i.e. large scale farming and the so-called green revolution, pollution and urban problems which the developed world is trying to solve. I can see an indeterminate position on part of policy makers both in developed and developing countries. I remember, reading from Bhaskar Plato etc., about the chaotic situation where he gives an example of an airport in the visinity, a hospital, play ground all congested in one area. This might be a cuasal consequence of economic determinism which might result into economic indeterminism. What leads us into such a situations, despite the fact that there is adequate knowledge to avoid such irrepearable situation? >The causality is always an historically contextual product of composite mechanisms. So similar land tenure may have different consequences in different countries. > Isn't this the situation which should have cuased new ideas and perceptions in reference to the above ? > > Bwanika Daniel University college =D6rebro ------------------
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