Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 22:32:52 +0200
From: Bwanika <Daniel.BwanikaH961-AT-stud.oru.se>
Subject: BHA: re- cultural sociology



Dear listers!

I forgot to make one point. There is a tendency to equate explanatory
theory to Bourdieu's cultural sociology and even Adorno. I must say this is
a futile exercise since cultures are not static let them be urban, rural,
traditional etc. YET material needs, wants and necessities from which
cultures are derived are the * same * which make cultures universally the
same in multiplicity, though material production and reproduction take
place in different manner and time flame- a difference between what is
concrete universal or multiple quadruplicity and what is concrete singular.
( DPF 173 -203)  

I make this point from a Marxian time realm of material transaction as a
derivative of  social processes. In fact this only brings us near to
social progress (ation) or re/evolutional processes- social change and
transformation in a world which is wide open for those process to take place.

Unfortunately this has been the strongest point made by rational choice,
and/or information theorist smuggling cultural sociology in political
science, economics to  rescue  Weberain sociology etc. 

Time (history) and space (geography) are not static though people living on
earth might experience the same gravity over a wide raging periods in time,
however the world too is expanding which implicitly implies its gravity and
things on it can't remain behaving in the someway all the time. 

This is the beauty with the * social cube * since it precisely locates the
time /space framework and subsequent activities and transformative agencies
within the object at that time and location. Ithink Sayer make a point when
about as contigent internal, neccessary external relations.

Telling an African story in a ballet dance has of course another content
which mighty change the context and so radically so that it is contigent to
internal relationships.  

This will even become evident and more clearer with the development of
communication technology and molecural biology that not all metals which
conduct electricty can conduct digital signals or that human cells can
conduct digital signal better than metals!

In this respect, Bourdieu cultural sociology is hardly near explanatory
theory and the difference should be made clear since objects and things are
not only made up of  classes but much more than that. I think that is why
Bhaskar argues that causes are /or might be generate by an array of
un/connected events. 


so for my Afro-English Ruth.








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