Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 18:11:29 +0000 From: miles <mstryker-AT-sfsu.edu> Subject: M-PSY: subject area Chris Buford's post made realize I didn't know what folks were particularly discussing on line. Im new to the list so have seen several posts but no theme around which they seem to revolve. If there are so many various interests perhaps a focus could be created for discussion >from both theory and practice around a particular senerio that somehow represents how a family or neighborhood actually handles their economic and social problems on a day to day basis. What that senerio is, how it is examined from both a theoretical and praxis methodology, and what information people need to comment on possible solutions or situations may be helpful in creating a point of reference besides the pretty large area of info like marxism/psychology. Take for example; A middle aged husband gets laid off work. Hes on unemployment.His wife works part time. They have two kids. A teenage boy and an older unmarried daughter. They are getting by but barely. The kids are generally ok. But things are beginning to get alittle ragged around the edges......We build the senerio according to some general sociological data and go from there. Of course I know this is a euro-centric/north american model thats beginning to unfold here. but its only an example. It does reflect a "crisis" if not of capitalism at least in it. I would be interested in knowing how folks would deal with someting so "ordinary" and at the same time symptomatic of an economy in flux. A society desparately trying to maintain the illusion of normality while the value base and communal assumptions of the future and subsequent aspirations are slowly dissolving between the lines. Just a thought- Miles --- from list marxism-psych-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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