File spoon-archives/marxism-psych.archive/marxism-psych_1996/96-12-11.201, message 70


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


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