Re: Perspectives
Scott Grills (grills@augustana.ab.ca)
Thu, 25 Jan 1996 13:42:07 MST
Louisa:
Your comments speak to the dialectical tension in Berger's work. It is
not I think intended to be resolved. We are both created and creating
actors. He picks up on the Marxian theme that people creaaate history
but not under conditions of their own selection. There are like tensions
in Blume and Schutz - we act on the basis of meaning (or world view) yet
meaning arises through interaction with others (that's Blumer above).
We end up with perspectives that are a mixture of insight and blindness
(Rosaldo, 1989), refelcting that all are positioned subjects. As we
intigrate such themes into our sociology, it isn't so much are we free or are
we determined that becomes the question, but rather, how do we respect
the world we study without over simplifying it that becomes a topic.
Cheers,
Scott Grills
Augustana University Coll. (Alberta)