[lbo-talk] choices [was: trash talking the lumpenproletariat]

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Tue Nov 14 09:59:34 PST 2006


Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


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> However, the actual locus of decision making can be substantially
> distorted by subjective perceptions that selectively discount either
> the constraints in the environment or the human agency. That is to
> say, people may selectively focus on human agency and discount or
> disregard the environmental constraints, or do the opposite - focus on
> the environment and forget the human agency. Such perceptions are a
> matter of cognitive framing rather than deliberate deviousness.
> People acquire different cognitive frames through socialization, and
> they simply see things differently through these frames - just as
> changing the lenses makes different things appear larger or smaller.
> In the individualist frame, individual characteristics and motives
> receive a much greater weight that environment constraints, which tend
> to be minimized or altogether ignored. In the structuralist frame, by
> contrast, the attention is focused on the environmental factors and
> constraints, while the individual characteristics are minimized or
> ignored.
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"Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the

conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities

exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but

that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be

taken into account."

Joanna

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