tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030220433025894048.post6339066926461804859..comments2023-11-03T08:02:25.369-04:00Comments on AmericanScience: A Team Blog: Review: American Social Sciences RoundtableDavid Roth Singermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12841041983824755867noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030220433025894048.post-63246016414482643632011-02-18T15:15:40.119-05:002011-02-18T15:15:40.119-05:00Well, let's plan it then. Princeton, Spring 20...Well, let's plan it then. Princeton, Spring 2012?Hankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02841787256060612291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030220433025894048.post-31645356279898618852011-02-17T13:25:51.952-05:002011-02-17T13:25:51.952-05:00Ooh. I would like to attend this symposium.Ooh. I would like to attend this symposium.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05217832960135325575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030220433025894048.post-68356109098812016702011-02-17T11:57:26.617-05:002011-02-17T11:57:26.617-05:00I too sense a renewed interest in structures. I th...I too sense a renewed interest in structures. I think historians are still grappling with how to best use the mass amount of digitized sources. I know a number of my colleagues are starting to pursue these approaches. Speaking for myself, this was happening as I was researching and writing my dissertation. I tended to use these new resources much like the archives and microfilm of old. On the long "to do list" is organizing a symposium/workshop on digital humanities and the history of the human sciences.Mike Pettitnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030220433025894048.post-12205903761644540662011-02-15T22:26:24.334-05:002011-02-15T22:26:24.334-05:00Mike! Good to hear from you. Anthropology will nev...Mike! Good to hear from you. Anthropology will never be free from our poaching, eh? It's worked well for us so far, anyway..<br /><br />Let me ask you, as an historian of psychology, something in return: as I've been wading into that literature, I've found my thoughts hinging around the question of vocabularies and a search for a "new structuralism," for lack of a better term. <br /><br />That is: we've gotten pretty good at how individual actors utilize/accommodate/indigenize ideas and cultural resources as they grapple with the world - but how do we deal with the structures determining both those usages and what's available to use in the first place? <br /><br />My sense is that tools in the digital humanities (text-minding, things like Dan Cohen and sappingattention.blogspot.com) might help us access the structures of words and concepts out of which actors did all this crafting, but I'm not sure. Does that make sense? Any thoughts?Hankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02841787256060612291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030220433025894048.post-2620405046987607092011-02-15T20:50:08.350-05:002011-02-15T20:50:08.350-05:00One framework that is currently being discussed in...One framework that is currently being discussed in the historiography of psychology is the concept of "indigenization." First proposed by Kurt Danziger, others folks (especially Wade Pickren) have adopted it. It is a way of framing on how American scientists at the end of the nineteenth-century adapted aspects of German, French, and British psychology to meet local concerns. It also leads to the study of how different nations adapted aspects of "American" psychology post-WWII. I am still have reservations about the terminology, but it definitely gets at aspects of the historical process.Mike Pettithttp://www.yorku.ca/health/people/index.php?dept=P&mid=645753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030220433025894048.post-50314597980765882112011-02-15T18:23:07.154-05:002011-02-15T18:23:07.154-05:00Not really -- though one thing Andy Jewett took ca...Not really -- though one thing Andy Jewett took care to emphasize was that, even in the case of people, and especially ideas, whose provenance and/or influence had to be traced outside the American frame, many figures from the early-twentieth-century period we were focusing on (as well as many before and after) were obsessed with the idea that theirs was a specifically American project. <br /><br />So: international tools, American "vision." I add the quote marks because this quickly gets into the murky hinterland between actors' and analytical categories. Suffice it to say, though, that one still needs to grapple with why and to what degree these folks did see their work as American -- as furthering American ends or as distinctly, democratically American.Hankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02841787256060612291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030220433025894048.post-55743876802593469852011-02-15T17:11:49.741-05:002011-02-15T17:11:49.741-05:00Okay, I'll bite: did the conversation bring ou...Okay, I'll bite: did the conversation bring out any particular research questions or topics that called most clearly for a national framing?Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05217832960135325575noreply@blogger.com