768
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Line 62:
Line 62: + + +
→Tweaks to the "Ideas" section
*A distinct lack of sources. I'm working on this one myself, but it should be incumbent on the person making a claim to back it up. "Truth is a social construct" went for too long without anyone actually bothering to find a postmodernist who sad that. I've yet to find one, so I changed it to reflect what postmodernists '''do''' actually say.
*A distinct lack of sources. I'm working on this one myself, but it should be incumbent on the person making a claim to back it up. "Truth is a social construct" went for too long without anyone actually bothering to find a postmodernist who sad that. I've yet to find one, so I changed it to reflect what postmodernists '''do''' actually say.
I've started this talk page discussion so that anyone who disagrees with how I tweaked the section can work out possible solutions here. [[User:JDWpianist|JDWpianist]] 09:19, 25 January 2010 (EST)
I've started this talk page discussion so that anyone who disagrees with how I tweaked the section can work out possible solutions here. [[User:JDWpianist|JDWpianist]] 09:19, 25 January 2010 (EST)
::"Truth is a social construct." You're right, this is a problematic, simplified expression--We want the article to reflect the view that "truth" is a concept whose construction needs to be interrogated in terms of the way in which it is imbricated in a whole series of uneven power relationships--and works to reproduce those relationships. Discuss.
::"societies don't choose what language they speak." But the choice is made--think about how French became universalized and standardized across France (much of which was not "French-speking" before the Revolution). Think about the imposition of languages from the metropoles in the colonies. Think about N'gugi Wa Thiongo's campaign to get East African universities to get rid of English departments and to work in local languages, and his decision to write in Kikuyu. Think about the role of the French language in Quebec nationalism--or English only v. bilingual education issues in the US. Societies choose languages/have them chosen for them, nd this has everything to do with politics and power. [[User:AlexWD|AlexWD]] 14:53, 25 January 2010 (EST)