Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:13:24 EDT
Subject: Re: [HAB:] Communicative Action and Individualization


 
In a message dated 8/27/2004 7:37:09 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
sue-AT-mcphersons.freeserve.co.uk writes:

Are you  talking about "adulthood" as we perceive it, or the state
of being an  individual. And are you saying such a state depends
on one's ability to  reproduce and that the legitimacy of those not
yet at that point, or beyond  it, is questionable?



I do not believe that adulthood addresses the issue of being an  individual.  
Current studies in adult developmental psychology have  tremendously 
differentiated the adult sector of the lifespan. Typcially,  this literature will 
highlight a particular case of an autonomous individual in  terms of life choices, 
problem-solving ability, and mate selection  dynamics.   But, the notion of 
individual is at issue in cases of  reproduction, particularly when we consider 
questions of choice as distinct from  lifeworld assumptions over mate choice 
which in most circumstances merely  reproduces cultural hegemony.  The sick 
part of this problem is that those  made to reproduce the hegemony involve the 
self-complicity of those taken  advantage.  How can an autonomous individual 
select or be involved in the  selection of mates when they are not mental equals.
 
Fred Welfare


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