Peter Jones wrote:
> OK, I've just read a Dervin paper:
>
> ttp://communication.sbs.ohio-state.edu/sense-making/art/artdervin83.html
>
> AN OVERVIEW OF SENSE-MAKING RESEARCH:
> CONCEPTS, METHODS, AND RESULTS TO DATE
> by: Brenda Dervin
>
> ...
>
> "Sense-Making assumes that issues of force and power
> pervade all human conditions; that humans ....
> are themselves sites of power, to resist, reinvent, challenge, deny,
> and ignore."
WHAT????!!!!
What is the point of calling it "sense making", if the whole concept of
persuasion is buried in it. How is this a "change" from the
persuasion-centered
theories of the past?
I mean, we might want to define "power" as the ability to get someone to
pretend they agree with you, and go along with what you say. On the
other hand, there is also a "power" dimension to persuasion -- where by
dint of repetition, force of will, eloquence of expression, or pure
education,
you get someone to see the world differently than they did before.
Finally, there is the concept of arriving at the most useful possible
conclusions, of collaboratively arriving at some form of "truth" that
becomes manifest in the process. It is that concept that "sense making"
sounds like it is about.
But first there is the personal dimension to "sense making" -- the
ability
to make sense of things. So there is a hierachy, of sorts:
Power
|
Persusion
|
Sense-Making
| |
Individual Collaboration
Investigation
All aspects of that equation are necessary to make progress in the
world. All are worthy of study. But that oen paragraph seems to
lump them all in under the heading of "sense making", when I would
see it as part of a larger hierarchy.
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