the picture makes two categories and like every cleaving into two you will find that while things look more sorted it actually a lie. Take you class and try and put people into the two categories. it if works for things it will work for people too.
trad vs extreme is not doable. is soumitri t or e. i say t (i speak like an old man about the way things were done 60-100 years ago, i dont use current examples) you say e. see?
breaking anythings into two is done politically - with us or against us. but for anything else it lies and misrepresents things. your categories - red, blue, green and grey is good as a way to think of society too.
Innovation and known/ existing is again similar value laden about the future against the past.
I prefer a more complex portrayal like that used by Bourdieu or Mary douglas. http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/archives/2005/07/23/come-together-bourdieu/
i guess i saw it as a method not for splitting into categories, whihc is always hard and makes us generalise - but as a scale. it is not whether something is absolutely traditional or extreme, but where it is on the scale. but as you said, that still pigeon holes items, or people. but sometimes it is neccesary to do that. if we were pigeon holing soumitri, or people in general, it would be impossible, because we are sometimes extreme and sometimes traditional. so this might mean that this diagram is not good for complex situations, just somethign to place products in order to find the holes in the market.
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the picture makes two categories and like every cleaving into two you will find that while things look more sorted it actually a lie. Take you class and try and put people into the two categories. it if works for things it will work for people too.
trad vs extreme is not doable. is soumitri t or e. i say t (i speak like an old man about the way things were done 60-100 years ago, i dont use current examples) you say e. see?
breaking anythings into two is done politically - with us or against us. but for anything else it lies and misrepresents things. your categories - red, blue, green and grey is good as a way to think of society too.
Innovation and known/ existing is again similar value laden about the future against the past.
I prefer a more complex portrayal like that used by Bourdieu or Mary douglas.
http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/archives/2005/07/23/come-together-bourdieu/
i guess i saw it as a method not for splitting into categories, whihc is always hard and makes us generalise - but as a scale. it is not whether something is absolutely traditional or extreme, but where it is on the scale. but as you said, that still pigeon holes items, or people. but sometimes it is neccesary to do that.
if we were pigeon holing soumitri, or people in general, it would be impossible, because we are sometimes extreme and sometimes traditional. so this might mean that this diagram is not good for complex situations, just somethign to place products in order to find the holes in the market.
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