God made Adam and Eve and not Adam and Steve.
Michael
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From: "Michael Britt" <[email protected]>
To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)"
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Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 3:47 PM
Subject: [tips] Piaget and Gay Marriage
As many of you probably heard, same-sex marriages are now legal here in New
York. I've heard a few things lately that made me wonder whether the pro
and con attitudes toward this issue didn't have something to do with
Piaget's concept of schema, assimilation and accommodation. Feel free to
let me know if you think I've got this right or if I'm off-base here.
My guess is that if your scheme for the concept of "marriage" is primarily
the idea that marriage is a union between a woman and a man, then you could
easily assimilate a few variations on this, such as a) a union between an
older man and a younger woman (and vice versa), and b) a union between a man
of one color to that of a woman of another (again, and vice versa). You
could easily assimilate these observations into your existing schema of
"marriage".
However, a union between and man and a man or a woman and a woman would
probably require this person to accommodate - restructure their definition
of "marriage". I'm guessing that for many people who have been brought up
to have a tight definition of marriage (man and woman), the accommodation of
this definition to include two people of the same sex is difficult.
On the other hand, if your schema for "marriage" is primarily the idea that
marriage is a union between two people who love each other, then a gay
marriage is more a case of assimilation than accommodation. Am I right
here?
On a not unrelated note, I was recently watching the first "Pirates of the
Caribbean" movie and I saw another example of assimilation vs. accommodation
(got Piaget on the brain I guess). Early in this movie Jack Sparrow said to
Will that Will's father was both "a pirate and a good man". Will had
trouble accepting this because, from Piaget's perspective, the two schema,
"pirate" and "good man" are very different and usually don't evoke each
other. Will had trouble accommodating "pirate" to include "good man".
Just checking to make sure this isn't too far fetched of an application of
the concepts of schema, accommodation and assimilation. Feedback welcome.
Michael A. Britt, Ph.D.
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http://www.ThePsychFiles.com
Twitter: mbritt
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