So I take it from your comment that you're not going to be accommodating your definition of marriage?
Michael Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. [email protected] http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: mbritt On Jun 26, 2011, at 1:37 PM, michael sylvester wrote: > God made Adam and Eve and not Adam and Steve. > Michael > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Britt" <[email protected]> > To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" > <[email protected]> > 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. > [email protected] > http://www.ThePsychFiles.com > Twitter: mbritt > > > > > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13424.eb17e1c03643c971ab35c22d86587541&n=T&l=tips&o=11151 > or send a blank email to > leave-11151-13424.eb17e1c03643c971ab35c22d86587...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.901 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3727 - Release Date: 06/26/11 > 05:34:00 > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13405.0125141592fa9ededc665c55d9958f69&n=T&l=tips&o=11155 > or send a blank email to > leave-11155-13405.0125141592fa9ededc665c55d9958...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=11156 or send a blank email to leave-11156-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
