Harre and P. F. Secord. We encountered the ideas on "ethogeny"
mentioned in the previous section) for the first time only a
while ago, when the book by Harre and Secord (1972) was brought
to our attention, and hence, none of their ideas influenced the
development of the daily round approach to the study of social
psychology. On the one hand we no doubt could have profited from
their account; on the other, it provides us with an unusual
opportunity to contrast our current ideas with a system
independently evolved and formulated. As well, our system of
ideas we call "ethnosemantics" offers to Harre and Secord an
unusual opportunity to compare with theirs, and hopefully, they
too will see in us the correspondences we see in them, though
that in itself would represent a most interesting piece of
evidence for the social psychology of knowledge! Since we are
sending them a copy of this Workbook it is possible we may hear
from them, in which case we will report the outcome in a future
edition. The Correspondences in