Sociocultural change, activity, and individual development: Some methodological aspects
| Autor: | King Beach |
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| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
| Předmět: |
Cultural Studies
education.field_of_study Reductionism Social Psychology Point (typography) Cognitive Neuroscience media_common.quotation_subject Population Social change Sociocultural change Language and Linguistics Education Epistemology Anthropology Developmental and Educational Psychology Leading activity Sociology Function (engineering) Sociocultural evolution education media_common |
| Zdroj: | Mind, Culture, and Activity. 2:277-284 |
| ISSN: | 1532-7884 1074-9039 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10749039509524706 |
| Popis: | This piece which introduces an article in this issue proposes a methodology for studying individual learning and development related to sociocultural change.1 The author argues that the mediating function of activity affords a new methodology that allows the study of sociogenetic‐ontogenetic relations without having to resort to reductionism or Cartesian dualism. The tri‐part methodology involves 1) Simulation by selecting key activities that can be constrained and arranged in sequence to model changesin society, and by that same sequence of activities, induce learning and development; 2) Heterochronicity which looks comparatively at the histories and time frames of various activities in a research site as well as the comparative histories and timeframes of particular activities and the lives of different generations of the research population in the interest of identifying periods of rapid societal change, and 3) Leading activity which is co‐determined by the point in an individual's developmental histor... |
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