Activity as Object-Related: Resolving the Dichotomy of Individual and Collective Planes of Activity

Autor/in	Stetsenko, Anna
Titel	Activity as Object-Related: Resolving the Dichotomy of Individual and Collective Planes of Activity
Quelle	In: Mind, Culture, and Activity, 12 (2005) 1, S.70-88 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1074-9039
Schlagwörter	Educational Principles; Individual Development; Social Environment; Sociocultural Patterns; Developmental Psychology; Cognitive Structures; Cooperation; Adjustment (to Environment); Activities; Productivity; Learning Theories + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsprinzip; Individuelle Entwicklung; Soziales Umfeld; Soziokulturelle Theorie; Entwicklungspsychologie; Cognitive structure; Kognitive Struktur; Co-operation; Kooperation; Produktivität; Learning theory; Lerntheorie
Abstract	This article suggests that the principle of object-relatedness, introduced by Vygotsky and expanded by A. N. Leontiev, can be used to conceptualize human subjectivity within a profoundly social view of human development. This is achieved by reformulating the premises of cultural-historical activity theory to include the notion that material production, intersubjective exchanges, and human subjectivity form a unified three-fold dialectical system. Focusing on the constant manifold transitions among components of this system as its "modus vivendi" reveals (a) individual and collective processes as being interrelated and co-evolving levels of activity, and (b) the practical relevance of human subjectivity alongside the human relevance of material practices. Such an expanded view posits human subjectivity on a continuum of regulatory mechanisms of social practice, to which both individual and social processes belong. It is further conceptualized as a form of practical transformative pursuits in the world, and as a lawful and necessary moment of human life endowed with the capacity to generate new activity cycles. The co-evolution of collective motives and personal goals, as well as the practical relevance of theoretical constructions, are used as illustrations. (Contains 12 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10