Activity: The Theory, Methodology, and Problems

Review Presents a dialectical style for the reader: contributors explain their position, then criticize the viewpoints of other contributors, and finally respond to their own criticism. Constructs an understandable bridge between the individual and society and explains the constructive potential of the human subject and the historically-accumulated social constraints and cultural meanings mediating everything the subject does. Provides a strong conceptual, theoretical and methodological understanding of the principles of activity. This book is devoted to the discussion of the actual meaning of the problem of activity and the activity-based approach, as well as the real potential and limitations of activity theory. The book is structured in a dialectical style and has contributions from 32 leading specialists. Here is a fresh and rigorous debate. -- From the Publisher