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In Defense of Activity Theory

Humboldt State University, USA

This paper elaborates the relationship between practical social activity and psychological phenomena. In particular, I explain how psychological phenomena dialectically contribute to social activity even as they are organized by it. I also explain how individual differences in psychology are accounted for by activity. The article answers objections which have been raised to an earlier paper I wrote on activity and cultural psychology.

Key Words: activity theory • cross-cultural psychology • dialectics • social psychology • social structure • Vygotsky

Culture & Psychology, Vol. 3, No. 2, 211-223 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/1354067X9700300207


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