Concept
Activity theory
Overview
social-science theory for understanding human activities as systemic and socially situated phenomena based on research by Sergei Rubinstein in the 1930s
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Philosophers who discussed Activity theory
Related ideas
- Ethnography
- Social action
- Psychoanalysis
- Soviet Union
- Social psychology
- Qualitative research
- Dialectical materialism
- Metatheory
- Social organization
- Ivan Pavlov
- Behaviorism
- Cognitive psychology
- Lev Vygotsky
- Science studies
- Georgy Shchedrovitsky
Place in the tradition
Part of Action theory (philosophy).