Triangles and Tribulations - Translations, Betrayals, and the Making of Cultural Historical

How the sociology of translation can help us understand a social science framework—cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT)—as a set of uneasy settlements that both further and betray their original intentions.


How do social science frameworks get taken up and spread? In
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Sommario

Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
Part I: Method and Research Object
2 Translations and Betrayals
3 CHAT’s Generations—or Strands, or Waves?
Part II: Translations of CHAT
4 Vygotsky’s CHAT: Marxist Psychology Before the Great Terror
5 Leontiev’s CHAT: Marxist Psychology After the Great Terror
6 Westernized CHAT in 1987: An Interventionist Design Approach
7 Interlude: CHAT as a Sociocognitive Base for North American Writing Studies
8 Engeström’s “Third-Generation” CHAT: An Organizational Sociology
9 Engeström’s “Fourth-Generation” CHAT: An Implementation of Public Policy
Part III: Translations of Scope
10 The Scope of the Expanding Object
11 The Scope of the Unit of Analysis
12 The Diffusion and Translation of CHAT
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Clay Spinuzzi, Spinuzzi Clay
• Editore: The MIT Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 17.06.2025
• EAN: 9780262552172
• ISBN: 978-0-262-55217-2
• Pagine: 316
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 23 mm
• Serie: Acting with Technology
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, History of engineering and technology, Impact of science & technology on society, History of engineering & technology, Teaching of a specific subject, Impact of science and technology on society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, Educational: Social sciences, Educational: Social sciences, social studies, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Social Science