Well, I am not familiar with the use of Umwelt, Miik, but I
gather it means the "world surrounding" and I don't see this as any
different.
I think your survey was fine, Mike. I came to the same conclusion in
the survey I did in Johannesburg (standing in that dent on top of the
hill), see http://vimeo.com/groups/chat/videos/22035697
AN Leontyev's concept of (an) activity, that is to say, a system of
actions realising some societally-determined object comes nearer than
any other supra-individual unit. The only reason I don't say "except
Leontyev's Activity" is that ANL sees the object-oriented activities of
a society from a functional perspective, that s, as directed towards
the reproduction of the existin relations. So it is and it isn't
teleological in the sense I was asking for. It does as well as any of
the others in accounting for individual motivation, but I don't see
social movements or subversive agitation in there.
Andy
mike cole wrote:
How about umwelt, Andy?
I warned you the survey was unsophisticated. Just the term envelope is
a problem because it distinguish the envelope from its contents. Very
difficult to get the "weaving/ co-constituting" impulse into
environment/context/practice. of course, a woven tapestry is "just
static," relative to human experience, isn't it?
mike
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Andy
Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:
Mike,
reading through your excellent review of the different concepts of
context, along with event, situation, activity, practice, etc., is that
all of them conceive of the "supra-individual" object of analysis as
something esssentially static, and despite many declarations to the
contrary and proofs that individuals can modify their enivironment (by
whatever name) are that to which human individuals have to conform.
"Event" is a little different, at least in the way it is used by some
writers, but generally all seem to conceive of context as condition.
Although supposed to be the source of motivation (in some versions),
they may rise to the level of being the source of reward, but I see
nothing which expresses what I regard as the inherent striving of human
life. I think this is a problem.
Andy
mike cole wrote:
Attached is an attempt I made several years ago to summarize the
different
terms and their uses. It is not in the least sophisticated about many of
those cited or not, but it covers some perhaps-useful information.
mike
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