[Xmca-l] Re: Intrinsic / Extrinsic Motivation

[Andy Blunden]

For some reason which I have never understood many CHAT 
people seem to be set against this distinction. And yet the 
distinction is intrinsic to A N Leontyev's Activity Theory. 
In addition, Alasdair MacIntyre uses it to, in my opinion to 
great effect, such that I cannot imagine a theory of 
motivation that lacked this distinction.

What is the problem?

Andy

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*Andy Blunden*
https://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/index.htm
On 25/08/2019 1:00 pm, David H Kirshner wrote:
>
> I’m reading a behaviorally oriented account of intrinsic 
> and extrinsic motivation by authoritative authors Ryan and 
> Deci (2000):
>
> “The most basic distinction is between /intrinsic 
> motivation/, which refers to doing something because it is 
> inherently interesting or enjoyable, and /extrinsic 
> motivation/, which refers to doing something because it 
> leads to a separable outcome [one undertaken for 
> instrumental reasons]” (p. 55).
>
> This seems to me an impoverished account for a variety of 
> reasons, most pressingly because it attempts to naturalize 
> what is pleasurable or intrinsically motivating as 
> inherent to the organism, without respect to individuals 
> as people, engaged in socioculturally constituted life 
> histories.
>
> Does the construct of intrinsic / extrinsic motivation 
> surface anywhere in sociocultural theory?
>
> Alternatively, can anyone point me toward a sociocultural 
> critique of the intrinsic / extrinsic construct?
>
> David
>
> Ryan R. M., & Deci E. L. (2000). Intrinsic and extrinsic 
> motivations: Classic definitions and new directions. 
> /Contemporary Educational Psychology, 25/, 54–67. 
> https://doi.org/10.1006/ceps.1999.1020
>
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