Re: action/activity

Keith R Sawyer (sawyer who-is-at cats.ucsc.edu)
Wed, 3 Apr 1996 14:58:40 -0800 (PST)

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Just to clarify/follow up on my original confusion: It's not simply
definitional, but my own observation that Soviet activity theory, based
as it is in a Marxist theoretical tradition, is in social theoretic circles
significantly opposed to "action theory" as personified by Weber. Mike,
could you clarify if the word "action" in Russian also has these
connotations, or is the debate you refer to a different debate?

Thanks for replying!

Keith Sawyer
Department of Psychology
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA 95064

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