Helena;
Have not read him extensively enough but I do like his clinical
approach to activity theory. Something that is tangible and can be
conceptualized. Plan on reading him more. I found it interesting
that he mentions "germ cell" only in passing and doesn't really
expand much on it. I prefer his expanded triangle model of
conceptualization and am not understandin why Andy is focused on the "germ cell"
eric
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Subject: Re: [xmca] Engestrom's Finnish Proposal
Eric et al:
I like to read whatever Engestrom material shows up on xmca; he's
a brilliant and stimulating thinker, but sometimes I have to laugh.
The link Eric posted iactually goes to a proposal, as in "grant
proposal," although I'm not sure who was going to fund it.
Engestrom is proposing an ongoing research project that would take
place at three sites, a healthcare provider, a bank, and a
telecommunications outfit. He wants to study how his group, the
Change Laboratory, works with these entities.
My problem with his creative approach to research is that he acts
as if the whole world has moved on to whatever he's studying next.
He talks about "the historical development of work,"
"work..transformed from mass production and mass customization to
co-configuration of customer-intelligent products and services
with long life cycles", "post-bureaucratic work", 'work as "a
living, growing network.never finished," etc etc. This may be true
of "work" as it occurs in the Change Laboratory, but for the vast
majority of human beings, work has not moved on, is not
post-bureaucratic, and does NOT involve being set up in a
permanent, "never finished" contract with a hospital, bank or
phone company to reflect on one's own process. Kind of like being on a permanent research retainer!
Somewhere along the line Engestrom has lost sight of fact that
work is significantly related to earning a living, at least for most people.
Maybe the concept is lost in translation. I suggest that he use a
different word, however. "Creative exploration, " for example. But
not "work"!!
Helena Worthen
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Subject: Re: Fw: Re: [xmca] Double Stimulation?
Here is an paper where Yro discusses the "germ cell".
http://www.edu.helsinki.fi/activity/people/engestro/files/The_Finn
ish _ proposal.pdf thought people might be interested, also rather
short eric
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To the extent that we have a consultant who is invited to resolve
problems in an institution of some kind, if the impact on that the
life of that institution can be validly abstracted from the other
projects at work, such as governments, political or ethnic groups
with grievances, patients who are campaigning to have a say in
their health care, governments imposing cost-cutting and computer
work-control systems intended to take the teachers out of
education, and the nurses out of health care, etc. ... In other
words, to the extent that the idea of a "system of actions" or "system of activity"
with a neat boundary accurately reflects the social situation at
issue, then I am sure the method of the triangle works fine.
But what about the Egyptian Revolution, when workers (white collar
public servants and highly exploited factory workers) and
student-intellectuals all enter into a struggle against the
US-backed torture-regime of Hosni Mubarak (with a mass of ruraal
poor in the background), ... without knowing what they are wanting
to achieve, not necessarily trusting the other parties,...? What
about when gay men suddenly find themselves not only the target of
an unknown deadly disease, but being blamed for spreading it to
others, and the medical scientists want to use them as guinea
pigs, they are threatened with bring forced to wear the equivalent
of a Star of David, ... and yet they manage to not only defeat the
disease but come out if it having won a huge victory agains homophobia and much improved social status.
Wht about when the asbestos industry is marketing a miracle fibre
which is still, a decade after it was eventually banned, killing
1000s in a horrible slow death, and the trade unions representing
the workers are hand in glove with their employers, government
regulators are being paid off and medical scientists (like the
ones who told us tobacco is good for your health) are spreadig
disinformation, ... and yet we got asbestos banned. Need I go on?
I don't believe the "system of activity" approach can even get a
handle on those situations. As you know I am in the process of
editing a volume of studies using (to one extent or another) the "project"
approach, to understand these processes, for the purpose of doing things like this.
It includes idenfiying contradictions in the workings of
institutions (such as medical science, health care, industrial
diseases regulation, and so on) but it also deals with complex
processes of social change, where the participants themselves are
only just discovering what it is they are fighting for, and multiple projects are in play.
These are the kind of issues I am interested in, so that is why I
am interested in a theory which can deal with such issues,
Andy
mike cole wrote:
I fear this does not help me a whole lot, Andy.
Sorry I cannot grasp the method of Goethe properly. I guess Luria
probably failed as well. Or maybe he succeeded and I have
misunderstood him? Entirely possible.
I did not ask what what is at odds. I asked for what the
empirical consequences of the the distinctions you are making
are. I cannot follow the path to reforming all of the educational
system of the USSR or Russia, which, so far as I know, neither
Vygotsky nor anyone else associated with Activity Theory every
accomplished. Nore have I ever seen claims that they have. (The
Finns appear to have done well recently using an approach, the
relationship to activity theory I have no knowledge of, but perhaps our Finnish colleagues do).
Here is what would help me, and I suspect others on XMCA. Take an
already published piece of work that uses the expanded triangle
Yrjo proposes in Learning by Expanding. Say, the work on cleaners
in the early work. Tell us about the mistaken conclusions that
arise because of misunderstandings that confusion of the triangle
for "activity" (no
modifiers) causes. Suggest how we might improve our understanding.
Or tell us why that example works, but some other example
(teachers in schools, nurses and doctors in a hospital, etc.) does not.
Or suggest an entirely different way of looking at matters so
that when we go into classrooms, housing projects, work places,
we can more effectively understand what is going on and be of
more help to those with whom we work that publishing another article in MCA.
I guess I am asking that you rise to the concrete here, keeping
the object of analysis constant.
My apologies if this seems unreasonable. Perhaps it is
approaching senility, but I am failing to track you.
mike
Lost in the words here.
mike
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Yes, in Yjro's (1986) words, it is a "root model". (The
derivation of it is a beautiful piece of work, too, close to
Hegel's early "System of Ethical Life". Deserves to remain in print).
But modelling a complex process is not the same as the method of
Goethe, Hegel, Marx and Vygotsky. As you know, Mike, in order to
understand this approach, which Luria called Romantic Science, I
had to go back to its origins c. 1787 when Goethe was doing his
Journey in Italy, studying all the plant life, and its variation
by altitude, latittude, nearness to the sea, etc., and in
conversation with J G Herder, arrived a his conception of
Urphaenomen. The Urphaenomen is not a model.
It is an abstraction, true. And yes, the understanding of a
complex process by the "romantic" method is indeed, the rising to
the concrete, the logical-historical reconstruction of the whole
process from this abstract germ.
As I remarked (somewhere) I find Yrjo's work over the past couple
of years, which focuses more on the germ cell than the triangle,
closer to what I am trying to do. The germ cell is not a model either.
What is at odds here is whether a real, complex situation (such
as reforming the education system in a nation in Africa, rather
than in the USSR or Finland) can be based on a conception which
isolates a "system of activity", whilst dozens of different
ethnic groups, NGOs, government(s), trade unions and so on, are
all contesting the aims and benefits of "education." Every person
in such a situation is committed to more than one project, and
deploys concepts (institutionalised projects) frequently at odds with one another.
What is needed is a process whose basic units are (1) units and
not systems, and (2) processes of development, processes in which
people are struggling to realise ideas, processes of formation.
And we need the algebra through which such units interact with
one another, rather than declaring any single such interaction to
be an entire new "unit" - i.e. coupled systems.
Andy
mike cole wrote:
Isn't the trangle a "model, " Andy? A model of the root metaphor.
Still an abstraction... waiting to see if it can rise to the
concrete? Perhaps?
Empirically speaking, what is at odds here? For whom?
mike
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Antti, I was directing my question to you and your remarks.
In Engestrom's highlky regarded, now out of print, 1987 text
"Learning by Expanding", the famous triangle logo is given as
Figure 2.6, and after a long consideration of "candidates" for
"unit of analysis" he says the following about this
triangle: "The
model of Figure 2.6 may now be compared with the four criteria of
a root model of human activity, set forth earlier in this chapter."
and goes on to list and consider the criteria which are commonly
associated in this current with the notion of "unit of analysis."
(numerous citations are not required). But he never said that the
triangle is a unit of analaysis, and it is not, and cannot be. He
said it is a root model and it is. The root model is a system
concept, not a unit of analysis.
Do you think it possible that this has been the source of some
confusion?
Andy
Antti Rajala wrote:
Thanks Andy for sharing the wikipedia text, and your thoughts
about the issue! The thoughts about unit of analysis were my own
interpretation of the study, and I am not sure if the issue you
raised concerns the original study.
Warm wishes, Antti
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Antti, here is a link to th eWikipedia on "System concept"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System
Why do Activity Theorists in Engstrom's current of thinking mix
up the idea of a system concept with a unit of analysis?
Andy
Antti Rajala wrote:
Greg,
You asked:
"My question is getting at where we locate "agency". In
individuals alone?
Or as possibly being distributed among multiple people and
perhaps in amanner that isn't recognizable to the individual. But
maybe there is aconcept for that that is different from "double
stimulation."
I think that double stimulation can be analyzed not only at the
individual level but at the collective level as well.
Actually,
the study
of Engeström
and Sannino (2013) that I referred to in my earlier email gives a
nice example. The study also involves in some respects a similar
situation as the one that you described having taken place with
the workers in Malaysia.
According to my reading, the study describes a change laboratory
intervention taking place in a university library. The library as
invited researchers to help them find new forms of work with
research groups. A first stimulus emerges in the course of the
change laboratory intervention, as a member of one of the
research groups that the university library is delivering
services says that they can find these services in the internet
without the help of the library. Thus a problem emerges for the
librarians to collectively produce a service that would be
genuinely helpful for the research groups.
In solving this problem, they organize their collective action
with the help of a second stimulus, namely the concept of
knotworking (Engeström, Engeström & Vähäaho, 1999) that the
researchers have introduced in the beginning of the change
laboratory. In particular, a new working group, a knot, is formed
that starts to work with the emergent problem of inventing a useful service.
What is in my opinion very innovative, Engeström and Sannino also
provide an example of this second stimulus, the concept of
knotworking, becoming an initial theoretical generalization that
is reworked and enriched through a process of ascending from
abstract to concrete as the intervention evolves.
Specifically, in the end of the intervention, the concept of
knotworking gives rise to many concrete, practical applications
of the librarians' work at multiple levels of hierarchy.
As for the unit of analysis, I think that the unit of analysis in
the study is the intersection of several activity systems, the
university libarary and the research groups, In terms of agency,
one can maybe talk about shared transformative agency in which
the subject is not an individual but a collective. (More about
shared transformative agency, see Virkkunen's paper in
http://www.activites.org/v3n1/v3n1.book.pdf#page=43)
Best wishes, Antti
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Subject: Re: [xmca] Double Stimulation?
True true, the history of philosophy does lead there Andy.
But that leads
to my trepidations regarding ideology lacking in practice.
What substance within conscious formation is measurable?
I believe that answer has yet to be found perhaps?
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Date: 06/05/2013 08:42PM
Subject: Re: [xmca] Double Stimulation?
Eric,
By posiing the problem as that of the Kantian dilemma, of
unifying two disparate abstractions, you determine the answer as
from the history of philosophy and the answer is Hegel's
answer: "a
formation of
consciousness" or Gestalt des Bewusstsein.
Andy
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I believe that
this discussion needs to
involve "unit
of analysis" for
what it is that provides the
mediational method.
What unit of study can properly
encapsulate
that which
is being observed?
Activity? Concept? Word? Mirror Neuron?
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Date: 06/05/2013 07:04AM
Subject: RE: [xmca] Double Stimulation?
Sure, Greg,
Well, seems to me that "draw analogies between different domains
of their worlds" is closer to "meaning construction" than to
choice a "stimulus medium" to help memory tasks, for instance.
The "double
stimulation" is fine because
introduces a kind of
mediation between a
stimulus and our response to the
stimulus. But,
following Vygotsky's
formulations at that time this new series of "stimulus" (a nude,
a word, etc) act also as a stimulus, a conditioned one.
If you change
you paradigm to the proposition that all sign implies any kind of
"generalization process" (meaning) that differs in their
structure and has a genetic construction (see the studies about
concepts, for instance), a sign could not be only a second series
of stimuli ruled by the same laws that a conditional reflex...
As in
"Instrumental
method": S-------X-------R. Where the relation S---------R is a
direct stimulus response relationship, but when you introduce a
second series of stimulus "X" (double stimulation) you have an
indirect stimulus response relationship, but the relation between
S and X, and X and R remain a conditioned reflex relationship...
"Draw analogies between different domains of our worlds" seem to
mean that we are in transit between different words of
signification, and culture is a human production that involves the "generalization"
from a
world to another,
broader, maybe not exactly more
precise, but
"broader", in my opinion.
I don't know...
"In natural memory a direct associative (conditional
reflex)
connection A?B is established between two stimuli A and B. In
artificial, mnemotechnic memory of the same impression, by means
of a psychological tool X (a knot in a handkerchief, a mnemonic
scheme) instead of the direct connection A?B two new ones are
established: A?X
and X?B Just like the connection A?B each of them is a natural
conditional reflex process, determined, by the properties of the
brain tissue. What is new, artificial, and instrumental is the
fact of the replacement of one connection A?B by two
connections:
A?X and X?B They
lead to the same result, but by a different path. What is new is
the artificial direction which the instrument gives to the
natural process of establishing a conditional connection, i.e.,
the active utilization of the natural properties of brain
tissue."
Vygotsky
"The Instumental
Method" (this is 1930)
http://www.marxists.org/archive/vygotsky/works/1930/instrumental.
htm
But already in 1928:
"Let us now compare the natural and cultural mnemonics of a
child. The relation between the two forms can be graphically
expressed by means of a triangle: in case of natural memorization
a direct associative or conditional reflexive connection is set
up between two points, A and B. In case of mnemotechnical
memorization, utilizing some sign, instead of one associative
connection AB, the others are set up AX and BX, which bring us to
the same result, but in a roundabout way.
Each of these connections AX and BX is the same kind of
conditional-reflexive process of connection as AB."
Vygotsky (1928)
http://www.marxists.org/archive/vygotsky/works/1929/cultural_deve
lop
ment.htm
See: "AX and BX
is the same kind of
conditional-reflexive process of
connection as AB." --> The same
kind... This
paradigm
will not be the
same in 1933-34...
"(Introduction: the importance of the sign; its social meaning).
In older works we ignored that the sign has meaning. < But there
is "a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together"
(Ecclesiastes). > We proceeded from the principle of the
constancy of meaning, we discounted meaning. But the problem of
meaning was already present in the older investigations.
Whereas
before
our task was to
demonstrate what "the knot" and
logical memory
have in
common, now our
task is to demonstrate the difference that exists between
them.From our works it follows that the sign changes the
interfunctional relationships." (Vygotsky, 1933-34)
http://www.marxists.org/archive/vygotsky/works/1934/problem-consc
iou
sness.htm
And now?
Thank you.
Achilles.
Date:
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Subject: Re: [xmca] Double
Stimulation?
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Achilles,
Sounded interesting, but I'm not
sure I
followed
you completely. You
say
that
Strathern's quote seems like it has a broader application that
"double
stimulation", but I could use some help with the rest of your
message.
If you have a few minutes, maybe
you could try
rephrasing?
-greg
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 4:11 PM,
Achilles
Delari
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In my undertanding, this is very
broader and
more powerful than
double
stimulation... Double stimulation could be overcoming with
another
way for
think signs than "medium stimulus" - See "The problem of
consciousness"
(1933-34), for instance. The more important will be not the
similarity
between
a nude and a word, but their
difference, "before was
forgotten that
sign had a meaning" and "now" the meaning must be take in
account.
Double
stimulation, in my understanding, do not resists to this new
point
of view.
Achilles.
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 06:19:04 -0600
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Subject: [xmca] Double
Stimulation?
I wonder if this quote by
Marilyn
Strathern can be productively
connected
(not necessarily geneaologically, but
ideologically) to the
notion of
"double stimulation" (which I am
just now
trying to figure out):
"Culture consists in the way
people draw
analogies between
different
domains of their worlds" (1992: 47).
-greg
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