Activity Theory for the De-Structuralized Modernity

Mironenko, Irina A.; Sorokin, Pavel

doi:10.1007/s12124-020-09587-4

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“…It has always been like that: different stages of societal development and technological modes have required different human qualities. We argue that under the current conditions of progressing global 'de-structuration' (Mironenko and Sorokin, 2020;Sorokin and Froumin, 2020) skills and competences related to transformative agency might be of special importance. 1 In the final part of the article, we argue that education has the potential to become a driving force of transformational change by recognizing human capital's transformative agency and building respective positioning in expert and public debates.…”

Section: Ready or Not? The Current Discourse On Education And Transformational Changementioning

confidence: 89%

“…The economy and society of the 21st century rely less on solid structures (like state or corporate organizations) and more on individual agency, including entrepreneurship (see Acs, 2016;Kuzminov et al, 2019;Mironenko and Sorokin, 2020;Sorokin and Froumin, 2020). For example, against the background of the mass spread of non-standard, including remote, forms of employment and learning, the recognition of entrepreneurial skills is growing (including intrapreneurship competences for corporate employment (Guerrero and Urbano, 2021;Kikas and Aaarna, 2019).…”

Section: Ready or Not? The Current Discourse On Education And Transformational Changementioning

confidence: 99%

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‘Utility’ of education and the role of transformative agency: Policy challenges and agendas

Сергеевич

Froumin

2021

Policy Futures in Education

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Over the last two decades, increasing participation rates in post-secondary education in many countries have been accompanied by decreases in aggregate economic growth and raising social tensions. It is obvious now that education does not ‘automatically’ produce more well-being (at least, if conventionally measured through income or gross domestic product) either for the individual or for society. This puts the question about education’s ‘utility’ in a new light, especially in relation to funding, which is central to the policymaking process. We briefly review literature on various rationales for supporting education and analyze existing evidences concerning the effects or consequences for societies of such investments in education and its related expansion. We outline two alternative agendas for positioning education in the framework of broader socioeconomic development. These agendas stem from different answers to the core question: can education drive the change in other spheres of societal life, or does it only respond to and follow the logics of larger institutional transformations? We suggest greater recognition in policy and public debates of the possible contribution that education may have to shaping transformative agency, and outline related prospects and potential pitfalls.

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Section: Ready or Not? The Current Discourse On Education And Transformational Changementioning

confidence: 89%

Section: Ready or Not? The Current Discourse On Education And Transformational Changementioning

confidence: 99%

‘Utility’ of education and the role of transformative agency: Policy challenges and agendas

Сергеевич

Froumin

2021

Policy Futures in Education

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“…Debates about the relationship between art and agency have a rich history. However, the new reality of de-structuration (Mironenko & Sorokin, 2022 ) puts the problem of agency in a new way. This makes us reconsider the usual concepts applied to agency in different spheres of social life, including art.…”

Section: Art and Agency: Approaches To Conceptualizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As argued above, we live in an era of “de-structuration” (Mironenko & Sorokin, 2022 ). This means that a person faces the need to navigate through a complex and dynamically changing world in which a significant number of factors that need to be taken into account to achieve success or even simple meaningfulness in life, often exceed the power of the intellect.…”

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“…This article aims at an empirical analysis of the theme of agency in contemporary art (including its aspects such as creativity, independence or proactivity). It might be especially important in the context of the unprecedented volatility of social and cultural systems in the world when the “classical” methods derived from the naturalistic, deterministic and mechanistic approaches are inefficient in explaining or predicting the dynamics of both the inner world of the individual psyche and the outer social world (Mironenko & Sorokin, 2022 ). We select and analyse a number of the most illustrative cases in contemporary art, presented in recent years at prestigious art events in various parts of the world, and propose their typology, reflecting different approaches to and modes of agency manifested by the observed cases 1 .…”

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Art and Agency in the Era of De-Structuration: Exploring a New Field

Sorokin,

Afanaseva,

Goloshchapov

2023

Integr. psych. behav.

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Human agency, implying, from sociology’s perspective, proactive or even transformative individual behaviour upon the social world (or “social structures” as sociologists call them), remains one of the central concepts and problems for both social science and practice. Current stage of societal evolution, de-structuration, makes individual agency especially important for both individual and collective well-being. In this context, the contribution of contemporary art (2018–2022) to agency issues remains little known in the academic world. The objective of this paper is to examine how contemporary art representatives (artists, curators, and experts) express the issue of agency through their artworks, and to compare this viewpoint with the interpretations from other areas of public life. The focus is on those aspects, ideas, and meanings related to agency that are accessible to a broad audience and can be applied to phenomena outside the realm of art but remain overlooked or underdeveloped in current academic discussions on agency. The authors analyse initiatives in both institutional and non-institutional art on a global scale, and explore their manifestations and impact in comprehending and advancing agency. Finally, this article proposes a typology of agency manifestations in contemporary art: (1) straightforward (strong, radical, protest) agency; (2) escapism; (3) panic agency; (4) subject-object carnivalism.

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Boris Parygin' Social Psychology: History and Perspectives

Zhuravlev,

Mironenko,

Sorokin

2024

J History Behavioral Science

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International literature on the history of Russian psychology is largely limited to the development of Activity theory and cultural‐historical theory. This paper aims to go beyond these limits by introducing a figure little known to an international audience, Boris Parygin, who emerged in the 1960s with his “grand” project for the development of Russian social psychology, significantly different from the Soviet psychology “mainstream,” stemming from Vygotsky, Luria, and Alexei Nikolaevich Leontiev. We demonstrate that Parygin's works belong to a theoretical and methodological tradition of social and humanitarian scholarship that had been developing in Russia since 1870s. This was a broad and inter‐disciplinary stream of theoretical and methodological developments, including authors like Berdyaev, Mikhailovsky, and so on, that embraced various disciplines (primarily, psychology, sociology, and philosophy). Despite the fact that Parygin's project did not receive substantial support from the soviet academic community, his ideas concerning personality and emphasis on the importance of individual choice and self‐determined activity mediating the impact of social surroundings, have become relevant in the context of current discussions in the international science about individual agency, including debates concerning the transformative potential of the individual upon the social structure under conditions of “morphogenetic society” (M. Archer) or “neo‐structuration” (P. Sorokin).

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Activity Theory for the De-Structuralized Modernity

Cited by 9 publications

References 35 publications

‘Utility’ of education and the role of transformative agency: Policy challenges and agendas

‘Utility’ of education and the role of transformative agency: Policy challenges and agendas

Art and Agency in the Era of De-Structuration: Exploring a New Field

Boris Parygin' Social Psychology: History and Perspectives

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