Introduction: The Formation of Activity Psychology

Sokolova, Elena T.

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“…Some scholars even discuss Leontiev's and Luria's personal betrayal of Vygotsky and "his case" that allegedly took place some time around the end of 1933, approximately half a year before Vygotsky's death (Van der Veer and Valsiner 1991;Vygodskaya and Lifanova 1996). However, despite considerable criticism of the "school of Vygotsky-Leontiev-Luria", scholars in favour of the canonical interpretation of the history of Vygotskian psychology are still fairly active and skillfully defend against the revisionists by providing new evidence in support of the direct lineage from Vygotsky's cultural-historical psychology to Leontiev's activity theory (Leontiev 2003(Leontiev , 2003(Leontiev /2005Leontiev and Leontiev 2003;Leontiev, Leontiev and Sokolova 2005;Sokolova 2001Sokolova , 2005Sokolova , 2007Voiskunskii, Zhdan and Tikhomirov 1999;Zhdan 2007).…”

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“…However, Luria reportedly soon returned to Moscow; and after his departure Leontiev became the head of the Psychology Sektor and supervised virtually all administrative and research work from then on. A series of recent publications added the name of Mark Lebedinsky as one of those scholars invited from Moscow to Kharkov as well as other minor details (e.g., Leontiev 2003Leontiev /2005, but the structure of the narrative, the sequence and the interpretation of the main events remains basically identical across the vast majority of "traditional" publications on this topic (Ivanova 1995(Ivanova , 2002Leontiev 1983;/2005Leontiev et al 2005;Sokolova 2001Sokolova , 2007 The history of "trojka da pyaterka" ("the three and the five", in Russian) and the interpretation of the history of Vygotskian psychology along the lines of A.N. Leontiev's activity theory is not the only interpretation of the history of the Vygotskian research project after Vygotsky's death.…”

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Vygotsky Circle as a Personal Network of Scholars: Restoring Connections Between People and Ideas

Yasnitsky

2011

Integr. psych. behav.

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The name of Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934) is well-known among contemporary psychologists and educators. The cult of Vygotsky, also known as "Vygotsky boom", is probably conducive to continuous reinterpretation and wide dissemination of his ideas, but hardly beneficial for their understanding as an integrative theory of human cultural and biosocial development. Two problems are particularly notable. These are, first, numerous gaps and age-old biases and misconceptions in the historiography of Soviet psychology, and, second, the tendency to overly focus on the figure of Vygotsky to the neglect of the scientific activities of a number of other protagonists of the history of cultural-historical psychology. This study addresses these two problems and reconstructs the history and group dynamics within the dense network of Vygotsky's collaborators and associates, and overviews their research, which is instrumental in understanding Vygotsky's integrative theory in its entirety as a complex of interdependent ideas, methods, and practices.

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Yasnitsky

2011

Integr. psych. behav.

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“…At this point, it was necessary to adopt the term action and the term activity at the same time" (p. 33). In Sokolova's (2005) introduction on the "formation of activity psychology," she only indicates that everything can be found in Leontiev's texts, but her introduction and the texts from the 1930s to which she refers do not provide any perspective or explanation about how the concept came to be formed. These three examples illustrate the absence of explanation about the concept's origin in contexts where it would be expected (given the authors and the purpose of their texts).…”

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The meaning and origin of the activity concept in Soviet psychology—with primary focus on A. N. Leontiev’s approach

Chaiklin

2019

Theory & Psychology

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The concept of activity in Soviet psychology reflects a fundamental ontological assumption about the dynamic internal relation between person and world, arising from a person’s intentional actions, which draws on historically developed traditions of action. The article gives a deeper understanding of the activity concept by examining the historical process by which the concept was formed, providing a compact conceptual overview of the concept, formulated as a series of assumptions and implications. A conceptual dialectic is offered to explain the historical development of the concept, along with a chronological overview. This analysis shows that the concept of activity emerged collectively among Soviet researchers, and cannot be located as the discovery or introduction by a single person (such as A. N. Leontiev, who is often associated with the concept). It is suggested that a practice concept should be introduced to distinguish historical traditions of action from psychological activity.

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“…Luria, although he succeeded in implementing a well-designed study in Soviet Central Asia that lent support to the cultural and social foundation of cognitive development (see Luria, 1976), mainly devoted his energy to investigations in neuropsychology (see Luria, 1979). Leontiev (1940/2005, 1975/1978), along with a group of followers in postrevolutionary Russia, worked out an activity approach in Kharkov (see Sokolova, 2005). The understanding of the “Russian cultural-historical school” in the Anglo American world, though enthusiastically elucidated by some Western and Russian researchers including Cole, Wertsch, Scribner, John-Steiner, Davydov, and Zinchenko, turned out to be incomplete.…”

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Retracing the footsteps of Wilhelm Wundt: Explorations in the disciplinary frontiers of psychology and in Völkerpsychologie.

Wong¹

2009

History of Psychology

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In 1927, Wilhelm Wundt's daughter, Eleonore Wundt, compiled and published a comprehensive catalogue of her father's works and works in translation. We use this catalogue as a starting point for an examination of the breadth of Wundt's contributions, the reaction to his works from the international psychological community, and the overall trajectory of his academic career. Two areas of particular interest are Wundt's view on the nature of psychology and its relationship to other disciplines, and his discussion of the nature of Völkerpsychologie and its role in psychology. A close examination of original sources reveals that Wundt anchored psychology in the realm of mental sciences. He regarded "psychology [to be] in relation to natural sciences the supplementary, in relation to the mental sciences the fundamental, and in relation to philosophy the propaedeutic empirical science." The accomplishments and limitations of Wundtian Völkerpsychologie are viewed stereoscopically through the lenses of its explicated conceptions, goals, and methods, on one hand, and of the contemporary advancements in psychology, on the other. Current implications of Wundt's works and further developments of his ideas are related to Davidson's theory of epistemology and to present-day deliberations on the biocultural coconstruction of human development. We conclude by considering the continuing relevance of Wundt's intellectual legacy.

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Introduction: The Formation of Activity Psychology

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Vygotsky Circle as a Personal Network of Scholars: Restoring Connections Between People and Ideas

Vygotsky Circle as a Personal Network of Scholars: Restoring Connections Between People and Ideas

The meaning and origin of the activity concept in Soviet psychology—with primary focus on A. N. Leontiev’s approach

Retracing the footsteps of Wilhelm Wundt: Explorations in the disciplinary frontiers of psychology and in Völkerpsychologie.

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