TRANSCENDING THE DUALISMS OF ACTIVITY THEORY.
This article employs the basic tenets of critical realism to provide a philosophical foundation for understanding and resolving the dualisms of activity theory. Its argument follows in four parts. (1) First I develop an immanent critique that shows the problems within activity theory; it reveals tha...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Critical Realism Vol. 12; no. 2; pp. 141 - 166 |
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2013
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