Triangles and Tribulations: Translations, Betrayals, and the Making of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory

by Clay Spinuzzi

How the sociology of translation can help us understand a social science framework--cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT)--as a set of uneasy settlements that both further and betray their original intentions.

How do social science frameworks get taken up and spread? In Triangles and Tribulations, Clay Spinuzzi uses the sociology of translation to reread the history of one such framework: Cultural-Historical Activity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262552175
• ISBN13: 9780262552172
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 316 Pages