Sociocultural affordances and enactment of agency: A transactional view

This article argues that when attempting to extend the concept of affordances encompass action possibilities characteristic our sociocultural environments, a transactionally informed relational perspective—along lines formulated by classical pragmatist thinkers (especially Dewey and Bentley but also Peirce Mead)—proves useful. A transactional perspective helps reveal intimate conceptual connections between (SCAs) agency: both are crucially about contextually defined goal-directed doings, learning fluently master particular patterns habits, skills, practices in culturally appropriate socially feasible ways. The paper outlines first, critical issues conceptualization SCAs; second, how SCAs points towards conception agency enactment; third, view make sense some apparently puzzling tensions fringe areas various conceptualizations (sociocultural) agency.