Is Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Threatened to Fall Short of its Own Principles and Possibilities as a Dialectical Social Science?

ions (structuralist, integral, or organic perspective); study a phenomenon in the process of change (perspective on dynamics, mediations and transformations); and reflect the process of theorizing and determine the (historical) limits of scientific concepts, insights and generalizations (self-critical perspective). These perspectives, of course, do not guarantee a socio-critical theory, but they help to understand a practice-based co-evolution between the natural and the social or between the social and the individual lines of development (instead of their dualistic comprehension), and to conceive such objects of study as something constituted and changed by societal relations instead of a constantly remaining and stable thing. Everything needs to be seen both as determining and determined within its relation to other things but the scope and the scale of their impact can differ. Accordingly, in research activities, also the objects of study •