{"id":7212,"date":"2019-05-22T15:54:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/action_theory\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:54:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:54:25","slug":"action_theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/action_theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Action theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A theoretical approach that views individuals as both products and producers of their developmental histories. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/aus\/catalogue\/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521651172\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/aus\/catalogue\/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521651172?target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vygotsky<\/a>&#8216;s theory of social development is a prime example of such an action theory. &nbsp;More generally, action theory addresses processes giving rise to intentional patterns of movement.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"action\">Action<\/a>, <a href=\"intentionality\">Intentionality<\/a>, <a href=\"life_course_analysis\">Life course analysis<\/a>, <a href=\"own-sex_schema\">Own-sex schema<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A theoretical approach that views individuals as both products and producers of their developmental histories. &nbsp;Vygotsky&#8216;s theory of social development is a prime example of such an action theory. &nbsp;More generally, action theory addresses processes giving rise to intentional patterns of movement. See Action, Intentionality, Life course analysis, Own-sex schema<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}