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Enactive behaviour settings: situating agency, normativity and transformation
Miguel A Sepúlveda-Pedro1, Laura Mojica1,2
1Institute for Philosophical Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Circuito Mario de la Cueva s/n , Mexico City, Coyoacan 04510, Mexico.
Summary
This study introduces an enactive approach to behavior settings, highlighting how individuals actively sustain and transform social norms. It emphasizes that collective action, driven by resolving normative tensions, can lead to dynamic changes in these settings.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Sociology
- Cognitive Science
Background:
- Behavior settings are sociocultural environments shaped by material affordances, skilled actions, and social norms.
- Ecological theories often overlook the active role of individuals in maintaining or altering these settings.
Purpose of the Study:
- To propose an enactive approach to behavior settings that incorporates the active role of agents.
- To explore how agents act as both supporters and transformers of behavior settings.
Main Methods:
- Utilizing enactive concepts of agency, normativity, and dialectics.
- Analyzing how agents respond to multiple normative dimensions (biological, sensorimotor, interactive).
Main Results:
- Agents actively sustain behavior settings by sometimes inhibiting competing normative responses.
- Collective action can initiate transformations in behavior settings through dialectical resolution of normative tensions.
Conclusions:
- The enactive approach offers a more dynamic understanding of behavior settings, emphasizing agent participation and transformation.
- Behavior settings are not static but evolve through ongoing, collective negotiation of norms.
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