1. Examine a range of developmental psychological textbooks, both current and from the 1960s onwards, exploring definitions of what it means to ‘become social’ and the positions set out for the ‘socialising agent’. What conception of society is on offer?

Contrast this with the kind of account provided within a Vygotskyan-informed perspective

(e.g. R. Harré [1986] ‘Steps towards social construction’, in M. Richards and P. Light [eds.] Children of Social Worlds, Oxford: Polity Press; and F. Newman and L. Holzman [1993] Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist, London and New York:

Routledge).