Positioning theory characterizes interactions between individuals in social psychology, defining position as an alterable collection of an individual's beliefs about their rights, duties and obligations, and positioning as the mechanism through which roles are assigned or denied to oneself or others. The theory describes malleable roles and storylines that bound future acts and the meanings of what people say and do, expanding on the work of Lev Vygotsky, especially his theory of the zone of proximal development, and emphasizes the interdependence of positions, speech and other acts, and the storylines that arise from them. Positioning theory originated in the 1990s and has since been developed further with contributions from Bronwyn Davies, Rom Harre, Luk Van Langenhove and Fathali Moghaddam, providing a structure for social discourse analysis applied in fields including education, anthropology, communication and political science. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Origin YearThe article says positioning theory originated in the 1990s from the Davies and Harre paper Positioning: the discursive production of selves; 1990 is the year of that paper, the decade being the only stated date for the theory. Core ClaimPositioning theory holds that people take up and assign shifting social roles, called positions, through speech acts and storylines, and that a change in a person's position, their speech, or the storyline changes the other two as well. 1 Connections
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Positioning theory explicitly expands on Lev Vygotsky's work, especially the zone of proximal development.
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expands upon the work of psychologist Lev Vygotsky, especially his theory of zone of proximal development (ZPD)
Introduction, interdependence of position speech storyline
It emphasizes the interdependence of positions, speech and other acts, and storylines that arise from them; a change in any one aspect affects the other two.
Reference list, Davies and Harre 1990 entry
Davies, R., and Harré, R. (1990). Positioning: the discursive production of selves.
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Positioning theory is a theory in social psychology that characterizes interactions between individuals.
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