Oliver Ding - Activity Analysis Center

[Meta-frameworks] Six Faces of the Concept System

The article identifies six types of concept systems situated within the HLS framework. This is not a simple typology, but a dynamic map of evolving concept systems.

The World of Activity of Mid-life

Throughout the editing of this collection, I kept thinking about a project I had abandoned in 2024: the Mid-career Curation Program... Coming back to it now, through the lens of RR practice, I see it differently. This epilogue is that return.

The Landscape of Strategic Developmental Psychology (v1.2)

What was once a method for building sociology has now become the foundation for a new Strategic Developmental Psychology—a transition from understanding how we create culture to understanding how that creative identity, in turn, develops the self.

Revisiting and Rebuilding: A Strategy for Creative Identity Development (Possible Book, 2026)

The possible book is organized to reflect these three dimensions — temporal structure, creative strategy, and identity development — across six parts.

Weave the Theory: A Case Study of the Revisiting-Rebuilding Practice

... taking Revisiting–Rebuilding as the starting weave-point — the Theme — and then asking what larger theoretical context surrounds it.

Two Constructions: Theoretical Statement and Historical Narrative in Creative Work

A Meta-Analysis of How Theories Come to Be and How They Are Presented

Activity Analysis Network #14: Self, Other, and Supportive Self-Actualization

These articles collectively mark a milestone of the Anticipatory Cultural Sociology (ACS) project. With the release of the ACS manuscript and the completion of the Self–Other series, the framework has reached v2.0 ...

Appropriating Activity Theory #14: Self, Other, and Embodied Social Forms (2017, 2021, 2025)

Tracing the Self–Other relationship back to its ecological foundations — from the Thing-People Relation model of 2017, through the Typology of Relevance in 2021, the Activity Circle, the ACS development of 2026

Anticipatory Cultural Sociology: Creation, Projection, and Agency (Possible Book, 2026)

The Landscape of Anticipatory Cultural Sociology (ACS) v2.0

From GO Theory to ACS and Beyond

To analyze Social Life Development at the cultural level, I needed a framework for the social world itself — not just a framework for the individual moving through it.