Figured Worlds and Beyond
From my prior knowledge and reading of Holland, Lacicotte, Skinner, & Cain (1998), I can gather f igured worlds are socially formed and through culture, activated. They are formed as a tool to comprehend specific fixed characters, fixed acts, and outcomes valued by others. "Figured worlds in their conceptual dimensions supply the contexts of meaning for actions, culture productions, performances, disputes, for the understanding that people come to make of themselves, and for the capabilities that people develop to direct their own behavior in these worlds" (Holland, Lacicotte, Skinner, & Cain 1998). Figured worlds construct situated meaning to what things are supposed to be; such as a belief system or theory of what we think it will be, but in reality it's not. As Holland, Lacicotte, Skinner, & Cain (1998) discuss, figured worlds depend on artifacts as mediators and the actions of humans. Figured worlds are embedded in activity. T...