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Internalization

Thesis: this concept connects historical usage, contemporary interpretation, and AST relation with explicit certainty labels.

Established History

Where this fits

Tradition: Soviet Cultural-Historical. Related thinkers: vygotsky, luria, leontiev.

Internalization refers to the transformation of socially organized activity into reorganized individual psychological functions. It is not a simple copying of external forms, but a developmental restructuring through participation.

Relation to AST

AST extends this question by modeling which affective conditions stabilize or interrupt internalization across different socialization environments.