SAM: A Language for Education

Abstract

In this article I present a sociological language—social activity method (SAM)—and illustrate how it’s development and deployment has educational potential. I draw on my experience with postgraduate students and also engage with extant work in anthropology, sociology, and social semiotics, though the principal concerns of the essay are conceptual. I present three ‘relational spaces’, of which two are seeing their first published outing in this paper1.