@text: Building on earlier publications by Harry Daniels, this book provides readers with an overview of the implications for research of the theoretical work which acknowledges a debt to the writings of L.S. Vygotsky and Basil Bernstein. It provides a variety of views on the ways in which these two, conceptually linked, bodies of work can be brought together in theoretical frameworks which new possibilities for empirical work. The need for a creative fusion of the Vygotskian and sociological traditions has been traced through the publication of Vygotsky and Pedagogyand Vygotsky and Research. Such a fusion brings benefits for social science and its application in education and in settings in which human relations may be analysed as forms of pedagogic relation such as management, human computer interaction, etc. The book includes contributions from long-established writers in both fields as well as relatively recent contributors to the theoretical debates and the body of research to which it has given rise. It is an important contribution to the development of cross-disciplinary thinking in sociology and psychology.