ABSTRACT
T his chapter approaches generalization as an activity that people do together. We start by looking back at studies of distributed cognition, raise some broad questions about processes of distribution as they relate to making things general, and then use materials drawn from ethnographic and cognitive case studies to explore activities of generalizing. The broad questions are as follows:
How does cognition get distributed?• How do people, working together, make technical or scientic concepts • general? How do these activities work as environments for learning and • development?
