A FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYSIS OF JOINT ACTIVIT Y CRITERIA

Analysing different theoretical approaches to joint activity and postu lating its importance in other processes' development most researchers do not discuss psychological essence of a phenomenon marked as <<join t activity>>. The authors consider three points: joint activity subjec t; structure and processual characteristics; criteria of joint activit y efficacy. The results of such a consideration present: 1) the differ entiation of terms <<group activity>> and <<joint activity>> on theore tical and operational levels; 2) non-identity of outer (socially or ex perimentally determined) goals of a group and inner goals, formed by j oint activity subject: 3) the idea that joint activity subject cannot be set before its start - it is formed (or not formed) during joint ac tivity formation; 4) differentiation of interaction categories in soci al systems and interaction as psychological process; 5) demonstration of three possible effects of joint activity - object, personal and soc ial-psychological - and the necessity of their correspondence with inn er and outer goals.