The present article gives an overview of sociocultural approaches to creativity and advances a particular theory of the creative process grounded in the notions of difference, position, perspective, dialogue, and affordance. If sociocultural psychology challenges old dichotomies between mind and body, individual and society, then creativity is ideally placed to demonstrate their interdependence. While sociocultural thinking in creativity research has traditionally emphasized the social or collaborative nature of creative processes, recovering old scholarship and reviewing it in light of current empirical developments shows how socio-materiality can properly inform psychological theory in this area. The article starts with an outline of sociocultural principles before considering their application to creativity. It then formulates four propositions regarding the creative process: (a) differences of perspective increase creative potential; (b) exchanging positions and perspectives, within and between individuals, fosters creative processes; (c) these exchanges result in perspectives that reveal previously unperceived affordances; and (d) oftentimes, it is the affordances of material objects or of unique idea combinations that guide the development of novel perspectives in creative work. Evidence supporting these key hypotheses of the perspective-affordance theory of creativity (PAT) comes from research conducted in a variety of areas within psychology and in related fields. In the end, the methodological and practical implications of considering creativity as a process of recognizing differences, exchanging positions, developing perspectives and discovering affordances will be discussed, as well as the broader implications of building theories that bring together, rather than keep separate, the social, the material, and the psychological.

本文概述了创造力的社会文化方法，并提出了基于差异，位置，视角，对话和能力的概念的创造过程的特定理论。如果社会文化心理学挑战了身心之间，个人与社会之间的旧二分法，那么创造力就可以理想地展示出它们的相互依赖性。尽管创造力研究中的社会文化思维传统上一直强调创造过程的社会或协作性质，但恢复旧学术并根据当前的经验发展对其进行回顾表明，社会物质性可以如何正确地指导这一领域的心理学理论。本文首先概述了社会文化原理，然后再考虑将其应用于创造力。然后，它就创作过程提出了四个主张：（a）观点的差异增加了创作潜力；（b）在个人内部和个人之间交换立场和观点，促进创造过程；（c）这些交流产生的观点揭示了以前无法理解的能力；（d）通常，物质对象或独特思想组合的提供指导着创作工作中新颖观点的发展。支持创造力观点-负担理论（PAT）的这些关键假设的证据来自心理学和相关领域的各个领域的研究。最后，将创意视为识别差异，交换立场，