Square dance club goal is to promote and advance square dance as a recreational activity. Typically clubs accomplish this goal through the following activities: This is not an exclusive list, and square dance clubs are constantly on the look out for new ways to achieve their goals. Associations, partnerships and other cooperative ventures have become increasingly more important to square dance clubs. Membership in square dance clubs seems to have peaked in the late '70s and early '80s, and has gradually decreased since that time. Providing classes and training opportunities is the main activity for the majority of square dance clubs. This activity
Cultural-historical activity theory configured through use in complex social situations. From the 1960s onwards, starting in the global South, and independently from the mainstream "European" developmental line, Leontiev's core "Objective Activity" concept has been used in a Social Development context. In the Organization Workshop's Large Group Capacitation-method, "objective/ized activity" acts as the core causal principle which postulates that, in order to change the mind-set of (large groups of) individuals, we need to start with changes to their activity – and/or to the object that "suggests" their activity. In Leontievian vein, the Organization Workshop is all about semiotically-mediated activities through which (large groups of)