Social meaning of creativity

Abstract

This commentary examines some studies of creative behavior by Karwowski (Karwowski, 2021) based on the creative behavior as agentic action (CBAA) model. We discuss how creativity can be meaningful to a society based on some considerations of the significance of small creativity in everyday lives (little-c) and the importance of the scope of a creative behavior, defined as the extent to which the person recognizes its consequences. We propose a simple extension of CBAA model incorporating the scope of a creative behavior and its values in broader social contexts.