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The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology

Part of Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology

Editors:
Jaan Valsiner, Clark University, Massachusetts
Alberto Rosa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Jaan Valsiner, Alberto Rosa, Thomas Slunecko, Sophie Hengl, Jorge Castro, Tatsuya Sato, Yuko Yasuda, Ayae Kido, Ayumu Arakawa, Hazime Mizoguchi, Alan Costall, David Travieso, Adolfo Perinat, William Mintz Fields, Par Segerdahl, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Jordi Serrallonga, Silvia Espanol, Cintia Rodriguez, M. Clotilde Rosetti-Ferreira, Katia S. Amorim, Ana Paula S. Silva, Sang-Chin Choi, Gyuseog Han, Chung-Woon Kim, Tania Zittoun, Emily Abbey, Pablo del Rio, Amelia Alvarez, Jeanette A. Lawrence, Agnes Dodds, Michal Hamo, Shoshana Blum-Kulka, William A. Corsaro, Berit O. Johannesen, Eugene Matusov, Mark Smith, Maria Albuquerque Candela, Keren Lilu, Michael Cole, Yrjo Engestrom, Toshiya Yamamoto, Noboru Takahashi, Nandita Chaudhary, Gerard Duveen, Piero Paolicchi, Fathali M. Moghaddam, Kathryn A. Kavulich, Ulf Hedetoft, Joao Salgado, Miguel Gonclalves, Giuglielmo Bellelli, Antonietta Curci, Giovanna Leone, James V. Wertsch, David Middleton, Steven D. Brown, Alex Gillespie

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Date Published: September 2007
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This book, first published in 2007, is an international overview of the state of our knowledge in sociocultural psychology - as a discipline located at the crossroads between the natural and social sciences and the humanities. Since the 1980s, the field of psychology has encountered the growth of a new discipline - cultural psychology - that has built new connections between psychology, sociology, anthropology, history and semiotics. The handbook integrates contributions of sociocultural specialists from fifteen countries, all tied together by the unifying focus on the role of sign systems in human relations with the environment. It emphasizes theoretical and methodological discussions on the cultural nature of human psychological phenomena, moving on to show how meaning is a natural feature of action and how it eventually produces conventional symbols for communication. Such symbols shape individual experiences and create the conditions for consciousness and the self to emerge; turn social norms into ethics; and set history into motion.
- Includes an editorial introduction and editors' conclusions, which offer suggestions for future developments
- The different sections of the book are self-contained, offering contributions which provide a thorough review of the subject matter
- Provides methodological tools for expanding the empirical knowledge within the field in new areas, avoiding eclecticism
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- Date Published: September 2007
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511287220
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Editors' introduction. Contemporary social-cultural research: uniting culture, society, and psychology
Part I. Theoretical and Methodological Issues:
1. The myth and beyond: ontology of psyche and epistemology of psychology
2. Language, cognition, subjectivity - a dynamic constitution
3. Psychology within time: theorizing about the making of sociocultural psychology
4. Sampling reconsidered: idiographic science and analysis of personal life trajectories
Part II. From Nature to Culture:
5. The windowless room: 'mediationism' and how to get over it
6. Functional systems of perception-action and re-mediation
7. Comparative development of communication: an evolutionary perspective
8. The material practices of ape language research
9. The end of myths and legends about biological and cultural evolution: a new view in the knowledge on hominid paleo-ethoecology
Part III. From Orientation to Meaning:
10. Acts of psyche: actuations as synthesis of semiosis and action
11. Time and movement in symbol formation
12. Object use, communication and signs: the triadic basis of early cognitive development
13. Network of meanings: a theoretical-methodological perspective for the investigation of human developmental processes
Part IV. Symbolic Resources for the Constitution of Experience:
14. Dramaturgical actuations and symbolic communication, or how beliefs make up reality
15. Analysis of cultural emotion: understanding of indigenous psychology for universal implications
16. The role of symbolic resources in human lives
17. Perpetual uncertainty of cultural life: becoming reality
18. Prayer and the kingdom of heavens: psychological tools for directivity
19. 'Myself, the project': sociocultural interpretations of young adulthood
Part V. From Society to the Person through Culture:
20. Apprenticeship in conversation and culture: emerging sociability in preschool peer talk
21. The creation of new cultures in peer interaction
22. 'Culture has no internal territory': culture as dialogue
23. Cultural-historical approaches to designing for development
24. Money as a cultural tool mediating personal relationships: child development of exchange and possession
25. The family: negotiating cultural values
Part VI. From Social Culture to Personal Culture:
26. Culture and social representations
27. The institutions inside: self, morality and culture
28. Identity, rights and duties: the illustrative case of positioning by Iran, the United States and the European Union
29. Symbolic politics and cultural symbols: identity formation between and beyond nations and states
30. The dialogical self: social, personal, and (un)conscious
Part VII. Making Sense of the Past for the Future: Memory and Self-Reflection:
31. Social and cognitive determinants of collective memory for public events
32. Collective memory
33. Issues in the sociocultural study of memory: making memory matter
34. The social basis of self-reflection
General conclusions.
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Editors
Jaan Valsiner, Clark University, Massachusetts
Jaan Valsiner is a cultural psychologist with a consistently developmental axiomatic base that is brought to analyses of any psychological or social phenomena. He is the founding editor (1995) of the Sage journal Culture & Psychology. He is currently professor of psychology in the Department of Psychology at Clark University. He has published many books, the most recent of which are The Guided Mind (1998); Culture and Human Development (2000); and Comparative Study of Human Cultural Development (2001). He edited (with Kevin Connolly) the Handbook of Developmental Psychology (2003). He established the new journal on individual case analyses, International Journal of Idiographic Science (2005), and is the editor of Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Sciences and From Past to Future: Annals of Innovations in Psychology (2007). In 1995, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize in Germany for his interdisciplinary work on human development. He has been a visiting professor in Japan, Australia, Estonia, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
Alberto Rosa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Alberto Rosa is professor of psychology at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. He is a member of the Sociedad Espanola de Historia de la Psicologia and the International Society for Cultural and Activity Research, and he has served as vice president for the latter since 2005. In 1987, the Spanish Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs awarded him the Second National Award for research and technical aids to the handicapped. He has taught courses in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Italy, Mexico, and Sweden.
Contributors
Jaan Valsiner, Alberto Rosa, Thomas Slunecko, Sophie Hengl, Jorge Castro, Tatsuya Sato, Yuko Yasuda, Ayae Kido, Ayumu Arakawa, Hazime Mizoguchi, Alan Costall, David Travieso, Adolfo Perinat, William Mintz Fields, Par Segerdahl, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Jordi Serrallonga, Silvia Espanol, Cintia Rodriguez, M. Clotilde Rosetti-Ferreira, Katia S. Amorim, Ana Paula S. Silva, Sang-Chin Choi, Gyuseog Han, Chung-Woon Kim, Tania Zittoun, Emily Abbey, Pablo del Rio, Amelia Alvarez, Jeanette A. Lawrence, Agnes Dodds, Michal Hamo, Shoshana Blum-Kulka, William A. Corsaro, Berit O. Johannesen, Eugene Matusov, Mark Smith, Maria Albuquerque Candela, Keren Lilu, Michael Cole, Yrjo Engestrom, Toshiya Yamamoto, Noboru Takahashi, Nandita Chaudhary, Gerard Duveen, Piero Paolicchi, Fathali M. Moghaddam, Kathryn A. Kavulich, Ulf Hedetoft, Joao Salgado, Miguel Gonclalves, Giuglielmo Bellelli, Antonietta Curci, Giovanna Leone, James V. Wertsch, David Middleton, Steven D. Brown, Alex Gillespie