The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
2nd Edition
Part of Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
- Editors:
- Alberto Rosa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
- Jaan Valsiner, Aalborg University, Denmark
- Date Published: July 2018
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316610282
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Sociocultural psychology is a discipline located at the crossroads between the natural and social sciences and the humanities. This international overview of the field provides an antireductionist and comprehensive account of how experience and behaviour arise from human action with cultural materials in social practices. The outcome is a vision of the dynamics of sociocultural and personal life in which time and developmental constructive transformations are crucial. This second edition provides expanded coverage of how particular cultural artefacts and social practices shape experience and behaviour in the realms of art and aesthetics, economics, history, religion and politics. Special attention is also paid to the development of identity, the self and personhood throughout the lifespan, while retaining the emphasis on experience and development as key features of sociocultural psychology.
Read more- Shows how everyday objects, art, literature, religion, history and money are instrumental in shaping experience and behaviour
- Attention is paid to nomothetic and idiographic approaches
- Provides methodological tools for expanding the empirical knowledge within the field in new areas
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'The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology is an exemplary effort to offer a scholarly, comprehensive and innovative reference for understanding the interface and co-construction of mind and society. It celebrates the multiplicity and mutuality of sociocultural processes in the global context. This encyclopaedic work is going to become a primary source for students and scholars seeking insights into the domain of sociopsychological analyses. The cutting-edge conceptual and empirical work featured in this Handbook is an indispensable resource for doing psychology in the twenty-first century.' Girishwar Misra, Delhi University, India
See more reviews'At a time when the neuroscientific view of the mind seems ubiquitous, this book reconnects psychology to its fundamental questions, from the concept of person to the semiotic constitution of mind. Written by a genuinely international team, this Handbook covers core topics of sociocultural psychology in a comprehensive and updated way.' Carlos Cornejo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
'This second edition is a suggestive fresco on how sociocultural psychology, being an idiographic and nomethetic science, is capable of relating new findings from neighbouring disciplines, and how it can provide an effective and original answer to the problem of big data.' Andrea Smorti, University of Florence
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- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: July 2018
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316610282
- length: 690 pages
- dimensions: 245 x 175 x 32 mm
- weight: 1.37kg
- contains: 54 b/w illus. 8 maps 2 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Editors' introduction: sociocultural psychology on the move
Part I. Theoretical and Methodological Issues:
1. The human psyche lives in semiospheres
2. Psychology as the science of sensemaking: A semiotic-cultural framework for psychology
3. Knowledge and experience: interobjectivity, subjectivity and social relations
4. Against 'mediationism': both cognitive and sociocultural
5. Sociocultural psychology and interpersonal psychoanalysis: the semiotic space in the consulting room
Part II. Action, Objects, Artefacts and Meaning:
6. Spirited psyche makes up artefacts. Semiotic dynamics of experience in the shaping of objects, agency and intentional worlds
7. Making social objects: the theory of social representation
8. Beyond the distinction between tool and sign: objects and artifacts in human activity
9. The sociocultural study of creative action
10. Symbolic resources and imagination in the dynamics of life
Part III. The Agent Rises a Reflective Self: Education and Development:
11. Early infancy: a moving world. Embodied experience and the emergence of thinking
12. Object Pragmatics: Culture and communication, the bases for early cognitive development
13. Distinguishing two processes of self-reflection Alex Gillespie
14. Making memory: meaning in development of the autobiographical self
15. Mapping dialogic pedagogy: instrumental and non-instrumental education
16. Development and education as crossing socio-cultural boundaries
Part IV. Institutional Artefacts for Value:
17. Ownership and exchange in children. Implications for social and moral development
18. Possessions and money beyond market economy
Part V. Aesthetic and Religious Experiences:
19. The sociocultural constitution of aesthetic transcendence
20. Sociocultural science of religion and natural belief
21. Psyche and Religio face to face: religion, psychology and modern, subjectivity in the mirror
Part VI. Practices and Artefacts for Imagining Identity:
22. Imaginative processes and the making of collective realities in national allegories
23. National identities in the making and alternative pathways for history education
24. The politics of representing the past: symbolic spaces of positioning and irony
25. Beyond historical guilt: intergenerational narratives of violence and reconciliation
26. Psytizenship: sociocultural mediations in the historical shapings of the Western citizen
Part VII. Experiences Make the Person:
27. The human experience: a dialogical account of self and feelings
28. Knowing ourselves: dances of social guidance, imagination and development by overcoming ambivalence
29. Personal history and historical selfhood – the embodied and pre-reflective dimension
30. The development of a person – children's experience within the cultural life course
31. The construction of the person in the interethnic situation: dialogues with indigenous university students
32. Social identities, gender and self: cultural canalization in imagery societies
33. The experience of ageing: views from within and without
General conclusions
An epistemological coda: sociocultural psychology among the sciences.
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