The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology

Author Jaan Valsiner Alberto Rosa

Publisher Cambridge University Press

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Jaan Valsiner Alberto Rosa

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Cambridge University Press

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Copyright

2007

ISBN13

9780511481208

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eBook

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College Freshman - College Senior

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This handbook approaches human psychology in all its complexity, providing a comprehensive description and explanation of the development of meaning-making. This unique text integrates contributions of sociocultural specialists from 15 countries worldwide. An essential purchase for psychologists with widespread appeal to anthropologists, sociologists and philosophers.
Front Cover.
Other Frontmatter.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Preface.
Contributors.
Half Title Page.
Editors' Introduction: Contemporary Socio-Cultural Research: Uniting Culture, Society, and Psychology.
1: Theoretical and Methodological Issues.
2: The Myth, and Beyond: Ontology of Psyche and Epistemology of Psychology.
3: Language, Cognition, Subjectivity: A Dynamic Constitution.
4: Psychology within Time: Theorizing about the Making of Socio-Cultural Psychology.
5: Sampling Reconsidered: Idiographic Science and the Analyses of Personal Life Trajectories.
6: From Nature to Culture.
7: The Windowless Room: ‘Mediationism’ and How to Get Over It.
8: Functional Systems of Perception-Action and Re-Mediation.
9: Comparative Development of Communication: An Evolutionary Perspective.
10: The Material Practices of Ape Language Research.
11: The End of Myths and Legends about the Biological and Cultural Evolution: A New View in the Knowledge on Hominid Paleo-Ethoecology.
12: From Orientation to Meaning.
13: Acts of Psyche: Actuations as Synthesis of Semiosis and Action.
14: Time and Movement in Symbol Formation.
15: Object Use, Communication, and Signs: The Triadic Basis of Early Cognitive Development.
16: Network of Meanings: A Theoretical-Methodological Perspective for the Investigation of Human Developmental Processes.
17: Symbolic Resources for the Constitution of Experience.
18: Dramaturgical Actuations and Symbolic Communication: Or How Beliefs Make Up Reality.
19: Analysis of Cultural Emotion: Understanding of Indigenous Psychology for Universal Implications.
20: The Role of Symbolic Resources in Human Lives.
21: Perpetual Uncertainty of Cultural Life: Becoming Reality.
22: Prayer and the Kingdom of Heaven: Psychological Tools for Directivity.
23: “Myself, the Project”: Sociocultural Interpretations of Young Adulthood.
24: From Society to the Person Through Culture.
25: Apprenticeship in Conv
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