An invitation to cultural psychology
by
Valsiner, Jaan.
Title
:
An invitation to cultural psychology
Author
:
Valsiner, Jaan.
ISBN
:
9781446248775
9781446248782
Personal Author
:
Valsiner, Jaan.
Physical Description
:
xiv, 290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents
:
Human experience through the lens of culture: an invitation to psychology in a new key -- What is culture? Any why human psychology needs to be cultural? -- Co-constructing the mind socially: Beyond a communion -- Cultural processes on the borders: Constructive internalization and externalization -- Creating ourselves: Signs, myths, and resistances -- Sign hierarchies: Their construction, use, and demolition -- How culture is made through objects -- Cultivating environments: Over-determination by meaning -- Weaving social textures together: Personal and collective culture in action -- Signs as organizers: Maintaining and innovating tensions -- Epilogue: Cultural psychology as a science of universality of culture.
Abstract
:
An Invitation to Cultural Psychology looks at the everyday life worlds of human beings through the lens of a new synthetic perspective in cultural psychology - that of semiotic dynamics.
Subject Term
:
Ethnopsychology.
| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
|---|
| IIEMSA | General Books | 33168025790490 | 155.8 V214.I 2014 | 1 |