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.


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