The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology

, by Edited by Jaan Valsiner , Alberto Rosa

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ISBN: 9780521670050 | 0521670055
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Copyright: 6/4/2007

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The first handbook of Socio-cultural Pyschology to deal with such a variety of themes and wide international scope. Valsiner and Rossa approach human psychology in all its complexity, providing a comprehensive description and explanation of the development of meaning -making. This unique text integrates contributions of socio-cultural specialists from 15 countries worldwide, tied together by the unifying focus on the role of sign systems in human relations with the environment. It is an essential purchase for Psychologists and will have widespread appeal to Anthropologists, Sociologists and Philosophers.

Preface	p. ix
Contributors	p. xiii
Editors' Introduction: Contemporary Social-Cultural Research: Uniting Culture, Society, and Psychology	p. 1
Theoretical and Methodological Issues
The Myth, and Beyond: Ontology of Psyche and Epistemology of Psychology	p. 23
Language, Cognition, Subjectivity: A Dynamic Constitution	p. 40
Psychology within Time: Theorizing about the Making of Socio-Cultural Psychology	p. 62
Sampling Reconsidered: Idiographic Science and the Analysis of Personal Life Trajectories	p. 82
From Nature to Culture
The Windowless Room: 'Mediationism' and How to Get Over It	p. 109
Functional Systems of Perception-Action and Re-Mediation	p. 124
Comparative Development of Communication: An Evolutionary Perspective	p. 140
The Material Practices of Ape Language Research	p. 164
The End of Myths and Legends About the Biological and Cultural Evolution: A New View in the Knowledge on Hominid Paleo-Ethoecology	p. 187
From Orientation to Meaning
Acts of Psyche: Actuations as Synthesis of Semiosis and Action	p. 205
Time and Movement in Symbol Formation	p. 238
Object Use, Communication, and Signs: The Triadic Basis of Early Cognitive Development	p. 257
Network of Meanings: A Theoretical-Methodological Perspective for the Investigation of Human Developmental Processes	p. 277
Symbolic Resources for the Constitution of Experience
Dramaturgical Actuations and Symbolic Communication: Or How Beliefs Make Up Reality	p. 293
Analysis of Cultural Emotion: Understanding of Indigenous Psychology for Universal Implications	p. 318
The Role of Symbolic Resources in Human Lives	p. 343
Perpetual Uncertainty of Cultural Life: Becoming Reality	p. 362
Prayer and the Kingdom of Heaven: Psychological Tools for Directivity	p. 373
"Myself, the Project": Sociocultural Interpretations of Young Adulthood	p. 404
From Society to the Person Through Culture
Apprenticeship in Conversation and Culture: Emerging Sociability in Preschool Peer Talk	p. 423
The Creation of New Cultures in Peer Interaction	p. 444
"Culture Has No Internal Territory": Culture as Dialogue	p. 460
Cultural-Historical Approaches to Designing for Development	p. 484
Money as a Cultural Tool Mediating Personal Relationships: Child Development of Exchange and Possession	p. 508
The Family: Negotiating Cultural Values	p. 524
From Social Culture to Personal Culture
Culture and Social Representations	p. 543
The Institutions Inside: Self, Morality, and Culture	p. 560
Identity, Rights, and Duties: The Illustrative Case of Positioning by Iran, the United States, and the European Union	p. 576
Symbolic Politics and Cultural Symbols: Identity Formation Between and Beyond Nations and States	p. 591
The Dialogical Self: Social, Personal, and (Un)Conscious	p. 608
Making Sense of the Past for the Future: Memory and Self-Reflection
Social and Cognitive Determinants of Collective Memory for Public Events	p. 625
Collective Memory	p. 645
Issues in the Socio-Cultural Study of Memory: Making Memory Matter	p. 661
The Social Basis of Self-Reflection	p. 678
General Conclusions: Socio-Cultural Psychology on the Move: Semiotic Methodology in the Making	p. 692
Index	p. 709
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