The growth of minds and cultures : a unified theory of the structure of human experience / Willem H. Vanderburg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vanderburg, Willem H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personality and culture.

Physical Description:

xlv, 334 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2016]

Contents:

1 Introduction

Culture and Technique 3

Science and Structures 10

Systems and Reality 16

The Organized Whole 24

Culture as Social Ecology 37

2 Our Senses and the World

The Role of the Mind 49

Sensations for the Baby 55

Differentiation 61

The Four Dimensions 68

3 The Structure of Experience

The External World Experienced as a Gestalt 71

Stimuli from the 'Inner' World 78

The System of Experience 81

Memory 90

The Metaconscious 99

4 The Development of the Mind

Cumulative and Non-cumulative Development 101

Metaconscious Knowledge in Children 107

Metaconscious Knowledge in Daily Life 116

The Subconscious and the Metaconscious 129

Being in Reality 136

5 Language

The Symbolic Basis 140

Language and Information 144

The Emergence of Language 146

Language and Experience 157

Symbolic Universes 162

The Realm of Thought 172

6 Individual Diversity

Sources of Individuality 178

The Wild Boy of Aveyron and Other Extremes 183

Functional Indeterminism 195

Some Psychological Dimensions 201

Individuality and Culture 215

7 Cultural Unity

Individuals in Society 221

The Existential Field 229

Myths and the Sacred 235

The Sacred and Religion 242

Transmitting Cultural Unity 255

8 Culture and History

Culture as Dialectical Mediation 265

Challenges to a Culture 271

Cultural Evolution 278

Culture, Civilization, and Humanity 289.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-324) and index.

ISBN:

9781487520342

1487520344

OCLC:

947794990