The Oxford handbook of culture and psychology / edited by Jaan Valsiner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Valsiner, Jaan.

Series:

Oxford library of psychology.

Oxford library of psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnopsychology.

Culture--Psychological aspects.

Culture.

Social psychology.

Cross-Cultural Comparison.

Social Cognition.

Medical Subjects:

Ethnopsychology.

Culture.

Cross-Cultural Comparison.

Social Cognition.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 1130 p. ) ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Culture and psychology

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Summary:

This is an internationally representative overview of the state of the art in cultural psychology. Cultural psychology focuses on the ways in which our lives are made meaningful through the use of cultural tools and personal meanings.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Oxford Library of Psychology

About the Editor

Contributors

Chapters

Index

Part One: Historical Linkages of Culture and Psychology

Introduction: Culture in Psychology: A Renewed Encounter of Inquisitive Minds

1. Culture and Psychology: Words and Ideas in History

2. Völkerpsychologie

3. Cultural-Historical Psychology: Contributions of Lev Vygotsky

Part Two: Inter- and Intradisciplinary Perspectives

4. The Role of Indigenous Psychologies in the Building of Basic Cultural Psychology

5. Cultural Anthropology

6. Cross-Cultural Psychology: Taking People, Contexts, and Situations Seriously

7. Archeology and the Study of Material Culture: Synergies With Cultural Psychology

Part Three: Positions in the Field

8. Enactivism

9. Positioning Theory: Moral Dimensions of Social-Cultural Psychology

10. Macro-Cultural Psychology

Part Four: Semiosis in Culture and Psychology

11. Social Life of the Sign: Sense-Making in Society

12. Meaningful Connections: Semiotics, Cultural Psychology, and the Forms of Sense

13. The City As a Sign: A Developmental-Experiential Approach to Spatial Life

14. Modeling Iconic Literacy: The Dynamic Models for Complex Cultural Objects

15. Existential Semiotics and Cultural Psychology

Part Five: Action, Self, and Narration

16. Culture: Result and Condition of Action

17. Culture-Inclusive Action Theory: Action Theory in Dialectics and Dialectics in Action Theory

18. The Other in the Self: A Triadic Unit

19. Dialogical Theory of Selfhood

20. Narrative Scenarios: Toward a Culturally Thick Notion of Narrative

21. Culture in Action: A Discursive Approach

22. Social Representations As Anthropology of Culture

Part Six: Tools for Living: Transcending Social Limitations.

23. Life-Course: A Socio-Cultural Perspective

24. Being Poor: Cultural Tools for Survival

25. Cultural Psychology of Racial Ideology in Historical Perspective: An Analytic Approach to Understanding Racialized Societies and Their Psychological Effects on Lives

26. Belonging to Gender: Social Identities, Symbolic Boundaries and Images

27. Risk and Culture

28. Constructing Histories

Part Seven: Emergence of Culture

29. Roots of Culture in the Umwelt

30. Culture and Epigenesis: A Waddingtonian View

31. From Material to Symbolic Cultures: Culture in Primates

Part Eight: Human Movement Through Culture

32. Encountering Alterity: Geographic and Semantic Movements

33. Crossing Thresholds: Movement As a Means of Transformation

34. Never "at-Home"?: Migrants between Societies

Part Nine: Culture of Higher Social Regulators: Values, Magic, and Duties

35. Values and Socio-Cultural Practices: Pathways to Moral Development

36. The Intergenerational Continuity of values

37. The Making of Magic: Cultural Constructions of the Mundane Supernatural

38. Duties and Rights

Part Ten: Cultural Interfaces: Persons and Institutions

39. The Interface Between the Sociology of Practice and the Analysis of Talk in the Study of Change in Educational Settings

40.The Work of Schooling

41.Collaboration and Helping as Cultural Practices

42. A Cultural-Historical Approach to University/Community Collaborative Interventions

Part Eleven: Social Networks and Cultural Affectivity

43. Affective Networks: The Social Terrain of a Complex Culture

44. Peer Relations

45. Culture in Play

46. Affect and Culture

Part Twelve: Toward Methodological Innovations for Cultural Psychology

47. Ambivalence and Its Transformations

48. Guesses on the Future of Cultural Psychology: Past, Present, and Past.

49. Culture in Constructive Remembering

50. How Can We Study Interactions Mediated by Money as a Cultural Tool: From the Perspectives of "Cultural Psychology of Differences" as a Dialogical Method

51. The Authentic Culture of Living Well: Pathways to Psychological Well-Being

52. Psychology Courting Culture: Future Directions and Their Implications

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Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780199968787

0199968780

9780199930630

0199930635

OCLC:

886540205