Biographical ruptures and their repair : cultural transitions in development / edited by Amrei C. Joerchel and Gerhard Benetka.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Joerchel, Amrei C., editor.

Benetka, Gerhard, editor.

Series:

Advances in cultural psychology.

Advances in cultural psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Developmental psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 p.)

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, North Carolina : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Biographical ruptures and their repairs: Cultural transitions in development represents the efforts of bridging theoretical, methodological, and practice oriented issues revolving around the notion of biographical ruptures and their repairs. The aim is to bring novel understandings from cultural psychological perspectives to the debate of what it means to be a developing human being in an ever changing world.Contrary to mainstream psychology ruptures and repairs are here not necessarily understood as a personal experience, which must be overcome through various coping strategies. Rather, ruptures are understood as experiences, which necessarily emerge out of the complex interrelatedness of intra-psychological, inter-personal, and societal processes. Moving along these different levels of analysis, each of the 13 chapters of this book contributes to the general cultural psychological understanding of ruptures from their own particular standpoint. The notion of ruptures and their repairs are discussed from such differing standpoints such as classical developmental psychological theories and challenges to such developmental approaches. They are discussed in relation to racial interpellations using the documentary method and social representations theory. On the object level ruptures are pointed out within popular music videos and from a Ganzheitspsychological approach and others.The current book thus does not only represent a conglomerate of various theoretical, methodological, or practice oriented approaches to ruptures and their repairs, each adding with their own expertise to a better understand of the phenomenon in its whole. It also demonstrated a lively debate between leading specialists and practitioners from different disciplines and countries. Theoretical and methodological issues, as well as ethical and moral ones, are each discussed from their own cultural psychological viewpoint. This book will interest practitioners, scientists and students or anyone who is interested in biographical rupture and their repairs from a cultural psychological, developmental, social psychological or psychotherapeutic viewpoint.

Contents:

Preface: Strategic authenticity of repairing ruptures / Jaan Valsiner

Editors' Introduction / Amrei C. Joerchel and Gerhard Benetka

Part I: Biographical ruptures and developmental contexts

Chapter 1. Adolescence and transitions in developmental psychology / Amrei C. Joerchel and Eva Dreher

Chapter 2. Understanding biographical ruptures and transitions: A dynamic systems approach to life-course development / Omar Carlo Gioacchino Gelo

Chapter 3. Ruptures and repairs in the course of living: Challenges to developmental psychology / Pernille Hviid and Jakob Waag Villadsen

Chapter 4. The crisis of basic concepts: Use and danger of the implication of fundamental-ontological considerations in the formation of psychological theories / Stephan Dietrich

Chapter 5. Disruptions and obstacles in the lives of emerging adults / Agnes Dodds, Sarity Dodson, Hannah Gitsham, Chau-Hai Nguyen, and Jeanette Lawrence

Chapter 6. Managing culture: On the political ambivalence of culture in organizations / Markus Wrbouschek

Chapter 7. Transitions in the life course: Learning from alfred schütz / Tania Zittoun and Alex Gillespie

Part II: Biographical ruptures and cultural contexts

Chapter 8. Education and racism: On the inscriptions of racist and ethnicizing interpellations in the education biographies of austrian-turkish women / Katharina Hametner

Chapter 9. Social representations and biographical narratives of migrationsandere: Toward an integration of social representations research and biographical narrative research in racialized experiences of migrants in school / Babette Gekeler and Caroline Howarth

Chapter 10. Comparing a music video and its remake: Video interpretation according to the documentary method / Stefan Hampl

Chapter 11. Ruptures as a matter of perspectives: The case of music-video analysis / Rainer Diriwächter

Part III: Biographical ruptures and ethical and philosophical issues

Chapter 12. Bodies, sacredness, and moral debates: Abortion, ruptures, and matters of life and death / Rosa Traversa

About the authors.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

ISBN:

1-62396-840-2