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The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (751 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780511288548
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Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- EDITORS' INTRODUCTION Contemporary Socio-Cultural Research Uniting Culture, Society, and Psychology -- Why Such Complex Term - Socio-Cultural Psychology? -- Directions of Inquiry in Socio-Cultural Psychology -- The Conceptual Map of Socio-Cultural Psychology -- Cultural Experiencing of Social Worlds -- Socio-Cultural Psychology - Its Past, and Needs -- The problem of consciousness -- Evolutionary thought and understanding culture -- Dualisms (and fight against them) as epistemological impasses -- Socio-cultural thought and social transformations of society -- Dependence on language -- Embracing semiotics -- The Pre-View of the Handbook -- The Coming of Age of Socio-Cultural Psychology -- Notes -- References -- Part I THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES -- CHAPTER 1 The Myth, and Beyond: Ontology of Psyche and Epistemology of Psychology -- From Beauty to Science: A Quick Look to Psyche's Past -- Two Roles of Scientific Evidence: Knowledge Construction and Group Maintenance -- Theories in Psychology: Intellectual Tools Versus Identity Markers -- Theories as Identity Markers -- Theories as Intellectual Tools -- Criteria for Detecting a Shift in the Equilibrium Between These Two Functions of Theories -- Knowledge Construction and Technological Uses: Construction Versus Use -- What Socio-Cultural Perspectives to Psychology Can Contribute? -- Updating Psyche's Image -- Socio-cultural phenomena as open systems -- What Is Psyche? Who Is Psyche? -- Consciousness and Experience -- The Social-Cultural-Historical Nature of Experience -- Locating Socio-Cultural Psychology: Levels of Organization -- Towards a New Epistemology in Socio-Cultural Sciences -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 2 Language, Cognition, Subjectivity: A Dynamic Constitution.
Different Concepts on the Horizon -- Different Linguistic Structures - Different Worlds -- Language is Alive -- Notions Have Their Destinies -- Linguistic Structures Have Their Destinies, Too -- Language and Subject Formation -- Who Is the Agent of All That? -- Do We Acquire Language or Vice Versa? -- Language in Contemporary Psychological Research Practice -- Discourse Analysis -- Social Representations -- Metaphor Analysis -- Applying These Thoughts Onto Cultural Psychology - An Integrative Outlook -- Historicity and Contingency of Human Subjectivity -- Beyond Universalist and Ahistoric Knowledge Claims and Toward Self-Reflexivity of Psychology as a Science -- Implications for Research Methodology -- Beyond Objectivism (Realism) and Subjectivism (Idealism) -- Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER 3 Psychology within Time: Theorizing about the Making of Socio-Cultural Psychology -- A Socio-Cultural Look Upon Psychology -- Reflexivity as a Methodological Tool -- A Socio-Cultural View on Cognition -- The Argument of the Chapter -- The Inscription of the Human Subject in the Structure of the Socio-Cultural Reality -- The Discursive Control of Human Activity -- The Socio-Historical Emergence of Self-Reflective Discourse -- A Brief Genealogy of Psychology as a Discourse on Socio-Cultural Phenomenon -- Disciplined Psychology as a Discourse Reflecting Upon the Self -- Collective Psychology: A Multidisciplinary Effort to Link Psyche and Culture -- Towards a Self-Reflective Proposal About the Analysis of Socio-Cultural Contexts -- Devising an Auto-Reflexive Method -- A Catalogue of Ways in Which Socio-cultural Psychologies can Address Agency -- Final Remarks -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 4 Sampling Reconsidered: Idiographic Science and the Analyses of Personal Life Trajectories -- Two Ways to Generalized Knowledge -- What Is a Sample?.
The Meaning of "Population" -- Logic of generalization based on the homogeneity assumption -- The Notion of Sampling in the Natural Sciences -- Sampling in the Behavioral Sciences -- Sampling and Statistical Theories -- Steps in sampling -- Changing the Axiomatic Base: Historicity of Life Courses -- Types of Sampling -- Sampling in Socio-Cultural Psychology -- Generalization - Knowing About What? Population or Generic Models? -- Development as a Process: Constructing Histories -- Socio-Cultural Experiences on the Trajectories of Living -- A New Philosophy of Method: HSS (Historically Structured Sampling) -- Trajectory Equifinality Model (TEM)-Based on HSS -- Examples of HSS: Three Studies that Explicate the TEM -- Infertility in japan -- Use of cosmetics by japanese women in the united states -- Psychological process of abortion -- Conclusion: Re-Thinking Sampling and Re-Building Theories -- Notes -- References -- Part II FROM NATURE TO CULTURE -- CHAPTER 5 The Windowless Room: 'Mediationism' and How to Get Over It -- Mediationism in Mainstream Cognitive Psychology -- Representationalism in Social Cognitive Psychology -- Deja vu All Over Again -- Getting Over Mediationism -- Acknowledgments -- References -- CHAPTER 6 Functional Systems of Perception-Action and Re-Mediation -- Paradoxes of Dualism -- Perception-Action: A Way of Conceiving the Basis of Knowledge -- The Dynamic Approach in Psychology -- Current Research Into Intentional Movement: Motor Control and Dynamic Modeling -- Functional Systems in Brain Functioning -- Re-Mediation on the Edge From Basic to Social-cultural Functioning -- Mediation and the Transit From Basic to Higher Psychological Processes -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 7 Comparative Development of Communication: An Evolutionary Perspective -- General Considerations on the Concept of Communication.
Information and Communication -- The Comparative Proposal -- A World of Signals -- Communication and Perception-Cognition -- The Encephalization Process and Object Perception -- Sociability, Cognition, and Communication -- Primate Communication -- Animal Communication and Human Communication -- In Principio Erat Signum -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 8 The Material Practices of Ape Language Research -- Background -- Monograph -- Discussion -- Defining Culture -- Writing Ethnography, Writing Theory -- 1. Spontaneity -- 2. Boundlessness -- 3. Immanence -- 4. Cultural Creativity and Generality -- 5. Placement -- 6. Gestures and Tools -- 7. Medium Independence -- 8. Cultural Unity -- 9. Non-arbitrariness -- 10. Reflexivity -- 11. Flexible Interface of Primate Reactions -- 12. Moral and Personal Dimension -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 9 The End of Myths and Legends About the Biological and Cultural Evolution: A New View in the Knowledge on Hominid Paleo-Ethoecology -- Introduction -- Forest Bipeds: A Life Between Ground and Trees -- Sleeping in Heights: The Nesting Behavior -- Homo Faber Versus Australopithecus Habilis: Ethoecology and Archaeological Record -- Savannah: Scavengers and/or Hunters and Stone Tools -- Sleeping on the Ground and the Myth of Fire -- Contemporary Knives and Axes . . . and the Ecological Hypothesis of the African Acheulean -- The Mysterious Case of the Hand- Axes in Europe: Stupid Colonists? -- The Solution: A Paleo-Ethocological View -- Acknowledgments -- Note -- References -- Part III FROM ORIENTATION TO MEANING -- CHAPTER 10 Acts of Psyche: Actuations as Synthesis of Semiosis and Action -- Experience, Behavior, and Meaning -- The Puzzle of Experience -- Behavior and Sense -- Meaning and Rule Related Systems of Sense -- What Is the Meaning of "Meaning"?.
The Sciences of Meaning: Semiology and Semiotics -- Meaning-Making - Peirce's Legacy -- How Is It That We Are Able to Make Sense of What Is Felt? -- Semiosis as a Triadic and Recursive Process -- How Feelings Can Come to Signify Objects -- Peirce's Classification of Signs -- Semiosis Constructs the Fictional and the Real in Irreversible Time -- Acting and Meaning-Making -- Movement, Action, and Semiosis -- Organic Matter as Self-Organized Systems -- From Acts to Action -- Intentionality, Actuations, and Dramatic Performances -- Intentional Schema -- Actuations Produce Psychological Processes, Objects, Situations, and Actors -- The Others Turn Actuations Into Dramaturgical Scripts. The Influence of the Social -- Concluding Remarks. Semiotic Actuations as the Source of Ecologically Developed Teleological Functions -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 11 Time and Movement in Symbol Formation -- Ritualization in the Origin of Gestures and Pretend Play -- Movement as an Expression of the Vitality Affects -- Movement and Action -- Movement, Time, and Feeling -- Diversity, Attunement, and Communion -- Temporal Organization of Movement -- Movement and Action in Circular Reactions -- The "Externalization" of the Components of Social Circular Reactions -- Movement in the Genesis of Pretend Play -- Movement in the Creation of Gestures -- Temporal Play -- Temporal Play and Pretend Play -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- CHAPTER 12 Object Use, Communication, and Signs: The Triadic Basis of Early Cognitive Development -- The Pragmatic Approach to Language and Objects -- What Is the Origin of the Pragmatic View That Leads Bruner to Link Meaning and Use in Language Acquisition? -- Bruner's Two Logics: With Language the Logic of Use, With Objects That of a Direct Relationship -- Where Does the "Natural" Lie in Natural Signs?.
One Thing Is the Production of a Natural Sign.
Summary: This handbook, first published in 2007, approaches human psychology in all its complexity, providing a comprehensive description and explanation of the development of meaning-making. This unique text integrates contributions of sociocultural specialists from 15 countries worldwide. An essential purchase for psychologists with widespread appeal to anthropologists, sociologists and philosophers.
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- EDITORS' INTRODUCTION Contemporary Socio-Cultural Research Uniting Culture, Society, and Psychology -- Why Such Complex Term - Socio-Cultural Psychology? -- Directions of Inquiry in Socio-Cultural Psychology -- The Conceptual Map of Socio-Cultural Psychology -- Cultural Experiencing of Social Worlds -- Socio-Cultural Psychology - Its Past, and Needs -- The problem of consciousness -- Evolutionary thought and understanding culture -- Dualisms (and fight against them) as epistemological impasses -- Socio-cultural thought and social transformations of society -- Dependence on language -- Embracing semiotics -- The Pre-View of the Handbook -- The Coming of Age of Socio-Cultural Psychology -- Notes -- References -- Part I THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES -- CHAPTER 1 The Myth, and Beyond: Ontology of Psyche and Epistemology of Psychology -- From Beauty to Science: A Quick Look to Psyche's Past -- Two Roles of Scientific Evidence: Knowledge Construction and Group Maintenance -- Theories in Psychology: Intellectual Tools Versus Identity Markers -- Theories as Identity Markers -- Theories as Intellectual Tools -- Criteria for Detecting a Shift in the Equilibrium Between These Two Functions of Theories -- Knowledge Construction and Technological Uses: Construction Versus Use -- What Socio-Cultural Perspectives to Psychology Can Contribute? -- Updating Psyche's Image -- Socio-cultural phenomena as open systems -- What Is Psyche? Who Is Psyche? -- Consciousness and Experience -- The Social-Cultural-Historical Nature of Experience -- Locating Socio-Cultural Psychology: Levels of Organization -- Towards a New Epistemology in Socio-Cultural Sciences -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 2 Language, Cognition, Subjectivity: A Dynamic Constitution.

Different Concepts on the Horizon -- Different Linguistic Structures - Different Worlds -- Language is Alive -- Notions Have Their Destinies -- Linguistic Structures Have Their Destinies, Too -- Language and Subject Formation -- Who Is the Agent of All That? -- Do We Acquire Language or Vice Versa? -- Language in Contemporary Psychological Research Practice -- Discourse Analysis -- Social Representations -- Metaphor Analysis -- Applying These Thoughts Onto Cultural Psychology - An Integrative Outlook -- Historicity and Contingency of Human Subjectivity -- Beyond Universalist and Ahistoric Knowledge Claims and Toward Self-Reflexivity of Psychology as a Science -- Implications for Research Methodology -- Beyond Objectivism (Realism) and Subjectivism (Idealism) -- Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER 3 Psychology within Time: Theorizing about the Making of Socio-Cultural Psychology -- A Socio-Cultural Look Upon Psychology -- Reflexivity as a Methodological Tool -- A Socio-Cultural View on Cognition -- The Argument of the Chapter -- The Inscription of the Human Subject in the Structure of the Socio-Cultural Reality -- The Discursive Control of Human Activity -- The Socio-Historical Emergence of Self-Reflective Discourse -- A Brief Genealogy of Psychology as a Discourse on Socio-Cultural Phenomenon -- Disciplined Psychology as a Discourse Reflecting Upon the Self -- Collective Psychology: A Multidisciplinary Effort to Link Psyche and Culture -- Towards a Self-Reflective Proposal About the Analysis of Socio-Cultural Contexts -- Devising an Auto-Reflexive Method -- A Catalogue of Ways in Which Socio-cultural Psychologies can Address Agency -- Final Remarks -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 4 Sampling Reconsidered: Idiographic Science and the Analyses of Personal Life Trajectories -- Two Ways to Generalized Knowledge -- What Is a Sample?.

The Meaning of "Population" -- Logic of generalization based on the homogeneity assumption -- The Notion of Sampling in the Natural Sciences -- Sampling in the Behavioral Sciences -- Sampling and Statistical Theories -- Steps in sampling -- Changing the Axiomatic Base: Historicity of Life Courses -- Types of Sampling -- Sampling in Socio-Cultural Psychology -- Generalization - Knowing About What? Population or Generic Models? -- Development as a Process: Constructing Histories -- Socio-Cultural Experiences on the Trajectories of Living -- A New Philosophy of Method: HSS (Historically Structured Sampling) -- Trajectory Equifinality Model (TEM)-Based on HSS -- Examples of HSS: Three Studies that Explicate the TEM -- Infertility in japan -- Use of cosmetics by japanese women in the united states -- Psychological process of abortion -- Conclusion: Re-Thinking Sampling and Re-Building Theories -- Notes -- References -- Part II FROM NATURE TO CULTURE -- CHAPTER 5 The Windowless Room: 'Mediationism' and How to Get Over It -- Mediationism in Mainstream Cognitive Psychology -- Representationalism in Social Cognitive Psychology -- Deja vu All Over Again -- Getting Over Mediationism -- Acknowledgments -- References -- CHAPTER 6 Functional Systems of Perception-Action and Re-Mediation -- Paradoxes of Dualism -- Perception-Action: A Way of Conceiving the Basis of Knowledge -- The Dynamic Approach in Psychology -- Current Research Into Intentional Movement: Motor Control and Dynamic Modeling -- Functional Systems in Brain Functioning -- Re-Mediation on the Edge From Basic to Social-cultural Functioning -- Mediation and the Transit From Basic to Higher Psychological Processes -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 7 Comparative Development of Communication: An Evolutionary Perspective -- General Considerations on the Concept of Communication.

Information and Communication -- The Comparative Proposal -- A World of Signals -- Communication and Perception-Cognition -- The Encephalization Process and Object Perception -- Sociability, Cognition, and Communication -- Primate Communication -- Animal Communication and Human Communication -- In Principio Erat Signum -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 8 The Material Practices of Ape Language Research -- Background -- Monograph -- Discussion -- Defining Culture -- Writing Ethnography, Writing Theory -- 1. Spontaneity -- 2. Boundlessness -- 3. Immanence -- 4. Cultural Creativity and Generality -- 5. Placement -- 6. Gestures and Tools -- 7. Medium Independence -- 8. Cultural Unity -- 9. Non-arbitrariness -- 10. Reflexivity -- 11. Flexible Interface of Primate Reactions -- 12. Moral and Personal Dimension -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 9 The End of Myths and Legends About the Biological and Cultural Evolution: A New View in the Knowledge on Hominid Paleo-Ethoecology -- Introduction -- Forest Bipeds: A Life Between Ground and Trees -- Sleeping in Heights: The Nesting Behavior -- Homo Faber Versus Australopithecus Habilis: Ethoecology and Archaeological Record -- Savannah: Scavengers and/or Hunters and Stone Tools -- Sleeping on the Ground and the Myth of Fire -- Contemporary Knives and Axes . . . and the Ecological Hypothesis of the African Acheulean -- The Mysterious Case of the Hand- Axes in Europe: Stupid Colonists? -- The Solution: A Paleo-Ethocological View -- Acknowledgments -- Note -- References -- Part III FROM ORIENTATION TO MEANING -- CHAPTER 10 Acts of Psyche: Actuations as Synthesis of Semiosis and Action -- Experience, Behavior, and Meaning -- The Puzzle of Experience -- Behavior and Sense -- Meaning and Rule Related Systems of Sense -- What Is the Meaning of "Meaning"?.

The Sciences of Meaning: Semiology and Semiotics -- Meaning-Making - Peirce's Legacy -- How Is It That We Are Able to Make Sense of What Is Felt? -- Semiosis as a Triadic and Recursive Process -- How Feelings Can Come to Signify Objects -- Peirce's Classification of Signs -- Semiosis Constructs the Fictional and the Real in Irreversible Time -- Acting and Meaning-Making -- Movement, Action, and Semiosis -- Organic Matter as Self-Organized Systems -- From Acts to Action -- Intentionality, Actuations, and Dramatic Performances -- Intentional Schema -- Actuations Produce Psychological Processes, Objects, Situations, and Actors -- The Others Turn Actuations Into Dramaturgical Scripts. The Influence of the Social -- Concluding Remarks. Semiotic Actuations as the Source of Ecologically Developed Teleological Functions -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 11 Time and Movement in Symbol Formation -- Ritualization in the Origin of Gestures and Pretend Play -- Movement as an Expression of the Vitality Affects -- Movement and Action -- Movement, Time, and Feeling -- Diversity, Attunement, and Communion -- Temporal Organization of Movement -- Movement and Action in Circular Reactions -- The "Externalization" of the Components of Social Circular Reactions -- Movement in the Genesis of Pretend Play -- Movement in the Creation of Gestures -- Temporal Play -- Temporal Play and Pretend Play -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- CHAPTER 12 Object Use, Communication, and Signs: The Triadic Basis of Early Cognitive Development -- The Pragmatic Approach to Language and Objects -- What Is the Origin of the Pragmatic View That Leads Bruner to Link Meaning and Use in Language Acquisition? -- Bruner's Two Logics: With Language the Logic of Use, With Objects That of a Direct Relationship -- Where Does the "Natural" Lie in Natural Signs?.

One Thing Is the Production of a Natural Sign.

This handbook, first published in 2007, approaches human psychology in all its complexity, providing a comprehensive description and explanation of the development of meaning-making. This unique text integrates contributions of sociocultural specialists from 15 countries worldwide. An essential purchase for psychologists with widespread appeal to anthropologists, sociologists and philosophers.

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