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Title The Oxford handbook of culture and psychology / edited by Jaan Valsiner
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 1130 pages) : illustrations
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Series Oxford library of psychology
Oxford library of psychology.
Contents Part I. Historical Linkages of Culture and Psychology: Introduction: Culture in Psychology: a Renewed Encounter of Inquisitive Minds / Jaan Valsiner -- 1. Culture and Psychology: Words and Ideas in History / Gustav Jahoda -- 2. Volkerpsychologie / Rainer Diriwachter -- 3. Cultural-Historical Psychology: Contributions of Lev Vygotsky / Rene Van Der Veer -- Part II. Inter- and Intra-Disciplinary Perspectives -- 4. The Role of Indigenous Psychologies in the Building of Basic Cultural Psychology / Pradeep Chakkarath -- 5. Cultural Anthropology / Susan Rasmussen -- 6. Cross-Cultural Psychology: Taking People, Contexts and Situations Seriously / Heidi Keller -- 7. Archaeology and the Study of Material Culture: Synergies with Cultural Psychology / Alfredo Gonzalez-Ruibal -- Part III. Positions in the Field: 8. Enactivism / Cor Baerveldt and Theo Verhaggen -- 9. Positioning Theory: Moral Dimensions of Social-Cultural Psychology / Rom Harre -- 10. Macro-Cultural Psychology / Carl Ratner -- Part IV. Semiosis in Culture and Psychology: 11. Social Life of the Sign: Sensemaking in Society / Sergio Salvatore -- 12. Meaningful Connections: Semiotics, Cultural Psychology, and the Forms of Sense / Robert Innis -- 13. The City as a Sign: a Developmental-Experiential Approach to Spatial Life / Nikita A. Kharlamov -- 14. Modeling Iconic Literacy: The Dynamic Models for Complex Cultural Objects / Rebeca Puche-Navarro -- 15. Existential Semiotics and Cultural Psychology / Eero Tarasti -- Part V. Action, Self, and Narration: 16. Culture: Result and Condition of Action / Ernest Boesch -- 17. Culture Inclusive Action Theory: Action Theory in Dialectics and Dialectics in Action Theory / Lutz Eckensberger -- 18. The Other in the Self: a Triadic Unit / Livia Mathias Simao -- 19. Dialogical Theory of Selfhood / Tiago Bento, Carla Cunha, and Joao Salgado -- 20. Narrative Scenarios: Toward a Culturally Thick Notion of Narrative / Jens Brockmeier -- Culture in Action: a Discursive Approach / Kyoko Murakami -- 22. Social Representations As Anthropology of Culture / Ivana Markova -- Part VI. Tools for Living: Transcending Social Limitations: 23. Life Course: a Sociocultural Perspective / Tania Zittoun -- 24. Being Poor: Cultural Tools for Survival / Ana Cecilia S. Bastos and Elaine P. Rabinovich -- 25. Cultural Psychology of Racial Ideology in Historical Perspective: An Analytic Approach to Understanding Racialized Societies and Their Psychological Effects On Lives / Cynthia E. Winston and Michael R. Winston -- 26. Belonging to Gender: Social Identities, Symbolic Boundaries and Images / Ana Flavia Do Amaral Madureira -- 27. Risk and Culture / Bob Heyman -- 28. Constructing Histories / Mario Carretero and Angela Bermudez -- Part VII. Emergence of Culture: 29. Roots of Culture in the Umwelt / Riin Magnus and Kalevi Kull -- 30. Culture and Epigenesis: a Waddingtonian View / Iddo Tavory, Eva Jablonka, and Simona Ginsburg -- 31. From Material to Symbolic Cultures: Culture in Primates / Christophe Boesch -- Part VIII. Human Movement Through Culture: 32. Encountering Alterity: Geographic and Semantic Movements / Alex Gillespie, Irini Kadianaki, and Ria O'sullivan-Lago -- 33. Crossing Thresholds: Movement As a Means of Transformation / Zachary Beckstead -- 34. Never at Home? Migrants between Societies / Mariann Martsin and Hala W. Mahmoud -- Part IX. Culture of Higher Social Regulators: Values, Magic, and Duties: 35. Values and Sociocultural Practices: Pathways to Moral Development / Angela Uchoa Branco -- 36. The Inter-Generational Continuity of Values / M. Bame Nsamenang -- 37. The Making of Magic: Cultural Constructions of the Mundane Supernatural / Meike Watzlawik, Jaan Valsiner -- 38. Duties and Rights / Fathali M. Moghaddam, Cristina Novoa, and Zachary Warren -- Part X. Cultural Interfaces: Persons and Institutions: The Interface between the Sociology of Practice and the Analysis of Talk in the Study of Change in Educational Settings / Harry Daniels -- 40. The Work of Schooling / Guiseppina Marsico and Antonio Iannacone -- 41. Collaboration and helping as Cultural Practices / Angelica Lopez and et al.-- 42. A Cultural-Historical Approach to University/Community Collaborative Interventions / Deborah Downing-Wilson and et al.-- Part XI. Social Networks and Cultural Affectivity: 43. Affective Networks: The Social Terrain of a Complex Culture / Nandita Chaudhary -- 44. Peer Relations / Xiaowen Li -- 45. Culture in Play / Bert van Oers -- 46. Affect and Culture / Manfred Holodynksi and Wolfgang Friedlmeier -- Part XII. Toward Methodological Innovations for Cultural Psychology: 47. Ambivalence and its Transformations / Emily Abbey -- 48. Guesses on the Future of Cultural Psychology: Past, Present, and Past / Aaro Toomela -- 49. Culture in Constructive Remembering / Brady Wagoner -- 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 / Toshiya Yamamoto and et al. -- 51. The Authentic Culture of Living Well: Pathways to Psychological Well-Being / Tatsuya Sato and et al. -- 52. Psychology Courting Culture: Future Directions and their implications / Jaan Valsiner
Summary The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Ethnopsychology.
Culture -- Psychological aspects
Social psychology.
Culture.
Culture
Ethnopsychology
Psychology, Social
ethnopsychology.
social psychology.
culture note.
culture (concept)
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- General.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- General.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- Lifespan Development.
PSYCHOLOGY -- General.
Culture
Culture -- Psychological aspects
Ethnopsychology
Social psychology
Form Electronic book
Author Valsiner, Jaan, editor.
ISBN 9780199930630
0199930635
9780199968787
0199968780