OXFORD HANDBK OF CULTURE & PSY

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-539643-0
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 1152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 185 mm x 258 mm, Gewicht: 2140 g

Reihe: Oxford Library of Psychology

The goal of cultural psychology is to explain the ways in which human cultural constructions -- for example, rituals, stereotypes, and meanings -- organize and direct human acting, feeling, and thinking in different social contexts. A rapidly growing, international field of scholarship, cultural psychology is ready for an interdisciplinary, primary resource. Linking psychology, anthropology, sociology, archaeology, and history, The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology is the quintessential volume that unites the variable perspectives from these disciplines.

Comprised of over fifty contributed chapters, this book provides a necessary, comprehensive overview of contemporary cultural psychology. Bridging psychological, sociological, and anthropological perspectives, one will find in this handbook:

- A concise history of psychology that includes valuable resources for innovation in psychology in general and cultural psychology in particular
- Interdisciplinary chapters including insights into cultural anthropology, cross-cultural psychology, culture and conceptions of the self, and semiotics and cultural connections
- Close, conceptual links with contemporary biological sciences, especially developmental biology, and with other social sciences
- A section detailing potential methodological innovations for cultural psychology

By comparing cultures and the (often differing) human psychological functions occuring within them, this handbook is the ideal resource for making sense of complex and varied human phenomena.

Zielgruppe

This volume is intended for scholars interested in psychology, culture, and history, and would be suitable supplementary reading for graduate seminars/studies that integrate all three.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Valsiner, Jaan

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnopsychologie, Kulturpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie Kulturpsychologie, Ethnopsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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. Völkerpsychologie
Rainer Diriwächter

3. Cultural-historical psychology: Contributions of Lev Vygotsky
René 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 Harré

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
Lívia Mathias Simão

19. Dialogical Theory of Selfhood
Tiago Bento, Carla Cunha, and João Salgado

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

21. Culture in Action: A discursive approach
Kyoko Murakami

22. Social Representations as Anthropology of Culture
Ivana Marková

Part VI. Tools for living: transcending social limitations

23. Life course: A sociocultural perspective
Tania Zittoun

24. Being poor: cultural tools for survival
Ana Cecília 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 Flávia 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 Märtsin 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

39. The Interface between the Sociology of Practice and the Analysis of Talk in the Study of Change in Educational Settin

Über Autor(innen)

Jaan Valsiner, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology, Clark University, and founding editor of the journal Culture and Psychology.