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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910966080803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012
• ISBN: 9780199968787; 0199968780; 9780199930630; 0199930635
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 1130 p. ) : ill
• Collana: Oxford library of psychology
• Altri autori (Persone): ValsinerJaan
• Disciplina: 155.8/2
• Soggetti: Ethnopsychology; Culture - Psychological aspects; Social psychology; Culture; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Social Cognition; Handbooks and manuals.; Handbook
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- Oxford Library of Psychology -- About the Editor -- Contributors -- Contents -- Chapters -- Index -- Contents -- 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 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.