Voices of the mind [[electronic resource] ] : a sociocultural approach to mediated action / / James V. Wertsch

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455446003321
• Autore: Wertsch James V
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1993
• ISBN: 0-674-04510-6
• Edizione: [1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 169 p.)
• Disciplina: 150
• Soggetti: Psychology; Social psychology; Culture - Psychological aspects; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Originally published: 1991.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-162) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Prerequisites -- 2. A Sociocultural Approach to Mind -- 3. Beyond Vygotsky: Bakhtin's Contribution -- 4. The Multivoicedness of Meaning -- 5. The Heterogeneity of Voices -- 6. Sociocultural Setting, Social Languages, and Mediated Action -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In Voices of the Mind, James Wertsch outlines an approach to mental functioning that stresses its inherent cultural, historical, and institutional context. A critical aspect of this approach is the cultural tools or “mediational means” that shape both social and individual processes. In considering how these mediational means—in particular, language—emerge in social history and the role they play in organizing the settings in which human beings are socialized, Wertsch achieves fresh insights into essential areas of human mental functioning that are typically unexplored or misunderstood. Although Wertsch’s discussion draws on the work of a variety of scholars in the social sciences and the humanities, the writings of two Soviet theorists, L. S. Vygotsky (1896–1934) and Mikhail Bakhtin (1895–1975), are of particular significance. Voices of the Mind breaks new ground in reviewing and integrating some of their major theoretical ideas and in demonstrating how these ideas can be extended to address a series of contemporary issues in ; psychology and related fields. A case in point is Wertsch’s analysis of “voice,” which exemplifies the collaborative nature of his effort. Although some have viewed abstract linguistic entities, such as isolated words and sentences, as the mechanism shaping human thought, Wertsch turns to Bakhtin, who demonstrated the need to analyze speech in terms of how it “appropriates” the voices of others in concrete sociocultural settings. These appropriated voices may be those of specific speakers, such as one’s parents, or they may take the form of “social languages” characteristic of a category of speakers, such as an ethnic or national community. Speaking and thinking thus involve the inherent process of “ventriloquating” through the voices of other socioculturally situated speakers. Voices of the Mind attempts to build upon this theoretical foundation, persuasively arguing for the essential bond between cognition and culture.

Advanced Methods in the Evaluation of Nuclear Scattering Data [[electronic resource] ] : Proceedings of the International Workshop Held at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut für Kernforschung Berlin, June 18–20, 1985 / / edited by Hans J. Krappe, Reinhard Lipperheide, Institut für Kernphysik

• Record Nr.: UNISA996466715703316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1985
• ISBN: 3-540-39691-8
• Edizione: [1st ed. 1985.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (VI, 368 p. 9 illus.)
• Collana: Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 236
• Disciplina: 530.8
• Soggetti: Physical measurements; Measurement ; Measurement Science and Instrumentation
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: to ill-posed aspects of nuclear scattering -- Ill-posed nature of inverse problems and their regularization (stability — estimates) -- Statistical ; regularization -- The Bayesian approach to the analysis of scattering data -- Linear and nonlinear least squares computing -- The maximum entropy method -- Planning and evaluation of neutron diffraction experiments based on statistical considerations -- Jet analysis in electron-positron annihilation experiments -- Model independent densities from electron scattering -- Model-independent DWBA-analysis of inelastic electron scattering data -- Partial wave analyses of elastic meson-nucleon scattering -- Low energy proton-proton phase shift analysis -- Optimal polynomial expansions in the nucleon-nucleon phase shift analysis -- Phase-shift analysis in heavy-ion scattering -- Amplitude reconstruction in charged particles scattering -- Resonances and surface waves in nuclear and particle physics -- The regularization method in heavy-ion optical-potential analyses -- Determination of nuclear optical potentials by inversion -- Comparison of model-independent optical potential analyses -- Inversion as a means of understanding nuclear potentials -- Model-independent vs. model-dependent potentials for low energy ? and $$\bar p$$ scattering by nuclei -- Impact of Fourier-Bessel analyses on studies of composite particle scattering -- Fourier-Bessel analysis of polarized deuteron scattering -- Modeling direct reactions -- Summary Talk on Advanced methods in the evaluation of nuclear scattering data.