Sociocultural Turn in Psychology - The Contextual Emergence of Mind and Self

Informationen zum Autor Suzanne R. Kirschner is associate professor of psychology at the College of the Holy Cross and author of The Religious and Romantic Origins of Psychoanalysis: Individuation and Integration in Post-Freudian Theory! as well as numerous articles on the interconnections between psychological theories and their sociocultural contexts. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association. Jack Martin is Burnaby Mountain Endowed Professor of Psychology at Simon Fraser University and coauthor of Persons: Understanding Psychological Selfhood and Agency! Psychology and the Question of Agency! and The Psychology of Human Possibility and Constraint. His research interests are the philosophy and history of psychology! social developmental psychology! and educational psychology! with particular emphasis on the psychology of selfhood and personhood. Klappentext Only in the past two decades has the sociocultural turn established itself within professional psychology. Providing students and practitioners with an understanding of these theories! the book presents a collection of essays that describe the discursive! hermeneutic! and dialogical approaches of sociocultural psychology. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsThe Sociocultural Turn in Psychology: An Introduction and an InvitationSuzanne R. Kirschner and Jack MartinPart I: Discursive and Constructionist Approaches 1. Public Sources of the Personal Mind: Social Constructionism in ContextRom Harre2. Inside Our Lives Together: Neo-Wittgensteinian ConstructionismJohn Shotter3. Beyond the Enlightenment: Relational BeingKenneth J. Gergen4. Sociocultural Means to Feminist Ends: Discursive and Constructionist Psychologies of GenderEva Magnusson and Jeanne MarecekPart II: Hermeneutic Approaches 5. Hermeneutics and Sociocultural Perspectives in PsychologyFrank C. Richardson and Blaine J. Fowers6. The Space of Selfhood: Culture! Narrative! IdentityMark Freeman7. Agentive HermeneuticsJeff Sugarman and Jack MartinPart III: Dialogical Approaches 8. The Dialogical Self as a MinisocietyHubert J. M. Hermans and Joao Salgado9. Theorizing Cultural Psychology in Transnational ContextsSunil BhatiaPart IV: Neo-Vygotskian Approaches 10. Cultural-Historical Activity Theory: Foundational Worldview! Major Principles! and the Relevance of Sociocultural ContextAnna Stetsenko and Igor M. Arievitch11. Vygotsky and Context: Toward a Resolution of Theoretical DisputesMichael Cole and Natalia GajdamaschkoList of ContributorsIndex ...

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• Authors: Suzanne Kirschner
• Assisted by: Suzanne Kirschner (Editor), Suzanne R. Kirschner (Editor), Kirschner Suzanne (Editor), Jack Martin (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2010
• EAN: 9780231148399
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14839-9
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, The self, ego, identity, personality, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Social, group or collective psychology