Sociocultural psychology is a discipline located at the crossroads between the natural and
social sciences and the humanities. This international overview of the field provides an
antireductionist and comprehensive account of how experience and behavior emerge from
human action with cultural materials in social practices. The outcome is a vision of the
dynamics of sociocultural and personal life in which time and developmental constructive
transformations are crucial.
This second edition provides expanded coverage of how particular cultural artifacts
and social practices shape experience and behavior in the realms of art and aesthetics,
economics, history, religion, and politics. Special attention is also paid to the development
of identity, the self, and personhood throughout the lifespan, while retaining the emphasis
on experience and development as key features of sociocultural psychology.
Author(s): Alberto Rosa, Jaan Valsiner
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 692
Cover......Page 1
Half title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
List of Figures......Page 11
List of Tables......Page 13
Contributors......Page 14
Editors’ Introduction......Page 21
Sociocultural Psychology on the Move......Page 23
Part I Theoretical and Methodological Issues......Page 31
1 The Human Psyche Lives in Semiospheres......Page 33
2 Cultural Psychology as the Science of Sensemaking: A Semiotic-cultural Framework for Psychology......Page 55
3 Knowledge and Experience: Interobjectivity, Subjectivity, and Social Relations......Page 69
4 “Mediationism” in Cognitive and Social Theory......Page 83
5 Sociocultural Psychology and Interpersonal Psychoanalysis: The Semiotic Space in the Consulting Room......Page 98
Part II Action, Objects, Artifacts, and Meaning......Page 121
6 Spirited Psyche Creates Artifacts: Semiotic Dynamics of Experience in the Shaping of Objects, Agency, and Intentional Worlds......Page 123
7 Making Social Objects: The Theory of Social Representation......Page 150
8 Beyond the Distinction between Tool and Sign: Objects and Artifacts in Human Activity......Page 168
9 The Sociocultural Study of Creative Action......Page 183
10 Symbolic Resources and Imagination in the Dynamics of Life......Page 198
Part III The Agent Rises a Reflective Self: Education and Development......Page 225
11 Early Infancy – a Moving World: Embodied Experience and the Emergence of Thinking......Page 227
12 Object Pragmatics: Culture and Communication – the Bases for Early Cognitive Development......Page 243
13 Distinguishing Two Processes of Self-reflection......Page 265
14 Making Memory: Meaning in Development of the Autobiographical Self......Page 280
15 Mapping Dialogic Pedagogy: Instrumental and Non-instrumental Education......Page 294
16 Development and Education as Crossing Sociocultural Boundaries......Page 322
Part IV Institutional Artifacts for Value......Page 337
17 Ownership and Exchange in Children: Implications for Social and Moral Development......Page 339
18 Possessions and Money beyond Market Economy......Page 353
Part V Aesthetic and Religious Experiences......Page 369
19 The Sociocultural Constitution of Aesthetic Transcendence......Page 371
20 Sociocultural Science of Religion and Natural Belief......Page 386
21 Psyche and Religio Face to Face: Religion, Psychology, and Modern Subjectivity in the Mirror......Page 400
Part VI Practices and Artifacts for Imagining Identity......Page 417
22 Imaginative Processes and the Making of Collective Realities in National Allegories......Page 419
23 National Identities in the Making and Alternative Pathways of History Education......Page 444
24 The Politics of Representing the Past: Symbolic Spaces of Positioning and Irony......Page 463
25 Beyond Historical Guilt: Intergenerational Narratives of Violence and Reconciliation......Page 478
26 Psytizenship: Sociocultural Mediations in the Historical Shaping of the Western Citizen......Page 499
Part VII Experiences Make the Person......Page 521
27 The Human Experience: A Dialogical Account of Self and Feelings......Page 523
28 Knowing Ourselves: Dances of Social Guidance, Imagination, and Development by Overcoming Ambivalence......Page 538
29 Personal History and Historical Selfhood: The Embodied and Pre-reflective Dimension......Page 558
30 The Development of a Person: Children’s Experience of Being and Becoming within the Cultural Life Course......Page 576
31 The Construction of the Person in the Interethnic Situation: Dialogues with Indigenous University Students......Page 595
32 Social Identities, Gender, and Self: Cultural Canalization in Imagery Societies......Page 617
33 The Experience of Aging: Views from Without and Within......Page 635
General Conclusion......Page 651
34 An Epistemological Coda: Sociocultural Psychology among the Sciences......Page 653
Index......Page 672
