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Title The sociocultural turn in psychology : the contextual emergence of mind and self / edited by Suzanne R. Kirschner and Jack Martin.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 298 pages)
Physical Medium monochrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents Acknowledgments; The Sociocultural Turn in Psychology: An Introduction and an Invitation; {Part I} Discursive and Constructionist Approaches; 1. Public Sources of the Personal Mind: Social Constructionism in Context; 2. Inside Our Lives Together: A Neo-Wittgensteinian Constructionism; 3. Beyond the Enlightenment: Relational Being; 4. Sociocultural Means to Feminist Ends: Discursive and Constructionist Psychologies of Gender; {Part II} Hermeneutic Approaches; 5. Hermeneutics and Sociocultural Perspectives in Psychology; 6. The Space of Selfhood: Culture, Narrative, Identity.
7. Agentive Hermeneutics{Part III} Dialogical Approaches; 8. The Dialogical Self as a Minisociety; 9. Theorizing Cultural Psychology in Transnational Contexts; {Part IV} Neo-Vygotskian Approaches; 10. Cultural-Historical Activity Theory: Foundational Worldview, Major Principles, and the Relevance of Sociocultural Context; 11. Vygotsky and Context: Toward a Resolution of Theoretical Disputes; Contributors; Index.
Summary The sociocultural turn in psychology treats psychological subjects, such as the mind and the self, as processes that are constituted, or ""made up, "" within specific social and cultural practices. In other words, though one's distinct psychology is anchored by an embodied, biological existence, sociocultural interactions are integral to the evolution of the person. Only in the past two decades has the sociocultural turn truly established itself within disciplinary and professional psychology. Providing advanced students and practitioners with a definitive understanding of these t.
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Subject Psychology -- Social aspects.
Psychology -- Social aspects.
Psychology.
Social perception.
Social perception.
Social psychology.
Social psychology.
Culture -- Psychological aspects.
Culture -- Psychological aspects.
Psychological Theory.
Culture.
Psychology.
Social Perception.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Kirschner, Suzanne R.
Martin, Jack, 1950-
Other Form: Print version: Sociocultural turn in psychology. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010 (DLC) 2009043202 (OCoLC)463454123
ISBN 9780231519908 (electronic book)
0231519907 (electronic book)
9780231148382 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0231148380 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780231148399 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0231148399 (paperback ; alkaline paper)