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Author Valsiner, Jaan.

Title Culture in minds and societies : foundations of cultural psychology / Jaan Valsiner.

Publication Info. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (430 pages) : illustrations, map
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-422) and index.
Contents Approaches to culture : semiotic bases for cultural psychology -- Society and community : interdependence of social webs -- Making oppositions : dialogical self and dualities in meaning making -- Minimal communities and their organization : kinship groups, families and marriage forms -- Culture wholes on the move : maintenance and crossing of boundaries in the semiotic universe -- Thinking as a cultural process -- Semiotic fields in action : affective guiding of the internalization/externalization process -- Methodology for cultural psychology : systemic, qualitative and idiographic.
Summary Culture in Minds and Societies makes a decisive break from the post-modernist. theoretical framework that considers knowledge as local and situation-specific. and restores the goal of construction of general knowledge to the social sciences. While recognizing the uniqueness of all human personal experience from birth to. death, it emphasizes the universality of cultural organization of human minds. and societies. This book presents a new look at the relationship between people and society, . produces a semiotic theory of cultural psychology and provides a dynamic treatment. of culture in human.
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Subject Culture -- Psychological aspects.
Culture -- Psychological aspects.
Social sciences -- Methodology.
Social sciences -- Methodology.
Semiotics -- Methodology.
Semiotics -- Methodology.
Semiotics.
Cognition and culture.
Cognition and culture.
Culture.
Psychology -- methods.
Social Sciences -- methods.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Valsiner, Jaan. Culture in minds and societies. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2007 9780761935827 0761935827 (DLC) 2007007100 (OCoLC)85851416
ISBN 9788132101383 (electronic book)
8132101383 (electronic book)
1282017756
9781282017757
9780761935827 (hard back)
0761935827 (hard back)