An Invitation to Cultural Psychology looks at the everyday life worlds of human beings through the lens of a new synthetic perspective in cultural psychology – that of semiotic dynamics. Based on historical work from many different fields in the social and behavioural sciences, and the humanities too, this perspective applied to cultural psychology suggests that human beings are constantly creating, maintaining and abandoning hierarchies of meanings within all cultural contexts they experience. It’s a perspective that leans heavily on the work of the great French philosopher, Henri Bergson, yet now only being realised as a core basis for human cultural living. INDICE: Introduction: Why Cultural Psychology? Making the human condition meaningfulChapter 1: Human Experience through the Lens of Culture: An invitation to psychology in a new keyChapter 2: What is culture? And -- why human psychology needs to be cultural?Chapter 3. Co-constructing the Mind Socially: Beyond a communionChapter 4.Mutuality of Internalization and ExternalizationChapter 5. Creating ourselves: Signs, myths, and resistancesChapter 6. Sign hierarchies: Their construction, use, and demolitionChapter 7. How culture is made through objectsChapter 8. Cultivating environments: Over-determination by meaningChapter 9. Weaving social textures together: Personal and collective culture in actionChapter 10: Signs as organizers: Maintaining and innovating tensionsEpilogue: Cultural psychology as a science of universality of culture
- ISBN: 978-1-4462-4878-2
- Editorial: SAGE Publications Ltd
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha Publicación: 26/07/2014
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