The Sociocultural Turn in Psychology: The Contextual Emergence of Mind and Self
Edited by Suzanne R. Kirschner and Jack Martin
eISBN: 9780231519908
2010 (312 pages 1 table)
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(pages 1-297)
Table of Contents
(pages 5-6)
Acknowledgments
(pages 7-10)
Introduction
(pages 11-38)
Part I: Discursive and Constructionist Approaches
(pages 39-40)
1. Public Sources of the Personal Mind: Social Constructionism in Context
(pages 41-54)
2. Inside Our Lives Together: A Neo-Wittgensteinian Constructionism
(pages 55-77)
3. Beyond the Enlightenment: Relational Being
(pages 78-97)
4. Sociocultural Means to Feminist Ends: Discursive and Constructionist Psychologies of Gender
(pages 98-120)
Part II: Hermeneutic Approaches
(pages 121-122)
5. Hermeneutics and Sociocultural Perspectives in Psychology
(pages 123-146)
6. The Space of Selfhood: Culture, Narrative, Identity
(pages 147-168)
7. Agentive Hermeneutics
(pages 169-190)
Part III: Dialogical Approaches
(pages 191-192)
8. The Dialogical Self as a Minisociety
(pages 193-214)
9. Theorizing Cultural Psychology in Transnational Contexts
(pages 215-238)
Part IV: Neo-Vygotskian Approaches
(pages 239-240)
10. Cultural-Historical Activity Theory: Foundational Worldview, Major Principles, and the Relevance of Sociocultural Context
(pages 241-262)
11. Vygotsky and Context Toward a Resolution of Theoretical Disputes
(pages 263-290)
List of Contributors
(pages 291-296)
Index
(page 297)
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The Sociocultural Turn in Psychology: The Contextual Emergence of Mind and Self
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 theories, Suzanne R. Kirschner and Jack Martin, former presidents of the American Psychological Association's Division of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, assemble a collection of essays that describes the discursive, hermeneutic, dialogical, and activity approaches of sociocultural psychology. Each contribution recognizes psychology as a human science and supports the individual's potential for agency and freedom. At the same time, they differ in their understanding of a person's psychological functioning and the best way to study it. Ultimately the sociocultural turn offers an alternative to overly biological or interiorized theories of the self, emphasizing instead the formation and transformation of our minds in relation to others and the world.
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The Sociocultural Turn in Psychology: The Contextual Emergence of Mind and Self
Author(s):
Kirschner, Suzanne R., ed.; Martin, Jack, ed.
Keyword(s):
SW11; CSWO
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